Category: sharepoint 2010

SharePoint Designer 2010 can no longer connect to SharePoint 2010

I got this error at a client this week: SPD2010 worked really good and I was creating workflows ed. Then I changed the authentication provider from Windows to Claims based security (via powershell). Since then, SPD will no longer connect to my SharePoint. IT gives me the following information-level error in the Microsoft Office Alerts …


site not showing up in the SharePoint 2010 up menu

Imagine you have a site diagram like this: A -B – C If you are in level C, normally when you click on the “up” navigation element: A – B – C If you choose not to inherit the top site navigation, the top site will not show up in your navigation element. For instance, …


easy selecting a view in a document library

When you have SharePoint 2010, you will immediatly notice the new UI. You either like it or you don’t. In SP2007 it was really easy to change a view when you were in a list: you had a button on the right hand site listing the views. In SP2010 you can do the same by …


Open non-office files in SharePoint 2010

Since we made the move to SharePoint 2010, we had some issues (both technical and functional) with the implementation. One of those issues was that our PDF documents could not open in a webpage. We just got the option to save the document, but not open it! Todd Klindt just wrote a solution for this issue …


Fantastic 40 templates on SharePoint 2010

scrum solution for sharepoint

The people behind 21Apps have released their beta product for Managing Scrum Projects. They found it dissapointing there was no good scrum solution for SharePoint, so they are releasing this one. It works on all versions of SP2010 and contains following features: Sprint Planning Burndown Chart Story Board