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How do I delete a sharepoint group that has arabic characters in the title?

I have a sharepoint group that has arabic characters in the title. The site has been deleted, and I need to remove the group. When I use the GUI, I get this error message: Error Code: 500 Internal Server Error. The server denied the specified Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Contact the server administrator. (12202) When I use st...

Customizing SharePoint's NewForm.aspx, or creating my own form... thoughts?

I'm not sure that there will be a definitive answer to my question, but I'd like to read some discussion from other folks on this... here's some quick background. I'm creating a request form that will handle adding new equipment to our datacenter. I'm collecting some pretty basic info about the submitter and the equipment to add. Some o...

WSS and OpenID

I have configured WSS with OpenID to enable FBA authentication. I have added a custom login page. Im able to authenticate using the OpenID account, however when i return back to the default.aspx page i get the 'Access Denied' page. The Question is how can i tell WSS to allow OpenID authentication into the web application? I have used ...

Emailing large lists in SharePoint fails regularly

I have a list that contains roughly 4500 items in it. The default view is set to return 25 items at a time. The list is a discussion board set up to receive email updates, receiving approximately 30 per day. I have an issue where every week or so the email stops working. Anyone who emails the list gets an Undeliverable message. Disa...

Hiding a SharePoint Custom Field Type in Edit and Create mode

I am trying to create a Custom Field Type in SharePoint. This control has it's value set based on another field in the same list. Because of this requirement, this field should be displayed only in the Display Mode, and not in the Edit or Create mode. How do I ensure this? If I just code the ASCX control to not render a field, the fie...

Using innerHTML.replace to replace text to create link

I'm using Sharepoint (WSS 3.0), which is unfortunately very limited in its ability to format survey questions (i.e., it strips any HTML you enter). I saw a solution elsewhere that suggested we add some JS to our master page file in order to allow line breaks. This works beautifully, but I'd like to see if we can allow links as well. In...

Sharepoint WSP Solutions and page URL's

I’ve been playing about with wsp solutions and a question has occurred to me about how to access an aspx file that is located on the file system from within the sharepoint web application. For instance, here is my visual studio explorer view… You can see the aspx file I’ve created, when I browse to this file in my sharepoint web appli...

How do I hide folders from the Site Hierarchy in SharePoint Services

How do I configure the Site Hierarchy on the left hand side of a SharePoint Services 3.0 site to NOT show folders? We have thousands of folders and it takes ages to load the page! Thanks ...

Are there any other classes like SPBuiltInFieldId and SPBuiltInContentTypeId?

Are there any other built-in classes similar to SPBuiltInFieldId and SPBuiltInContentTypeId? I am creating a feature that will be deployed to both English and Polish site collections. It uses a custom Web Service - when I need to access some list or Web Part, I have to check the current language and use a proper name ("Site Template Gal...

SharePoint Server 2k7 / Office 2003 Integration problem (CT prob.)

I have a bit of problem with MOSS (uptodate under 2003 r2) and Office 2003 integration. Customer particularly wants Office 2003. Problem So, when you make "new" document in the document center and document template is triggered and you hit "ok". In here everything is fine. Your doc is read and you hit "save" in Office Word 2003 and t...

Sharepoint features, custom aspx pages at various site levels

I've asked a similar sort of question here but what to be more specific. I want to be able to deploy a solution and activate a feature that provisions various custom aspx pages to different site levels within my web site. So my first custom aspx page would be at the root: http://example.org/custompage1.aspx And then another custom asp...

How do I get a web part to refresh in IE?

I have a SharePoint web part that gets XML data from an .ASHX page, parses it and displays it using JavaScript. Everything works fine, until the XML changes. When I view the web part in IE, the new data is not updated until I close the browser. Even doing a CTRL-F5 does not grab the new data. Firefox displays the new data immediately...

How do I access the onresize event from a SharePoint Web Part?

I have some JavaScript that will execute within a SharePoint web part. I would like to have a function execute when the window is resized. Normally I would use <html> <body onresize="resizeFunction();"> </body> </html> but in SharePoint things start to get hairy. I have an onload function that I am able to use thusly: _spBodyO...

How do I determine the size of a SharePoint list?

I have a list with roughly 5500 items, and I would like to find out the size on disk. Is there some way I can do this? I don't mind running a query in the database, if necessary. ...

Connect and authenticate to SharePoint with WCF

I'm going nuts with this one and can't find any decent information ANYWHERE .. There is lots of info around about connecting to SharePoint 3.0 Web Services with WCF and Ntlm impersonation. However, when the client accessing the SharePoint services is remote to the SharePoint network and needs to authenticate, how does one best configure...

Small Business Server 2003 and WSS Internet Licensing

Hi What is the licensing situation with Small Business Server 2003 and allowing other people and companies to connect and use the services? I also want to run Windows SharePoing Services (the free version) on there and allow access to this. Do I need to get additional licensing for this? Kind Regards ...

WSPBuilder and Code behind for a Sharepoint Masterpage

I created a code behind file for a custom master page in visual studio. I hooked everything up manually; safe control and custom cas policy. Everything works great! I then wanted to put this into a sharepoint solution using WSPBuilder for better deployment. I created WSP solution, added my class file and changed the output directory to ...

Impact of changes to the CAS policies in .NET 4.0?

As stated here, the way evidence is loaded will change in .NET 4.0. How will this impact systems like SharePoint where you can specify exactly which permission will be granted for a dll in the wsp-package? Isn’t SharePoint using AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(Name,Evidence) internally to make this possible, or am I missing something? ...

WSS Sharing Properties between Web Parts

Is it possible to share properties between different web parts? I would like a user to only enter there user name and password in one web part and it be accessible in other parts. ...

In a meeting workspace get all agenda items from a list programmatically.

I want to get all items from a specific list in recurring meeting workspace. I tried to execute the following CAML: <Query> <Where> <IsNotNull> <FieldRef Name='ID' /> </IsNotNull> </Where> </Query> But it only displays data for the upcoming meeting. However when I open list, from actions menu I can choose ...