I'm a fairly experienced developer (.NET, C#, XML, Webservices, HTML, Javascript, various databases etc.) who have been tasked with a new project in SharePoint. I know nothing about SharePoint. My question is: What is the best way for an experienced developer to start learning SharePoint 2007. I'm not looking for long lists of books or w...
Suppose we have a list of items with applicable owners Item Owner A1 O1 A2 O1 A3 O2 A4 O4 A1 O2 i.e. a many-to many mapping For each item owned by him, the owner will answer a fixed set of questions.Therefore, in the survey O1 will answer questions for A1 and A2, O2 for A3 and A1 ... Owner with no questions wil...
Goal: Move SharePoint list from old site collection to new site collection. Approach: I save the SharePoint list as a template (.stp), Then move .stp file to the new site collection list template gallery Create custom SharePoint list using my newly created template The SharePoint list populates perfectly. Problem: when I try to ed...
Hello All, 1) I have a requirement where in I need to change the Language of the site depending on the User who has logged in. a) How to achieve this? Is it possible to do without Variations? I don't want to change the URL! b) To get the language of the user should I create a custom field in the Active Directory / Can make use of the ...
I've got a list of issues and I'm using the auto id to identify the issue. I would like the number to show up on the detail page for each item, as well as possibly adding it as a read only field on the edit page of the item. ...
I have a publishing site page layout which allows untrained staff to enter news stories into a publishing site on our intranet. The Layout contains several fields which are only required occasionally and when they lack content they leave a big hole in the page design. Is there anyway to render these fields only when they contain conten...
We recently upgraded an intranet site created in SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007. After we did that multiple InfoPath Forms began to fail when either open or submitted. It is unsure if these forms were create in infopath 2003 or 2007 however after recreating one of them, I still get this error when trying to submit. The submit opti...
I have created a simple site definition based on the publishing portal. Every time I want to use the template to create a site-collection I get the following error-message: The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found. I do not use any custom feature, just the default features with the publishing portal site-def. Any hint...
I have a Custom List Definition (schema.xml) i have set up Site Columns (through A feature) and numerous content types also through a feature, this all works fine. I have a list definition (schema.xml) and i have put the content types at the top in the order i want them to appear (assuming that the top content type will be the default fo...
I am working with Sharepoint Server 2007 and have an external SQL Server database with two tables: master (<500 records) and detail (4 000 000+ records). Of course in this case I should use the Business Data Catalog but I can't find any best practice for master-detail or other generic implementations using the BDC. Where can I find t...
Hello All, I have configured by using this link. However the URL is changing as http://server/EN/Pages/default.aspx for the default page. I want the URL not to change, still I need to have my site displayed for multiple languages. Any Suggestions? ...
I want to develop a workflow for a SharePoint Publishing Page Library. When someone approves the page, I want to trigger this workflow and record the approver name, URLl and page status to a custom database. How can I get approver name and page status? Could you please advise me? This is my current testing code: public SPWorkflowActi...
I am looking to implement a custom policy for item expiration on a custom list (not a document library). This policy must be editable on an item-per-item basis, and compute the expiration date based on user-defined rules such as: number of accesses, expiration timespan, or any aggregation of the two rules above. Because of this granular...
My employer uses MOSS 2007 for our company intranet. It runs solely on secure http and is also exposed to the outside world via ISA. I currently have a request to add a forwarding URL to our site so that something like the following will occur: intranet.mycompany.com/vanityname redirects to -> intranet.mycompany.com/somedeeplink/defa...
I have a custom page-library which a custom content-type and a page-layout all inside a site-definition. Works as expected. The only thing I cannot get around is that if I upgrade the solution with the page-lib, ctype, page-layout via stsadm everything is updated except the page-layout. New fields in the ctype --> no problem Changed v...
I have a SharePoint web part with a web-browsable property that stores a password. I've decorated the property with the PasswordPropertyText attribute but whenever I edit the web part it shows the actual password rather than dots or asterisks. Here is my property declaration: <Personalizable(PersonalizationScope.Shared), _ PasswordPrope...
Hello, I am having a problem where in SharePoint 2007 after verifying the profile import was successful and the AD group is there, I go to audiences and try to create a rule where the user must be a member of said AD group. The problem is that when i get to the point of searching for the group to set up the rule, SharePoint can't find t...
We have an InfoPath 2007 form that populates a drop down from a SharePoint 2007 list of Employees. However, when opening the form in the browser (like it is designed to do) it does not alphabetize the drop down. But if i open the form on my computer, it does. Anyone else come across this issue and have a solution to it? I am wondering...
I'm reasonably new to SharePoint 2007 and trying to move from an ASP.NET to SharePont way of thinking has been an interesting experience! I would like to create a page at the same level as the default.aspx page in a subsite. The "SharePoint way" of doing things involves putting the page into a document library. I am reluctant to do this...
I wonder if there is a way to hide some document library lists that are shown when the user navigates to the "All Site Content" page in SharePoint, and I wonder if there is a programmatic way to achieve this. (If possible using WSS). I need to hide many lists from this view, these lists will be accessed from the links inside a link lis...