I have a working, new installation of Windows Server, Team Foundation Server, SQL Server etc etc working in harmony, everything working great. Then -- I installed VS2008 Team Suite on the server so that I could use it as a build agent for automated builds/testing. After that the project portal was bombing out with... This page has enc...
A customer of ours has an Access 2007 application with a form for creating tasks for upload to a Sharepoint Task List. The user fills in the form (title, status, priority, start date, due date). The user then places check marks next to the sharepoint user names that this task must be assigned to (one task per sp user selected). This d...
I am using the out of the box list viewer webpart to display a list and provide data to other webparts. I see that in the webpart connections menu, there is an option called "Provide Data to" which is always grayed out. Are there any out-of-the-box webparts that are compatible with this kind of connection? ...
Hi I followed this article http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/ASPNET_to_Sharepoint.aspx and it worked converting my ASP.net Site into SharePoint with a SQL Datasoure. Does anyone know what i must do in the Web.config of my SharePoint site in order to make my ODBC connection SAVE? My ODBC connection = SafeControl Assembly="Samras...
Hello, I’m using SharePoint (Business Data List web part) with the BDC. I use this to bring back data from the database, nice and simple. However, when I do a search I receive a number of results being paged by the web page. This takes a while to bring back any search results (even when navigating between the paged data). I’m guessing ...
Hi there. We (my company) is trying to develop a solution (application) for document management. We have considered using MS Sharepoint Server 2007 or Sharepoint Services, but we need recommendation or suggestion for this. We are planning to use windows workflow fundation for various tasks like(task assignment, document approval, infor...
I recently joined a firm and when analyzing their environment I noticed that the SharePoint web.config had the trust level set to Full. I know this is an absolutely terrible practice and was hoping the stackoverflow community could help me outline the flaws in this decision. Oh, it appears this decision was made to allow the develope...
Can anyone suggest the best deployment approach for VSeWSS 1.2 based development? I have been working with this for more than 6 months now.. have anyone tried using WSPBuilder for this purpose? ...
I need to develop an IFilter for Microsoft Search Server 2008 that performs prolonged computations to extract text. Extracting text from one file can take from 5 seconds to 12 hours. How can I desing such an IFilter so that the daemon doesn't reset it on timeout and also other IFilters can be reset on timeout if they hang up? ...
We want to create a common document library on a certain site level and then create views on that document library in the different sub sites? Is that possible in SharePoint? Can it be done declaratively? Rine ...
I develop a SharePoint workflow with a Replicator activity to replicate a custom activity for every approver. The custom activity implements an approval branch for a particular user. It has classic form with CreateTask, While, OnTaskChanged and CompleteTask activities. I setup UntilCondition on the replicator to cancel execution after o...
In my SharePoint app, I deploy some aspx pages to the [12 Hive]\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS folder. The pages are compiled in a debug mode, I'm copying both .apsx and .cs files. I used to be able to attach to w3wp.exe and set a breakpoint inside the .cs files and hit them just fine. Not today. I'm getting the dreaded "The breakpoint will not curren...
I have 3 Lists in Sharepoint. I want to create a dataview that is a join of 3 tables. Table1 is joined with Table2 on FieldA Table 2 is joined to Table3 on FieldB Table1 has duplicate values in FieldA so I need to only return one value to join with Table2. In Access my query looks like this: SELECT DISTINCT WRK_InputWorkOrders.WorkOr...
How do you programmatically upload a file to a document library in sharepoint? I am currently making a Windows application using C# that will add documents to a document library list. ...
I've set up FBA on an extended site, added a user, verified the central admin can read the users (people picker works fine). The problem is no matter what I try I never get asked for credentials, just get a "You are not authorized to view this page". I have a feeling its something in IIS but I've added all anonymous accounts I can think...
I am looking to create an "Online Manual" site template in MOSS 2007, in order to create a number of sites that will hold static information on an array of topics. -What site template should I use, I am currently thinking Publishing Site, but a Wiki might work? -How should I show the navigation for the different "Chapters" (in the left s...
Ok I've been tasked with creating a wss v3.0 website for a government internal site with very little internal SharePoint experience (though it's an IT department so they're very tech literate). I'm already fairly good at SharePoint (having earned some Microsoft Certifications in SharePoint and done plenty of stuff for myself), but need ...
Hey all I'm creating a custom column in a feature for Sharepoint. It is essentially this: <Field Type="Integer" ID="<insert guid here>" ReadOnly="true" Name="xxx" DisplayName="XXX" Group="YYY" /> When the field is deployed and attached to a content type, the content type shows no instance of this field being attached....
I need to find out some general background information about the Sharepoint installation on the local machine using C# - what sharepoint version/patch version it is and so on. Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this? ...
I have a SharePoint (WSS 3.0, VS 2005) workflow that has a workflow modification form attached to it, which I would like to disable after a certain time and continue with the parameters from the association form. What's the best way to move past the 'onWorkflowModified' activity if the timer is up? It seems that the only way to listen f...