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Reset or Configure Sharepoint Central Administration

My Central Admin for sharepoint works but shows messages on the status bar 'page with errors' and when i open a setting e.g. Authentication providers and when i try click Save/OK button it does not work at all...page does not refresh or anything. This happens with most of the pages I had made few changes to the .css files earlier but i ...

Adding web page to blank sharepoint site definition

I am totally new to Sharepoint (2007) so please bear with me. I would like to automatically create aspx pages when a new site is created. These pages will be linked to through tabs which will be defined by a master page. I do not have a custom site definition and was planning to apply feature stapling to the out of the box blank site d...

SharePoint Feature Activation - Value does not fall within the expected range

I have started writing a simple feature to create a site column, and a content type. If I try to activate the feature as such, it gives me the error Value does not fall within the expected range and nothing much more helpful. If I remove the ContentType tag, the feature activates just fine and I can see the newly created Account site col...

SharePoint: How to create a folder in a document library please using web services

I need to create a simple folder in a document library in SharePoint, but I can't seem to find a scrap of documentation on the subject. The dws webservice seems to be used to create physical folders in a workspace, I need a way to create a folder in a document library. Not sure what to do , please help ...

using Silverlight in SCORM content

I'm building a LMS system using Sharepoint (WSS 3.0) with the Sharepoint Learning Kit (SLK). One of the requirements is to be able to host Silverlight content within the SCORM package. Has anyone done this before? I haven't been able to find much (anything) online that talks about how to do this. Most of the content tools that exist ...

Relative URLs in Sharepoint master page

I have a master page with tabs. The tabs are defined by the following sitemap file: <siteMap> <siteMapNode title="Home" url="~/" > <siteMapNode title="Schedule" url="~/Pages/Tab2.aspx"/> <siteMapNode title="Deliverables" url="~/Pages/Tab3.aspx"/> <siteMapNode title="My Items" url="~/Pages/Tab4.aspx"/> ...

Sharepoint 2007: Insert a list item with hyperlink field via web services

I need to know how to insert a list item with a hyperlink field using the oob web services. I already have the code to do the insert, just not sure about the hyperlink. Here is a standard text field (just part of the code): + @"<Field Name=""Annotation"">" + this.messageEnvelope.DM.Annotation + "</Field>" Now how can I insert a hy...

WSS GetListItems Not Returning Folders without Inherited Permissions when Calling with GUID

WSS 3.0 List Service I am running GetListItems() on a Picture Library (name Pictures) using the follow CAML query: <Query> </Query> <ViewFields> <FieldRef Name="EncodedAbsUrl"/> <FieldRef Name="Title"/> <FieldRef Name="ContentType"/> </ViewFields> <QueryOptions> <Folder>Pictures\Uploads</Folder> <ViewAttributes Scope="Recur...

Sharepoint best books and tutorials?

Hi, Anyone suggest good books for sharepoint? and more specifically great video tutorials which go from the technical aspects to the programming? thnx ...

How to filter list using CAML query from a custom search field?

Hi, Background I'm configuring a custom WSS application that focuses around one main list. I want to replace the top sharepoint search box with my custom search. After clicking on search I want to load a page with a webpart presenting the results (basically filtered list using CAML query). I'm using WSS not MOSS so I cannot just confi...

SharePoint List View - DateTime in the Query String

I am writing a view for a list of events in SharePoint (Schema.xml) and I want to filter the results according to a DateTime (i.e. only display the events that start between 2 dates) Normally I would use a CAML Query like this one for example : <Where> <And> <Geq> <FieldRef Name="Even...

SharePoint 2007: Possible to copy a list instance from 1 server to another without using a feature?

I am not server admin on one of our production systems, neither do I have SQL permissions because of this I need to ask someone to install a WSP package, its annoying. Is there a way I can copy a list instance from one server to another by just using the SharePoint GUI, I am root admin on 1 machine (dev) and site admin on another (test/...

WSS 3.0: showing wrong server as Configuration Database Server

after moving my configuration db to a different DB server I had some difficulties to get the farm up and running again. now my eventlog is full of errormessages, that the config-db is not reachable on my old db server. Operation / Servers in Farm ... /_admin/FarmServers.aspx is still showing the old db server as config db server I coul...

SharePoint: How to create a folder in a list using web services

Following up on my previous question here, in which I answered how to create a folder in a document library. I now need to create a folder in a list, however it seems the webDav approach is not working. Does anyone have a code snippet for creating a folder in a list using web services or webdav? Thanks In the following code no error ...

Sharepoint: Add an item to a list in a subfolder using webservices

I have a list, that has a custom content type, the list also contains subfolders How can I add an item to the list using web services, in a specific sub folder? ...

Sharepoint: How to get the root folder address of a list using web services?

I would like a reliable way to get the root folder address of a list using web services? Is it possible or do I need to revert to some string manipulation, which is subject to errors? Here is the object model equivalent: SPWeb myWeb = SPContext.Current.Web; Debug.WriteLine("MyWeb lists : "); foreach (SPList aList in myWeb.Lists) ...

Sharepoint: Check if item exists in a sharepoint list subfolder via webservices?

My original question here answers how to check if an item exists in a list, but this doesn't work for items in sub folders in the list. How can I check if an item exists, regardless of what subfolder its stored in? Failing this, how can I check if an item exists , even if this means somehow passing the subfolder value to the query som...

SharePoint 2007: List theory Question

I'm writing a solution around MOSS 2007. And storing fairly large quantities of data in a list. My first question is: Can lists handle large quantities of data - around 200 000 items. Now I've already read up about it, and it seems like the limitations of lists are on the number of items the views can display (2000). So question is: Is...

Difference between Windows Share Point Service and MOSS

What is difference between Windows Sharepoint Service and MOSS (Microsoft office Sharepoint). If I have the WSS 3.0 installed in my machine, I can create a sharepoint site, using Sharepoint Designer and Inforpath. Then why do I need MOSS 2007 (WSS 3.0 being free for download). ...

Project Tracking Workspace + Multiple projects SharePoint

I am using SharePoint templates, and I had gotten great results using the Tracking Multiple project Template. The problem is that I would like to keep each project separately, but still have the status overlook of all projects. I can create Project Tracking workspaces templates for each individual project, but I have not been able to ...