moss-2007

Adding Check-In Date as a Column in MOSS 2007

Hello - I'm trying to add a column to a document library in MOSS 2007 that will reflect the date that the document was last checked in and then have that date reflected within the document as a Field or Label. I'm trying to avoid the Modified date and only have it populate the date of last check in. Check Out is required in the library ...

MOSS 2007: Changing the masterpage for one page layout

In a MOSS server, I would like a specific page layout to use the selected masterpage. Instead, i want this specific page layout to use a blank master page so i can use that page layout for pop message. I want to use a blank master page so that the my site's navigation menu, header and footer don't appear in my popup. I found this blog ...

Getting the SPWeb for a SPAuditEntry

I'm currently building an app that will parse all of the Audit entries in a site collection and send out a pretty email to users. My problem is that the emails should be based on a particular web (essentially an email summarizing the changes that happened to each subsite). Apparently, there is no information in the SPAuditEntry object a...

MOSS 2007 - Customize Send To Menu

We currently have a need to add a custom menu item to the Send To menu within our document libraries that would allow a user to create a link to the currently selected list item within another library. When the user clicks on the new "Send Link to..." menu item, they should be prompted to browse to the library in which the link should be...

MOSS custom MasterPage not displaying on all site pages

I have created a master page under my top level MOSS site. I have applied it to a sub-site. When I go to some pages such as "Site Settings" the custom master page has not been applied. Do you know why this may be happening? I have set the custom master page as the System and Site page. I am using http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/archiv...

PlaceHolderMain in Sharepoint showing breadcrumb and title

I am trying to print the breadcrumb and title of a page in share point using a custom.master. I tried using the following code: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server" /> <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb" runat="server" /> This is not outputting anything to the screen. The brea...

What is the Difference between Page Fields and Content Fields MOSS 2007

Hello All, Can some body help me in understanding the difference between Page Fields and Content Fields in MOSS 2007 Thanks in Advance Thomson ...

What are the latest patches that I need to download for my MOSS 2007 server

Hi Guys I just have RTM version of MOSS installed. I wanted to download the latest service packs to make it work properly. But I am not sure what to download. Can someone help me with this? Thanks Carol ...

Bad user profile links in MOSS 2007 Site Usage Summary > Site users

In the MOSS 2007 "Site collection users" page (... > Site Settings > Site Usage Summary > Site users), under the "User activity (past 30 days)" section there is a list of site users with their statistic (e.g. sharepoint\system). However, the link associated with each user points to a local server port URL (e.g. http://ssn1:23543/Person.a...

How to output Site title on a sharepoint masterpage

I have a custom masterpage in sharepoint and want to output the site title in a different part of the page. Currently I can see the site title which is outputted using the following code: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server" Visible="true" /> Apparently using <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInT...

Could not create a new Web Application in MOSS2007

Hi I am having trouble creating new Web Application from Central Administration in MOSS 2007. It is giving out an error which looks like: The directory C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\25921 is already being used by another IIS Web Site. Choose a different root directory for your new Web application. Troubleshoot issues with ...

Why does my SharePoint workflow fail when the client is running Vista or Windows 7?

I have a similar situation to this question. I have a custom sequential SharePoint workflow, deleoped in Visual Studio 2008. It is associated with an InfoPath form submitted to a form library. It is configured to automatically start when an item is created. It works sometimes. Sometimes it just fails to start. Just like the questio...

Could not Open a Site after installing SP2 for MOSS 2007

Hi I have installed WSS SP2 and MOSS SP2 recently. But the configuration failed with the following error: Failed to install the application content files. An exception of type System.NullReferenceException was thrown. Additional exception information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. System.NullReferenceExc...

Edit Existing List Item in MOSS 2007

Hello, With Sharepoint if I add a new list item, I can then click on that item to view. Then click on it again to edit, and it works fine. However, if I click on an existing item (that was added last week for instance) then I can view no problem. If I then click on edit I just get an empty page. (When I say empty, I mean that the par...

How to check SharePoint document permissions ?

I have a custom web service deployed in SharePoint, web method of this webservice expects a SharePoint docuentUri as a parameter. As it is deployed in the SharePoint environment i am done with SharePoint authentication, but the question here is that how do i check whether the user reqesting for a perticular document is authroized or not ...

SharePoint Master Page modified SPSWC:SearchBoxEx not working correctly on each site

I have created a custom master page and have the follwoing code on the page: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat="server"> <SPSWC:SearchBoxEx id="SearchBox" RegisterStyles="false" TextBeforeDropDown="" ...

pages/forms/allitems.aspx missing from my sub site

I have a subsite in sharepoint and I want to go to pages/forms/allitems.aspx. It is not there? Why would it be missing? I want to see what layout a page is using. ...

MOSS how to edit default page layouts

IS it is possible to change the default page layouts that can with MOSS. If so where are they stored to change? ...

Sharepoint Branding

I am trying to brand share point. I have created a mastepage in the top level site. I have soem controls in there which I have overridden. When I apply the master page onto other sites my custom controls do not display but the default ones's do. Any idea what might be going wrong> ...

Sharepoint Search Delegate Controls

I have been followinf this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms470880.aspx to create a delegate control to overide the default search used in Sharepoint. I am trying to make the search use a custom search scope called people. I don't seem able to do this. Could anyone please give me some tips? Feature xml <?xml version="1.0" enco...