Style Library – Where is it?

Took me ages to find this – feel like I’m floundering!

Site Actions > Site Settings > Content and Structure

 

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101317231033.aspx

SharePoint Styles

A great series of articles explaining how to style SharePoint from http://www.cleverworkarounds.com which in itself looks like a useful place for all things SharePointy.

 

http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/10/08/sharepoint-branding-how-css-works-with-master-pages-part-1/

 

Remember to visit the other parts of the article. 

 

Turns out that getting the CSS heirarchy right is a bit of a pain as you have little control over the position of CORE.CSS which will always gets rendered last so blows all your custom styling out of the water.  So have soldiered on with the proposed solution in Part 3.  Essentially using:

<SharePoint:CssLink runat=”server”/>
<SharePoint:CssRegistration name=”<%$SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/zzzGlobalMaster.css%>“ runat=”server”/>

 

Where zzzGlobalMaster.css is my firm’s generic web styling.  I’ve created a custom masterpage which makes us of the styles in this css.  Note:  This is using my own styles classes, I am not overwriting anything in CORE.CSS at this time. Then using the ’master page settings’ inside SharePoint to specify another CSS stylesheet that handles specific styling for the particular site (which will include CORE.CSS overrides).

Activating ‘Server Publishing Infrastructure’ – Access denied

Change the AppPool the virtual directory runs under to ‘SharePoint Central Administration’. Good tip from blog.thekid.me.uk who has some other useful blog postings too.

 

http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/02/05/activating-office-sharepoint-server-publishing-infrastructure-access-denied.aspx

Telerik RadControls – MOSS installation

1) Install AJAX 1.0 controls for .NET

2) Install RadControls

3) Install RadControls Help file

4) Open the help file and browse the contents for ‘Integrating RadControls in MOSS’ and follow steps.

Quite straight forward really.

OWSTimer Hogging Max Processor Time in VMWare

http://pauldevenney.blogspot.com/2007/12/owstimer-hogging-max-processor-time-in.html

I had an issue with this process maxing out my processor – Something to do with time not syncing according to Paul Devenney’s blog.  This fix has worked for me though.

IE crashes when opening a Word document from SharePoint

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888

This hotfix has fixed my problem.  My local PC had 2003 and 2007 Office products installed which confused things a bit.

Up and running

So…. after a disk failure, a VM switch failure, running out of electricity and a catastrophic MOSS service pack installation failure (upgraded the binaries without upgrading the database – Doh!), I have now built my SharePoint 2007 development environment and…. and it appears to be working!