July 27, 2006 - Posts
This seems like it should be easy, but a lot of people still cannot find where to modify the SharePoint pages in Personal View and Shared View. Most people can find how to modify the page in Shared View and are notified by a message saying they are editing in Shared View like below. They simply select the obvious Site Actions button.
Let’s take a quick look at where you did this in SharePoint 2003. If you know where it is in SharePoint 2003 look below for SharePoint 2007.
Personal and Shared Views in SharePoint 2003
In SharePoint 2003 you selected the Shared and Personal View in the same location.At the top of the menu it identified which version of the page you were working on.
Notice there was no way to exit this mode without clicking on another page such as Home.
Personal and Shared Views in SharePoint 2007
Now in SharePoint 2007 the menus for Site Actions (Shared – highlighted in RED) and Individual Actions (Personal – highlighted in GREEN) are in two different menus.
1) To edit the page in Personal View select the drop down of the user you are logged in with. Such as Welcome Brendon Schwartz
2) To edit the page in Shared View select the Site Actions menu.
3) Notice also that in either Personal View or Shared View that you now have the option to Exit Edit Mode
Matt was working on his MVP profile this afternoon when he sent me an IM that he had finished updating it so I could look at. Well I went to the site and it appears all of the BS he put on there broke the site. Good luck MVP web team I have tried to fix the problems he has created on web sites before and it is going to be tough to fix I guarantee.
If you want to get up to speed with SharePoint 2007, follow all the advice from Arpan Shah's blog entry about SharePoint 2007 Training.
- Get the Beta and play with it
- Get the Tech resources DVD
- Visit Microsoft E-Learning and run through the courses and clinics
- Get some real training
- Read the blogs
- Use online resources like the virtual labs
- Go to conferences
- Build stuff
Here at DevCow, we're always interested in the next big thing. We're also always interested in the next free thing!
That being said, how would you like to have access to your home or work PC while not at that location? Or, how would you like access to your mother's computer...all the way across the country? There are existing solutions such as Remote Desktop and VNC, but these free solutions generally require known IP addresses or valid WINS lookups to find these machines. Firewalls also block these. There are others solutions such as the Citrix GoToMyPC program which work across firewalls and use a website to keep ever-changing IP addresses abstracted away from the user in the form of fancy graphics. The problem with GoToMyPC is that it isn't free.
LogMeIn.com uses the GotToMyPC model of web based access - you log into a website and see if your machine is available for remote control.
If your machine is online, a simple mouse click will connect you to the remote machine. According to LogMeIn.com's marketing material, you can even use this from a PocketPC device! It works as well as VNC to connect you to the remote desktop and is completely free for personal use. You are always offered the opportunity to upgrade to the Pro version, which offers the same kinds of extras that GoToMyPC offers like file transfer and remote printing.
Be sure to check out www.LogMeIn.com for your future tech support needs. I can't tell you how often I've had to talk friends and relatives through "complex" setting changes such as accessing e-mail and sharing printers. This tool, which lets me make the changes myself (required when it comes to registry changes!) is invaluable as it means I can shave valuable Xbox time out of a tech support call and I can show my "clients" what I'm doing rather than try to talk them through it. Now, if only I could find a free version of Adobe's Captivate software to record the session and generate a transcript out of my screen actions for future reference!
The Atlanta Visual Basic .NET Study Group met at it's new location for the second time since loosing the LaVista Rd. facility. Last night's meeting featured me talking to the group about SharePoint 2007 and Groove 2007.
Before I went on, Jim Wooly Wooley wrote a quick demonstration app that showed how to implement a queue for logging purposes. The question a member asked was how to handle multiple simultaneous application accesses of a log file. Jim showed how a simple queuing app can handle writing to the log by popping updates off a stack and how multiple apps can send messages to the stack at the same time.
Next up was my discussion of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I covered a lot of the same kind of material covered by Microsoft's E-Learning Clinic 3370: Getting Started with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I blatently ripped off some of the graphics and bullet points from their slides for my own. This was actually a discussion last night - about how much free Microsoft stuff is out there in terms of free tools and training when compared to companies like IBM and Oracle. It's honestly amazing! Anyway - after I covered the basics of what MOSS 2007 offers, I stumbled around in my seriously underpowered VPC attempting to demonstrate some of the great new features of MOSS 2007.
Once I finished up the MOSS portion of the talk, I showed the group a little bit about Groove 2007. I had a great slide deck for Groove that I nabbed off of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Beta 2) Technical Resource DVD. This is actually where I got my VPC for the SharePoint demos as well - as the VPC I built didn't allow any SharePoint sites to be created/browsed. However, my demo VPC did work with Groove installed, although without a network connection and another machine to show the changes, it was sort of useless to show the demo. Whatever, the people seemed to be impressed.
We had 8 people present at the meeting, and six of us went out for a beverage after the event where conversations ranged from software topics, future of the study group, quantam computing and cool TV programs.
If you couldn't make it to my preview of SharePoint 2007, try to make it to next Monday's meeting of the Atlanta .NET User Group where Brendon will be presenting MOSS 2007 for the first portion of the meeting.