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STOP USING INFOPATH In business forms, a common requirement is to pre-populate a people picker control, such as to default to the name of the currently logged in user, which would then allow them to pick someone else if needed. For example, a secretary could fill out a travel request for her boss, and in the “Traveler” people picker, she
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STOP USING INFOPATH There is a quick and easy way that information about the logged in user can be obtained from within an InfoPath form. You may have read my blog and other blogs before, with the user profile service web service instructions. In this post, I’m not going to be using the user profile service. This means that what
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This post applies to the enterprise version of SharePoint. The out of box web part called the Current User Filter is extremely useful, and I mention it in several of my blog posts. This web part is also a bit of a hassle sometimes, though, because it’s usually not entirely apparent what data is being output from it. The way
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Do you want logged in users to see a RSS feed of their own weather? If you have MOSS Enterprise, this can be done using the Current User Filter web part and the RSS Viewer web part! One thing that needs to be done ahead of time: Your zip code field needs to be set in the SSP as visible
Read moreThis is my first blog post, ever. So, I’ll start with something simple. Well, it starts off simple, but the end leaves a little to be desired. Here goes… Outlook Web Access web parts are meant for use on SharePoint My Sites. Each Outlook Web Access web part has the following required fields: Mail server address Mailbox Now, for end
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