document-library

DMS alternative to Alfresco (document management)

What alternative DMS are there? What features do they offer? What's about sharepoint? Is it worth mentioning? ...

SharePoint Document Library Customization for document view

I have a document library in MOSS 2007 which has folders and files. Document View in the document library has the following columns: document name, type, Created datetime, created by,modified datetime. How to configure the view so that it doesn't show any information for "modified", "created" and "created by" fields for folders. In other...

Sharepoint and encryption

I'm currently setting up WSS 3.0 at my work, and I'm in the finance section of it. My question is, is there a possibility to encrypt and decrypt lists? And I mean entire lists, because the document libraries will have different types of files in it, from Word to Invoices in InfoPath. I know there is a solution in CodePlex called Crypto...

Create SharePoint web page outside of document library

I'm reasonably new to SharePoint 2007 and trying to move from an ASP.NET to SharePont way of thinking has been an interesting experience! I would like to create a page at the same level as the default.aspx page in a subsite. The "SharePoint way" of doing things involves putting the page into a document library. I am reluctant to do this...

A Good Document Management software with some extensibility?

We are looking forward for some good document management suits/applications, with some extensibility. The customers will submit various documents, and this need to be stored using the system for later review and verification. Customers can come back any time to view/modify these documents. We need to integrate this with the existing .N...

Document checked out in SharePoint when workflow starts

I've found bit of a problem when running a workflow on a document library. When you click new document it'll open up microsoft word in this example. You write some stuff into the document then save it to the library. The workflow associated to the library, in this case a home grown approval workflow with start to run now that the list it...

Order of SPDocumentLibrary menu items using Custom_AddDocLibMenuItems

I'm adding a custom context menu item to documents (and not folders) in a SPDocumentLibrary list in SharePoint. The following code works, but always adds my custom menu item at the top of the context menu, which I don't want. I was guessing that the final parameter in CAMOpt was a sequence number that would define the order, but it doesn...

Store documents in file system instead of database in SharePoint document library

In a SharePoint document library, is there any way to store the documents on the file system instead of the database? ...

How to move document to different folder in SharePoint library with web services

I am desperately trying to move a document in a document library from one folder to another (yes, within the same library). All this is needed to be done through web services. I am using UpdateListItems method with batching XML like this: <Batch> <Method ID="1" Cmd="Update"> <Field Name="ID">14</Field> <Field Name="ServerUrl">...

Software Enviroment Documentation Checklist

Hi, I work for a insurance company. We have our own development department made-up of almost 150 people plus some providers (outsourcing and custom made apps pretty much). In our company my team have made what we call non-fucntional logic libraries. That is, software libraries to handle things that are horizontal to all the development...

Find latest approved version of an SPListItem

I am trying to iterate through the SPListItem.Versions collection to find the latest approved list item. My list item has three versions: the first two are approved, the last is in draft. But my code says they're all in draft! Please help! // Iterate through all versions for (int index = 0; index < item.Versions.Count; index++) { S...

Sharepoint Document Libraries - "Date Created" field

I have a request from a Sharepoint user to show the "Date Created" column in her document library. Trouble is, I cannot find a way to show the date of when the Document was added to the library. I tried adding the standard column "Date Created" but it is blank for all documents listed there already, and uploading/editing a document pro...

Integrating SharePoint document libraries into an ASP.NET page

Is there any way that I can use SharePoint document library and document sharing functionality from an ASP.NET page? ...

Improved document upload experience in SharePoint

The default WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 SharePoint upload user experience is like this: Click link for document library. **PostBack** Click Upload. **PostBack** Click Browse. **Dialog** Click on document and click OK. **Dialog disappears** Click OK. **PostBack** Fill in document properties and click OK. **PostBack** Best case, this is a ...

Can I have a custom document workspace for documents in a document library?

Is it possible to have a custom document workspace for documents created in a specific document library? I don't need every document library to have this custom workspace, just a single document library. For example, assume there is a "Movies" document library. I'd like to have a customized document workspace for any documents created...

Filename shows as a Required field in a Document Library in Sharepoint 2007.

Ok, so got a stumped scenario. On a Sharepoint MOSS 2007 site, somebody messed around with the settings of a Document Library. You try and upload multiple documents to the document library and it keeps them as checked out. This was not occurring before. The library settings (versioning settings are set to Yes to check out before edi...

Sharepoint Document Upload Page - Passing URL Variables?

Throughout my SharePoint site, I have several document repositories that are tied to primary keys from an external database. I have added custom columns in the document library metadata fields so that we will know which SharePoint documents correspond with which table entries. As a requirement, we need to have document uploads that hav...

Extendable .Net Document management for under $30K

hi there guys, i am looking to answer one of those problems that sometimes get give to us devs by sales staff trying to get a sale in under budget. We have a client that requires the following: Document management system that support AD authentication (even if the server may be in another location - potentially on a VPN) Ability for ...

Limit the number of available/visible Content Types in document libraries

Users seems to have a hard time picking the right document template when the "New" list contains a lot of items. Rather then displaying 50 items in the "new" dropdown list I am looking for a solution that will only show the documents which is relevant at the moment. I have a "Life cycle" choice field in another list and only a subset of...

Any way to Format or Write code in Google Document

I want to keep the snippets of code in My Google Document but when i paste the code it looks weird . Is there any way to format the code like we have in stackoverflow where the code is in colors ...