A new version (2.5.3) of SharePoint Planner is available to download with the following changes :-
- Milestones are now colour coded along with Timelines
- Correction to an error that occurred if a users regional settings (e.g. dd-mm-yyyyy) were different to a sites (e.g. mm-dd-yyyy).
You can simply download and install the new version – there is no need to remove the old version first.
Date:June 12th, 2009 Author:Ryan Tags: Calculated Columns, Reminder, SharePoint, WebPart
Category: Calculated Columns, SharePoint Reminder, SharePoint webparts Comments:2 ;
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.
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Date:March 10th, 2009 Author:Ryan Tags: SharePoint Planner, Update, WebPart
Category: General, SharePoint Planner, SharePoint webparts Comments:0 ;
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 :-
- New feature to automatically default the web parts Title to the name of the source list and link to the lists default view (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 only). Both of these settings can be overridden if required using the toolparts Appearance > Title and Advanced > Title URL settings.
- Correction to an error that stopped the By Category view grouping correctly if you were using a User lookup field with presence enabled.
You can simply download and install the new vesion – there is no need to remove the old version first.
Date:March 8th, 2009 Author:Ryan Tags: SharePoint, WebPart, World Time
Category: SharePoint webparts, World Time web part Comments:0 ;
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.“