For some strange reason MS have stopped you from being allowed to group & filter by content type in Sharepoint 2010 views which seems really odd?

I have searched the web and cant find an answer, if anyone knows Id be grateful if they could share this, Im guessing its something to do with the content type hub & changes have had to be made to accomodate this in 2010, cant think of any other logical reason!

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What is Card Sorting?

Card sorting is a simple technique that allows you to get feedback from your users about how information should be organized. Originally, researchers wrote labels on 3 x 5 cards or sticky notes, and asked participants to sort the cards into piles that were similar. Then the participants would label each pile. Using statistics and/or “eyeballing” the results across several participants, researchers were able to create better information structures.

With WebSort, card sorting is done online. People can complete your study from anywhere in the world, and you benefit from expert analysis tools that help you make sense of the data.

What Card Sorting can do for you
Documents, web pages, features; we are always presented with more. The challenge is organizing it. Managers, employees, and customers think about information in different ways.

Using WebSort, you can conduct card sorts that will allow you to:

* construct your website intuitively
* validate the structure of your organization
* get feedback on your company’s intranet
* learn where to add new content to an existing site
* reassign tasks and roles within a team
* create actionable workflows for project management
* organize products in your e-commerce store
* prioritize features for software

http://websort.net/

Display a website:

<a onclick="javascript:NewItem2(event, &quot;http://www.bing.com&quot;);
javascript:return false;" href="http://www.bing.com/" target="_self">Show Bing In Modal Window</a>

Display a image:

<a onclick="javascript:NewItem2(event, &quot;http://sitename/Images/image.png&quot;);
javascript:return false;" href="/images/image.png/" target="_self">Show Image</a>

Display flash:

<a onclick="javascript:NewItem2(event, &quot;http://www.microsoft.com/games/gamesforwindows/games/madagascar2/Mad2_Final_ENU.swf&quot;);
javascript:return false;" href="http://www.microsoft.com/games/gamesforwindows/games/madagascar2/Mad2_Final_ENU.swf" target="_self">Flash Game</a>

Thanks to Erik @ http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/2010/09/ways-to-extend-sharepoint-modal-window.html

The architecture for SharePoint has changed considerably. Watch this session to see what the changes are and how to design your SharePoint environment to take advantage of the new services provided by SharePoint 2010.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/understanding-the-service-applications-of-sharepoint-2010.aspx

When you apply a custom master page you may find that it knocks out the positioning of your dialog boxes & you can no longer see the OK & Cancel buttons beacuse they have been knocked down the page. This is because now your new masterpage shiny banner (in my case) is also displaying in the dialog box. To stop this happening is nice & easy thanks to Microsoft:

Simply add ‘s4-notdlg’ to the class ie.

<div class="customHeader">
becomes

<div class="customHeader s4-notdlg">

Sharepoint 2010 Base CSS Classes

http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-2010-base-css-classes.html

When trying to publish a page or start a workflow you may get the following error:

“The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service”

To configure the State Service by using the Farm Configuration Wizard

1) On the Central Administration Web site, click Configuration Wizards.

2) On the Configuration Wizards page, click Launch the Farm Configuration Wizard.

3) On the first page of the Farm Configuration Wizard, click Start the Wizard.

4) On the services configuration page, in the Services section, select the State Service check box.

5) Click Next.

6) Complete any other configuration steps for the server farm.

7) On the final page of the Farm Configuration Wizard, click Finish.

NOTE: If the State Service check box is unavailable, the State Service is already configured. To make changes to the configuration you must use Windows PowerShell.

For further information:

http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/ee704548%28en-us%29.aspx