SharePoint Designer Support Team Blog
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SharePoint Designer is now FREE + customers on Software Assurance get rights to Expression Web
SharePoint Designer is being made available as a free download, and SharePoint Designer customers on...
Date: 04/02/2009
Hotfix Alert: After you install update 957691, you cannot set a user type column from the workflow when you create or update a list item
Symptoms: Workflows will fail to update a Person or Group column after applying the October CU for...
Date: 02/25/2009
Understanding How You Use This Blog
Ed has asked if a few of us could help out with his survey by posting a link to it here. I'm happy...
Date: 08/06/2008
Data View / Data Form: Parameters You Don’t Know About
From my old blogging site DataFormWebPart.com, this post continues to garner good amounts of...
Date: 07/25/2008
Interested in a job supporting SharePoint Designer at Microsoft?
This may seem a bit odd for a blog post, but I wanted our new team position to get as much exposure...
Date: 07/10/2008
How to fix: Error in SharePoint when custom master page is applied
UPDATE: Found this get hit through our support channels several times last week. As it turns out,...
Date: 07/10/2008
How to fix: Custom List Forms will not insert or show up on the Design surface of SharePoint Designer
Symptoms:When attempting to insert a custom list form in SharePoint Designer the form never displays...
Date: 07/03/2008
How to fix: Multipage Meeting Workspace will not display items copied / created by SharePoint Designer workflows
Symptoms: Documents copied from one document library to another using a SharePoint Designer workflow...
Date: 07/03/2008
How to fix: Slow page loads when opening pages that have custom new item forms [DataFormWebPart] for large lists [around 6000 items]
Symptoms:After creating a custom new item form for a SharePoint list having a very large number of...
Date: 06/17/2008
How to fix: SharePoint Designer created workflow that periodically stops and does not send emails
Symptoms:SharePoint Designer 2007 created workflow will "stop" before the Send Email action. This...
Date: 06/16/2008
How to fix: Recieve error "Unable to display this Web Part" on Data Views after restoring site from backup
Symptoms: After restoring a SharePoint site using site template .STP files, .CMP files, or the...
Date: 06/06/2008
Cat's out of the bag - How to get back attachment functionality with Custom List Forms
IMPORTANT: This issue has now been resolved via an official hotfix from Microsoft. Please see Error...
Date: 04/29/2008
How to prevent Supporting Files from being incorrectly set to erroneous page
Symptoms: After replacing normal list form (ListFormWebPart) with custom list form (DataFormWebPart)...
Date: 04/10/2008
How to hide search control on default.master
Summary: This post describes how to hide the search control on default.master. The steps described...
Date: 04/10/2008
How to fix: Recurring Meeting Workspace error: ‘g_InstanceID’ is undefined
Note: I'm lifting this from my DataFormWebPart.com blog post, in hopes of the workaround getting...
Date: 03/24/2008