Month: September 2011

New corporate websites of Elopak re-use SharePoint assets on the internet
New corporate websites of Elopak re-use SharePoint assets on the internet
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When Elopak, the globally acting packaging specialist headquartered in Oslo, Norway decided to re-launch her corporate website a few key requirements were set right from the start:

– The corporate website should be maintainable by non-technical staff with a minimum of training,

– The solution should be scalable and flexible enough to adapt to further extensions in the near future, e.g. to offer localized contents for different countries,

– Contents from the intranet (which is powered by Microsoft SharePoint) should be re-used on the internet with least possible effort,

– The initial project should fit into the sporty timeline.

More than 10-years of fruitful co-operation between the German subsidiary of Elopak and the Mannheim based JANUS die Werbemanufaktur agency made it quite a logical step, to turn to JANUS and ask them for advice.

SharePoint Tip #26: Comments in Content Type Definition
SharePoint Tip #26: Comments in Content Type Definition
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There is an issue with SharePoint 2010’s CAML parser that causes SharePoint to ignore fields in a Content Type definition. When defining a Content Type feature element, avoid placing comments inside the element as that will cause SharePoint to create the Content Type disregarding all the fields, even though the XML is well formed