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sharepoint workflow on a task item not starting

Hi, I have the following scenario: a workflow is associated with an item list this workflow creates various tasks for different people since it is quite complex to monitor dueDate for each task item in this workflow, I thought I'd create a new workflow that would be associated with the task list and have very simple logic in it, just...

Adding Check-In Date as a Column in MOSS 2007

Hello - I'm trying to add a column to a document library in MOSS 2007 that will reflect the date that the document was last checked in and then have that date reflected within the document as a Field or Label. I'm trying to avoid the Modified date and only have it populate the date of last check in. Check Out is required in the library ...

Sharepoint File Not Found error

I can't seem to find any relevant information on this exception. It seems to come and go on a specific site, any ideas? [FileNotFoundException]: File Not Found. at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPLocalFileInfo.get_CacheKey() at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.GhostedFileTemplateInfo.get_CacheKey() at Microsoft...

Specific view field display names

Hi, I've got to create a standard view but I want to display column names different than originals. For example, this view will include the "ID" field, but I need to show its column header like "Order number". As far as I know Sharepoint doesn't let you choose the display name of a field for a specific view... How can I do this? ...

Sharepoint Designer - is there a way to calculate a date difference in a workflow?

Maybe I'm just crazy... So, with SPD I can add any time unit to a date and put that into a variable, but I can't seem to find anything that will let me calculate the difference between two dates. "Do Calculation" only lets me pick from numeric values. Am I missing something here? Seems like something which should be obvious. ...

postback url rewriting sharepoint

I am trying to do url rewriting in sharepoint . I have done something and its working fine but the problem is when I click on by default controls in sharepoint like edit page, approve or any links they are pointing to the old one and not to the new one and because of that I m getting 404 not found. If anyone is having idea how to solve ...

Sharepoint Date and Time Field limitation

I created a Date and Time column in a Sharepoint list called EventDate. According to Microsoft documentation the Date and Time column maps to the System.DateTime type. Now I'm seeing an error message when I try to insert the following date into that column: Date: 1/1/1800 Error message: "Invalid date/time value. A date/time field con...

creating a basic sharepoint site ?

if i want to create a basic sharepoint site. do i need a sharepoint designer ? or some other sharepoint software ? ...

building sites besides sharepoint site template

during site creation using sharepoint , sharepoint offers some templates. if we need to create a site other than a template offered , how do we proceed ? ...

Deactivating site collection feature on MySite

We have a custom master page that is deployed to the MySite web application per these instructions - http://www.sharepointblog.com/2008/07/sp2007-custom-master-pages-on-subsites.html However, we require the ability to deactivate the feature on all the site collections that are within the MySite webapplication. The feature is built as a...

Is it possible to deploy an ASP.NET application to SharePoint using the solution deployment mechanism?

After reading this article, I'm thinking it's not possible. However, I have an ASP.NET 2.0 application that I need to put in our SharePoint environment. I know it is possible following the steps outlined in the article, but our SP admins only accept WSP packages for deployment into the enterprise environment. Does anyone have any sugg...

Content Query Web Part and Deleted Occurrences of Events

I have a content query web part showing 3 events for todays date on our Intranet homepage. However, when a user deletes an event from a recurring series, SP changes the title of that event to "Deleted: [original title]". My content query web part still shows these and I don't see a way to filter them out. For my list views I get aro...

Sharepoint how to structure team sites and project sites

I was thinking of having a tree structure with every team at the top and then having all projects underneath the teams. Something like this: sharepoint/team1 sharepoint/team1/project1 sharepoint/team1/project1/sub-project sharepoint/team1/project2 sharepoint/team2 sharepoint/team2/project1 sharepoint/team2/project2 sharepoint/team3 ...

Making use of a Sharepoint Webpart within a non Sharepoint CMS?

Hi all, I am creating a new CMS for a customer using ASP.NET 3.5, SQL2008 and Windows Server 2008. The customer has some webparts that he uses in his current Sharepoint implementation and would like to have their functionality in the new CMS. I can install Windows Sharepoint Services on the Windows 2008 server. Is there a way I can dis...

Allow visitors to update certain List programmatically in wss 3.0

Hello! I need to allow visitors of the share point portal to update a list programmatically, but don't know how to do it. Give a hint, please. Thank you! ...

Migrating a ListItem with a custom ContentType and Workflows between MOSS and WSS

Hello, I have a ListItem, with a custom ContentType that have personalizad Workflows, running in MOSS 07 Enterprise. I want to duplicate that ListItem into Servers with WSS, that will see that ListItem as readonly. And I want to use the Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment, but I'm open to other solutions... Can i do that? Thanks in adv...

Getting the SPWeb for a SPAuditEntry

I'm currently building an app that will parse all of the Audit entries in a site collection and send out a pretty email to users. My problem is that the emails should be based on a particular web (essentially an email summarizing the changes that happened to each subsite). Apparently, there is no information in the SPAuditEntry object a...

SharePoint AJAX C# web part - visual layout of UpdatePanel controls

I'm creating a SharePoint web part in C# that is using an UpdatePanel for some AJAX magic. Everything is working fine, but I'd like to know how to lay out my controls visually (without using SharePoint Designer). I just have two dropdownlists, some labels, a button, and a textbox. I am creating them within the overridden CreateChildContr...

SecurityException was unhandled by user code .Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission

Hello friends, I am trying to migrate my MOSS 2007 Webparts to Sharepoint 2010 environment.My environment is Windows Server 2008 64Bit,Visual Studio 2008,Sharepoint 2010. On adding the webparts to a Sharepoint 2010 Site behind the scene it is accesing the configuration file of log4net,While accesing this file its giving an error lik...

Is it possible to seperate data and presentation by using dedicated renderable UserControl?

Hello. For SharePoint, I want to have custom E-Mail body for workflow tasks. However i wan't to format email's using my custom ASCX user controls. (I can see them or modify using Visual Studio WYSIWYG). Ideally I could render that UserControl as string and it works. I`v found a solution, but it requires HttpContext.Current != null in o...