How do you manage deploying InfoPath forms to different sharepoint servers? Is there a better way to deal all the data connections being site-specific without opening the forms, editing the data connections and republishing for each environment? ...
Hi All I have a need to create a "transactional" process using an external API that does not support COM+ or .NET transactions (Sharepoint to be exact) What I need to do is to be able to perform a number of processes in a sequence, but any failure in that sequence means that I will have to manually undo all of the previous steps. In m...
I am working on a SharePoint application that supports importing multiple documents in a single operation. I also have an ItemAdded event handler that performs some basic maintenance of the item metadata. This event fires for both imported documents and manually created ones. The final piece of the puzzle is a batch operation feature ...
We created several custom web parts for Sharepoint 2007. They work fine-- however whenever they are loaded, we get an error in the event log saying: "error initializing safe control - Assembly:...". The assembly actually loads fine- Additionally, it is correctly listed in the web.config and GAC. Any ideas about how to stop these (Pha...
We're trying to get rid of all of our SQL Server 2000 databases to re purpose our old DB server... Sharepoint 3.0 is being a showstopper. I've looked at a lot of guides from Microsoft and tried the instructions in those. I've also just tried the good ol' exec sp_detach_db / sp_attach_db with no luck. Has anyone actually done this? ...
Please suggest. Thanks. ...
What is the general feeling amongst developers regarding the changing of files in the 12 hive. For example if you were asked to remove the sign is a different user menu item, you would need to modify the relevent user control on the filesystem. Now if you just go and modify it via notepad or copy over and then if you go and bring a new ...
Whenever I show a ModalPopupExtender on my Sharepoint site, the popup shown creates both horizontal and vertical scrollbars. If you scroll all the way to the end of the page, the scrollbar refreshes, and there is more page to scroll through. Basically, I think the popup is setting its bounds beyond the end of the page. Has anyone run ...
I have a custom SharePoint application page deployed to the _layouts folder. It's a custom "new form" for a custom content type. During my interactions with this page, I will need to add an item to my list. When the page first loads, I can use SPContext.Current.List to see the current list I'm working with. But after I fill in my for...
In a recent sharepoint project, I implemented an authentication webpart which should replace the NTLM authentication dialog box. It works fine as long as the user provides valid credentials. Whenever the user provides invalid credentials, the NTLM dialog box pops up in Internet Explorer. My javscript code which does the authentication v...
I am trying to set up dynamic per-item menus (Edit Control Block) in SharePoint 2007. My goal is to have certain features that are available based on the current user's group membership. I know that the CustomAction tag that controls the creation of this menu item has a Rights attribute. The problem that I have with this is that the g...
What is the best way to upload a file to a Document Library on a SharePoint server through the built-in web services that version WSS 3.0 exposes? Following the two initial answers... We definitely need to use the Web Service layer as we will be making these calls from remote client applications. The WebDAV method would work for us, b...
I'm comparing it Java where you can start your application server in debug mode, then attach your IDE to the server. And you can change your code "on the fly" without restarting the server. As long as your changes don't affect any method signatures or fields you can just hit recompile for a class and the application server (servlet conta...
Is it possible to access the database backend of a sharepoint server? My company uses Sharepoint to store data and pictures of various assets. Ideally I would be able to access the data and display it in my application to allow users both methods of access. Before I go talk to the IT department I would like to find out if this is even p...
As a temporary stopgap until all the designers are in place we are currently hand-cranking a whole bunch of xml configuration files at work. One of the issues with this is file-versioning because people forget to update version numbers when updating the files (which is to be expected as humans generally suck at perfection). Therefore I ...
I using SharePoint Designer to create a workflow. I'm trying to get at a subfolder in a document library in the "Define Workflow Lookup" dialog. There are two issues with this: 1) I can't look up items by URL Path. If I look up by Title, I can output the URL Path, but selecting by path doesn't work. What fields can/can't I use? 2) I ...
Is it possible to embed an audio object (mp3, wma, whatever) in a web-enabled InfoPath form ? If it is, how do you do it ? ...
I am particularly interested in Document Libraries, but in terms of general SharePoint lists, can anyone answer the following...? What is the maximum number of items that a SharePoint list can contain? What is the maximum number of lists that a single SharePoint server can host? When the number of items in the list approaches the maxim...
With SharePoint Server 2007, there is also a Search Feature and a Crawler. However, the Crawler is somewhat limited in that it only supports Basic Auth when crawling external sites and that there is no way to tell it to ignore noindex,nofollow attributes. Now, there is a site i'd like to index, unfortunately this site uses it's own Auth...
I need to add a web part zone to a wiki page. I'm opening the page using SharePoint Designer, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way (such as a menu) to add a Web Part Zone. ...