Pardon the vague question, but I've just inherited a project to build a couple dozen forms pulling data from a SQL 2005 database. The forms are mostly standard database lookups with just a couple updates so the data layer is very simple -- I'm the DBA -- but we just recently started using SharePoint WSS 3.0 for a departmental web site an...
Hi folks, what is your opinion or better off your practical experience using WCF to work with WSS instead of SP web services? I am writing some custom library for our software to store and retrieve files from WSS document libraries using sharepoint web services. I am not entirely happy with the performance of the sp web services - a b...
I've been brought in as an intern to develop a SharePoint site. My team won't authorize the budget for Visual Studio and I don't have physical or remote access to the SharePoint server (running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 a.k.a. WSS) on the back-end. So what exactly can I do? I'm a pretty decent programmer when it comes to web t...
Hi - we are looking at developing a web application that allows users (some subscribed (authenticated) and some not (browsing)). We would like some basic document management, a wiki, a blog etc. and do not expect the app to be heavily used (DB size not an issue at this stage). I require the GUI to be customised to our corporate style a...
We have a SharePoint 2007 deployment which will have a substantially large document library. My client wants the ability to export this library to an Excel spreadsheet, but specifically wants the ability to divide the spreadsheet into several worksheets based on a specific field. Is this possible to accomplish in WSS 3.0, through the obj...
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 ...
I have a feature that gets installed using a WSP package, when the feature is activated, I would like the following to happen: The feature will contain a list definition. When the feature gets activated by an end user (the user physically clicks the feature activation button in site features admin) - I would like a modal dialog to app...
I have some user-specific data that I need to store in SharePoint and make accessible to the user through custom webparts. Let's say a list of favorite URLs. What would be the most straightforward way to store this information? Some builtin propertybag for SPUser or similar that I'm not aware of. SPList, associated through User column...
Hello all I've a business requirement in which i need to create a SharePoint feature which registers a JavaScript across all the SharePoint pages. The only way i figured out to achieve it is that adding the script in (all) the SharePoint Master Pages or any other custom master pages present in the Site/Site Collection/Web Application w...
I have to create a library with links to existing files. The files is on the FileChange server. I don't know how to create a custom content type, without the file field. Is it possible at all? P.S. Sorry for my poor English ...
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...
I'm looking to start using javascript on the server, most likely with node.js, as well as use websockets to communicate with clients. However, there doesn't seem to be a lot of information about encrypted websocket communication using TLS and the wss:// handler. In fact the only server that I've seen explicitly support wss:// is Kaazing....
Hi All, In My SharePoint site I have a list containing rich text box column. I want to limit the max lenght of text in this textbox but I could not found any property for that. Can anyone help me to achive this ? Thanks in advance Sachin katkar ...
The GetListitems web service relies on XML to retrieve data from SharePoint. Some actual working code is: var doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.LoadXml("<Document><Query><Where><Contains><FieldRef Name=\"DeliveryStatus\" /><Value Type=\"Text\">Created</Value></Contains></Where></Query><ViewFields /><QueryOptions /></Document>")...
That is detect when the user makes web part changes and selects to exit editing the page. I want to be able to capture a page event, then create a SharePoint task to instruct a user to translate that page to another language (note that MOSS and variations is not an option because the client wants to use the free version of SharePoint). S...
Hi, I am needing to calculate the number of years between two fields; Field A Start Date (dd/mm/yyyy) Field B End Date (dd/mm/yyyy) Field C Calc formula display difference between Field A and B in years and months i.e 5.2 Thanks all. ...
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 to all, I am trying to create a work flow where it should collect data's from a user. Also, in this work flow, users should be able to change tasks 'Assigned To' field value(Reassign task). I can't get it done in SharePoint Designer with these workflows: 1) A main work flow which waits second workflow to set a spesific field when i...