Hi, i have a timer job which i want to run only once per day, for the entire farm. How do I Deploy it in a multiple WFE environment? Do I run the stsadm -o deploysolution command in every WFE, or just the one where I want to run it? Where should i activate the feature? Should it be activated only from a particular WFE? What should be ...
I need to interview some people for a position as a Sharepoint Architect / Developer role. While I am proficient in .NET, I have worked very little with Sharepoint, so I am unsure how to test the candidates Sharepoint skills. Do you have any suggestions for tests I can throw at the candidates ? Please suggest questions I can ask the c...
I want to disable and NOT hide a ribbon button (specifically Ribbon.ListItem.New.NewListItem) on a particular List type. On web I could find a lot many posts showing me ways to remove/hide buttons but none really worthwhile which could tell me how can I just disable an alrteady existing sharepoint button in my custom List type. e.g. Fol...
Sharepoint hides certain fields in the Customize View page (ViewEdit.aspx). For example there is a field Path that is part of the list Tasks list but it is not shown with the other fields in the Columns section of the page. Is there a way to enable the display of such fields in Sharepoint 2010? ...
i want to know the correct path to put my resource files in a web application in sharepoint 2010 ...
Using new Project 2010 feature "Sync to Tasks List" get following message- Microsoft Project Unable to write information for task "XXX" to SharePoint. Ensure "XXX" contains valid data and try again. Any ideas on the root cause -what exactly could be wrong with the task data? ...
I have a document library with a PDF file. Whenever I click on the PDF file, I am prompted to save the file. I do not get the option of opening the file, I am forced to save it. What I want is for the PDF file to open, either in the browser or in a separate Adobe Reader window, depending on the Adobe Reader settings. I'm pretty sure ...
All I am having issues trying to add some of the additional site templates when a user selects New Site form the site settings menu. I have a publishing site template as recomended by Microsoft as a default Intranet site. How can I add some of the templates such as a team site, or something else? ...
We are trying to create a site definition that includes a wiki page. Basically we are trying to figure out how to replicate the same process that happens when a user chooses to create a new page in a blank site, and the system says something along the lines of: "In order to create wiki pages on this site, there must be a default wiki ...
Platform: Sharepoint 2010 I have programatically created a custom list in Sharepoint with its own schema.xml, NewForm.aspx and other 2 forms. Whenever I try to view any item of this list, a pop window (in silver light) comes up and my DispForm.aspx opens up inside it. My requirement is that I want to open a new Window for DispForm.aspx...
We have created a Custom List template programmatically using Feature.xml, Element.xml, Schema.xml AllItems.aspx, and 3 aspx forms. We have a code behind file for each of these aspx files. i.e. for the AllItems.aspx, DispForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx and NewForm.aspx. Problematic file is AllItems.aspx. In the code behind for AllItems.aspx fi...
Hi, I have a SharePoint List to which I'm adding new ListItems using the Client Object Model. Adding ListItems is not a problem and works great. Now I want to add attachments. I'm using the SaveBinaryDirect in the following manner: File.SaveBinaryDirect(clientCtx, url.AbsolutePath + "/Attachments/31/" + fileName, inputStream, tru...
I am having issues with setting up the Inbound Email with SP 2010. I have enabled the settings in Central Admin for Inbound Email, set up an MX record, added the IP to my Exchange Server, then created a new doc-lib in SP and i am still not seeing the "Incoming e-mail settings" option under communications in the doc-lib setup screen. Ca...
We have the sharepoint 2010 environment with Document ID's enabled. Given (part of) a Doc ID, we want to programmatically retrieve the document(s) matching that ID. The problem seems to be that this column is rather special, in that it might need special handling. Using an SPSiteDataQuery, fetching the _dlc_DocId field as part of the...
When trying to add or edit tasks as any user other than domain admins on my SharePoint 2010 site, I get the following error: List does not exist. The page you selected contains a list that does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user. ...
Trying to figure out how to display just user name without domain in person-type fields during Data entry. By default it displays the domain/user-account. ...
After save the Table in Task body gets auto-converted to text. This is for Outlook 2010 which is connecting to Tasks in Sharepoint 2010 ...
Hello All, In Sharepoint 2010, is it possible to get notified if the permission on a site collection / site / sub site / list item is changed? ...
Is there a SharePoint 2010 CheckList out there that ensures that you have all of the features installed that a general org would need to have installed? ...
Hi, So i just started trying to develop a simple webpart today for a sharepoint foundation i put on a virtual machine. I have no previous experience with sharepoint whatsoever. As i cant run a sharepoint 2010 on my local machine for dev purposes i followed advices in this thread http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2...