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SharePoint - cannot complete this action error

Really wish i was God, then I would understand what this means: The element 'MyList' of type 'ListInstance' for feature 'MyLists' (id: f3981600- c824-4f88-85ce-94d049ba63ee) threw an exception during activation: Cannot complete this action. Please try again. Anyone know what this error "really means". Its happening when i try ac...

SharePoint - Rendering a wiki page without navigation bars

We use the SharePoint 2007 wiki, and I'd like to embed the contents of a wiki page onto our SharePoint Site's Default.aspx. There is a 'Page Viewer Web Part'. This can create an IFRAME which you can point at any URL... including the wiki page... but that includes tons of navigation bars and chrome. I'm hoping there's a way to strip the...

How can I synchronize time zone info across SharePoint site collections?

We are building a large SharePoint 2007 installation with several hundred site collections over four regionally hosted Web applications. We have approximately 12,000 users, spread out more or less evenly around the globe, and each user may visit many site collections - both on their "home" regional server and on other regional servers....

SharePoint TextField ClientID changes?

I'm trying to use some javascript on a page layout, and I'm encountering a strange issue where the ClientID of a Sharepoint.WebControls.TextField seems to change between OnLoad and the page being displayed. In the OnLoad event, TextField3.ClientID resolves to "ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_TextField3", but if look to see why my js doesn't work,...

Deploying SharePoint Solution using VSeWSS

I have a development WSS 3.0 site that I wanted to move to a Production server. I am using VSeWSS 1.2 to do my deployment. I generated the SharePoint solution of the site with SharePoint Solution Generator 2008. When deploying it locally it works fine, but when I tried to deploy it to the remote Production server it would not deploy. I...

SharePoint : Feature scope question

When I create my feature I have the following choices for feature scope: WEB SITE WEB APPLICATION FARM Which is the correct scope to select if you want your feature to be available in : Site Settings > Site Features Might seem trivial but its driving me up the wall, thanks.... ...

Upload Image in List

Hi all, In my sharepoint site i have a list where user can enter his/her profile related information such as first name, last name, Age, sex... Along with these information i want to let the users to upload their images as well So when i creat a view for this list i can able to show their Image along with other information. So can anyon...

Sharepoint navigation menu collapse

Does anyone know when in sharepoint you´ve created a navigation structure in site settings navigation / that i can only add a page under a heading and have to hide the page which is the heading? How I can make the menu collapse when clicking on the top menu rather then immediate display? I want to display the second level when clicking...

SharePoint timer jobs not getting invoked.

I have a timer job which has been deployed to a server with multiple Web front ends. This timer job reads it's configuration from a Hierarchical Object Store. This timer job is scheduled to run daily on the server. But the problem is that this timer job is not getting invoked daily. I have implemented event logging in the timer job'...

Sharepoint Changing URL Special characters

I have a URL stored in a Sharepoint 'Link to a document' that contains the Nordic Character 'Ø' as hex(%D8). Sharepoint is encoding the % symbol, (thus making it %25D8). If I enter the URL directly into an address bar, it works fine. If I don't URL encode it, I still get the same problem. Anybody got any ideas? ...

Using Uploadify with Sharepoint and .net

I have a some html being generated by JQuery on a Share Point page. I want to use uploadify in this html to upload a file to the server. Alexander has helped by providing the following sample code which is based partially on http://www.uploadify.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=45. upload.ashx <%@ Assembly Name="ClassName, Version=1....

Sharepoint services image hyperlink

I am using Sharepoint service to create a webpage. I have an image - the logo on the top-right of the homepage - and am wanting to put a hyperlink so when it is pressed it takes you to another site. How would I do that please? ...

Single signon betwen Asp .Net and Sharepoint Portal

Hi, I need to implement a SSO between a custom Asp.Net application and a SharePoint site. The asp .net Application has custom authentication and the sharepoint has windows authentication. I have already read about using forms authentication in both applications but i can not use forms authentication in Sharepoint. Is this possible? Any ...

How to identify an unsafe web part / control

I get an error when trying to edit a page in a SharePoint site. Using WinDbg I see that actual error is: Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SafeControls+UnsafeControlException This looks to me like I have a control on the page which is not included in the <SafeControls> section of web.config. I've had a look at the aspx file f...

Access Share Service Provider (SSP) settings

How can I access the settings of a Share Service Provider programmatically. Especially how could I retrieve the MySite storage location defined in a SSP's MySite settings? ...

Sharepoint Wiki hierarchical view of pages

As you can see in the official MS powerpoint slides here: http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/launch2008/library.aspx?id=SP%5FT16%5FDI%5F1800 it is possible to program a hierarchical view of sharepoint wiki pages. i searched the web and i only found blogs full of the known weaknesses of SP wiki like: no comments, no pictures, no mark ...

My look up column shows items but when created shows blank values

Hi, I have a list named "Projects" which has a number column named "Job Number", I have attached an ItemAdded event handler to Job Number to increment. Within the Projects list, I created a look up column named "Original Job" which looks up the value from the column Job Number. When I click new item, I see the drop down values of all m...

Web parts, dynamically created controls and eventhandlers

Hi, What is the best way to display, in a web part, dynamic tables where each cell can cause a postback to display a different set of data? For example, imagine some financial data: Table 1: Quarters in year | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Things 1 | 23 | 34 | 44 | 32 | Things 2 | 24 | 76 | 67 | 98 | On...

SharePoint : How can I programmatically add items to a custom list instance

I am really looking for either a small code snippet, or a good tutorial on the subject. I have a C# console app that I will use to somehow add list items to my custom list. I have created a custom content type too. So not sure if I need to create an C# class from this content type too. Perhaps not. Thanks in advance ...

Create Server Name Mapping in SSP in Sharepoint 2007?

Hi: I have created a SSP and i am getting the results from here. The problem is that I have a list that the SSP is crawling and it gives me the internal URL. http://domain.com/ES/pubs/editorial/Lists/pubs/DispForm.aspx?ID=10 (or whatever) I want to change it for this: http://domain.com/ES/pubs/editorialFO/Paginas/searcher.aspx?IdPu...