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Exporting an SPGridView to a document

I have a webpart which uses SPGridView to render tabulated data. I need to provide a button in the webpart, which upon clicking will export the SPGridView into a document, preferably, an Excel Sheet or a Word document. How do I export the data from an SPGridView? ...

SharePoint (WSS) Authentication Across Multiple Domains

First, a little background: We have an intranet site based on WSS 3.0 that is hosted on a server in *DOMAIN_A.LOCAL* and set up to use Integrated Windows Authentication to authenticate users against Active Directory user accounts of *DOMAIN_A.LOCAL*. This setup works just fine for users who are logged into Windows using an AD account f...

Combining different lists data and showing it in a webpart

hello, let me explain my current situation i have a SharePoint site lets say it is MAIN, and a subsite lets call it SUBMAIN in MAIN i have a list called "a" and in subMAIN i have a list called "b" both lists have the exact same columns, i need to show the content of both lists (ordered by modified date for example) in one webpart i...

Cannot access WSS 3.0 sites after movind Content and Config DBs

Problem: No access to internal sites after new Instance of SQL was installed on MS SQL Server Description: I've got a WSS 3.0 installed on the W2K3 Sever. Originally, there was only one Instance of MS SQL (MSDE) for Backupexec (bkupexec). Later, we installed WSS 3.0 and instead of installing the new instance of SQL we installed on the...

Customizing pages view in Sharepoint

Hi, I'm customize the fields displayed in the Pages document library (the table displayed clicking site actions->all site content->pages). It was suggested by someone who knows more about sharepoint than me that I should perhaps remove the fields which I didn't want from the default view programmatically on the activation of a feature,...

SharePoint remembering changed password

Hey all, I'm witnessing some strange behavior with SharePoint when changing user's Active Directory passwords. I created a custom Application Page to change a user's password in Active Directory. The code seems to be working great as I can verify within Windows that the password was changed. However, the strange thing is that after t...

Call long running operation in WSS feature OnActivated Event

More specifically - How do I reference SPContext in Web Service with [SoapDocumentMethod(OneWay=true)]? We are creating a feature that needs to run a job when a site is created. The job takes about 4 minutes to complete. So, we made a web service that we can call when the feature is activated. This works but we want it to run asynchr...

ListTemplateOwner

I’ll keep it short and sweet. Does anyone really know what the "ListTemplateOwner" tag of the elements.xml's "Receivers" node really means? From Microsoft’s site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms431081(loband).aspx ListTemplateOwner: Optional Text. Specifies the GUID of the list template owner if the list template is regis...

How do I handle SharePoint exceptions?

Hello. I`m new to SharePoint, so I guess how do I need to handle exceptions? When I write custom code do I have to check for them or maybe, if they are thrown, they automatically get logged and don't break the app? If not, then how do I log them? Thank you! Edit: And how should I log those exceptions? ...

DataView component in SPD attaches needless strings to field values.

Hello. In SharePoint Designer I use some lists as sources and then link them together with an operation GetListItems (I fetch items from multiple lists on different site collections for rollup/aggregation): Now something is fine as I managed to get the result: But the strings that are attached to field result (6;#, 2;#) is... distu...

Tips on setting up internet facing WSS 3.0 site without Active Directory

We're trying to setup an internet facing WSS 3.0 site without Active Directory. We have a single WFE and a single SQL Server (2005). The WFE will be outside our DMZ. We've successfully created the Central Admin site with a local admin account on the WFE and a separate account on the SQL server for the database, but we're stuck on sett...

Active Directory authentication on WSS 3.0

Our customer wants to use their existing active directory to authenticate users on a new WSS 3.0 server. The company is using several domains. I have read this thread sharepoint-wss-authentication-across-multiple-domains but it does not give me the information on how to set up the sync-connection. Ive seen on meny places that AD sync is...

Can I add object field to SPItem, to attach some kind of object to item?

Hello. I have an SPListItem object. Can I add a field to store some kind of object like ArrayList or Dictionary, or whatever? Thank you. ...

Filterable SPFIeldUrl in default view.

I`v added a hyperlink (SPFieldUrl class) column (field) with GUI to my list. Pity, but I cannot filter those values when viewing the list. (It reads that you cannot filter this column type) Is there any way to have it easy filterable with clicking on columns besides creating a custom view? Thank you. ...

Default logon-Domain for Sharepoint

When running Sharepoint (WSS 3.0) with Windows Authentication (NTLM), external users must supply their usernames in the form of DOMAIN\username. This makes sense, because you could have multiple domains, trusts between them, etc. However in my case, I only have one domain, and I want my users to be able to logon with their pure username ...

How do I create a new folder and deploy files to the 12 hive using VseWSS 1.3?

I have created a web part using VSeWSS 1.3. It creates a wsp file and my web part gets installed, everything works great. I would like to also create a folder in the LAYOUTS directory of the 12 hive and place a couple files in there. How do I go about doing this? I know that I can manually place the files there, but I would prefer t...

Override SPList.WriteSecurity behaviour?

As MSDN states, then WriteSecurity has 1 of 3 states possible: 1 — All users can modify all items. 2 — Users can modify only items that they create. 4 — Users cannot modify any list item. But if I want behavour nr. 2 plus users can modify items that are assigned to them? Well if I grant a user full permissions (put in owners group) ...

MOSS All Groups does not show pagination when more than 100 groups returned

When I go to /_layouts/groups.aspx in my site collection, I only see the first 100 groups. There is no pagination control visible. How do I correct this, to work with more than just the first 100 groups? ...

Moving from custom ASP.NET application to Sharepoint Services

Our company has an ASP.NET application for customer information database. The application started small but has grown without proper design. Now a new version of the app should be developed, which basically would mean designing and implementing it from scratch. The company is interested in making use of Microsoft Sharepoint Services in f...

Inherit List Items to Sub-Site List in WSS 3

Is there a way to inherit list items down to a sub-site from a sub-collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1? We'd like to have a list of contacts available at a site collection level and have those inherit down to a list at a site level. The sub-site level would then be able to have contacts specific to itself along with any...