getCommonManager web service helps you to find the user common manager name but won’t allow you retrieve any personal information fields.
For this task we need to use another web service: getUserProfileByName.
We need to query this web service with manager AcountName to get the data. Sounds simple? It is!
Here is a step-by-step guide to help you through it:
Tags: ID Column, InfoPath, List ID, Next ID, SharePoint, Submit form
The scenario is very common: You create a new form template and want to use the ID of the form as part of the form name.
But there is a catch here – the ID doesn’t exist until you will submit the form to the SharePoint library…
Here is a very simple way to calculate the feature ID of your form in the SharePoint Library.
Tags: Deployment, Picture Library, SharePoint, SlideShow
A couple of days ago I was asked to prepare a small slideshow of the company pictures. I’m really not a big fan of the “This week in pictures” web part but I had no choice because of the last minute request (as usuallyJ).
So I checked out the original Slideshow page that comes out of the box with Picture library.
And it was pretty nice, I have to say. And guess what? You can actually change the slideshow that appears when you click the “This week in pictures” slideshow button!
Here are a couple of tips how to improve the default slideshow and redesign this page:
