What is a list form

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

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Whats is a SharePoint group

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

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What is Visual Studio extentions for WSS

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

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What is an associated group in SharePoint

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

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What is a portal

A portal is used as a front end interface to different areas of information such as news, people, projects, or other data.

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This post was written by furuknap on December 20, 2008

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What is a view

A SharePoint view is a display of data from a SharePoint list. A view determines both the data to be displayed and rendering of that data. Views can be created by the user or the list administrators.

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This post was written by furuknap on December 20, 2008

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What is a workflow

See: What is SharePoint Workflow

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This post was written by furuknap on December 19, 2008

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What is a WSP file

A WSP file is a SharePoint solution file. The WSP is really just a .cab archive and renaming the file to .cab enables you to open the file using any archive software such as Winzip or Winrar or with the builtin unzip-utilities in Windows.

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This post was written by furuknap on December 10, 2008

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What is the 12-hive

The 12-hive refers to the install folder of SharePoint, usually c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12.

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This post was written by furuknap on December 9, 2008

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What is WF

See: What is SharePoint Workflow

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This post was written by furuknap on December 8, 2008

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