Tag Archives: Web Service

InfoPath User Roles in Browser Forms (Part 1 of 2)

This blog post applies to the Enterprise version of SharePoint, not WSS or Foundation. There’s a concept in InfoPath called “User Roles”.  You can set up these roles, and when a person opens the form, the form knows if they belong to a certain role, and you can set up certain objects to hide or show in the form based on the

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Your Very Own Permissions Dashboard

For SharePoint 2007: Using a web service and a little magic, it’s possible to create your own data view web part “dashboard” to quickly get to permissions and other screens for all of the lists and libraries on your SharePoint site.  Here’s an example of what the goal is: The first column is the title of each list and library

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Obtaining a List’s Views

This is another post of a solution related to Microsoft’s SharePoint Employee Training template, but this solution can be used on any list on your site.  Here’s the story… We use this employee training template to set up various training series at work.  For example, if there’s some diversity training coming up, there will be a lot of different appointments

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I Love the SiteData.asmx Web Service

There are a whole slew of SharePoint web services, but today I decided to try out the SiteData.asmx one, in a data view web part (the GetListCollection operation in particular).  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a developer, so in a lot of cases, the data view web part (DVWP) has become my best friend. In various SharePoint discussion threads,

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