Tristan asked in another post
“When a calendar event is being created, I want the end date/time to automatically populate to 1.5 hours after the start date/time. Seems simple, but haven’t found a formula for this yet”
Sounds like a pretty reasonable suggestion and the Calendar lists NewForm.asx already sets the Start time to the current time – shouldn’t be too hard, right?…
 Clare Stone - Marketing Manager |
Since you may have noticed a new name on recent posts in this Blog now seems like a good time to introduce our new member of staff – Clare Stone.
Clare joins Pentalogic as Marketing Manager. She has a strong background in business and consumer marketing across a number of sectors including finance, professional services, education and the travel industry. Her roots however are in qualitative research – so she will be able to help us get some real insight into our customers, present and future: how they use our products and services, what they want from us and what they don’t. Clare does not come from a technical background, so she will also be able to help us keep our focus on producing software which provides neat solutions for the issues SharePoint end users face. So as always, if you have any comments, questions or suggestions then get in touch. |
In the past few weeks we have moved into a new, custom-built, software development facility in Cheltenham, England.
 New office break room |
 Pittville Pump Room |
As well as having possibly the best coffee machine in Gloucestershire our new facility also gives us the ability to offer telephone support to our customers, in addition to the email support we have always offered.
Click here for full contact details.
Cheltenham
A new version (2.5.4) of SharePoint Planner webpart is available to download with the following minor changes :-
Regional Setting in WSS3.0
You can simply download and install the new version – there is no need to remove the old version first.
Thanks to Michael C and Michael S for these suggestions!
A new version (2.5.3) of SharePoint Planner is available to download with the following changes :-
You can simply download and install the new version – there is no need to remove the old version first.
When you normally setup SharePoint Reminder webpart you can specify to send an email alert when a date is Due In X days or Overdue by X days
When column Service Date is due in 5 days
One fairly common requirement amongst users of Reminder is the ability to set variable ‘Due In’ or ‘Overdue By’ times. For example lets imagine the scenario of a company using SharePoint and Reminder to help control the servicing of various pieces of equipment.
A new version (2.5.0) of SharePoint Planner Webpart is available to download.
The main change is the interface has been fully localized in French.
In addition :-
You can simply download and install the new vesion – there is no need to remove the old version first.
The World Time web part is free web part for SharePoint that enables you to show the current date and time in different timezones.
World Time web part
In the last few days we have become aware of a bug that causes it to enter and leave Daylight Savings Time (DST) early, thereby showing the time as an hour too fast (or too slow) for about a week around the time DST starts and ends.
An updated version (1.0.3) that corrects this error is available to download. To upgrade simply install the new version over the top of the old version.
Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused – If you want to know the technical details around this problem then read on…
To find out the date that DST time starts and ends the World Time web part uses SharePont’s API and its time zone information for the current site (Microsoft.SharePoint.SPTimeZoneInformation.DaylightDate) which, according to the SharePoint SDK documentation “Gets the date on which daylight time begins for the time zone as a Date object that has day/month/year.“
So for this year it returns a date of “2009-03-02” for most of the North American time zones. But this year DST starts on the 8th of March, not the 2nd.
Digging deeper this article explains how to modify the Timezone.xml file (where SharePoint stores its time zone information) and explains.
“Day represents the nth week of the month when standard time or daylight saving time starts, where n is a number that represents the transition day. If the transition day occurs on a Sunday, the value 1 indicates the first Sunday of the month. The value 2 indicates the second Sunday of the month, and so on. The value 5 indicates the last Sunday of the month.“
This web part gives a CrossTab view of a SharePoint® list helping you to summarize and analyze data.
(CrossTabs are more commonly known from Microsoft Excel® as a Pivot Tables – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_table)
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Back in the day of Windows SharePoint Server 2 and SharePoint Server 2003 you couldn’t use [Today] in Filters.
For example if you tried to setup a filter like this to show items added in the last 7 days
"Filter value is not in a supported date format"
![Created is greater than [Today] - 7](https://blog.pentalogic.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/today-in-wss2-fitler.png "today-in-wss2-fitler")
Created is greater than [Today] – 7
You would receive an error “Filter Value is not a valid date” when clicking OK
