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Adding Comments and ratings to Sharepoint document libraries or Picture libraires

Is there a ready made solution to allow users to add comments to an image posted in SharePoint picture library or basically any item in a document library? What I need is allow user who are viewing an image from a picture library for example to add comment, view comments others have left and provide some sort of voting. Similar to what ...

How do I deploy a public facing SharePoint 2007 Site

I am new to the SharePoint Development world and I have been given the task of making a public facing (extranet) site. I have been searching the web for a step by step and things to know, but have failed horribly! Can anyone help me by either directing me to a post I may have overlooked or providing me a step by step guide to follow? A...

BDC - Problems in applications

Hello, I am getting some problems in the BDC applications. When I import some BDCs application I get an empty error and my BDC applications in Central Administration file has no Version and no data. If I try to anything on it, I get Access Denied. Help! I am trying to delete it, because i already fixed the BDC file. Screenshots are h...

Can add my custom webpart but then cannot modify any webpart on page.

Hello. I`v made my webpart that works well (I can add it to page and use it). However if i want to move it to different zone or modify ANY other webpart on that page i get an exception. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Maybe it has to do something with that my web part has a null Zone variable? However webpart displays well on page. D...

Custom TraceProvider implementation in webpart throws security exception

I am trying to implement some logging in my webpart. I implemented a Custom trace provider implementation which writes Log messages into the 12 hive logs as has been described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979522.aspx I have wrapped the above code into a dll called logging.DLL. I am referencing this DLL in my webpar...

Modify sharepoint view to group recursively (subgroup)

Hello. When creating a view and setting group by value some field, it groups only 1 level deep, like this A --A.1 --A.2 A.2 --A.2.1 --A.2.2 B --B.1 However i would like to group it to make a tree, a hierarchy. A --A.1 --A.2 ----A.2.1 ----A.2.2 B --B.1 A flawless solution would be if i could just make my custom views to view a recu...

Is there a programmatic way to influence the rank of search results in MOSS (Sharepoint) 2007?

Searches in Sharepoint rely on SQL Server as far as I know. I have an internal search project based on MOSS 2007, where users can search keywords in archives. My idea is to take some statistics data (page hits, recent visits, user voting, etc.) into consideration and affect the final rank returned to the user. So, is there a way to inf...

SharePoint - How To Upgrade VSEWSS Solution From VS2005 to VS2008

Hi I have a MOSS solution successfully created in Visual Studio 2005 using VseWss 1.1 I have now tried to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 to use VseWss 1.3 The upgrade did not raise any errors however now when I try to deploy I get the following error: The class id 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 exists in this Solution in both MyGl...

How multiple SPListItem's can share 1 workflow history?

Hello. I`v come across a need where I want to create multiple list items from within a workflow and be able to view workflow history from any of that item. The problem context: In a recurring meeting, Agenda items are added. Some items have "open" status and some "closed". Those who have open, have the ability (and probably will) conti...

Is Sharepoint 2003/MOSS 2007 able to return a document snippet containing search terms?

Is there a search API for getting a short text containing the search terms so that I can use to display to users? ...

Is there a way that Sharepoint can index a doc and a companion file but treat them as one piece of information?

I have an external system that will send us events in XML. The event will include a link to an Office document and some other metadata. Now I want Sharepoint to index the document and metadata together. The result I want to achieve is - when a user search hits either metadata or contents of the Office document, I can render a page inclu...

Parser error in custom asp.net sharepoint page

Can anyone help me with this error? full image here It happens usually once a day when trying to load any one of a number of custom asp.net pages in my sharepoint web site. If I recycle my application pool the error disappears (usually for the day). So far this is what I’ve tried to eliminate the error (which has helped reduce the ...

SharePoint Document Library Customization for document view

I have a document library in MOSS 2007 which has folders and files. Document View in the document library has the following columns: document name, type, Created datetime, created by,modified datetime. How to configure the view so that it doesn't show any information for "modified", "created" and "created by" fields for folders. In other...

Difference between StaticName and InternalName (in the SPField class)

I want to make a CAML query semi-smart - in that I can give it a Title (which is what the end user sees) and it looks up the appropriate "Title" to pass as part of the CAML query: var caml = "<OrderBy><FieldRef Name='" + field + "'/></OrderBy>"; It looks like I can iterate of the Fields collection of the list using the object model, a...

Sharepoint Master Pages and Session State

I’m using Heather Solomon’s minimal publishing master page, I’ve got a simple feature with an apsx page and a code behind file that does this public class SSInformPage : Page { protected Literal Literal1; protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { //base.OnLoad(e); try { ...

Change the action when clicking on a list item

I would like to change the destination URL when clicking on a list item / item title so it will no send me to view the item but will send me to a different URL base on the item. I am not looking to replace the Links list but to use the list title as URL query filter. Thanks ...

Access denied logging in as different user

Our ASP.NET application pages are deployed as a feature into a MOSS 2007 farm. When a user logs on to the site the user is directed to a default page. In the top right corner there is an option "Log on as a different user". If the user selects this option and enters the credentials of another user, an "Access Denied" message is disp...

sharepoint accessibility

How compatible / compliant is sharepoint with current accessibility rules. Also how compliant is it with the UK disability act? ...

How to Populate Sharepoint MOSS 2007 Reference Data?

Hi, I need to populate reference data in a number of custom lists across difference versions (DEV, TEST and LIVE) of the same MOSS 2007 installation. Can anyone point me towards a way of doing this? I am initially looking at using a script (PowerShell?) or tool to populate this data. Thanks, MagicAndi. ...

SharePoint UpdateListItems Web Service Checked Out

I am uploading a picture to Share Point by using the normal multiple upload form. Once the picture is uploaded I return to a custom WebPart that lists the items. Clicking on the item brings up an javascript form which allows you to edit the meta information. You can then save this form using the UpdateListItems web service via the javasc...