mylifeinaminute.com » SharePoint Designer http://www.mylifeinaminute.com You can learn a lot in a minute Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:14:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 SharePoint Designer – The Cat Is Out of the Bag http://www.mylifeinaminute.com/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag/ http://www.mylifeinaminute.com/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:20:17 +0000 liquidpooled http://www.mylifeinaminute.com/?p=360 Today marks the official release of SharePoint Designer as a free product offering from Microsoft.  While overall, this announcement can certainly be considered a good thing by the SharePoint community (who doesn’t like free stuff?), as a SharePoint “administrator” it makes me cringe. It is a good thing all of us have “locked down” SharePoint Designer in our respective environments.

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]]> http://www.mylifeinaminute.com/2008/10/06/session-timeouts-windows-authentication-and-sharepoint/feed/ 0 Altering an Announcements Web Part Character Limit http://www.mylifeinaminute.com/2008/07/24/altering-an-announcements-web-part-character-limit/ http://www.mylifeinaminute.com/2008/07/24/altering-an-announcements-web-part-character-limit/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:00:52 +0000 liquidpooled http://www.mylifeinaminute.com/?p=78 To alter the character limit of an Announcements List web part (in Summary View), there is an attribute that must be set through SharePoint Designer on the page that contains the web part. Perform a search for the string “Limit Len=” on the page in question and alter the value to reflect the character limit you would like.

Note: The default character limit attribute is set to 250 characters.

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