'MOSS' Tag

• Using UserMulti field in the CAML schema

  February 4, 2010

  This was unexpected, and not documented at all in the SharePoint SDK. When you create a UserMulti column, you must also specify Mult="TRUE", otherwise it will fall back to a standard (single select) User column type.   <Field ID="{12312312-1234-1234-1234-123412341234}" …          Group="My Group"          Type="UserMulti"          Mult="TRUE" …  

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• How to determine which databases SharePoint uses

  November 27, 2009

  In order to tell which databases your SharePoint 2007 / WSS 3.0  installation uses, you will have to look at multiple locations. Content databases Open Central Administration and go to Application Management  and then Content databases Review for all Site Collection URLs Shared Services Databases Open Central Administration,  Application Management, Manage this Farm’s Shared Services [...]

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• SharePoint: How to select multiple default items in a choice field.

  October 19, 2009

  If you have a field in SharePoint that is setup as a choice field, and you want to have multiple default values, you can do the following: Instead of selecting the Default option, select the Calculated Value and enter the items separated with semicolon and the hash sign. Like this: =";#Red;#Green;#Blue;#"

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