Chris and Daves SharePoint and Tech Blog

 At Twynham we use mindJets Mind Manager for students and staff but today I started seeing in Twitter tweets for Mind manager for SharePoint so I checked out the site and found the specs and not one mention of SharePoint 2010 which is very understandable, but I thought I would download the trial and check to see if it does work on our SharePoint 2010 demo site, and I am very pleased to be able to report that it works fine as you can see from the image below it maps SharePoint 2010 sites and returns all the assets it finds. I also tried adding a document through mind manger and all good it uploaded the file and refreshed the map.

 Now as I stated at the beginning of this post I do not use Mind Manager but I may just start using the SharePoint version now…

Dave

A while ago I started writing some posts on our HyperV setup with the intention of writing more on how we setup our HyperV cluster; well I was beaten to that by a friend and fellow network manager in education Alan Richards from Westhatch School. Now myself and Alan have a friendly rivalry when it comes to deployments Alan beat me with his Windows 7 rollout and I beat him with my HyperV cluster and I will beat Alan with our SharePoint 2010 rollout.

 But I found out yesterday that Alan has done a series of video post on setting up his HyperV so I asked him this morning if it was ok for me to do some posts on the setup and include his videos which he agreed to. The setups that Alan describes through the videos are identical to my own, so please enjoy the videos as he post more I will include them on the site. In the coming weeks myself and Chris will be doing a series of post on how we intend to deploy SharePoint 2010 and SQL 2008 in a virtual environment including our architecture drawings and data on SQL performance in HyperV.  

In this brief post I will show you how to use xslt to get someone’s email address from the people picker in a SharePoint list. Before I begin I must give credit to David Botschinsky who I met at the BETT show in January. He came to me and asked about getting the email address of a person from the person lookup field in a list – He wanted to achieve this purely through the browser if possible with no code. I had a quick think and couldn’t find a way. I then received an email from David saying he did it through SharePoint designer in the end and it’s this I will share with you:

In SPD create a XSLT view of the list with the person field in. The usual <xsl:value-of select=’@person’ disable-output-escaping=”yes” /> code will return the familiar link that goes to the user information page. By changing the  ‘disable-output-escaping’ to ‘no’ you will return all the code behind this link- including the email address! Then with some xslt sub-string magic you can strip out all but the email address.

<xsl:value-of select= 'substring-before(substring-after(@person, concat("sip=",$dvt_apos)), $dvt_apos)' disable-output-escaping="no"/>

That is all there is to it!