Does anybody know the way how to make a GridView, placed inside a Sharepoint Web Part, to use Ajax? I placed a ScriptManager on a MasterPage, an UpdatePanel inside a web part. Every type of control works fine with ajax, except of GridView that forces to reload the entire page instead of updatepanel contents only. The resason for that, I...
This is a weird one. I have a WSS3 site, no MOSS, with a custom membership and role provider that authenticates against CRM. All the users have also been added to the site user list so once logged in they have correct display names. On dev and stage everything works fine, but on UAT the users can't get past the login screen. The login ...
Hi all, I recently installed TFS 2010 with the included sharepoint services on a single server. I am getting the following error multiple times on the project dashboard web page on the TFS2010 project protal after creating a brand new project in the default project collection. I am not an expert with WSS, so any guidance will be greatl...
I'm trying to edit a legacy wss3 sharepoint site. Messing around with a 700+ code lines aspx page I got a "The server tag is not well formed." error on sharepoint and The ?content=1 trick does not work. Anyone has a tip on how to get to the line that's causing the problem? I'm expecting something like the aspnet ysod, at least that's...
Is it possible to develop Web Parts using the 4.0 framework and use them in WSS 3.0? I've searched all over the place and can't find anyone else asking this question which makes me think the answer is an obvious "no". ...
I can customize the footer of the welcome email coming from SharePoint when a user is added to a site by editing the data name="ServerEmailFooter" element in core.en-US.resx. The question is, can I get anything dynamic in there, like the email of the owner who added the user, or any owner of the site? So far I've seen <GetVar> and <Lis...
In a SharePoint WSS 3.0 site two linked lists eg Project and Tasks. New tasks can only be assigned to open projects. Therefore in the new tasks form I need to filter the project drop down list to display only projects with a 'Status' equal to 'Open'. Following these instructions in SharePoint Designer I have: Created a new form Insert...
Hey All, Right now I'm using SharePoint Designer to create a new aspx page. I am using a data view to display information from a list. One of the fields in the list is a choice field. I was wondering if there was anyway that I could display all of the other fields but allow one field in the list to be edited on the page without adding a...
Hi, I'm using in WSS 3.0 SPUtility.TransferToSuccessPage method. Do anybody know is there a way to add new line in output message? Can you tell me how? Best Regards T.S. ...
I have a Discussion Board in a SharePoint site which has an additional column named Category. When a new discussion is created, it prompts for Category, and of course this is by design. The problem is that when the discussion is replied to, it prompts for the category again. How can I separate the reply functionality so that the Ca...
Hi, Is there a possibility to block chance to add the same data to SPList? I know that two records always are different regarding the ID field. I would like to validate other custom fields added previously by me, and don't allow of adding same field's value. Can anybody tell me how to implement this? I can guess that event receivers cou...
Hi, I'm using ItemAdding Event for one of my SPLists. The question is how I can get the new not yet added item from SPItemEventProperties? I've tried to ListItem.Item but the debuger shows that the property is set to Nothing. Any correction suggest? Best Regards T.S. ...
In sharepoint, the access to discussion boards appears to be modified by two means. In the Advanced Settings, you can modify the Item-level Permissions to where users that have contribute or higher permission may either edit/delete everyone's posts, or only their own. And of course, you can adjust the privileges for Read-only, Contribu...
Hi All, I'm trying to define the DisplayPattern of a custom field to do as follow. It's a simple text field used in document libraries, but i want the text entered to be displayed as a link to the document in the list view. <URL Cmd="Display"> gives me the display form, but I want the link to actually download/open the document... I c...
I have the need for an ASP.NET custom server control that will check the web.config file for a connectionstring name, prompt the user to create said connectionstring if not present, and execute create table stored procedures using the connection. This control will be embedded into a webpart for use in a WSS3.0 solution. Can anyone su...
I used a lot of tutorials to turn my windows authenticated default wss web app to use Forms Authentication. What I've done since; 1. created a web app. and a site in wss 3.0. Made its anonymous access enabled for all site content. This wss app is in the "wss3" server. 2. created a membership db with regsql.exe in .net framework folder...
I've created several master / detail webparts that need to be connected. We have a requirement the the webparts self discover and connect to other connectable webparts on the page. I've acheived this in a standard ASP.NET page with the following code: protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { WebPartManager manager = WebPa...
Hi, I have a document library with a few files in it and I've noticed that doing a search for files in the document library (even the exact file name) does not seem to give any search results. The search does seem to provide results of terms within lists (such as Project Tasks) thought. Does Sharepoint Services 3.0 index files within d...
This question is regarding using STSADM command to create new site collection in Active Directory Account creation mode. My setup is like this- I have 2 virtual PCs in a Windows XP Pro SP3 host. Both VPCs are Windows Server 2003 R2. One VPC acts as the DC, DNS Server, DHCP server, has Active Directory installed and is also the Database...
One thing that has driven me nuts about SharePoint2007 is the apparent inability to have defineable settings that apply specifically to a site or site collection itself, and not the content. I mean, you have some pre-defined settings like the Site Logo, the Site Name, and various other things, but there doesn't appear to be anywhere to a...