Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Chris malavarca who is an account executive for Matalogix. The name Metalogix immediately brought me to think about language and meta-language, rule and meta-rule, and the dangers of mixing between them. Alan Turing envisioned a machine with states, code and an infinite tape. The tape could be in any of infinite positions and be made to move forwards or backwards, the machine could be in any of a finite number of states. The code was a finite transition table ......
Alexander Bautz solved the problem neatly. A CEWP with a simple JavaScript function. Hurray Alex!
Have you ever noticed that after adding a web part – any web part - to the page, we lose the ribbon and the “list Tools” tab. Well, I wracked my tired and only semi-aware brain, tore my thinning hair, bit my nails and even “googled” it to no avail. A little serendipity helps a great deal! I just happened to click in the original list web part (not the added web part) and voila, as if by magic, the tab and ribbon re-appeared! That’s All Folks ......
In my previous blog about the subject I observed that after adding a web part – any web part - to the page, we lose the ribbon and the “list Tools” tab. Today, upon revisiting my list, I discovered that the problem does not go away. When I clicked on the list and got to the page, the “list tools” tab was still missing. Again, I clicked anywhere in the list web part – this time in the empty space to the right of the “Add New Item” – the missing tab and ribbon returned. This is a persistent behavior. ......