Tools und Addons Custom Content Editor Web Part for SharePoint jQuery http://jquery.com/ jQuery is a…
]]>After some looking around I found this in Microsoft’s online documentation for the SharePoint Web Services under the Lists web service’s GetList Method:
Parameters: listName: A string that contains either the title or the GUID for the list. When querying the UserInfo table, the string contains “UserInfo”.
So use “UserInfo” as the name. This worked for me. The GUID for this list seems to be unique to each SharePoint install since mine (which I used before I found this tidbit) is different than the one used here.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/lists.lists.getlist.aspx
]]>Accessing AD through a web service requires a web service for AD. That’s usually a C# or ASP.NET page that turns a web request into an LDAP query (from what I understand). There should be examples “out there” but it’s beyond the scope of my abilities or this article series.
Paul
]]>Top News Stories SharePoint 2007 – Best Practices for Collaborative Portals (Sys-Con) It was the usual…
]]>I’ve figured you can use the MembershipGroupId to limit the list to just check specific SharePoint Groups for a user (as opposed to the generic User Information List), but if the user is part of an AD Group (as per MS Good Practice for SharePoint) I don’t think the user will be found by Darren’s code, will it?
]]>While a simple “Welcome <>” web part may seem useless, it’s merely a demonstration of a powerful option available without .NET code or access to SPD that brings data to the page from an “outside” source.
For instance, combine the ability to bring the user’s manager’s name from an SP list (using the JavaScript API) and the ‘pre-populate a form field’ script from pt4. That’s something that a lot of people ask for–”automatically put my manager as the approver for a manually started workflow.”
Without hard specs to develop toward (or rather before you get the specs in hand), I feel it’s important to have a “toolbox” full of options. I didn’t want this series to start out with “solutions” but rather provide some building blocks and see how our readers put them together.
Of course, if you have specific requests, I’m all ears.
Paul
]]>Thanks,
Rao.