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SharePoint Cross Site Content Query Web Part

Besides buying a third party, what is the best approach to extending the CQWP control to include content from a seperate site collection? ...

SharePoint : Issue creating Disco

I've followed the instructions to the letter, when I run disco.exe I get this error: The HTML document does not contain web service discovery information. Any suggestions? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms464040.aspx ...

SharePoint randomly replacing file names in web parts?

Ok SharePoint is driving me crazy and I need to see if anyone has encountered a similar problem or knows of a solution: I have a content editor webpart with some HTML including links to PDF files that I've modified slightly to append an employee number querystring ie: <a href="http://moss.company.com/group/home/EPermits /Blank%20Fo...

How to get a safecontrol entry into manifest.xml with WSPBuilder project

Upon taking the default sharepoint master page for MySite, making some changes, and making a wsp out of it with WSPBuilder, I come to these errors in my logs: http://spoint/MySite/%5Fcatalogs/masterpage/MySite.master - An unexpected error has been encountered in this Web Part. Error: The control with virtual path '_controltemplates/Wel...

How do I update a sharepoint list using .net?

I have a SharePoint list already created. I would like to occassionally update that list using a .NET application. How would I do that? EDIT: This has to run on remote machines. ...

Allow user to change the default web part styles

Hi, I have a web part which uses many SharePoint controls like menu, SPGrid, tool bar etc. I want the user to be able to change the style by specifying an external CSS file. Can somebody tell me how I can achieve this? ...

setup the search in sharepoint

Hi everyone, for some reason my serach in the sharepoint site does not work, I have set up the SSP, the scopes, the crawls, everything but it still does not work, can someone explai nto me how to setup the search, maybe I did something wrong in the process. ...

How to override SharePoint field rendering in EditForm?

Hello, I have a list with a choice field, which is multiple choice - meaning many checkboxes. I'd like to render it such that it will be surrounded by a frame, for example a DIV tag with a border. (The frame should be in the HTML document) How can I edit the Control Templates / FLDTYPES.XML / Create a control / any thing, to achieve...

Retrieve all Master Pages for a SharePoint Site?

Hi, How can I determine programmatically what master pages (custom and OOTB) that are available for to use for a web site in SharePoint? Thanks, MagicAndi ...

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. ...

deploying to sharepoint using the object model doesn't work reliably

Deploying to sharepoint using the object model or STSADM commands sometimes results in one or more packages being in the "error" state in the web control, a redeploy instantly fixes this, usually, even stranger, if i create two apps one which adds and one which deploys then i get no problems, but putting a delay between a single program ...

Invoke Workflow through Custom Sequential Workflow in SharePoint

I've created a SharePoint 2007 Sequential Workflow and am trying to activate two workflows (one approval and one feedback) programmatically. workflowProperties.Site.WorkflowManager.StartWorkflow(workflowProperties.Item, association, association.AssociationData, true); I use this code to start the work flow and the association is creat...

Ecommerce template for sharepoint 2007

Are there any good commercial e-commerce site templates (or site definitions?) for sharepoint? I noticed a lot of strong opinions (good and bad) about sharepoint on this site, is this a good direction to take? ...

Filter sharepoint content

Hi Everybody, I need to filter the content in all the pages according to user selections. there should be one control to select different parameters like country, branch and location. page content should change according to user selected values throughout site even user navigate to other pages or subsites. When user closes his/her brow...

Return a Folder GUID from a SharePoint Custom Workflow Activity

Hi there, Has anybody ever written code to return the GUID of a folder in SharePoint Workflow Activity so I can then pass it into a Workflow Variable? Would be really keen to see a code sample if you have one! Thanks ...

How to change the sharepoint Configuration on sqlserver namedInstance to default Instance??

Hi I have installed sqlserver as namedinstance first .say(sqlnamed).later i have installed sharepoint and configured named instance as database server for sharepoint Now i have installed sqldefault instance. Now How to configure the sharepoint server to use default instance instead of namedinstance. What is the Procedure i ...

why we use infopath in sharepoint

hi Can anyone explain why we use infopath in sharepoint? Regards Dhanraj.S ...

Getting started with SharePoint 2010 for SharePoint 2007 Developers

Do you know some quick links that will help a SharePoint 2007 Developers to get started with SharePoint 2010. Let me start with the links I know. General Information on SharePoint 2010 Must watch videos for SharePoint 2010 ...

What is use of feature.xml in moss2007?

What are the exact use of feature.xml, onet.xml, webtemp.xml ? please describe.... ...

SharePoint site asking username & password , how to avoid ?

I create the sharepoint team site. It asking for username & Password . I want to avoid for asking it.Also want to accsess site without uname & pwd from outside (globally).help please ...