I see the question posted fairly often asking what kind SharePoint team an organization should have.

Guest Author: Mark Rackley
The SharePoint Hillbilly
So, one of my SharePoint buddies from Dallas gave me a call yesterday and had a problem. They needed to populate a drop down field with data from a SharePoint List on another site. If the list were in the same site, it wouldn’t be an [...]

Show of hands, how many people are tired of explaining to users what a SharePoint Workflow is and how to navigate to the workflows???

Guest Author: Mark Rackley
The SharePoint Hillbilly
Everybody dance now!
Everyone loves a good remix…  So… By far my most popular blog post is my entry Creating a SharePoint List Parent / Child Relationship – Out of the Box. I am thrilled that so many have found it useful.  However, several questions [...]

So, a requirement popped up to allow the business to store “Contact Us” information in SharePoint and use workflows to manually send emails to the people who submitted the contact information. Very easy.. nothing spectacular. They also wanted the ability to send pre-formatted email templates as responses. Also fairly easy to do creating an SPD workflow for each template, right? Well.. what do you do so that you don’t have to open up SPD every time the user wants to add or modify a template? I came up with the following solution. You could take what I did here and build upon it to make it much more elaborate. I’m sure you could format the emails more professionally. You could auto populate more fields like the subject and signature.

I was able to use SPD and not write a single line of JavaScript to automatically set a SharePoint Form Field based upon a Query String Variable.

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One of the cool things about not being a total moron in SharePoint anymore is that I actually have the ability to help people. I’m always happy to lend a hand when I can, and it’s actually a great way for me to learn even more. However, sometimes it can be hard for me to give the proper advice/help because I don’t exactly know what a person is asking. There are so many different parameters that can affect any advice you get in SharePoint and it’s really hard for someone to be in your head. Sometimes it can take several back and forth emails just to fully understand the question being asked. So, I thought I’d type up a quick blog which will help you ask your questions more succinctly and make sure you get the best advice/help possible (not necessarily from me).

In a few of my previous blog posts I have used JavaScript to set SharePoint form fields in NewForm.aspx. Using JavaScript to set these fields comes in really handy whether you are setting fields based upon query string variables (see previous posts) or setting a field to some other value.

As the twitter stream for #SPC09 heats up to the point where it will spontaneously combust with news, events and meetups for SharePoint Conference 2009, I thought it would be interesting to see who you will be most looking forward to meeting at the conference. I’ve got my old stand-bys from SharePoint Saturday, SPTechCon and Best Practices Conference, but there are some people I still haven’t met.