Thinking out Aloud

The tale end of last year I came across this issue when prototyping a system.  I had a clean build of SharePoint 2010 with SP1, just using a standard team site.  I uploaded some pdfs and was about to demostrate opening PDFs from the document library and the link failed to work.

Clicking the icon in Type column is highlighting the item instead of launching the document

After some research I found this KB article

SharePoint 2010: Clicking the icon in Type column is highlighting the item instead of launching the document http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2457975

The article describes the problem and a fix to add a file called “fldtypes_docicon.xsl” into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\template\layouts\XSL.  Content of the file is detailed in the KB article.

I deployed the file which resolved the issue … was glad I only had two servers in the environment (have to manually copy the file to the servers).

You can learn a lot from blogs, articles, books but I find actually ‘doing’ something is the best way to learn, that’s where the Virtual Labs come in.

SharePoint 2010

• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010 Connectors & Using the Business Data Connnectivity (BDC) Service New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Introduction New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Advanced Search Security New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Configuring Search UIs New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Content Processing and Property Extraction New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Developing a Custom Connector New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Fast Search Web Crawler New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Federated Search New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Linguistics New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: People Search Administration and Management New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Relevancy and Ranking New!
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Customizing MySites
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Designing Lists and Schemas
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a BCS External Content Type with Visual Studio 2010
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a Sandboxed Solution with Web Parts
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Studio 2010
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing Business Intelligence Applications
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Enterprise Content Management
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Getting Started with SharePoint 2010
• MSDN Virtual Lab: LINQ to SharePoint 2010
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint 2010 User Interface Advancements
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio SharePoint Tools
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Workflow

SharePoint 2007

• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 1: Getting Started
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 2: Site Structure and Branding
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 3: SharePoint for Internet Sites
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 4: Forms Based Authentication
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 5: Enhancing MySite with Microsoft Live Controls and SharePoint Designer (Live Messenger/Live Contacts)
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 6: Customizing Search for your Site
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 7: Content Deployment
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 8: Building and Deploying a Minimal Publishing Site Definition and Creating a Minimal Publishing Site Collection
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 9: Enabling Social Networking for Your Site
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Module 10-2: Integrating a Silverlight Application with the SharePoint Object Model via Web Services