Today I decided that I needed to change the Item-Level Permissions settings for a document library so that users could only read the items that they had created. For SharePoint lists, the Item-Level Permissions setting is easily configured under the list’s Advanced Settings section, like this: However, when I went to the Advanced Settings section for my document library, there was no section for Item-Level Permissions. I checked a few other lists and document libraries and confirmed that apparently most list types support this configuration, except for document libraries! So my next question was whether Item-Level Permissions settings could not be changed in a document library at all, or whether these options were simply not displayed in the browser for the Advanced Settings in a library. I figured the easiest way to determine this would be to attempt it with PowerShell in a test environment… if it was not supported, the PowerShell commands would simply fail to execute ...
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If you wish to utilize Ratings on a SharePoint list or library, you might think that you can do so by simply adding the “Rating (0-5)” site column to your existing list, library or content type. In fact, SharePoint will allow you to do that, however doing so may or may not provide the intended results.
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I recently solved a seemingly obscure problem configuring SQL Server Report Services (SSRS) 2008 R2 using SharePoint Integrated Mode. However, perhaps this problem isn't as obscure as it seems and maybe this article will help others.
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On September 18th 2010, a few members from the San Diego SharePoint Users Group (Tony Rockwell, Chris Givens and Galen Keene) and I trekked to the Hilton Los Angeles Airport for SharePoint Saturday LA.
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I found a minor issue today when trying to retract a simple, custom solution from a new SharePoint 2010 test server.
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Today, a co-worker created a custom web part for me in C# and packaged it as a solution (.wsp file) for deployment on my local test server. The deployment steps for this solution included a simple STSADM script to assist in the deployment. However, since I have not played around with PowerShell much yet, I decided to translate this STSADM script into PowerShell and use that instead.
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