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Sharepoint workflow create task properties: when to create fields and when to create depepndency properties ?

Hi all I'm new to SharePoint workflows. When creating a new task and assign the TaskId I have two options: To create a new field to hold the TaskId To create a new property to hold the TaskId. The new property is a dependency property. My question is what is the difference between assigning the task as a field or as a property? T...

Drilling into a drive and changing folder names & document names

I have a drive on my computer that has folder--some of which have lots of folders w/in other folders and also contain files. I need to migrate these docs into sharepoint, however a LOT of these folders and files have invalid characters that will not allow me to migrate into sharepoint (i.e. " / \ &, etc.) Is there any way to write somet...

Sharepoint 2010 Publishing Image Field in a sandboxed solution

Hello, I am trying to read a list that contains a field of type Publishing Image in a sandbox webpart. However as soon as I reference the field with the following line, I get an error. SPList List = Web.Lists["ListName"]; SPItem Item = List.GetItemByID(1); Object o = Item["Image"]; The error is the type Publishing.Image is not marked...

MySite Filenot found error while creating?

for one user mysite created wrong ( for all others creating mysites are creating fine). While creating mysite it throws an error 400 (Bad request). I try to delete site using below command. Its throwing error. stsadm -o deletesite -url "http://mysite/personal/0011585" error: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception fro...

Sharepoint Custom Workflow - Web Services

I've a custom workflow which query data off web services. It seems that when the web services returns a hyphen (-), I could not be able to store the data into list, and returned workflow error. The raw data looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:xs...

Fitment of SharePoint (Foundation) for a data intensive software.

Hello. I am new to SharePoint technologies and trying to figure out its suitability for a product to be developed. I am targeting using only SharePoint Foundation (not the server). Here are some of the key aspect of the target product: The product is data intensive. There are scores of business and system entities involved. Business e...

err adding sandbox webpart

i have sandbox user code service running in MMC and in CA as well. It gets deployed from vs 2010 without any errors.Still when I try to add a sandboxed web part I get error message like " The sandboxed code execution request was refused because the Sandboxed Code Host Service was too busy to handle the request." I am using windows 7 pro...

[SharePoint] - Security based on 2 Active Directory groups

Hi all Let's say I have 2 AD security groups: "Access to SharePoint" and "Access to Archive". How do I set the security in this way on a SPWeb that only people who are member of both groups, are allowed access? Is this possible with out of the box AD tools? Thanks! ...

Update Item has Recurrence in SharePoint

Hi all, I had an event list. I created a new item that has recurrence daily ( Start Time : 1/5/2010 12 : 00 AM and End Time : 5/30/2010 12:00 AM). I want to delete the item which has Start Time : 5/12/2010 12:00 AM but my application throwed exception. My code as below : DateTime eventDate = DateTime.Parse(list.Fields.GetFieldByIn...

Updating a listitem in an ASPX page in SharePoint Designer

Hey All, Right now I'm using SharePoint Designer to create a new aspx page. I am using a data view to display information from a list. One of the fields in the list is a choice field. I was wondering if there was anyway that I could display all of the other fields but allow one field in the list to be edited on the page without adding a...

Render Failed when ListVieWebPart sorted by more than 2 columns

Does anyone know if it's possible have a sharepoint lsit view sort by more than 2 columns. Wned I go to modify the view in the UI I'm only allowed to enter two sort fileds. I tried to do it in the Source like this: > <Query> > <GroupBy Collapse="TRUE" GroupLimit="100"> > <FieldRef Name="Category" /> > ...

Method for SharePoint list/item locking across processes/machines?

In general, is there a decent way in SharePoint to control race conditions due to two processes or even two machines in the farm operating on the same list or list item at the same time? That is, is there any mechanism either built in or that can be fabricated via the Object Model for doing cross-process or cross-machine locking of indi...

SPUtility.TransferToSuccessPage - is there a possiblity to add new line inside message?

Hi, I'm using in WSS 3.0 SPUtility.TransferToSuccessPage method. Do anybody know is there a way to add new line in output message? Can you tell me how? Best Regards T.S. ...

SharePoint 2010 and FBA

Hi, I an trying to setup Forms Based Authentication using ASPNetSQLMembershipProvider. In 2010 Beta 2, I was able to do this in classic mode, and it worked. With the RTM, it is no longer supported under classic mode, and I must switch to Claims based Authentication. So I created a new web application, and configured everything in sharepo...

difference between FBA and SAML based authentication?

hi all, we have to create SharePoint extranet sites by using SharePoint foundation 2010 for clients.we have to use Claims based authentication.So which one is better FBA or SAML authentication. please tell me which one is better what are the advantages and disadvantages are there for both. ...

Is it possible to create a list in WSS 3.0 based on a custom template using SharePoint web services?

I want to create a SharePoint list using SharePoint web services (instance is SharePoint Services v3.0). That list should be built from the custom list template that I have created previously. Browsing through MSDN documentation resulted in the following resolutions: services.ListsService.AddList(title, description, templateID); or ...

Data view web part throwing error

Hi I'm using a xslt based dataview webpart the steps i have taken to create a data view webpart is that added a list view webpart on the page Modified the toolbar property to show fulll toolbar open the web page containing above list view webpart in sharepoint desginer and converted it to xslt based webpart (to make further changes i...

Is Multiple grouping possible in SPGridView ???

Is it possible to have multiple grouping in SPGridview? Grouping is working fine for a single column? Is there any way to have multiple grouping in SPGridView programmatically ...

SharePoint 2010 BCS passthrough authentication against web services

We are looking at creating a solution using SharePoint Foundation 2010 with forms-based authentication. The application will access business data by consuming a number of web services via SharePoint's business connectivity service. Both the web service and SharePoint will have access to the same database containing the user data for au...

MOSS 2007 - list permission

Hi All, I have configured my list so that users can only read and edit items they have created. I now need to configure this list so that a particular group of users can edit and read all items on this list. I know users with the 'Manage Lists' permission would be able to do this. My question is can this be configured to be even more ...