moss-2007

PlaceHolderMain controlling td width of hard-coded values

In my custom .master page I have the following code: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server" Visible="true" /> This prints out the main content of my page. It contains this structure <table ID="OuterZoneTable" width="100%"> <tr>...</tr> <tr id="OuterRow"> <td width="80%" id="OuterLeftCell">...</td>...

Does MOSS 2007 workflows support calling external mehods ?

Hi all I have a custom sharepoint workflow that I need to call an external method defined in a local service it always throws an exception System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find service of type 'ListItemCheckService.IListItemCheck' through the currently configured services. Consider adding the service to ExternalDataExchange...

How to limit access to an InfoPath form when form library requires all users have contribute permissions.

I am using MOSS 2007 and InfoPath 2007 on a government network. I have created a form that allows users to enter a request for TDY (trip) and submit to his/her supervisor for approval. The form must be approved/digitally signed at several levels in a chain of command. I use views in InfoPath to manage the process. My challenge is limiti...

Creating and publishing excel file in MOSS 2007 using data from SQL Serer

Hello, I need help in this matter: We have a template of Excel file in which all calculations are already set. User can request a 'report'. Idea is to create a button on our site (SharePoint portal). After clicking on it a new Excel file is generated. This means to get actual data from database (SQL Server 2005 SP2), import them into te...

MOSS 2007 Pre-Populate SSO Credentials

I'm looking to set a user's credentials for a particular webpart/application that utilizes the SSO database within Sharepoint. Can someone point me to a code sample of how I might do this in .net? The webpart/application typically stores the user's credentials upon the first use but I'd rather they not even be bothered with entering th...

Weird Workflow Behavior in Sharepoint 2007

I have a Document Library A and a list B. When a document added to A, an item is created in B with the Title = A.Url. Another workflow runs whenever a document is updated in A which makes a lookup: B.Title = A.Url, and changes another column in B in found item. Item Change Workflow always gives "Error Occurred: List item is not found"....

Event Handler not finding logging configuration

Hi, We have attached an event handler to a SharePoint list which is fired when an email is sent to the List. The Handler throws below error when it executes the enterprise Library Logger. Write () command The configuration section for Logging cannot be found in the configuration source. We have logging working for the other c...

MOSS 2007 authentication

Hi, I have a MOSS web site configured with Windows Integrated Authentication. I added a couple of local users in the server, added them to Sharepoint groups, and I can log into my site (as long as the local user is part of the administrators group... odd). If I add a domain user to the Owners group, I can't access the site with it. An...

Setup incoming emails in WSS 3.0 and configure document library to receive emails

Hi All, Does anyone have all the steps required to configure incoming email settings in MOSS 2007 including exchange and AD configuration changes? I would also like the steps to configure doc lib to receive emails Thanks, Milap ...

Conference Room Booking Solution

Hello All, I'm looking for a conference room booking software solution to deploy in the SharePoint. I tried a couple of them but none of them were efficient(Room Manager for SharePoint). Thus anyone know a 3rd party tool that can be integrated with the SharePoint? if at all you know any software which is not integrated with the ShareP...

What are Sharepoint(MOSS 2007) Developement/Deployment best practices.

We are deploying sharepoint MOSS 2007 at our work. I'm trying to come up with a sharepoint development and deployment methodology. We have Dev/QA/Prod environments and I need a way, preferably automated to deploy changes from Dev to QA and from there to prod. We are creating site collections web parts etc. Some of it is done directly wi...

How to modify default.master page in Microsoft Project Server 2007

Hi, I am facing one issue. My objective is to remove Home tab from PWA (Project Web Access, template for Project Server site). I googled and found that I can hide this tab with the help of CSS. So I modified default.master page as below, #zz1_TopNavigationMenun0 { display: none !important; } When I modify master page and browse the s...

Publishing data from extranet to intranet in MOSS 2007

I am working on a MOSS 2007 in an extranet as well as intranet deployment. For business reasons, they have been kept separate - till now. The requirement now is - the intranet needs to be able to publish and fetch data from the extranet. The intranet needs to push data to a list on the extranet (it is a custom built survey) and this l...

Project 2007 to 2010 upgrade error Invalid object name in Reporting database.

A little background information first. I have restored all of our Sharepoint and Project databases into a VM in it's own domain. I have successfully upgrades the Sharepoint piece with 0 errors. I have now brought up another VM and have performed the installation of Sharepoint 2010 and Project 2010, and completed the config wizard with 0 ...

Installation and Configuration of MOSS 2007, Identity Not Mapped Exception

I am trying to install MOSS 2007. This computer already had MOSS2007 installed, we had to uninstall MOSS2007 and install it again (for various reasons). When we install MOSS2007, the installation completed fine but the Sharepoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard runs into the following problem in Step 2. Why does it not...

Can I develop Web Parts for MOSS 2007 with .NET 3.5?

Currently I am developing Web Parts for MOSS 2007 using .NET 2.0 and deploying them to the GAC with WSPBuilder. I would like to move to .NET 3.5 to open up things like LINQ and WCF. Is this possible and will there be any significant changes required to MOSS to support doing so? ...

Custom List form - Autopopulate Manager

Hi, I have a Sharepoint 2007 custom list with a column named 'Manager', to hold the user's Manager (single line of text). When creating a new item I want the NewForm.aspx to autopulate the Manager field with the user's manager. I know we can autopulate list form fields using JQuery to access Sharepoint's 'User Information List' expose...

Uploading files to Sharepoint list + setting values for Lookup-type column

Hi all, I'm using Sharepoint's Copy.asmx webservice to upload legacy files and their metadata. The target is a custom list (with nested folders and custom fields - all as text - ). The file upload is ok, their metadata is ok, CAML querying is ok,but.... One of my custom attribute is the doc_type. Due to time constraints I set this als...

Programmatically generate additional properties during SharePoint crawl

Is it possible to hook into the MOSS 2007 crawl process and programmatically populate a metadata property as the content is being indexed? The reason I need to do this at crawl time is that the content is coming from outside SharePoint (from a file share) and so I can't add the metadata directly to the documents themselves. There's a wi...

Difference between SPFile and PublishingPage class

What are the difference between SPFile class and PublishingPage Class? I am trying to manipulate a SharePoint Page and I see that both SPFile and PublishingPage classes can be used and the only difference I see if PublishingPage is used for aspx file and SpFile can be used for anyfiles in a SharePoint site. I also see that there are few ...