I have a content type that has required fields. I have associated Word document with the content type as a template. I now want to edit the Word template, but word won't allow me to save the template without filling in the required fields. However, if I fill in the required fields and save the document, then those fields get populated...
I am trying to setup a failover location for MOSS. The current farm is built on 32 bit Windows 2003. The servers ar the failover location are all 64 bit Windows 2008. Is there any way to make these two environments talk and stay in sync? I have considered a "stretched" farm configuration, but that won't work unles the bit width of both ...
Does anyone know if the problems that have been affecting Stack Overflow with regards to SQL Server 2008 Full Text Search performance have implications for the search in SharePoint? As far as I understand it SharePoint search uses SQL Server full text search. ...
I have a sharepoint event handler which I want to activate for a single list, not all the lists in the site. How do I go about this? ...
Hi, I'm actual looking for a way to get notified about any changes on a SharePoint group. First I though I would be able to this by attaching a event handler to some kind of group list. But unfortunately there are no such list representing SharePoint groups. My second attempt was to bind a event handler to the content type SharePointG...
OK we are at the end of our rope here, and I’d really appreciate feedback from the SO community. Our basic issue is slow performance by our MOSS-based intranet-- Some environment info: We have a MOSS standard edition for a collaboration based site. The sitedb is 29 Gb we have two VMWare based front end servers. (2x 32bit CPUS ...
I need to store an array in a custom content type in MOSS. This will always be hidden, only used programmatically. Throughout the lifecycle of the list item, I will be adding values to the array. My array may look like this after a while: value1,1 | value1,2 | value1,3 | value1,4 value2,1 | value2,2 | value2,3 | value3,1 | value3,2 ...
I have a simple 2D array of strings and I would like to stuff it into an SPFieldMultiLineText in MOSS. This maps to an ntext database field. I know I can serialize to XML and store to the file system, but I would like to serialize without touching the filesystem. public override void ItemAdding(SPItemEventProperties properties) { ...
I am using the Out-Of-The-Box preview viewstyle for displaying a list. My requirement is to display and extra column on the left side of the the view, along with the title column. How can I do this? ...
Hi, i am running MOSS 2007 on a Windows 2003 box. I need to know what configuration must be done to get Alerts to work. SMTP and that stuff. What am i missing because when i create my alert it creates it but it does not send the email to show me that something changed in my document library or on any document it self. I did install the...
In SharePoint MOSS 2007, I have created a custom content type that I will be applying to a document library. One of the required fields is "Incoming Date" and another is the "Due Date". The Due Date is always 10 working days from the Incoming Date. The Incoming Date is when the mail room received the letter, not necessarily when the...
Perhaps I am not asking or searching for this correctly: I want to have a desktop script (currently using python) that will update a list on a sharepoint site. The current script reads various file shares, ftp sites and a ArcGIS database to determine which metadata files have been updated and published. The script then writes all thes...
Hello everyone, In our MOSS '07 site we have a page that contains just a Page Viewer web part in it that points to a site on another server. However, I've noticed that on that page (and any others that have a Page Viewer web part on it) our drop down menus and hover effects are SUPER SLOW and completely max out the CPU on the visitor's...
I'm looking for articles, forum or blog posts dealing with SharePoint and thread safety? I'm quite sure there are some special aspects regarding thread safety that have to be considered when working with the SharePoint object model. Actually I didn't find many information about this, yet. So I'm looking forward to your answers. Bye...
Hi there, I want to know how to set a Publishing page content through the code (MOSS 2007).This is how I've created the page: PublishingPage page = publishingWeb.GetPublishingPages().Add("MyPage.aspx", pageLayout); SPFile pageFile = page.ListItem.File; page.Title = "My Page"; page.Update(); But all my attempts of ...
Hi All, I am confused about the licensing model for Microsoft PerformancePoint Server. When I look at http://www.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint/howtobuy/default.aspx I see a 20,000 USD Server License, plus a 200 USD CAL license. But the language is a bit vague about what this means-- is CAl required for any user looking at r...
can anyone show me how to get the users within a certain group using sharepoint? so i have a list that contains users and or groups. i want to retrieve all users in that list. is there a way to differentiate between whether the list item is a group or user. if its a group, i need to get all the users within that group. im using c#, and...
Hi, I have strange problem with sharepoint and ajax functionality. We have an UpdatePanel placed inside webpart. When partial postback occurs, page title gets missing. We have found that temporary partial solution is to write title element into one line and not use any spaces or controls inside it..not even a literal control. But we ne...
I am facing a rather peculiar problem here. We have an OOTB approval workflow, which logs all the workflow history into a workflow history list. This list gets purged every 60 days. To increase this time period for which the workflow history is retained, I googled around and found that I have run this code: using (SPSite wfSite = new S...
Is there a tool that allows querying (and aggregating data from) a library of infopath forms in MOSS? I can't use promoted fields, since some of the items I want to query are in repeating groups which (AFAIK) cannot be promoted. So I have to query the underlying XML. I realize I can write custom code that iterates through the forms and...