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InfoPath Form - Not Updating / Cached
Published: 6/19/2009 by mr.dossett

If you publish InfoPath forms to SharePoint, or this may even happen if you put them in other network locations, you may find that when making an update to the form, some users continue to see the old version. I recently tracked this down as being caused by InfoPath caching a version of the form on the users computer.

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Relevant Tags: InfoPath | SharePoint

jQuery/IE XML Error
Published: 5/22/2009 by mr.dossett

Another odd jQuery issue to report (though not really jQuery's fault).  We just launched a new site with a Google suggest-esk drop down.  The suggest list is populated via an XML feed from our CRM.  After much pre-launch testing, we got a couple post-launch bug reports of a javascript error and the drop down not working.  Using the un-minified version of jQuery I was able to track it down to an error being returned from the isXML function it uses.

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Relevant Tags: AJAX | JavaScript

jQuery wrap(html) not working - appendChild bug
Published: 3/31/2009 by mr.dossett

Today I ran into a problem where jQuery's wrap function wasn't working. It took me a while to figure out there even was a problem as it turns out it's browser specific. One guess, which browser had the problem. IE 7. I'd already upgraded to IE 8 which apparently fixed the appendChild bug.

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Relevant Tags: AJAX | Browsers | JavaScript

MOSS 2007 Document Permission Issues
Published: 12/17/2008 by mr.dossett

If you have worked with SharePoint, you are probably aware of the fine grained permissions that can be set anywhere from the site level down to the individual document level.  You have probably run into the usual problems associated with assigning permissions, inheritance and problems with breaking inheritance.  But occassionally even when the permissions are set correctly for a given user, they will still get a permission denied error when trying to access a document or form.

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Relevant Tags: InfoPath | SharePoint

MOSS 2007 Reserved Profile Properties
Published: 12/15/2008 by mr.dossett

With MOSS 2007 User Profile Properties, in most cases you're allowed to set Policy Settings as to whether the property is required, who can see it and whether or not the user can change this policy.  However there are apparently some of these properties that are considered reserved by SharePoint and the options to change the policy settings are grayed out.   But where there's a will (and a lack of fear from poking at sharepoint databases), there's a way to adjust these settings.

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Relevant Tags: SharePoint