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Best method for pulling data out of SharePoint to use with a Business Intelligence application

Asked this first on serverfault, and someone recommended that I ask here. I'm looking for advice from anyone out there who has experience integrating SharePoint with a business intelligence application like Cognos. Our BI team wants to be able to report on data stored in SharePoint. Their tool of choice is Cognos. What's the best way t...

SharePoint Search Find Records between a date range

Hello All, This is my try to get records below the date: SELECT Title, XXXX from scope() where "scope" ='XYZScope' AND XYZDate < 1/1/2007 12:00:00 AM It says "Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040E07" Please help. ...

What control from InfoPath 2007 maps as SPFieldLookUp or SPFieldLookUpCollection field?

Hi. Does anyone know what control from InfoPath 2007 maps as SPFieldLookUp or SPFieldLookUpCollection field in SharePoint? Any idea is accepted. Thnx. ...

SPNavigation - Displaying User Defined Navigation

I'm trying to build a secondary navigation on a front end site, and I can't get past an issue. In the code below, the output displays something similar to: water -----water -----pollination -----dormancy pollination -----water -----pollination -----dormancy dormancy -----water -----pollination -----dormancy // Loop through Root Webs...

How does SharePoint store the CAML for a view's filter?

I'm trying to create a CAML query for a list in SP. I thought of using the Modify view pages to create a basic view including a filter, then use some code to examine the Query Prop of the SPView: string t = dataList.Views["MyView"].Query; But CAML in t does not contain any Where elements. Just the orderby <OrderBy> <FieldRef Nam...

Telerik RadEditor working issue under VS2008

I've a SharePoint portal for tracking questions in a list. When I open an list item in IE8 Telerik Editor works fine. But if I open this page inside VS2008 in browser mode this control starts to do unexpected actions. It's the Telerik RadEditor for Sharepoint v. 5.3.2.0. Is it a bug of VS2008 or a bug of Telerik RadEditor? Steps to re...

How can we get the Active Directory user info for a List

Is there any way with the built-in SharePoint web services which can give us the information about the Active Directory users present in a SharePoint Group? ...

Intellisense does not recognize Sharepoint.WebControl elements in a control template

I am working with a project generated by the VS2008 Sharepoint template (VSeWSS). Currently, when working in the ASCX files that I have, IntelliSense does not recognize the imported namespaces. I'm uncertain what to do to address this. Note: Per edit below, importing SharePoint.WebPartPages works fine, it's just SharePoint.WebControls ...

Sharepoint content type not in page properties list

Hi, I think I have done everything right but my content type won't appear in the page properties. Here's what I did: Created 2 content types, one deriving from "Welcome Page" and one deriving from "Article Page" Created "Site Columns" and added them to my content types Opened Sharepoint designer to create a page layouts based on my C...

Sharepoint search fails when using DataKeynames

We have a Sharepoint site which uses search. We get the following error: Unable to validate data. at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySection.EncryptOrDecryptData (Boolean fEncrypt, Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, IVType ivType, Boolean useValidationSymAlgo) at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.Deser...

How do I get started developing a simple workflow application in SharePoint?

I would like to start developing a simple Workflow application in Sharepoint. What files should I download? SharePoint Server 2007 SDK? SharePoint Server? SQL Server? Visual Studio? other? Are they all required for workflow development? I do not have SharePoint anywhere, please include its components in your answer. ...

sharepoint - Add an Attachment to a ListInstance Data Node?

Is it possible to add an attachment within the ListInstance when specifying Default records for a list when creating it with a Feature in MOSS? ...

Access is denied - PSEXEC Called from TFS

I'm implementing a continuous integration scenario for a SharePoint deployment. After all features have been build on the build server, I'm attempting to deploy the new features to the test server by running STSADM commands through PSEXEC. When I run my script from any machine where I'm logged in, it runs fine. When I add an exec co...

"Access denied" when trying to create a new application on WSS (Sharepoint) 3.0 SP2

I installed WSS SP2 on my Windows 7 (bamboo option). I can log into administratiion site but when I try to create a new application I got the error: "Access denied". Any idea how to solve this issue? ...

Permission for a SharePoint document using MOSS web services

Hi, We have a need to retrieve user groups which have read permissions for a document. We know the URL of the document. The following Permissions service provides the groups which has access, but it expects either a site URL or a list URL. We have a document URL. Is there any other service which provides permissions of a document. Or alt...

how to extend the "Application Templates" of MOSS

For example, MOSS provides "Inventory Tracking Template" To add workflow capability should we create another custom webpart using the classes? Hope we can add columns to the List Provided. in order to add additional logic (like validation, kicking notification,etc) Visit this link to understand more about the 2nd point: http://www.ex...

jquery in sharepoint moss

having integrated jquery into our sharepoint moss internet facing site and deploying the files to the _layouts folder we are now having problems with the references from the masterpages, all the references work apart from application.js. Non of the events fire from there? would we need to take any extra steps to get this working in a sh...

Extending or modifying the SharePoint Datasheet view

Hi, Has anyone discovered a way to extend or modify the functionality of the SharePoint Datasheet view (the view used when you edit a list in Datasheet mode, the one that looks like a basic Excel worksheet)? I need to do several things to it, if possible, but I have yet to find a decent non-hackish way to change any functionality in it...

SPWeb.ApplyWebTemplate() method - delay issue

I have a custom site definition and in the provisioning handler I am using SPWeb.ApplyWebTemplate("My site defintion name") to apply the site definition. It works fine but i have observed that there is some delay in applying the web template. What i did is that in the onet of my site defintion i have set the masterurl attribute to /_c...

Automatically logging unhandled exceptions without using try/catch

So I want to be able to just log all unhandled exceptions to the event log without having to catch all the exceptions manually and write them out. I wanted to use the health monitoring functionality within a WCF service, the problem is that this only catches errors generated by asp.net and I specifically want to also catch SPException e...