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Problem When you open a page in SharePoint designer it complains that there is a conflict and that the placeholder for the master page is missing. Explanation This occurs when a user modifies a master page. The master page no longer contains that objects that the derived page expects, so SharePoint Designer gives an error (note that SharePoint will still recover gracefully from this, so some users simply switch between valid and invalid master pages instead of addressing the problem dir...

Handling Lookup Columns in a SharePoint Designer Workflow

By far the most common mistake is to forget to specify the proper columns to tell SharePoint how to join the lists Looking up data on an empty column. If this happens make the lookup column required SharePoint Designer workflows are not portable between servers, lists, libraries, or farms. If you need to develop code in a dedicated development environment consider writing Visual Studio workflows. Problem You don't understand how to lookup data between lists in a SharePoint Desi...

Creating a Custom SharePoint Form using SharePoint Designer

Problem You don't like the SharePoint default form and you want to change a list's default form because you don't like: SharePoint lays out the fields you don't like the look and feel you need to customize the forms behavior you need to customize the default values or you want to create different forms for your content types (cool stuff here) * You should not do this if you want to hide or show fields, change field order; to do this simply modify the list's underlying content typ...

SharePoint Designer Workflow “stopped”, Document Checked Out

Problem You have a workflow that, on submission of a document, stops because the document is checked out. Solution Step 1 Open your workflow using SharePoint Designer and add a workflow step at the top of your workflow with the name Wait. Step 2 Add a workflow action Wait For Field Change in Current Item Step 3 Update the action to Wait for Checked Out To “to be empty”. Step 4 Test the workflow and verify the wait is executed

Quick Launch Fly-Out Menus

Edit the site in question using SharePoint designer or located and download the default.master from the master page gallery. Locate the following AspMenu control by searching the code for QuickLaunchMenu Change the StaticDisplayLevels to a lower number, I recommend 1 (don't do zero) Change the MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels to a higher number such as 3. Problem You want to make the quick-launch fly out like the top navigation. Did you know that the top nav and quick launch are just sta...