Hi, I have a business requirement where i need to create a workflow on a custom list where i may have 20-30 custom fields. My question is that in a sharepoint state machine workflow , how do i incorporate User's feedback / comment he may want to give to a user at any level in the worflow. E.g. When a Person at level A submits the pro...
Hi All, I just want to know what is the basic structure of Sharepoint Sites? 1) What is Top level site? 2)What is Site collection? 3)What is the site Definition? 4)What is the Site Template? 5)Difference between Site Definition and Site Template. 6)What is Content Database? 7)What is the Search and indexing in the SharePoint? 8)...
Im trying to implement a single aspx page with several externals dll's. Following Zimmergren's tutorial I run into a couple of issues early in the process. After creating my blankfeature1 is it suppose to be automatically populated? Mine shows empty. Im also scoping the assembly to the bin, after I configure that and build the wsp I don...
Sharepoint noob question - apparently I can't even figure out how to google for the answer. We have a custom application in which we need to route entities for 'approval'. There are currently no electronic documents that correspond to our entities. They live in our database and are displayed via screens in our app. Simple enough. No...
I'm very new to Sharepoint, I have an aspx page on a Sharepoint site that shows a list of fields, including First Name, Last Name, etc. I'm have a console app, in Visual Studio, I'm using for testing communication and data transfer capability between between one web service and another; namely Sharepoint and another web service. My go...
Hi -I am trying every option to show List data on a web part and web user control, but I am not finding any code examples on this. What namespace should I import? I am using WSS 3.0 and I will later upgrade to MOSS 2007. I am aware of the SmartPart project and I can use it in my environment. Thank you very much for your help. ...
Quick question about SharePoint.... I need to update an attachment on a list using the SharePoint sdk,but when ever I delete the old one, and add the new one, the new document is never added. Below is my code... /* Delete the attachment first and create a new attachment.*/ string fileName = newAttachmentName.Substring(0, new...
Hi. I need to deploy a custom configuration file to the WSS 3.0. As I have read, there are 2 approaches: Deploy the configuration file to the 12/CONFIG folder and then use stsadm -o copyappbincontent command. Adv: Suitable for large files. Disadv: All web applications deployed on the server will receive the merged web.config. Use SPWeb...
I am trying to add a List on the root site to a sub sub site. Tried with Sharepoint Desginer but get the could not be opened error message. ...
I have a ps1 script that deploys all of my webparts. I started noticing an error (Error 503 service unavailable) after running Update-SPSolution. What is happening is that when I upgrade all my webparts, the application pools for all SharePoint web applications stop. It also takes about 12 minutes per web part to deploy (which seems like...
I want to modify a taxonomic user profile property in Sharepoint 2010. Just as an example, let's say I wanted to modify the Interests property (aka SPS-Interests, or PropertyConstants.Interests). I tried setting the property value with the semicolon-delimited string, like this: var property = profile[PropertyConstants.Interests]; if (pr...
Here is my scenario: I have a SharePoint site I am working on, and it is on one server farm. In this site, I have created an HttpHandler that uses a SharePoint search webservice that is located on a different server. So that looks something like this: SharePoint Server A, where my site lives Has a service reference to SharePoint searc...
Have mapped properties for custom fields used in multiple site collections. The property is also used to display additional information on the search results page if it contains information. The search results work fine as content from each site collection is returned, but the managed property only contains data for content found on on...
I have the following setup: Sharepoint 2010 with SQL Server and Office 2010. This is the situation I have. Non programmers are supposed to create simple infopath forms. Admins then upload those to sharepoint, which will get served to users as simple webpages. When a user submits the form it's fields are supposed to be stored in a sepa...
Hi, I'm trying to display a vertical hierarchy of sites/pages on a publishing site so I've been looking at the table of contents web part which looks like it will do what I want but for some reason it only displays subsites and not pages. I've changed the site settings to display pages and selected the show pages option on the webpart ...
Does anybody know how to intercept a workflow cancellation event triggered from UI by a user clicking on "Terminate this workflow now" link ? I tried with a workflow-wide Cancel Handler, but it does not fire at the event. ...
Hi -I am developing an Internet CMS site using WSS 3.0. Basically, I have a Highlights list with properties ID, ColumnLeft, ColumnRight. I need the publisher to create new items and then show them in pages. I need to show a single item of this list on custom HTML/ CSS, so I decided to use the Data Form Web Part (XSLT Web Part). My idea...
I'm creating a SharePoint feature and within my FeatureReceiver I'm attempting to add a SPWebConfigModification. I've been following the approach outlined in this blog post. Here is a snippet from my feature receiver: public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { var webApp = (SPWebApplication)pro...
In MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search, what is the difference between a: Simple term (Keyword with no special requirements) and an Included term (Keyword that must be in content items returned in search results) ? In other words, if i enter the following keywords in a search: dinosaur baker Is that different from entering: +d...
I have a Howto company Blog site that i post to for my clients to access for help. For some reason it has stopped letting anyone search on it. I can search for Mysites or users. But when you drop down the tab to search: This Site: "blog site name" you get the following reply: No results matching your search were found. Check your spel...