sharepoint2010

SharePoint 2010: Set field value from query triggered by choice box selection

How do you link a form field to a choicebox selection so that the field's value is set by the information referenced by the ID of the choicebox selection? I have a choicebox in a custom list form which is bound to a "Client" list which contains client names, IDs, reference numbers, addresses, etc. The choicebox displays the client name a...

[COMException (0x80004005): Cannot complete this action.

Hi everyone, I dont know what is causing this, it just happened all of a sudden while I was working on the site, I am using sharepoint 2010, does anyone know how to fix it, cause everytime I try to access one of my workflow task it bombs and write this: " Cannot complete this action. Please try again.0x80004005 Description: An unhandle...

Issues with SharePoint 2010 Development

I am planning to use my laptop for SharePoint 2010 development and I have only 4 GB RAM which is not even upgradable. Just because of RAM constraint, my VS 2010 keeps crawling if I try to run it along with SharePoint 2010 on the same machine. Hence, I've reformatted my machine and looking for alternate solutions until I get a new lapto...

Error while installing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 machine

I've installed Microsoft SharePoint 2010 on my Windows 7 64bits machine. I've modified the config.xml file to accomplish this. Once it's installed I run the Configuration Wizard to create a new site and it throws me the following exception: An exception of type System.IO.FileNotFoundException was thrown. Additional exception ...

Copying Sharepoint "list" from one Sharepoint Server (2007) to Another Server(2010) using c#

Hi All, I want to programatically copy List of One Sharepoint (2007) to another Sharepoint(2010). Using Sharepoint web services.(C#) How should i proceeed? Regards, Jene ...

Problem with creating MS Access views on sharepoint 2010 lists

I am trying to create an "Access View" for a sharepoint 2010 list..When I click on "Access View" i am not getting any response..there is no redirection to any page or anything like that... Do we need to get some service up and running to get that done? Another confusing thing is that when I open up that list in "Mozilla Firefox" the op...

How to create folders base on external datasource in SharePoint 2010?

My goal is to extend functionality of the current asset tracking system. Basically I would like to pull list of Clients and related assets from external system into sharepoint 2010. Then I would like to associate documents with each asset. My first intention is to create a list of folders where each folder would be named respectively....

Build Web Parts on Visual Studio 2008 for SharePoint 2010

What do I need to install for building a Web Part for SharePoint 2010 on Visual Studio 2008? BTW: I'm using Windows 7 64-bit and Office 32-bit ...

ASP.Net Response Filter Clashing with SharePoint 2010 Publishing Site Defaults

Hello everyone, I'm debugging an HttpModule with an ASP.NET response filter. This dynamically rewrites portions of rendered SharePoint WCM pages. The publishing pages render fine in SP2007 on both Server 2003 and Server 2008. However the equivalent pages fail to render in SP2010 B2 on Server 2008 R2 / IIS7. The following error is re...

How to add Lookupfield to each Contenttyp from a list

Hello, i try to add a generated SPFieldLookup to a List. That works fine, but the Field only added to the default ContentType. How can I add the LookupField to all ContentTypes from the List? ...

Sharepoint and Cross-Site Lookup

Hi all I have this scenario I want to build two sharepoint 2007 sites. One for customers info and the other for products and customers orders. Now the problem is that in the second site I need to reference the customers info from the first site but unfortunately sharepoint doesnot provide out of the box cross-site lookup. I did som...

SharePoint 2010: WebPartZone not rendered when i'm not signed in

Hi all! I have a custom WebPart on my welcome page in SharePoint 2010. When I open the page without signing on, the whole WebPartZone remains unrendered (according to the responded html). When signed in, my WebPart works perfectly. Afaik, my WebPart does not require any special permission, it just pulls content from some lists on the sam...

Sharepoint 2010 Foundation Forms authentication

Hi, I've followed through this(http://goo.gl/1LTX) guide to setup FBA in SP 2010, but I get an error... Note: I have enable WCF error messages Cannot get Membership Provider with name wss_fba. The membership provider for this process was not properly configured. You must configure the membership provider in the .config file for every S...

Sharepoint 2010 Managed Metadata - unable to get Term from TermSet

Hi guys, Having a really aggravating problem using Managed Metadata in SP2010 where I can get a Taxonomy Session, Term Store and Term set fine, but when I try to retrieve a term from the term set, I get a TermStoreOperationException which says that it "failed to read from or write to database". Does anyone have any idea as to why I ca...

Connecting SharePoint 2010 with a Pervasive 10.12 database

we recently installed SharePoint 2010. I am trying to connect our SharePoint server with another server that hosts our Pervasive database. I can do the connection between these 2 servers in Access, but I am having problems connecting SharePoint to Pervasive. In SharePoint Designer, I tried to create a database connection>OLEDB>connectio...

Add Today's Date to SharePoint Master Page

Surely there must be a simple way of putting a simple code block into a master page :( I've tried using the obvious <%= "Hello, World!" %> syntax but code blocks aren't allowed. Then tried a site column, but don't know how to use them. Then tried web zones but master pages can't use them. Tried putting a web part (which are super diffi...

Is using SharePoint as a intranet/extranet portal a good idea?

I work for a fortune 500 company in IT and we have developed many systems/applications to do a variety of things. We are in need of some commonality of these applications and a better portal/dashboard/landing page for these applications. So, our customers and employees would log into this portal and see all the "things" that they can do ...

No Business Data Connectivity Service associated with current web context error

I am running on a new dev setup for SharePoint 2010 and trying to setup some External Content types. I think that I have setup BCS correctly (since I see it running in the central administration). When I go into SharePoint designer 2010 and try to setup a new External Content Type, I get the following error: "There is no Business Conn...

Making sites on the fly, programatically

Hi, Is it possible to create a site on demand? So in the response of an event, such as button click. I want users to be able to see one site (all users), but users with assigned to a certain group will see two sites. Also, when would I want to create a seperate web application? Thanks ...

Custom service application - proxy stopped

Ive created a custom service app using samples from Tony Bierman and MS. I can see the application in central admin, I can create a new service app from it, the create page works, the manage page is blank and I don't have a properties page. I havent yet tried using the beast, I just want to get the deployment and admin stuff working fi...