January 2009 Entries
Brett has written a great support article that covers editing the document information panel to get around the limitations you suffer when using it out of the box with the Business Data Column Type for collecting meta data: BDC Document Information Panel
We’ve published the results from the Big SharePoint Survey. Some interesting results around workflow and governance. Take a look – I’ve added a bit of commentary around the results also: SharePoint Survey Results. Also Brett, Rob and I had a good discussion about the results in the SharePoint PodShow number 15, take a listen: SharePoint Podcast
This Thursday at 3pm GMT, 29th Jan 2009, we are holding a webinar on the Lighthing Tools Data Viewer Web Part. If you’d like to see the web part in action, discuss it’s features, and see how you can make use of it make sure you come and attend. If you’d like to take part please drop an email to support@lightningtools.com and we’ll send an invite to you.
It’s always exciting to release a new product (especially in beta!) – but this one is especially interesting for two reasons… - tons of hard work has gone into it - when we started we didn’t know if it would work out technically well! BDC Meta Man is the main product of Lightning Tools and the one that most people know us for, so we’ve very happy to announce an extension to your options for building and generating BDC application definition files: BDC Meta Man Web Edition
After we put together the BDC survey and posted the results we’ve received a lot of emails thanking us for sharing the information and how interesting a couple of the results were. We probably assume quite a lot with regards how SharePoint is used in the real world, and surveys are one way of finding out the real answers. This time we’ve put together a more general SharePoint survey on how you may have deployed it and for what you are using it. Please take a couple of minutes to fill it out: The SharePoint Survey We’ll...
Happy New Year to everybody. Hope you all had a nice break over the festive period and got to hang out with people you like! I’ve managed to virtually stay away from my computer for two weeks which has been fantastic! The first few days are hard – but from then on you kinda want to make it a permanent thing! :) Retirement here I come! Anyway – back to the important stuff. If you are back to work today and try using BDC Meta man in the developer mode you’ll notice it has expired. We make...