you learn something new every day

Had one user of our SharePoint intranet unable to access the Edit Page (or indeed any other Ribbon toolbar buttons). The button was there and available but clicking it had no effect. Turns out there is an issue with DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 add-on for IE because it interferes with JSON call-backs – which I gather the Ribbon bar is using. Disabled the Add-on and ribbon menus are working again.

In InfoPath 2007, I created several forms that load the user’s contact details into fields using the getuserprofilebyname service. When we upgraded to SharePoint 2010 the forms still worked, but the user details were being changed every time the form loaded. Turns out that the “Refresh value when formula is recalculated” setting does something different in 2010 compared with 2007. Turning the setting on in 2010 causes the formula to recalculate every time the form opens and then overwrite whatever was already saved. So I have had to go to every form and uncheck the value on that field to get them all to work. Grrrrrrrr Microsoft, Grrrrrrrr!

Tripped me up for a whole day this one. We have a number of content editor web parts on our intranet home page. One was working, three others that used the jquery ui were not. I checked that all the paths to the js and css files were there and valid. All OK (excepting that we hadn’t copied the jquery.min.js file into the layouts folder). Problem turned out to be that in upgrading the content editor script, the html bits were stripped out. Each contained a javascript part and a html part. I converted each to files, added the html back in and then linked to the newly uploaded file. All good.