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
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
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
To create a view through the web interface you need list manager permissions. If you do not have those permissions you may still be able to add a personal view if the list or site is set up to allow adding personal views.
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This post was written by furuknap on December 20, 2008
See: What is SharePoint Workflow
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This post was written by furuknap on December 19, 2008
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
To get the top navigation bar to light up on a page you need to add a top navigation bar link to the page you want highlighted. Add the complete relative URL to the page, for example “/Pages/Lightup.aspx”.
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This post was written by furuknap on December 9, 2008