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SharePoint - Auto-increment dates in new records?

Hello, I have a list that's going to be updated with relatively static data weekly, and I wanted to create a workflow to do this automatically. The only field I'm having trouble with is Start Date. I want the new Start Date to be exactly one week after the previous week's (row's) Start Date, but I can't figure out how to capture this. ...

Editing repeating table INfoPath Form in form library?

I created repeating table and I added two fields in it.while publishing its not giving me option to edit those properties in my document library...when we generally publish we get the option to edit those properties in document library but its disable while creating repeating table any suggestions how to do that? ...

Why does my Sharepoint page's custom content type change to "Page" when editing?

I have a custom Sharepoint 2007 site definition with custom content types for the different page layouts. When editing a page using a custom layout from the main "View all contents" tree view, the page content type is fine, but if I view the page directly and edit it from there, the content type gets stripped and replaced with "Page." I ...

Windows SharePoint Services Workflow updating InfoPath form

I have developed a custom Visual Studio 2008 Sharepoint (WSS 3.0) state machine workflow that is initiated when an InfoPath 2007 form (published as a content type) is created in a form library. A requirement is that the InfoPath form needs to be updated at several points in the workflow (i.e. approvers and dates approved, purchase order ...

How to debug Sharepoint solution/feature through Visual studio ?

Recently I tried to install a webpart through wspbuilder utility to the Sharepoint Site. I have created, built and deployed a project to the 12 hive. After that installed the solution through Cental Administration Site and activated in the site collection. I just wonder how can I debug the complex feature/solution ? Because both proce...

Identify server that made call to web service

I am working within an intranet environment. We have both a production and development sharepoint server (WSS 3). We have a 3rd party workflow product which runs on top of sharepoint. It is installed on both the production and development sharepoint servers. The workflow product can call web services I have written which are hosted on o...

A basic load test question

I have a very basic load test question. I am running a load test using VSTS 2008 and I have test rig with controller + 10 agents. This load test is against a SharePoint farm I have. My goal of the load test is to find out the resource utilization on web+app+db tiers of my farm for any given load scenario. An example of a load scenario i...

A code using SharePoint classes doesn't run on systems not having SharePoint installed

I have a window application which uses SP classes to create a site. I works fine on a system having Windows Server 2003 R2 with sharepoint installed. But it doesn't work on a system having XP installed and SharePoint not installed. The fact is that both of these systems are on a intranet. So I assumed that the NON-SP system would be a...

how to add new language search to advanced search page in moss 2007 through code?

In Moss 2007 how to add japanese,portuguese,romanian languages through code.we can edit the xml and add the particular lcid for achieving the same.but how to make it through code.Please help. ...

Customization for VersionDiff.aspx in sharepoint

Hi. I have a Wiki site, and on wiki pages if I select to check history of pages it displays in the Left action panel Version and date as hyperlinks. It uses SharePoint's Diff iterator, I want to do a bit of customization here, along with date I want to display field values too. How can I do that? Thanks, Azra ...

Sharepoint page redirection for unauthorised users

Hi, Is it possible, if so how(!), to auto redirect a user that doesnt have access to a certain page? I can see that in many cases this could be a complete pain for a user and confusing, but in my situation it would be ideal. Thx in advance! Steve ...

Referencing a control inside a XSL Template from code behind ?

Hi all I have a custom NewItem.aspx that I made by creating a new aspx from the exisiting one I wanted to put a control in a row inside the XSL Template like this <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlSectors" AutoPostBack="true" runat="server" __designer:bind="{ddwrt:DataBind('i',ddlSectors,'SelectedValue','TextChanged','ID',ddwrt:EscapeDelims(str...

403 forbidden error when trying to add a sharepoint lookup or person or group field

After creating a new list in SharePoint, I can add other types of fields, but not lookup fields or person or group fields. When creating a new column... as soon as I change the column type radio to one of these two types of fields, I get a 403 forbidden error. Any ideas why that might be happening? Is it a setting in Central Administra...

Sharing SharePoint Lists across sites without SharePoint Designer

The problem I've been having is how to show a list from one sub-site to another. I don't have server admin privileges so I am unable to use SharePoint Designer to edit any part of the site. The situation: One parent page with two sub-sites. sub-site #1 has a list on it with several text columns, and one column to be used as a 'visible' ...

SharePoint programatically move one list item to another, is it possible?

I have 2 SharePoint lists that have identical structure. Is it possible for me to move just 1 list item in the first list to the other, without recreating the list item and deleting it? This way the operation can occur in one transaction. Thanks in advance ...

SharePoint Groups\Roles using FBA

Hi All, I'm running an FBA web app, having 2 Site collections. Currently I have a SharePoint group in one site collection, and I would like to assign permission to that group in the other site collection. Since SharePoint groups are site scoped, I thought using FBA roles.. Any words on how to do this, or if this it the recommended way? ...

Getting page status history in Sharepoint

Hi, I need to get all dates and people modifications to currenlty displayed page, all changes which have been published and end user can see difference between them. My page is aspx connected to pageLayout in which is richhtmlfield with article. How to do that? Is it possible to do that ? ...

Exporting wiki to a word document - WSS

Is there a way to export a wiki page to a MS word document in WSS? Ideally, I would like to add a link on every WIKI page when clicked would export the content to a Word document. Any free plugins to do this? Any help is appreciated ...

Append a dynamically changing watermark to a PDF in SharePoint

This is primarily a question of possibilities more than instructions. I'm a programming consultant working on a WSS project site system for my client. We have a document library in which files are uploaded to go through a complex approval process. With multiple stages in this process, we have an extra field which dictates what the curren...

Negative ItemCount in SharePoint Document Library

What can be done about negative numbers in library item counts? ItemCount is a read-only property, what are you supposed to do when it is drastically incorrect? Earlier last week, I was doing some testing involving the copying and moving of files and folders from one document library to another. I was transfering the items from our actu...