Can't save SharePoint 2010 site as template with a library called Forms

Error exporting the list named "Forms" at the URL: Forms

I have problems this afternoon saving a very small site as a template for deploying, and was getting the above strange error.

Workaround: Using SharePoint designer, browsing via All Files - rename the Library "Forms" to something else - "TravelForms"

You can now save the site as a site template.

The old stories are still true - don't use research words for your content.

SPD 2010 conditional formatting to hide columns based on a related column in the list

I was discussing hiding columns using SharePoint Designer 2010 and thought I'd dig into the UI a bit more to see if there are any special tricks, as well as how it works with inline editing.

Here are the steps.

Set up ConditionalList

1. Create a list with "MyCondition" - checked box
2. MyExtraInfo - text

When adding a new item, we have:

Drop into SPD - modify AllItems.aspx

If your list is currently empty and you don't have any rows right now, show some sample rows, so you can add conditional formatting to the data.

Select the field, then create a conditional formatting on that field.

Set the condition

OK, then save everything.

Go back to the list

The field is now hidden.

Inline editing

Enable inline editing in SPD

Check my condition, and click save (floppy disk)

Field is hidden again.

Sorry for confusing "Bakai", hope this helps.

Windows 7 SP1 login screen

In my opinion, if the Windows 7 SP1 login screen had looked like this, it’d be a lot better. Microsoft seems so… uncool sometimes.

For comparison, Windows 7 and Windows 7 SP1 both look like this:
Try spotting the difference.

Office - fixing the repairing problem when opening Word or Access

I spend the evening hunting down why every time I run Office 2010 in my demo machine, it would first launch configuration...  Always configuring...

After a few attempts at reinstalling that doesn't seem to lead anywhere, I decided to read the registry and see if there's some residue key that's causing problems.

While I didn't find the key, I did find a few very suspicious looking keys that it was requesting, right before launching into the Configuration Wizard (again).

NoRereg DWORD

For Word, Excel, PowerPoint... and most of Office:

Create a DWORD NoRereg=1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Options
NoRereg=1

NoRepairNeeded KEY

For Access:

Create a KEY NoRepairNeeded.  I don't seem to need to add any default values or any other values in the key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Access\NoRepairNeeded

SharePoint 2010 Branding tools

About to head off to a client to do about a week’s branding work.  I was loading my SharePoint laptop with all the tools that I think I’ll need.  I thought I would publish the list as well.

Designer tools

• SharePoint Designer 2010
• Browser: IE 7, 8 or IE9
  • With IE Developer toolbar (in IE8 and IE9 this is built in)
  • Later versions of IE has compatibility modes and can render SharePoint in IE6/7/8 modes.  Strictly speaking this is no substitute for using the corresponding version of IE that your client is using – but you should aim to have a clean HTML that will work anyway.
• Browser: FireFox (latest stable)
  • With FireBug – you need a stable version of FireBug, so I don’t recommend using the latest alpha/beta FireFox.
  • (Optional) YSlow
• Browser: Google Chrome
  • Google developer tools are built in
• Paint tool:
  • (Optional) Adobe Photoshop
  • Paint.NET
• CSS tool:
  • (Optional) Expression Studio
• (Optional) Office 2010 Client Applications
  • Is necessary to check various components and menus that only appear when you have the corresponding ActiveX.  In general, if you have SharePoint Designer 2010 installed you should have most components already.

Packaging tools

• Personal SharePoint 2010 VM
• Visual Studio .NET 2010
  • CKS Dev
  • SharePoint Powertools for Visual Studio .NET
• Reflector
• ULS Viewer
• Fiddler 2