Initially I believed these 3 to be doing more or less the same thing with just the notation being different. Until recently, when i noticed that their does exists a big difference between the results of the KeyWordQuery/FullTextQuerySearch and Web service Query. I used both KeywordQuery and FullText method to search of the the value of ...
Hi, I'm a starting sharepoint developer asked to implement the following scenario in sharepoint 2010. We're a bit lost on the best approach to get started.. I'm really struggling to find the best practise solution. This is the requested flow: A user can make a request with a title and a description. A mail gets sent to the represen...
Hi, I'm in charge of a Sharepoint collection, and a user asks this. Is it possible that when a user creates an item, some fields are automatically filled with some info, such as email address and location? Authentication uses Active Directory, so every user is identified when using Sharepoint. The only issue is that, being in a big c...
I am trying to include an Image control within my web part. In CreateChildControls I have the following code: Image image = new Image(); image.ImageUrl = this.Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl(this.GetType(), "hotline.jpg"); I get a NullPointer exception and this is because 'Page' is null. Why might this be? Am I doing this all wro...
Hello, We have Crystal Server setup to automatically deposit generated reports to a SharePoint WebDAV folder. The Crystal Server user is setup in sharepoint with the right permissions but yet, authentication fails when it tries to access the folder. We are using NTLM. Any idea what could be causing this? Should we use Kerberos? Any hel...
hi everyone, i create a website on my local machine but i can't add webpart to web page, it don't rise any error but th webpart don't display to the page. anyone help me. Thanks ...
Is there an easy way to find out which sites/pages are using a particular web part in SharePoint 2007? ...
Hello I am interested about how SharePoint 2010 saves. Does it do incremental / transactional saves? In other words, when you edit a document, does it save a whole new document, or does it only actually save the edited portions? This to me is very important and could sway whether or not I get it. ...
While playing around with Sharepoint and WCF, I came across an article - Sharepoint 2007 and WCF in which the author stated the need to fix the Virtual Path Provider. He accomplished this with an HTTPModule. However, since this is a global fix, I am wondering what is the best way to install the new module into GAC? Is this the same proce...
Hi, i have a timer job which i want to run only once per day, for the entire farm. How do I Deploy it in a multiple WFE environment? Do I run the stsadm -o deploysolution command in every WFE, or just the one where I want to run it? Where should i activate the feature? Should it be activated only from a particular WFE? What should be ...
Code: public static void ChartPageConnector(SPWeb web, string pageURL, string providerWpId, string consumerWpId, string mappedName) { SPFile file = web.Files[pageURL]; SPLimitedWebPartManager mgr = file.GetLimitedWebPartManager(PersonalizationScope.Shared); TransformableFilterValuesToFilterValuesTran...
Hello, can anyone tell me how to view executed queries in SharePoint? I couldn't find a way to show query logs with SQL Server. As you know, SharePoint framework hides all queries from programmers. I would like to look into the queries and understand the mechanisms. http://www.infoq.com/articles/SharePoint-Andreas-Grabner In above arti...
I want to integrate my MOSS server with outlook i.e. emails to be sent and received from MOSS. How can I do it without using the exchange server? Currently i have jst thought abt setting up a document library and email enable it so that it can receive emails. But what will I do for sending the emails and what about outlook meeting reques...
Can i find the list of the features which were installed by a shareopoint solution? ...
I need to interview some people for a position as a Sharepoint Architect / Developer role. While I am proficient in .NET, I have worked very little with Sharepoint, so I am unsure how to test the candidates Sharepoint skills. Do you have any suggestions for tests I can throw at the candidates ? Please suggest questions I can ask the c...
Hi all, I have a requirement to write sharepoint list data to powerpoint. Of all the fields, I am stuck with the Sharepoint rich text box control. I have this data in my list. This is a good time This is not a good time When I write the data into Sharepoint, it looks like. <div class=ExternalClassFAF287B8010F48B08705605F60E89938...
I'm curious how others address this issue. Using VSEWSS 1.3, I have created a site content type, a list definition (w event receivers), and a list instance. All of them are in the same WSP solution and each is activated individually via features. Now let's assume that all the features have been activated for some time, and the list in...
I have a web part which is going to be a part of pair of connected web parts. For simplicity, I am just describing the consumer web part. This web part has 10 link buttons on it. And they are rendered in the Render method instead ofCreateChildControls as this webpart will be receiving values based on input from the provider web part. E...
Sharepoint hides certain fields in the Customize View page (ViewEdit.aspx). For example there is a field Path that is part of the list Tasks list but it is not shown with the other fields in the Columns section of the page. Is there a way to enable the display of such fields in Sharepoint 2010? ...
I am looking for a good reusable set of components that can be used to communicate with SharePoint via web services, preferably open source. I want some abstraction from CAML and WebDav and SharePoint Web Services that could help me speed up my development time. Ideally I want to select, insert, update and delete from lists, manage a...