Hi all, I'm using Sharepoint's Copy.asmx webservice to upload legacy files and their metadata. The target is a custom list (with nested folders and custom fields - all as text - ). The file upload is ok, their metadata is ok, CAML querying is ok,but.... One of my custom attribute is the doc_type. Due to time constraints I set this als...
I have finally ventured away from the land of PowerShell to C# stuff for SharePoint. I created a webpart, which I will describe in a bit, that works perfectly on my development server but runs slow on my production. The difference being is that my production server has over 1400 groups while the development has only 20 or so. My webpa...
Pros and cons of editing sharepoint master page in sharepoint designer or visual studio? Which one do you prefer ...
Is there any webpart (free or purchased) that can be set to display the permissions for a list or document library? We want to set up pages that contain a view to a document Library and a section at the top of the page that lists what users can access the library, to ensure that users adding content to the library don't accidentally plac...
I have a suite of webpart controls that I maintain and develop for our main Sharepoint offerings. I also have an Asp .Net website which acts as a test suite for selenium scripts and unit tests. How can I determine from the web part code server code whether the control is currently being hosted in a Sharepoint page or whether the webpar...
Hi, Does anyone have any recomendations of how to improve the performance of the UpdateListItems function (Within Lists.asmx) Im finding that it takes around 1-2 seconds to insert a new item, is this normal? Heres the code im which im running inside a loop, which runs about 1000 times Dim xmlDoc As New System.Xml.XmlDocument() Dim...
SharePoint has been getting a lot of hype these days. There are contracts/job postings all over the place looking for SharePoint experience. There seems to be a big push on Web Part development, which is all well and good, but now I'm also hearing that entire web applications will be hosted within SharePoint. That sounds like it could e...
Hi Experts, We are getting the following Access Denied Error, whenever we edit the view of any document library or any list etc., or change any properties, it takes to the following URL with the message: URL: /_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=65001 Error Message: Access Denied Error: You do not have permission to perform this action or access ...
I am an experienced developer, but new to SP. I have a calendar that only certain users can add/edit/delete events to, but each user should only be allowed to add/edit/delete their own content. I've created my own list of Categories in the "Category" list on my site. At the most primitive level, I'd like to modify the add and edit forms ...
Hi, I have an initial workflow in Sharepoint Designer that triggers whenever an item is created and also whenever an item has changed in the 'Employee' list . Within second workflow I am updating the 'Employee' list and the workflow above is triggered. Is there any way I can check in the intial workflow if the item has been updated by...
Hi, I'm trying to create folders in a set of custom lists I've created. However, when I try to do this, the New Folder button in the Ribbon is disabled. I read up on the matter; and this lead me to look to enable folder creation in List Settings -> Advance Settings. However, there doesn't seem to be an option to enable folder creation o...
I create some WSP Files on a build server every night and would like to automatically deploy them to a QA Environment. In SharePoint 2007, there was no way to remote deploy WSP Files except for ugly psexec-workarounds. Has this improved with SharePoint 2010? Can I utilize the PowerShell stuff somehow? My build server is not Part of th...
I'm trying to set up (in Sharepoint), a mailing list archive. What I'd like it to do is listen for mails to the mailing list and archive them as searchable documents within the sharepoint site. More or less, the Microsoft equivalent of this: http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Are there any good ways to do this? We're running...
I've just tried out TFS 2010 today, along with Project 2010 and VS 2010. Only Later realized that without Sharepoint, TFS is only configured as Basic. This reduces it's functionality as oppose to what I've seen during VS2010 product launch. Sadly I can't find any alternative but to get a trial copy of Sharepoint to see if it serve my pur...
I am currently working on creating a ModalPopUp for SharePoint Web Part. I am facing compatibility issues with ModalPopupExtender (with IFrame). What are the other options available in SharePoint 2010 or ASP.NET for getting a Modal Popup? Note: I have tried ModalPopupExtender and OpenModalDialog. ...
I'm creating a program that uses SharePoint Web Services to query and show a Sharepoint list to the user. I can only show one column at a time, so I need to find a 'default column' or 'display column' to show. I know 'Title' is commonly used in many of the content types but I want this to be robust with any type of custom content type or...
I've got a content type attached to a document library that includes a lookup column that references a list of active projects. The idea is that anyone creating a new document in the library needs to specify the project # of the project the document pertains to. It appears that the dropdown list that appears at the top of the Word docu...
Hello, I am learning to create a template in sharepoint 2007, using SPD 2007 from a site collection. I've been using some of the template that comes with MS-sharepoint 2007 for my team. But they found a site that they like the look and feel of it. http://ic.buffalostate.edu. How i am going to create a template like that, I do not do co...
Hello All, I'm trying to get the Reusable Content List on my SharePoint site, for that i have activated the office sharepoint server publishing infrastructure feature, even when that feature is active the Reusable Content List is not being displayed. Does anyone knows what could be the reason of this? Thanks in Advance, i really appre...
I have user profile property called "Chapter". It is index when it was created. But this property is not showing up on crawled properties selection window to make MetaData Property Mapping for searching. How can I get this property on crawled properties selection window? ...