I designed a form for a client that had several different views, and I needed a way to display a specific view when the form was opened. This was easy, but took me a bit to figure out. Go to Tools > Form Options. Click the Open and Save option. Click the Rules button, and…

If you’ve used the InfoPath Contact Selector before, you might have seen that it does not support validation like other InfoPath controls do. There is no option on the Properties dialog for the control to make it a required field. To work around this, I used a combination of rules and conditional formatting to prevent…

One client had a problem with profile and membership synchronization, and the “My SharePoint Sites” links would not appear for anyone. This also affected the “SharePoint Sites” and “Membership” web parts on users’ MySites – no SharePoint related links would show up in these parts. We verified that users were explicitly added into the “Members”…

After wrapping up a project that used content types extensively, I decided to write a series of posts detailing the headaches encountered so far. This is part 2. List Column Settings and STP Template Files When you create a site content type, add that content type to a list, and then wrap that site up…

After wrapping up a project that used content types extensively, I decided to write a series of posts detailing the headaches encountered so far. This is part 1. Hidden Fields and Inherited Content Types If you create a site content type through the UI and set a column to hidden, then create another site content…