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Review request and expiry notification emails for scheduled publishing pages

I'm currently running a publishing portal in a small server farm environment. Using the page settings and schedule form for publishing pages we have configured our content to 'send a content review request mail to the page contact'. We've tried a number of different configurations for the frequency of the emails but no matter what we sel...

Get the pages of a multipage meeting workspace

Hi, I currently do some testings on the multipage meeting workspace template to check whether it fit our needs to be the base template for our projects. As you might know, a multipage meeting workspace is designed to be able to manage several dates within a single workspace and to display either pages that are only related to a certai...

Fba roles with SharePoint user groups

I have built custom Membership and Role providers. Users are some clients that belong to the company and I am using Company as a Role. I would like to create SharePoint Group and add more companies to it (for example type of industry) and then do redirecting and security by the SPGroup. How do I retrieve SPGroup for the current logged...

Missing MOSS 2007 Functionality?

I've installed MOSS 2007 a number of times, but I always run into the same problem. The installation goes just fine, but MOSS seems to be missing functionality. In the Administration page, clicking the 'OK' button in Create or Extend a Web Application does absolutely nothing. Also, clicking certain links evoke no response either. I...

Item-Level Permissions (Edit only their own but, read everyones)...

I have a list which I've set item-level permissions on. I set it to allow users to read all items and only edit their own items... The issue is that if I do this then I can still edit all items... If I change it so that I can only read my own and only edit my own then it works as expected... Anyone have any thoughts on why this would...

MOSS Document Icons

Hi In SharePoint MOSS 2007 I have .pdf and .sql files. Can I get it to show the correct icon for these documents in the document libraries? All the best ...

Using send-to in MOSS document library

Hi I want to use the send-to option inside a MOSS document library to move the file to a folder in the same document library. If I select the url to the folder and then try the send-to option, it tells me the folder name is too long. All the best ...

Should I use a workflow or event receiver?

I want to build a custom content type that will be the basis of a list item that will have multiple states. The various states will determine which list will instantiate this item. It will move between the states, and therefore the lists, based on user actions. I have a few choices to implement this: Create workflows on each list th...

Adding a required field validator to a SharePoint webpart

I am writing a webpart for MOSS 2007. I need to validate a text field in that webpart, or which I am using th required field validator. I am creating the required field validator as follows: vldProjectError = new RequiredFieldValidator(); vldProjectError.ForeColor = Color.Red; vldProjectError.ErrorMessage = Resources.LABEL_PROJECT_ERR...

MOSS - Which would you choose - 120+ additional columns, or a separate linked List?

Hi folks, I have a design conundrum that I could use some feedback on, so I'm hoping my fellow SharePoint experts can help me work this out. I am managing a set of Projects in a single MOSS List (List1), where the "Project Name" column will be treated as a 'primary key' (at least in my mind) for related Lists. Each Project will have as...

Formatting hyperlink as a picture in a custom list schema

Hi, In my custom list XML I added a few URL fields. one of them has to be displayed as a picture just like when you select "Format URL as: Picture" in the fields settings of the UI. In the customList's schema.xml I haven't found any place where to override the html markup for a URL type. Any help or clue is welcome :) Thanks, teebo...

MOSS : Running code when creating a site from a template ?

In MOSS 2007, is there a way I can insert a piece of code I wrote to run every time I create a site from a ready made template ?? ...

MOSS Alternate Access Mappings

Hi, I have created a new MOSS site on the following port listed in the Alternate Access Mappings as: http://sharepoint:27478 Default http://sharepoint:27478 I now want to configure a domain name to point at this. I have the domain configured to look at http://sharepoint, which is the name of the server. What would I need ...

Changing the look of MOSS 2007 DropDown navigation menu

How can I completely change the look of the TopNavigation dropdowns in SharePoint 2007? Basically I need to change the look of the div popup that gets display. I need to use Javascript to do this, so just changing the CSS for the menus won't work. ...

One Sharepoint Feature or many inter-dependant features

I have a small Sharepoint Feature project in VS2008 with STSDev 2008 which comprises of a WebPart, a List and a List Instance (of the aforementioned List). The WebPart depends on the existance of the List as does the List Instance. Would I be better creating one feature that deployed all three components, or packaging up the three compo...

SharePoint 2007 Banner Hit Counter

In the SharePoint publishing site I will have some banners that are Web Parts and can have any HTML content inside them. I have requirement to count clicks on that banners. Banners will have some links to external sites. I am not sure where to store counters for individual banners. Custom List is the first thing that came to my mind but...

Calculated Column Formula

Goal: Translating the functionality of a formula that works in Excel, into something I can use in a calculated column in SharePoint. Alternate Goal: A completely different solution from the one I'm currently trying to make work. Scenario: Running MOSS 2007, I have a list with a text column populated with multiple dates (in text forma...

Can MOSS's AssetUrlSelector browse sub folders in lists?

I keep getting a 'List does not exist' error whenever I try and use AssetUrlSelector to browse a subfolder in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). To reproduce this behaviour: Add a Summary Link Web Part and add a new link. Click 'Browse' this will open the AssetPortalBrowser.aspx dialog. Browse to a list that contains sub folde...

Can MOSS 2007 integrate with multiple LDAP/AD stores?

Can MOSS integrate and get user profiles from multiple Active Directory and/or LDAP stores? I have seen from Integrating Microsoft SharePoint Server With Oracle Virtual Directory that there may be intermediary products that can help with this. It looks like Rohati has a solution as well, but is the out of the box without third party pr...

How do you instruct a SharePoint Farm to run a Timer Job on a specific server?

We have an SP timer job that was running fine for quite a while. Recently the admins enlisted another server into the farm, and consequently SharePoint decided to start running this timer job on this other server. The problem is the server does not have all the dependencies installed (i.e., Oracle) on it and so the job is failing. I'm ju...