1. Start with:

   http://SPPortal/SPSite/Lists/MyList/AllItems.aspx

2. Click on the column you want to filter by: (I clicked on the a column named Movie)

   http://SPPortal/SPSite/Lists/MyListAllItems.aspx?SortField=Movie&SortDir=Asc&View=%7bE8726C0D%2d3872%2d44FF%2dA78C%2d0C5A87BC126D%7d

3. Look in the URL generated and identify the SortField parameter, which contains the ID of your column.
   SortField=Movie
4. Use the following format to create your parametrized URL: (Minus the square brackets)
   http://SPPortal/SPSite/Lists/MyList/AllItems.aspx?FilterField1=[Column ID]&FilterValue1=[Filter Value]
5. So in this example, if I want to display only items where the Movie field is equal to Tron, the URL is:

   http://SPPortal/SPSite/Lists/MyList/AllItems.aspx?FilterField1=Movie&FilterValue1=Tron

And now you know!

Example of what is and what should be

The bug occurs when your master page has a DOCTYPE declared and there is a calendar web part on the same page.  Appointments on the calendar have a declared height of 100% which is not a valid property when you have a doctype declared.  While the default Microsoft master page does not have  a doctype (Nice, Microsoft!), another theme they ship called BlueBand.master does.  This makes it a bug that should be covered by Microsoft.  For those who don’t know, a doctype is required on every HTML page as it tells the rendering engine what kind of markup it contains.  Without a doctype, browsers go into quirks mode and rendering differs vastly.

Here and here are some instances of others recognizing this problem.

The Fix

The main problem with the calendar event divs is that they have a height property set to 100%.  But 100% of what exactly?  There are no other defined heights in in the calendar table.  We can’t specify the height of the div when we output the HTML because we don’t know how high it will need to be.

The hack that I came up with uses Javascript to wait until the page loads, crawl through the DOM, find events, and then grab the parent element of the event. It then calculates the rendered height of the table row.  Once we have that we set the height of the event div to the exact height of that row.  This fix/hack has worked perfectly for me and you can’t even notice the script execution.

This works for both the day and week view of the calendar web part. You will need to make sure this runs once the page loads by either putting it in the onload function, make an onreadystatechange event listener, or put it at the very end of the master page.

“Navigation to the webpage was canceled” and
“The address is not valid”

I had seen this before and simply gave up because I figured it was a corrupted file. I then thought about how it would be neat if there was a Firefox addon for reading CHM files. A simple Google search revealed that this already existed! Introducing CHM Reader.

CHM reader opened the CHM file with no problems. My first disappointment was that there was no table of contents/navigation menu. But I was quickly pleased when I discovered that was an option in View -> Sidebar. The main advantage of CHM Reader is that it allows you to increase the text font size which can come in handy.

Back to the main point, why could Firefox display the CHM file but not Microsoft’s reader? As it turns out, on newer versions of Windows, Microsoft attempts to help you out by blocking some downloaded CHM files.

CHM Properties Menu

If you right click on your CHM file, go to Properties, and then click ‘Unblock’ next to security, you will be able to read the file with Microsoft’s tool.

Thanks Microsoft.

• Groupwise 6 or 7 will not uninstall because of a corrupt installation log
• Groupwise 8 address book throws error and the auto-complete for email addresses does not work

The specifics of these problems were pretty inconsistent as they all pointed to different dll files. “Entry point not found” was a common part of the problems. GWLDO132.dll and gwenv1.dll seemed to be problem files and replacing them with known good files did not help. Uninstalling either didn’t help or wasn’t able to uninstall at all. I even tried using deep uninstaller programs like Revo Uninstaller and had no luck.
I was recently able to use one of the affected computers for a few days and was able to spend some quality time finding out how to fix the problem.

The Fix

It seems Groupwise is so notorious for these problems that people have made programs that do a deep uninstall and do whatever they need to do in order to remove Groupwise. There are two that I found. I only used one because it worked perfect for me.

• CleanIt – This is the one that I used.
• GroupWise Client Remover – I didn’t use this tool but it seemed reputable.

What works best is if you uninstall Groupwise and Messenger(If you use it) and then run the clean tool of your choice (or both perhaps). Run the most recent setup program for Groupwise and you should be all set. I found that restarting between these steps was unnecessary.

I hope this helps somebody