I have a WSS 3.0 site that uses forms authentication. In addition to my authentication cookie I get a cookie that contains data like this: 2FDiscovery=WorkspaceSiteName=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5rZWxldi5iaXo= path=/_vti_bin/Discovery.asmx; This cookie does not have the Secure attribute set, even though I have requireSSL="true" in my web.config ...
Lets try keep this simple. Given a SharePoint site (english) and a feature (localized with resource files) to English (default) and Czech (but could be any language). Why do I need to install a Czech Site Collection to get the Czech localization strings to work. I thought localization worked from user context, IE: based on the curren...
Hi, I've got to create a standard view but I want to display column names different than originals. For example, this view will include the "ID" field, but I need to show its column header like "Order number". As far as I know Sharepoint doesn't let you choose the display name of a field for a specific view... How can I do this? ...
I am accessing SharePoint via its web services... Which are a bit limited, as a result I have turned to WebDav to perform some create folder functionality... I have a document library, and I am about to create a folder using webdav, but I can't find any documentation on the internet or anywhere else on how to check if a folder already e...
We currently have a need to add a custom menu item to the Send To menu within our document libraries that would allow a user to create a link to the currently selected list item within another library. When the user clicks on the new "Send Link to..." menu item, they should be prompted to browse to the library in which the link should be...
i'm using the following code to add web parts to a page programmatically, however i've a problem that after the page is postedback the web part is not visible on the page, i need to refresh the page to get the web part visible, appreciate your support. SPSite site = new SPSite("http://syngdcds0032:23547"); site.AllowUnsafeUpda...
We have a one-question checkbox (multiple selection) survey in SharePoint. When selecting "Show a graphical summary of responses" in SharePoint, it tabulates the different combinations of responses as distinct answers as opposed to totaling the number of each option selected. Is there a way to show the total of each option selected ...
Hi all, I have created an asp.net web application on my local machine and I am deploying it to sharepoint. For that I am refereing the following Deploying ASP.NET Web Applications in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 _layouts Folder [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297200.aspx] Its works perfect on my local machine but wh...
I'm showing a view within a webpart and I update this view to filter the list items according to the logged on user's groups. Is there a way to clone the view and update it leaving intact the original one? I need this cloned view to be temporarary since I don't need it after rendering it. I know there's a SPView.Clone method but it's lit...
WSS 3.0 will let me send an email to a group when a new task is added to a task list. What I would like to do is to run a weekly task that sends out reminders of tasks due within certain periods, i.e. 2 days, 7 days, 14 days etc. I thought the simplest way would be to build a little C# app thatr sits on the WS2K3 box and qeuries the WSS ...
I have a WSS list containing user profile data (Columns: Username, Name, DOB) etc. I need to display the correct user profile from this list using the username of the currently logged in user (Active Directory). I know the WSS web parts are limited so I'm going to use the RSS feed for the list and filter & transform it through some XSL ...
I need to write a tool that renames a content type in all site collections in a Web application. If I only change the Name property, the content type loses access to the resource files. So my guess that I have to rename the resource folder, too. I tried to use MoveTo, but the SchemaXml still contains old URL: <ContentType ID="0x0100754...
I'm trying to research a replacement for the pathetic WIKI that comes with WSS (only wiki code it has is to create url links). I have looked at a few but most 'replacements' I see are MOSS only? (or so it just states MOSS for requirements). Has anyone faced this situation? What did you end up using? I would like something that I can h...
Hello. This question has been asked many times in many forums but I haven't seen a confident conclusive answer. So I'll try my luck again. I want to know whether and how is it possible to use MySQL as the persistence node (configuration and content) for SharePoint. As of now, I am only interested to know about WSS (I guess same would ...
Hi All, I have an aspx page with inline code in which I am trying to update the view programatically by setting view's Query property to my CAML query. When I run with administrator user everything works perfect view get updated successfully but when I logged in with a user who belongs to visitor group and having read only access then I...
Hi, I am using SharePoint to build a website and I am looking into the backup / restore solution. The website is hosted on a set of virtual machines (one VM for the web front-end, one VM for SQL Server). I have a backup of these VMs in a base state (fresh install of WSS and SQL, no web application created, etc.) What I would like to h...
Hi All, I have been asked to do something and i am very new to Sharepoint development and customisation so am a bit unsure how to go about it, or if it is even possible. The brief is to create a web part that shows a list of sub sites of the current site, i have messed around and have created a web part which does this. The second par...
Hi all, In my project i have a asset list which contains "request to download" link. In the same list there is "download link" column which is default empty. Now when any user clicks on request to download link a workflow is activated and it will send request to approver to approve or reject the download request. If approver accept t...
I have a MOSS List, how can I get the URL for the list from the List name only using web service methods? ...
I'm developing on a machine that is not the MOSS Server. I have Visual Studio and WSP builder installed. WSP builder is awesome because it can automatically create WSP Packages from within the Visual Studio IDE. However it seems the deploy functionality only works on the local dev machine. Is there an easy way to deploy a WSP package t...