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SharePoint forms authentication (FBA) roles

Can anybody help me... Is it possible to target audiences in SharePoint using FBA roles instead of using SharePoint groups? Or is there an alternative solution available? ...

Custom BusinessDataListWebPart Pagination (Next Button) - pageindex never changes

Pagination (Next button) doesn't work for custom BusinessDataListWebPart. I am adding BusinessDataListWebPart using code. Everything works fine. I can see 20 data raw at the same time but when I click "Next Button", I can not see next 20-40 data. A postback occurs, but the pageindex never changes. I am using following code to add Busi...

SharePoint FBA Roles Audience Targeting

Can anybody help me... Is it possible to target audiences in SharePoint using FBA roles instead of using SharePoint groups? I've tried creating a group in SharePoint and adding the FBA role to that group. This didn't seem to work. Is there another alternative solution available? Thanks Kash ...

Creating Sharepoint/MOSS sitemap

I'm trying to create a sitemap for my MOSS publishing site, i've got two approaches but seem to be stuck with both. My first approach is to use the PortalSiteMapProvider, which is already created and nicely cached... PublishingWeb rootWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb); //Get the URL of the default pa...

FBA based SharePoint Application Backup restore

Has anyone tried to back up a SharePoint web application using forms based authentication (FBA) to another SharePoint server? We are facing some issues in backup\restore of FBA based sharepoint web applications: We have a server where we have created a web application based on FBA, it has an FBA database as well. We have backed up the...

How do I pass login ID as parameter to SharePoint login page?

I have an ASP.NET home page where user provides his login ID. Depending on the application (SharePoint Site) the ID is associated to- the user is directed to the respective sharepoint site. For example, if user is site1user, the ASP.NET page directs the user to sharepointsite1. I got it working this far. Now, how do I pass the login...

Uploading files to SharePoint containing the ampersand character

I'm trying to upload files and folders to a library using SharePoint Designer 2007 (on a WSS 3.0 SharePoint site). It's giving me an error when I try to upload empty folders or folders that have an & in their name. OS: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008. Can someone please assist? ...

Create a Survey in SharePoint 2007 where external users can submit but....

I have a task to make a survey to be displayed in SharePoint 2007 to external users for them to fill out and submit, but not be able to view the submitted results (so they don't see what others have entered). This survey will be for outside vendors to my company to submit information about them for our records. I am open to any suggest...

SharePoint SPFolder.SubFolders.Add not actually adding a folder

I have a couple document libraries that are just standard libraries -- no associated custom content types or anything. I am trying to add subfolders to them, and in some cases it just doesn't work. SPFolder parent = library.RootFolder; SPFolder child = parent.SubFolders.Add(subfoldername); parent.Update(); bool exists = child.Exists; ...

A Designer Friendly Way To Update a WSS 3.0 Theme

Sometimes I love MOSS 2007, and sometimes I want to throw it right out the window. This is one of those times it should go out the window. Im trying to come up with an easy way for a designer to update a WSS 3.0 Theme for our site. This theme is used by every site in the site collection. The following is not designer friendly (specif...

WSS 2.0 web site all the list edit function doesn't work suddently

I got this prolbem, the edit doesn't work in all the lists of the sharepoint web sites, I can still access the "edit", and save it, but the change is not there. New item can be created, all the others looks fine except the edit. Any help will be greatly appreciated. ...

Is it possible to create a 'link to a folder' in a SharePoint document library?

Is it possible to create a shortcut to a folder in a different document library in a document library? ...

How can I check the permissions of a user for an specific element on Sharepoint?

Hi! How can I check if a random user (not the current user, I know only his/her username) has certain permissions on a specific SharePoint list item, list etc.? Best Regards Oliver Hanappi PS: I'm accessing SharePoint by its web services. ...

Populate a SharePoint Site with Users/Groups from AD

Hi, I have created a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) site template, and I am programmatically creating a number of new site based on this template. I would like to populate each site created with this template with a number of users and groups from the Active Directory. Can anyone offer any guidance on how this can be done, either as part of t...

sharepoint validate custom field

I cave created a custom list in sharepoint (created and provisioned to the 12 hive) how can i perform validation on certain fields of the list when a new list item is added? i think i can do it through the "itemadding" event reciever, but is there a more elegant sharepoint way? eg i just want to check an email field has a valid email ...

redirect item added in sharepoint list

how can i redirect to a "Thank You" page after a user has entered a new item into a custom list that I have provisioned. one way i can think of is in the item adding event receiver but is there a CAML way of doing it? ...

Using SharePoint subsites and audience to target content... how?

I would like to show different tabs in the top navigation of a SharePoint site depending on what 'Audience' the user is in. I can do this fine for pages but for subsites I cannot find an option. Googling reveals a work around, hiding the subsite and adding a link to the subsite URL. There has to be a better way than this! ...

Team Foundation Server reporting stops refreshing after adding a CMMi repository

Hi… I have this problem and did not find in the site a case like mine. Here is the thing. I created a TFS 2008 with the scrum template (Conchango). It was a clean install (a fresh OS, a fresh SQL Server, a fresh machine, etc…). So everything worked like a charm. I created 3 Scrum repositories, assigned permissions, uploaded files and ...

sharepoint explorer view

hi, can someone please tell me what i need so that i can see the explorer view for a library in sharepoint? it works on one machine and not another. it sometimes works on a vista client but not xp. it works in internet explorer but does not work on another machine with the same settings. please help. wss 3.0 on windows server 2008 wit...

Migrating an Access Database into SharePoint 2007.

To my surprise and delight I read that an adminsitrator can import (nearly directly) an Access 2007 database into a sharepoint site. Automagically, the database in transformed into lists and views with some table lookup thrown in for good measure. With Access 2007 installed on the client machine, even the forms and what not can still be ...