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Sharepoint SSO bulk creation of user accounts

Hopefully someone can help... I need to provide client with a solution to allow bulk creation of user accounts into SharePoint SSO. The client wants to provide an excel spreadsheet with accounts, usernames and passwords and have that created in the SSO database. I've been told its possible but I can't see how and google is failing me....

Which process retrieves the silverlight xap file?

We're using silverlight on our SharePoint site. When someone navigates to the page containing the silverlight object, they are prompted for credentials. Other pages work fine. I'm wondering if the client is trying to retrive the xap file (which is in a location the process hosting the web application has access to, but not the user). I...

Checking exception before using GETITEMBYID()

Hello, I am getting item by getiembyid...but I want to check before using it that whether item exist or not...I don't want to use query as main purpose of using Getitembyid is performance.....any idea how to achieve this... itemid = Response.QueryString["loc"]; SPList mylist = myweb.GetList(SPUrlUtility.CombineUrl(myweb.ServerRelat...

Custom field type:problem in page layout

I have created a custom field type and its working properly but when I am adding it on page layout ,its not displaying any data in there.I am getting data from one of the list.I have added my custom field in list and its displaying all the data I have specified but on page layout its blank..... Any idea where i m getting wrong...? ...

target Audience in MOSS2007

Hello, Well done on the great postings! I have a query: How can I add a single name/user/person in the target audience field of MOSS2007? Currenlty I am only allowed to add a MOSS group. However, many times there are a number of individual persons (that are in the same group) that I would like to add as audience. ...

Feature activate via UI but does not show in the Libraries and Lists

I am really hating SharePoint as there are hardly any good/concrete documentation. I developed custom List "MainCatalog" with few columns (not site columns). Create features and elements with MOSS feature builder at Site collection level so scope="site" installed via stsadm activated via UI "went to site collection website", Site Settin...

SharePoint 2010: Set field value from query triggered by choice box selection

How do you link a form field to a choicebox selection so that the field's value is set by the information referenced by the ID of the choicebox selection? I have a choicebox in a custom list form which is bound to a "Client" list which contains client names, IDs, reference numbers, addresses, etc. The choicebox displays the client name a...

How to use exe in SharePoint on itemAdded?

I have a need to convert any document gets uploaded to Image. I downloaded the exe (with all the dlls) on my local machine (dont have to install) export.exe sourcefile.doc destinationfile.gif >> this syntax works from my local dos prompt. How do I use the same syntax "export.exe exampledoc.doc exampledoc.gif" when an item is added to s...

JackBe Mashups w/ PerformancePoint in MOSS

Has anyone used JackBe mashups in a SharePoint environment hitting OLAP cubes with PerformancePoint 2007? Any gotchas? Our client is evaluating adding JackBe to our enterprise toolkit and they're soliciting technical recommendations... ...

How to include a Custom list in one Sharepoint site in to another as a web part?

I have two share point web sites. One is a child web site of the other. For example if my first site is myweb1, other one is myweb1/myweb2. I have a custom list created in myweb1. I want to include that as a web part in number of web pages in both myweb1 and myweb1/myweb2 sites. Including the web part in the same site which contains t...

Permissions to Search on SQL - MOSS 2007

How to provide permissions to Search account on SQL Database? ...

site collection Creation time?

How to find the creation date & time of the site-collection in sharepoint 2007? ...

ListFieldIterator shows ["ColumnName" column value] for item from another list

On EditForm.aspx there is a standard ListFormWebPart in Edit mode. When I add my WebPart with ListFieldIterator in Display mode(or only ListFieldIterator w/o webPart) and bind this ListFieldIterator with item from another list, it shows ["ColumnnName" column value] for each field instead of real values. ItemID, ListID and ItemContext are...

How to define specific permissions ?

Hi, on the project i'm working we have a site (the front office) which is accessible by anonymous users, and a subsite (the back office) which access is restricted. In the back office, i want to restrict the access of one specific page (e.g, /Pages/specificpage.aspx) to only users who are members of a certain group. How can i do that p...

How to create SharePoint Solution?

Hello Friends, I'm new to SharePoint and I'm creating a public website using SharePoint Server 2007. I want to create solution or installer of my SharePoint website to copy it to another server other then my local machine. Anyone helps me out to solve this problem. Thanks. ...

Why does SharePoint Workflow Project in VS 2008 get modified every time it's opened?

The same goes for the workflow source files -- every time I open the project or go to the source file, it's indicating (by the asterisk) that the file has been modified. Which means two things: when closing VS, I always get the "Project has been changed, do you want to save changes?" prompt. It's annoying but I can live with that. Mor...

SharePoint 2007 lists webservice - identify revision of list item

Using the lists webservice I retrieve the items from a list. In the XML returned I can see the attribute ows__IsCurrentVersion="1" which I assume is the same as the file object model (i.e. a boolean to say if it is current or not). However I do not see a way to identify what revision it is? What should that attribute be? ...

Sharepoint survey: How to identify the question fields when fetching survey information from the Lists web service?

I am wanting to access survey information via the Lists web service and display the questions contained in the survey. The result contains a large number of Field nodes some of which are the questions in the survey. The other fields contain other information such as author, last changed etc. How can I pick out the questions? I had thou...

Releasing minor Sharepoint Designer change to Sharepoint 2007 production site

Post-release, I have made one small change to one form in our development site in Sharepoint Designer. Is there a way of releasing a change to one form into Production without doing an entire STSADM web site restore ? Thanks in advance. ...

Sharepoint 2007 calculated Date field shows incorrectly in non-US region

If a SharePoint user (with Regional Settings set to UK) views a calculated date field in a View details form, the field shows incorrectly. I am using: ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string(@RenewalDate), 1033, 'dd MMMM yyyy') Which shows 04 January 2010 for 01/04/2010 and, doesnt show unresolvable dates such as 31-Dec-2010. This applies even ...