A list form refers to the forms used to display and manipulate data in SharePoint. A list form is used for one of three operations, that also name the forms, the Display form, the New form, and the Edit form. The screenshot below shows the New form of the tasks list in a SharePoint team site.
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This post was written by furuknap on April 21, 2009
A SharePoint group is a collection of usernames and group names that can be given permissions to a SharePoint site or parts of a SharePoint site. Groups are defined for the entire site collection, but can be given permissions on any child site of the site collection.
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This post was written by furuknap on January 5, 2009
Visual Studio extentions for WSS, or VSeWSS for short, is a toolkit developed by Microsoft for creating SharePoint functionality and features using Visual Studio. The toolkit is available for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.
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This post was written by furuknap on January 4, 2009
To find associated groups in code you can either use the AssociatedGroups collection or access the individual groups as AssociatedOwnerGroup, AssociatedMemberGroup, or AssociatedVisitorGroup of an SPWeb object:
SPGroup owners = this.Web.AssociatedOwnerGroup; SPGroup members = this.Web.AssociatedMemberGroup; SPGroup visitors = this.Web.AssociatedVisitorGroup;
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This post was written by furuknap on January 4, 2009
An associated group in SharePoint refers to the groups that are associated with the default roles in a SharePoint site. In SharePoint v3 these groups are Owners, Members, and Visitor. The groups are created by default when you create a new site collection. When you create a site inside an existing site collection the groups are created automatically if you select to not inherit permissions from the parent site.
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This post was written by furuknap on January 4, 2009
To add a page to SharePoint using the web interface you go to the Create page of the site. Note that prior to adding a page your site must have at least one library to hold the page. On the Create page you go to the Web Pages column and select either the Basic page or the Web part page. Other pages may also be available.
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This post was written by furuknap on January 4, 2009
The only column to which you can add a link on the Create page is the Web Pages column. To add a link there, use a CustomAction feature with Location=”Microsoft.SharePoint.Create” and a GroupId=”WebPages”:
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This post was written by furuknap on January 3, 2009
A portal is used as a front end interface to different areas of information such as news, people, projects, or other data.
See also: What is a SharePoint portal
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This post was written by furuknap on December 20, 2008