by Sieena An automated vacation tracking system is an important part of any human resources department. Employee absences result in high costs for companies, and some experts estimated that they can range from 9% to 11% of your payroll. By reducing these costs with a tracking system, you will experience significant savings for your business. Vacation and leave tracking is as a helpful tool that oversees and manages all aspects of absence administration. Businesses that use this type of system will save significant savings in a variety of ways. First, these tools give businesses the ability to save on costs by using absence reporting and employee awareness techniques. HR vacation trac...

By David Espino When we create a Silverlight application we should want to apply different themes to our application. Silverlight toolkit provides us with a simple way to achieve this. For this example you need  the following prerequisites: ·         Silverlight 3.0. ·         Silverlight Toolkit. You could download from this link http://silverlight.codeplex.com/Wikipage ·         Visual Studio 2008. ·         Expression Blend 3.0. This tool is not really needed, but I recommend to use Blend when you are going to do some UI design, is easier and faster than Visual studio for this labors. First of all, you need to create a Silverlight project with a Web Site. Then you need to ad...

By Edith C. This is very useful when you are talking about quickly duplicate or backup your SharePoint Sites structure and information. The site template is saved through the SharePoint web user interface, which empowers users and avoids the need for administrative intervention. Now that we have a customized site, we are ready to save it as a custom site template for others to reuse. The steps to save the custom site template (for a SharePoint Team Site) are shown below: 1.       Navigate to Site Settings in your customized site. 2.       Select Save site as template under the Look and Feel section. 3.       Fill out the Save Site as Template page and then click OK.  At this tim...

In some cases, you may want to show your SharePoint list forms (new, edit, display, etc) in a specific layout or showing/hiding values to your will, this is something you cannot do using out of the box SharePoint list forms.   But there’s a way to do this, and even take query string values as parameters: using javascript and XSLT data views on your forms. Here it is a list of steps to achieve this.   1.       Open your site using SharePoint designer. Open your aspx page (the one that contains your form) then you need to convert your form into an XSLT Data View. 2.       Modify the XSLT as you wish. You can change the fields from editable to display-only, and so on. Also, you can cre...