I have an issue with SharePoint where my SSRS reports subscriptions are intermittently failing to email. 1) I'd love to get to the bottom of this issue... This was my original question 2) Each time this fails I have to manually refresh all the subscriptions (I change the time by 1 minute), this seems to work for a few days - to a few...
A Text field (SPFieldText) has a limit of 255 characters. What, if any, is the limit of the Note field (SPFieldMultiLineText)? The associated documentation on MSDN (linked above) doesn't list these limitations. ...
I am displaying some text in a column inside an SPGridView. The text happens to be more than a hunderd character long, and as a result, the webpart becomes too wide. I tried setting BoundField.ItemStyle.Wrap to true, and I also tried BoundField.ControlStyle.Width and BoundField.ItemStyle.Width values but theyy didn't work... How do i m...
"Title" field is sealed. Any attempts to update the default value resets the value back to "null" ...
Hi, We are trying to clean up our SharePoint (MOSS 2007) environment. As of right now, our developers, System Administrators and Content Administrators all have "Full Access" rights to the root site (and just about everything underneath it) in our production environment. I think that is a terrible practice and feel confident that our...
When searching in SharePoint the results are returned to a page called OSSSearchResults.aspx. This page has a scope dropdown for the search i.e. Site:Departments How can I remove this scope so that the whole site collection is always searching, irrespective of the site I am within? All the best ...
I need to locate the table that contains the Content Source Name (along with the ContentSourceId) in the SSP Search Database (OR anywhere else that it gets stored in). I may be able to access this via the SharePoint Object Model, but I want it via the db table access (This is not a good practice according to Microsoft). We looked in all ...
I would like to know how MOSS Front End load balancing works, just an overview or a link to a site that contains this type of information. In otherwords, I have 2 front end servers in the farm, how does MOSS distribute the work load? ...
Page is published from MOSS content management server to MOSS front end server. Content deployment path is used to publish the page. I can remove/unpublish page from content management server. But content deployment doesn't remove page from front end server. I FOUND AN ANSWER FROM: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/pages/content...
I have an existing document in a document library and I'm trying to overwrite that file in code using code like this: byte[] data = ... SPListItem li = ... li.File.SaveBinary(data); When I run this code I get: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh t...
Hi I have a sharepoint MOSS 2007 Install on a server and need to move it to another new server. Can I just ghost the complete server to the new one or do I need to install and configure the complete server again? Any suggestions appreciated. ...
A customer of ours has an Access 2007 application with a form for creating tasks for upload to a Sharepoint Task List. The user fills in the form (title, status, priority, start date, due date). The user then places check marks next to the sharepoint user names that this task must be assigned to (one task per sp user selected). This d...
I am using the out of the box list viewer webpart to display a list and provide data to other webparts. I see that in the webpart connections menu, there is an option called "Provide Data to" which is always grayed out. Are there any out-of-the-box webparts that are compatible with this kind of connection? ...
I develop a SharePoint workflow with a Replicator activity to replicate a custom activity for every approver. The custom activity implements an approval branch for a particular user. It has classic form with CreateTask, While, OnTaskChanged and CompleteTask activities. I setup UntilCondition on the replicator to cancel execution after o...
I've set up FBA on an extended site, added a user, verified the central admin can read the users (people picker works fine). The problem is no matter what I try I never get asked for credentials, just get a "You are not authorized to view this page". I have a feeling its something in IIS but I've added all anonymous accounts I can think...
I am looking to create an "Online Manual" site template in MOSS 2007, in order to create a number of sites that will hold static information on an array of topics. -What site template should I use, I am currently thinking Publishing Site, but a Wiki might work? -How should I show the navigation for the different "Chapters" (in the left s...
Hey all I'm creating a custom column in a feature for Sharepoint. It is essentially this: <Field Type="Integer" ID="<insert guid here>" ReadOnly="true" Name="xxx" DisplayName="XXX" Group="YYY" /> When the field is deployed and attached to a content type, the content type shows no instance of this field being attached....
I need to find out some general background information about the Sharepoint installation on the local machine using C# - what sharepoint version/patch version it is and so on. Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this? ...
I am trying to implement personalization (WebPartManager and WebParts) on ASP.NET application deployed to SharePoint as application pages (Separate application and aspx pages deployed to _layouts). I'd like to take advantage of SharePoint personalization provider, so I can just wire up the provider to WebPartManager in the ASP.NET appli...
Hi What is the best way to copy an existing SharePoint MOSS site and then recreate a copy of it on the same server? I want to ideally include web parts but not actual content like documents etc. I've looked at using the SPDeploymentWizard and saving the site as a template but the SPDeploymentWizard takes all the content and saving it ...