I need to develop a multi language sharepoint site, (English / French ) for example. I installed the french language pack with Service packs. I used variations, added labels for En-US and Fr-FR and created the hierarchies. The problem is that when working with the french site, All Sharepoint menu items are in french. This is very hard fo...
Hi The general consensus is that devlopment of MOSS publishing sites, should be done using site definitions, Solutions, Features but due to project timescales we had to do all list/site column/content type/master page development using the SharePoint UI and SPD. We then used the contentdeployment wizard to migrate everything from devlop...
I'm using the SSRS 2005 Web parts to display my reports in a MOSS 2007 SP1 Portal. I have successfully installed the Web parts in my development, testing, and UAT servers using the following command: stsadm -o addwppack -filename path/to/RSWebParts.cab. But when I tried running the same command in the production server, it will give me t...
I have a requirement to select some data from a table in a database (SQL Server) and display it on a page in a SharePoint site (MOSS 2007). I have a little bit of experience of MOSS, so I know I have a couple of options: BDC SSRS or possibily even a custom ASPX page. I've never really worked with any of these. Can anyone advise on ...
Does the same process apply for session state when a dll is placed in the bin as when placed in the GAC? Or is there some type of esoteric change that take place under the hood? I’ve got a test solution deployed to the bin directory of my sharepoint site that uses session state. I made sure that session state is configured in my web.c...
I have a Sharepoint publishing site with variations. The breadcrumb by default shows this: Variation Root > English Site > Some Page What I want to display is: "Home" > Some Page, where Home points to the English site root. Is there a way to achieve this withouth creating a custom server control to do that? ...
For example, I have a MOSS publishing page where a user added a web part and I'm unable to remove that web part due to how the layout is rendered. I cant access the small drop down menu to "delete" the web part. I know there is a ton of unpublished list views that exist and was wondering if we could get a comprehensive list of them her...
Hi there, Has anyone ever made a sharepoint lookup column that allows fill inn choices and does writeback to the list it does lookup from? what would it take to make such a column? If a 3.rd party solution is arround that would be realy great to :) Cheers! ...
I am creating two columns Start and end date, when the user enters end date I should validate it with the start date to check that its greater than start date, is there a way to do that?? I am using Custom Library for this, My requirement is I have to store a document with start and end date and I need to do some validations on it. Than...
Whats the best way to deploy a webpart in WSS3 or MOSS2007 which has a database dependency? Should the .wsp include code to create the database, should I encapsulate the .wsp in another installer which handles the database creation, or should I supply two different packages to allow the admin to handle the backend creation? ...
I have used the following article as a guide to creating a custom EditorPart in SharePoint http://blah.winsmarts.com/2006/05/19/writing-custom-editors-for-sharepoint-2007-and-aspnet-20-webparts.aspx However when I implement this technique I cannot save the changes to my custom properties. Basically the CreateChildControls function is...
The question was: I've got a page in a MOSS 2007 publishing site that uses a layout (the page inherits from Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.TemplatedRedirectionPage),and I need to write a codebehind for this page, but still let the layout templating mechanism work. My attempt was to write a class that inherits from...
We are currently implementing MOSS 2007 to replace an older portal system (Plumtree) and are currently looking at searching. We have 1000s of documents on a file server that we would like users to be able to search. This I can set up by adding a content source of "File Shares" and pointing it at the UNC of the file share. The issue is...
I want to look into one of the out of the box MOSS 2007 webparts and examine the code. After that I want to replicate some of the functionality and add some of my own. Any techniques? ...
Hi, I have created a site collection inside a web application with user A as a site collection adminstrator. I have added a link in site feature page. On click of that link I am trying to create a timer job.Below is the code executed on click of the link //Allow unsafe updates. SPContext.Current.Web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; //Get cu...
I'm trying to create a sitemap for my MOSS publishing site, i've got two approaches but seem to be stuck with both. My first approach is to use the PortalSiteMapProvider, which is already created and nicely cached... PublishingWeb rootWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb); //Get the URL of the default pa...
I have a task to make a survey to be displayed in SharePoint 2007 to external users for them to fill out and submit, but not be able to view the submitted results (so they don't see what others have entered). This survey will be for outside vendors to my company to submit information about them for our records. I am open to any suggest...
Hi, I have created a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) site template, and I am programmatically creating a number of new site based on this template. I would like to populate each site created with this template with a number of users and groups from the Active Directory. Can anyone offer any guidance on how this can be done, either as part of t...
I have a document library in my SharePoint page and there are 10 documents in it. If UserA is logged in i want him to only see 5 of those doucments in that document library. How can i create some custom document library for this to work? I have MOSS installed as well. Thanks in advanced! ...
I have a Sharepoint discussion list that belongs to an Exchange list with the idea that it will be able to archive discussions on that list and make them generally accessible, searcheable and so on. The problem is that although I have checked the "Accept e-mail messages from any sender" option on the discussion board, it still appears t...