Keith O Hudson

Posts Tagged ‘Sharepoint Blunders’

A week or so ago, I referred to a blog post by Shaun Young (http://tinyurl.com/GoodConsultant – opens in new window) in which he pointed out that many Sharepoint consultants don’t know what Sharepoint can really do, and end up reinventing the wheel.  I’ve decided I will start a collection of these instances when I run across them, and report them as Sharepoint Blunders — trying to do something in code that can be done through the Sharepoint GUI, for instance.

Here’s the first blunder for my collection.  While hunting for some hints on customizing Calendar lists, I came across a blog article (opens in new window) in which the author tells how to modify the Event content type in a Calendar list, to allow for different kinds of events (Event, Playgroup and Program, in his case). Read the rest of this entry »