Robin's SharePoint and Website musings

In our MOSS2007, environment we've had issues in the past with users getting the "InfoPath could not submit the form" message. Our "fix" was to uncheck the "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" on the Compatibility View Settings screen (see below). However, since yesterday, I've been trying to resolve an issue where a user could open an InfoPath form from the Form library, but got an error message when she tried to open the same form from the workflow task library. Another user in the same office was not experiencing the issue. So we began to compare settings, looking at Add-ons thinking that was the problem. However, nothing we changed in the Manage Add-ons section worked. In correcting an unrelated issue with PeopleSoft screens in the browser (items were overlapping each other), we noticed that the second user had "Display intranet site in Compatibility View". So we went back to user 1 and checked "Display in...

Had a user today who was experiencing issues submitting an InfoPath form.  The original set of error messages made me assume that SharePoint was not set as Local Intranet site (which it wasn't).  So I set SharePoint as the local intranet site,  updated the user's desktop icon shortcut (to use the https version of the site).  And thought, okay, problem solved.  Alas and alack, not so! The user entered a form went to submit it and got a different set of error messages. (Unfortunately I didn't think to screenshot the errors and send them to myself so I don't have the exact wording for any of the errors.)  The basic message the second time was InfoPath cannot submit the form.  I've seen variations of this error before, so I started looking at Compatibility View, and Add-ons.  Well, I found the user had IE10 which we recommend our users NOT install as there are known compatibility issues with IE10 and SharePoint 2007 as well as some of our other inte...

Had an interesting "problem" arise for an end user today.  This user has been able to open and update InfoPath forms in the past without a problem.  All of sudden today she was getting the message "The Form is Closed".  From past experience I know that this message is commonly seen when a user access SharePoint from  a web browser other than Internet Explorer and then tried to open a form that is NOT browser-enabled (one that requires the InfoPath Client). I checked the users browser version, settings (SharePoint is set as Local Intranet site).  Made sure that the browser history was cleared, checked the login name/password, made sure pop-up blockers weren't preventing the page from loading.  All of the steps I normally do.  Couldn't get it to work.  Called IT and they upgraded her from IE 8 to IE 9.  Same issue.   Finally, I thought, let me look and see if there's an add-on that's got a pop-up blocker.  To my surprise, what I...

So you want to be able to keep multiple drafts of a document you and your team are working on without other people seeing it and when you've finally polished your policy manual (or whatever your document may be), post it for "everyone" to see? Well, SharePoint can let you do that! See my blog posting on creating a document library . Once your library is created, you'll want to turn on your versioning settings within the library (if you didn't do it when you created the library). To do so, click Settings from the Library's toolbar and select Document Library Settings . From the General Settings options, select Versioning Settings . From this screen, you will set whether or not the document requires approval before being made available to "everyone" to view. (Everyone being whomever has permissions to view the document library). Determine if you want major and minor versions and set the number of versions you need. Who should be ab...

Recently had a comment made in a meeting that one of the things users didn't like in our current SharePoint 2007 environment is that there were so many documents that were outdated. This made me realize that I had failed to train our users in two very important "features": editing documents from SharePoint and using Versioning Settings. This blog post is to correct those two issues. A little about our environment: we are using MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) and Office 2010 Professional software. So to start out, how does one create a document library? Simple, assuming the user has adequate permissions, click the Site Actions tab on the right hand side of the page, and from the drop down, select Create. Under the Libraries grouping, select Document Library. Give your library a short, descriptive name. You can turn versioning on here by clicking Yes in the Create Versions options. In the next blog post , I discuss setting Versionin...