sharepoint-designer

Shortening jQuery Function

I've written the following functions to remove non-breaking spaces from the html code in a SharePoint site (SharePoint designer litters whatever code you write with non-breaking spaces whenever you open the masterpage or page layouts! You end up spending all your time going back and deleting them). In any case, it seems overly long, I'm...

Dataview web part fails after minor changes.

We're working with a sharepoint 2007 site that has a number of dataview webparts showing different views of a document repositry. Each time we make even the most minor change (such as changing the chrome settings or adding a class) to the XSLT or webpart settings the DV webpart refuses to render. Our XSL is vaild, as is the page the GU...

Cannot change the colour of a List Form Web Part

I am using SharePoint Designer to load a list form web part and want to modify some colors in newform.aspx. I right-click on this object, go to Properties -> Formatting but can't change anything. What would be the reason? ...

Sharepoint Designer add new Data Provider

In Sharepoint Designer 2007 is it possible to add a new Data Source Provider? I have a DB2 database I need to access from SharePoint and I have the DB2 Data Provider installed on the system, but Sharepoint Designer does not recognize it. ...

Deleted everything but members from a SharePoint site

I created a SharePoint sub-site, and accidently deleted all permissions groups except for the Members (which included me) and now I'm stuck looking at the site I've created but I'm not able to edit or delete it and create a new one. Any idea of what I could do to get myself out of this situation? Thanks, Ash ...

Custom SharePoint Form that displays data from another List

I have a SharePoint task list. Each task in the task list is for a Client, and there is a drop-down on the task entry form to select the client. The drop down is populated from a Clients list. Each client has a tier. Tier is a field in the Client list. What I want to do, is when a Client is selected in a New/Edit/View form from within...

Document Library : Sub folder --> target audience

Hello Sharepoint GURU, I have a following requirement. I have a document structure where I would like to grant read only permission to specific group on sub folder within document library. I am using Sharepoint 2007 Example. Folder : Business <--- Document Library under business I have two sub folder. ---> 2009 --> Sub F...

View Page (DispForm.aspx) not associated properly for SharePoint list views

I've customized NewForm, EditForm and DispForm to allow users to create new, edit (with certain permission) and display service requests. The forms work fine except in my views (e.g. Createbyme.aspx which shows all requests owned by me). Instead of pointing to my custom DispForm /[site]/Lists/[list_name]/DispForm_custom.aspx?ID=[request...

Filter a sharepoint list dynamically

I have a task list which contains tasks which are submitted on the end date of every project phase. I need a list view which displays the submissions for the most recent project phase. Currently, this is implemented by specifying the most recent project phase end date as a filter condition. Whenever the tasks for the new project phase ...

The 'SelectedValue' can not be set declaratively

I have asp dropdown list -listing specific values as None Fund Accounting Custody Only Full Fund Admin in custom edit form in sharepoint designer 2007 I want to show the selected value for the same dropdown list in edit form but as I added SelectedValue="{@Services_x0020_Provided}" its giving ...

mail not send through workflow?

Hi To All, I am creating a work flow that send the mail manually on a document in document library. I am follows the steps at http://www.documentmanagementworkflowinfo.com/sample-sharepoint-workflows/sharepoint-designer-workflow-allow-users-enter-email-address-before-running-workflow.htm but when the workflow run from sharepoint ...

Sharepoint 2007 placeholder issue

I've created a simple placeHolder for some extra javascript in jQuery - The issue is that the placeHolder is within some script tags and therefore isn't recognized by Sharepoint designer. The page works correctly, so it hasn't bothered me until now, since you can't touch any part of the design view, without fixing the issue. My code l...

Sharepoint 2007 Data view Webpart custom parameters

I'm sort of new to the custom parameters that can be setup on a DataView Webpart. There are 6 options: - None - Control - Cookie - Form - QueryString - Server Variable I think that None, Cookie and QueryString speak for themselves and are pretty straightforward. The issue comes from the other 3. There isn't much documentation as to wha...

How to check if a document is checked in, in SharePoint Designer Workflow?

I am trying to create a SharePoint designer workflow which should be triggered every time a document is checked in. How do I pause till the document is checked in? Will the condition Wait For "Checked Out To" "To Be Empty" work fine? Some posts on MSDN and CodePlex indicate that this might throw an error. ...

Sharepoint: Submit form data from Edit form and then redirect to display form.

This is for a custom Editform.aspx being used to submit data to a custom list. Once the user completes the form, he should be able to hit a button or even the OK button, and have sharepoint submit the form data to the list, then redirect to the items Display form (dispform.aspx?ID='itemid'). I was able to get the ID of the current item ...

Detect page is loaded into Sharepoint Designer

Is there a way for a web part to figure out the hosting page is being loaded into SharePoint Designer ? ...

How to get the SQL Server name and Role used by Sharepoint Server in Server farm?

I have a sharepoint server farm like the following. Machine1: Test_DB in this machine i have installed SQL Server as named instance. (Test_DB\sqlserver) Machine2: Test_appsrv Application server complete installation Machine3: Test_web in this installed sharepoint as webfront end. In my central admin I am seeing all the ...

How to determine if Toolpart is running inside SharePoint Designer

A web part can't use certain objects such as Page.Request as detailed in Best Practice to create designer friendly server controls when running in a designer such as SharePoint Designer. You can use the DesignMode property to determine if a web part is running inside a designer and act appropriately. However this doesn't seem to work f...

No access with SP Designer after change to FBA

Hi, two days ago I changed the authentication of my site from "Windows" into "Forms". So far so good, users are now in a SQL Express 2005 and it works fine. The problem is now, I have have no access to the Site with my SP Deigner 2007. Does he only support Windows-Authentication? Visual Studio ist the same, I get error message to enable...

Automatic workflows do not "firing" anymore (SharePoint WSS3.0)

Hi all, last week I changed the authentication in WSS from Windows to Forms. Now I have big problem with the workflows I created in SP Designer. When I start the workflow manually, it fires, but when it should to do it automaticly (when new item is created) it fails. Before they all worked fine. Had anyone the same problem after the s...