sharepoint2007

Sharepoint 2007 - search

Hi .. I have a sharepoint site.. in that i have uploaded some docs in the doc library... that includes .pptx file saved as web page i.e. '.mht' file... Those docs are not appearing in the search result.. I have checked the FileTypes in cental admin search settings.. In that .mht file type is included.. can anyone tell me what i have to ...

OWA 2007 Meeting Workspace + SharePoint 2007 Issue

Hi All, I don't see Meeting Workspace Option in OWA 2007 Basic or Premium. Is it by design? Also, When I setup a meeting from Outlook 2007 and also create a meeting workspace in sharepoint, all the attendees shows up as optional in Attendees List in SharePoint site. One more issue is that when an attendee accepts the meeting from OWA...

SharePoint list alert issues

I've got alert set up on one of the lists. When I subscribe the user to the list changes - the user gets "has subscribed you for alert " email. However, when list items are added/change - no alert is sent out. Any ideas why this might be happening? ...

Sharepoint site template woes...

First, I am a noob to Sharepoint... nuff said. I have inherited a sharepoint solution which has a number of Projects in it. 1) Site template Solution 2) Portal with lists, workflows, etc... 3) Site Feature for combining multiple documents into one pdf for printing. Following the sparse deployment instructions I managed to build and dep...

Moving Sharepoint 3.0 2007

Hi I'm moving our Sharepoint site 3.0 2007 from a Windows server 2003 machine to windows server 2008 RC2. The Sharepoint site uses a sql database which will also be moved to the new server. I need to move all site content included any documents that have been uploaded to the site and the sql database. Is there any easy way to sim...

Sharepoint 2007 cross-site workflow

Hello. Is it possible to create some kind of workflow in SPS 2007 that would mirror contents of one list to another one on another site. For example. Our portal locates in http://portal and it has "Tasks" list. There are some subsites: http://portal/group1 with "Tasks" list http://portal/group2 with "Tasks" list http://portal/group3 ...

FileSystemWatcher - Which process caused the update

To investigate a problem that we have with SharePoint 2007, I wrote a small application that monitors a folder for security changes and logs the exact date and time from these changes. I use the FileSystemWatcher to do this. We do this because from time to time, some process alters the security settings from all folders below c:\inetpub...

Creating publishing page in in SharePoint timer job throws MissingMethodException

I'm doing a simple news importer for a sharepoint site using timer job that runs every few minutes. The code below runs fine if I run it in a web part but throws MissingMethodException when ran in timer job's Execute method. The full exception: System.MissingMethodException was unhandled by user code Message="No parameterless constru...

Publishing a Magazine in Sharepoint 2007

Hello, My client wants to create a company internal magazine on Sharepoint 2007. Actually I never seen anything like this in any Sharepoint site before. An "issuing system" (like issue #1, october) is required. Stories (news) should be grouped into issues. Users should post their stories (like best practices) which will be approved an...

Enable scrolling window in the Sharepoint 'Select an image' dialog window.

Is it possible to make the default image-select popup window in Sharepoint to be a scrolling window? It shows 8 images at a time in thumbnail view, but once there are a few hundred images in a collection it gets very tedious to click through the arrows to find your image. There is a 'detail view' which shows more images at once but wi...

Content type deployment

I wanted to deploy the content type at site collection level on feature activation. We have one admin site collection where all the contnet type and sitecolumns are stored. When the feature is activated the content type and site column from admin site collection has to be copied to the site collection where the feature is activated. Is...

Why does my Sharepoint IRM module fail to re-initialze intermittently?

I have a Sharepoint IRM module that works most of the time. However, most mornings when I come in and try to exercise it it fails to work. An IISReset will generally get it going again. The Windows event log shows the following error most mornings at around 01:45 (GUID blanked for this post). Information Rights Management (IRM): Protec...

Sharepoint Template and Configuration XML Tags for cutsom Templates

Hello, I'm new to sharepoint and I'm trying to figure out how to use and implement custom templates. I have figured out how to load them into the collection list but I'm trying to find out all the information I can about the: and xml tags. What are the attributes and such? Any sources that someone can recommend? ...

how to do sharepoint database disk usage analysis and selective replication?

Hello, I have a SharePoint 2007 database that is 16GB in size and I want to know why, and how I can reduce the size. Ideally I would like a trimmed replica to use as a developer workstation that retains a good sample data set, and has the ability to be refreshed. Can you please tell me if there are any third party tools or other meth...

SharePoint 2007: Page is checked out by another user. How can I force an end to the check-out?

A page has been checked out by someone who I am not able to contact. I need to update the page but cannot check it out until the current check-out is finished. How can I force the current check-out to be discarded? ...

Two Questions on Sharepoint Publishing Sites

Hello all, I have a custom page layout which is based on a custom content type. I have placed several textfields and lookup fields from custom content type in the page layout. I want them to be seen to only admins. Contributers should not see and edit. Is this possible? Admins will select an item in a lookup combobox in page layout. I ...

Saving a file share link in a SharePoint list column

I have to save a fileshare link in a sharepoint list and i want that file to be opened when the link is clicked, the normal sharepoint hyperlink column does not work for me in this case as it embeds the http:// with the url. How can I handle this scenario? the link i want to save is in the format \192.168.1.2\myserver\myfile.pdf and the ...

Sharepoint - Select most recent articles from each category

I have a list of news articles in Sharepoint, each one of them is assigned a category. I would like to have a Content Query Web Part select the most one most recent article from each category - How could I do this? Matt ...

How do I group my web parts in the "add web parts" dialog

I am attempting to group my custom web parts together in the "Add Web Parts" dialog that appears when you click "Add a Web Part". Currently the web parts are scattered around the Miscellaneous section. This web page: http://claytonj.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/how-to-add-a-webpart-into-a-special-group-other-than-miscellaneous/ describes h...

Getting aspx pages from an SPDocumentLibrary

I need to loop through all aspx pages in an SPDocumentLibrary object. I cannot see how to do this. ...