Medhat Elmasry

One can create Parent / Child (A.K.A. Master / Detail) relationships in SharePoint 2007 by using lookups to reference a parent list from a child list. I will discuss another way of creating a Parent / Child relationship by adding a content type in...

Medhat Elmasry will be away attending a training course in downtown Vancouver. Here are some important notes on week 09:   Notes for COMP-1536 students  Jason Harrison will be delivering the lectures on Tuesday October 30, 2007 at 10:...

You can pretty much use the same VBA syntax for calculated fields as in Excel. Here is a site that provides many examples of common formulas that can be used in SharePoint when defining "Calculated Field" columns.   Here is a formula t...

I am scheduled to speak at the DevTeach conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM. The topic I will be presenting is the same topic I gave to the .netBC group on Wednesday September 12, 2007. That presention...

This solution requires you to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. Go to "Site Actions" ==> "Site Settings" Under Galleries, click on "Master Pages" Select default.master and select "Edit in Micr...

1.      Navigate in your Registry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Folder/Shell and create a key called "Command Prompt" without the quotes. 2.      Set the default string to whatever text you want to appear in the right-cl...

Go to the list you are interested in Click Settings --> List Settings Under General Settings --> Click Advance Settings Click "Yes" for "Allow management of content types?" Click "OK" Click the list you a...

List GUID Access the list with your browser Go to Settings->List Settings Copy the URL from your browser address line into a text editor. It should look something like this: http://something.com/_layouts/listedit.aspx?List=%7BB2FD569F%2D89...

SharePoint 2007 offers an enhanced ability to catch certain user events such as ItemDeleting (before the fact) and ItemDeleted (after the fact). The API targets specific lists identified by list IDs. Example:   List template type Temp...