Is it possible to create more than just 1 content type with just one feature in Sharepoint? I've a got a project where a couple of content types inherits from another one and I have 5 features just creating those content types. ...
In sharepoint my web part is calling a web service. This web service does some heavey processing in the background. On large data sets the page asks for your username and password after a certin period of time before a response is returned. It seems to be timing out. What setting timing out and where do I change this limit? ...
I have a SPListItemCollection with ~500 items in. I am looping through using a for each loop, each time grabbing the file and writing it out to a pdf document. I am getting the error "Thread was being aborted". It looks to be a time out issue but I dont know how to fix it? Collections with 200-300 items work fine. Is there any way I can ...
One of our managers is encountering an issue with Sharepoint Workflows. His team has a standard AD user account setup with an email inbox that they all have access to via Outlooks "Open these additional Mailboxes" option. The Sharepoint workflow is setup to send approvals to this general-use user account. The problem is, when they receiv...
Background: I had been asked to create a second Sharepoint application server to reprovision the one that is currently in the SharePoint Farm. I installed the os, SharePoint, and SP1. I then began the process of moving all the services on to the new server. (The central farm consists of 2 WFE and 1 App server, each on W2K8). Problem: I...
I've got a custom new item form which I'm using in SharePoint 2007. What I want to happen is that once the user has entered an asset id and they leave the field, an ajax query checks to see if that asset id is available. I've used the following code successfully on a normal .NET web applicaiton, however when using the same code in Share...
Got this problem - not sure if it is possible. User is logged into the sharepoint portal server. The user opens a page (webpart) in SPS - an ActiveX is started The ActiveX receives data from a docked barcode scanner. The ActiveX creates a WebClient The ActiveX set the credentials on the WebClient as used in point 1.) The ActiveX uses...
In a typical (professional) environment you would expect MOSS to reside on a domain so this code is used to create the credentials to a web service method : dwsService.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("Tanveer", "Test", "MyDomain"); Anyone have any experience when MOSS does not reside on a domain? How then can you pass a local adm...
Is it possible to access the list items in the (hidden) "Forms" subfolder of a document library using the Lists.GetListItems web service method? I need to set the content type of uploaded document templates using Lists.UpdateListItems, otherwise, document created from these templates will have the 'Document' content type and not the cont...
I have a custom web part on a web part page. When I try to edit that web part directly(not selecting site settings -> edit page option) via "modify shared web part" option it gives error in the web part properties tool pane as "a web part you attempted to change is either invalid or has been removed by another user". If I Select Site Set...
Hi, Can u people Help me How to get the sqlserver name used by sharepoint programatically?? is there any such api provided like i have installed sharepoint on the sqlnamed instance. How to get the sqlservername. Thanks in Advance... ...
In SharePoint I can create a list column of type 'Number'. I need to store monetary amounts and would like to be able to use this column type rather than having to create a new one. Are values of this type stored and manipulated by SharePoint (e.g. when summing values in a list view) to prevent loss of precision (i.e. not as some kind o...
I have created an OOTB Survey list with a single question. The question is a choice type with radio buttons. When a user navigates to the survey and they click "Respond to Survey" they get the screen where they can select there choice. Once the user clicks submit I get the following exception: “One or more field types are not installed ...
I've created a simple placeHolder for some extra javascript in jQuery - The issue is that the placeHolder is within some script tags and therefore isn't recognized by Sharepoint designer. The page works correctly, so it hasn't bothered me until now, since you can't touch any part of the design view, without fixing the issue. My code l...
I am accessing the SHDocVw.InternetExplorer from the SHDocVw.ShellWindowsClass(). I can see the page that the browser instance is currently on (the LocationURL property), but what I really need is the last get request that was done for the browser. My specific need is that my application was just launched to handle a file that was down...
I'm sort of new to the custom parameters that can be setup on a DataView Webpart. There are 6 options: - None - Control - Cookie - Form - QueryString - Server Variable I think that None, Cookie and QueryString speak for themselves and are pretty straightforward. The issue comes from the other 3. There isn't much documentation as to wha...
I have a SharePoint web part (essentially just a "Hello World" app) that I just created and am having a problem deploying it. I have signed the .dll, created the .dwp, and registered it as a safe control in web.config. I am able to add it to the Web Part Gallery and add the details for it; however, when I attempt to add it to a page, I g...
How can I 'read' an excel 2003 document stored as a sharepoint spfile? I can retrieve the document from the library with no problems using the SPFile.OpenBinary() and then putting that into a MemoryStream. The original idea was to use OpenXML to interrogate the document (which will take this object type as a constructor), but the Excel ...
Hi All, I have 3 yrs of exp. in .net and now i don't have interest in .net and i want to do a sharepoint course. I just want to know that will it be beneficial for me in the future as i m into the .net. Thanks to provide me a good suggestions. Thanks ...
I'm trying to design a table-driven routing engine for a contract management application that will compute appropriate reviewers and approvers given a set of input criteria. My platform is Sharepoint with K2 and InfoPath 2007 (I'm working on the InfoPath form, a colleague is working on the K2 workflow). The results will be used by K2 to ...