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Objective reasons for using a wiki tool over Sharepoint?

Duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/587481/developer-documentation-sharepoint-document-management-vs-screwturn-wiki I have been tasked with picking a wiki tool for a development organization, comprised of several different development teams. Sharepoint is installed and upper management would prefer this to be used, but i...

Page Layout does not appear in the page layouts list

I have a feature that deploys a few site columns, a content type (inheriting from Page Publishing Content Type) and a page layout based on my content type. Everything is fine on two tests, performed on different servers, but on the third server, although the feature is being activated correctly and I can see the site columns, content t...

how to know KBs of document in a document library in Sharepoint 2007?

I have a website in Sharepoint 2007. I need to do a query of documents in a document library in a SPWeb/site and to know the KBs of the document. In fact, i have to extract which is the url of the document from a linkfield and then look for the KBs? Anyone can provide the query? or the method? Can i do this with a SPSiteDataQuery? ...

SharePoint... is a Web Services interface for my app worth it?

I'm hoping to hear from a cross-section of folks who have SharePoint installed at their site. I'm trying to decide whether to have users just use the web-based interface to check-out and edit my application's files, then rely on them being sophisticated enough to know to go back to the SharePoint web interface and perform a check-in. ...

Sharepoint task list doesn't send email on item creation

I've created a custom workflow which creates a task item when the workflow is kicked off. I've also created a few custom content types for the document library and task list. For the document library: First, I add a document library and configure it to allow custom content types. Then I add my content type, which is based off the d...

Web-based .resx file editor?

I'm working on a SharePoint site, and the site eventually needs to be localized to many different languages. We can use resource files, but we'd like for the translators to be able to update those files while the site is live, without requiring developer assistance to recompile, redeploy, etc. To me, I think the easiest way to do this w...

Way to make SharePoint custom quick launch links subject to same visibility/permissions as list links.

When I create a new link in quick launch bar in any site, the link is static and is always visible even when a user may not have privileges to view that document, or the document library it is in. When any document library has a link in the quick launch (via the document library's "Title, Description, and Navigation" setting), the quick...

Display SharePoint lookup field on publishing website

A page within our MOSS publishing website has a property which is a lookup field. I only want the selected text to be displayed when you view the page not in edit mode, but when I use the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.LookupField it generates a hyperlink to the SharePoint list item (obviously bad). Is there a way around this, short...

Sharepoint: how can i find all the pages that host a particular web part?

As the question says - is there a way to determine which pages are including my web part? ...

Sharepoint webpart connection breaks

Hi I have a webpart with a gridview, and when i select a row on the grid. The ID of the item contained in the row is sent to another webpart in a connection. The other webpart then displays infomation based on the iD. The reciving webpart is using a multiview to view different types of info. What induces the error or malfunction is a l...

Could this query to get the size of a doc be improved in Sharepoint 2007?

Well, as I am relatively new to Sharepoint 2007 I would like to improve my way of writing code for this platform, and refine some habits I already have. In the following code what i am doing is to ask the size of a document that is in the "Documents" list, but i have the impression i create to many objects to access the info. Isn't ther...

Deploying Control Adapters in SharePoint

Is there any way to automatically deploy Control Adapters (some menu modifications) in SharePoint using WSP solution and features ? Can I programmatically edit/deploy some ".browser" file? If it is not possible what are the alternatives (some good practice) ? I need this for Publishing site. ...

Configuring Outlook Webpart in Sharepoint 2007

I'm exploring sharepoint a bit. I would like to show the email inbox and calendar of the user logged in. The logging in of defferent users is no problem. We are running Exchange 2003 and we're using the webaccess. This works without any problems also. I added the OWACalendarPart to the default.aspx page. When I set mail server address t...

Disabling default XML Schemas in Visual Studio?

I have recently started using CAML.NET IntelliSense for SharePoint with Visual Studio 2008; which works great; however whenever I create a new project using STSDev 2008 (and thus generate feature.xml and WebParts.xml) the default schemas include the CAML.NET IntelliSense and the built-in (relatively incomplete) schemas: caml.xsd wss.xs...

Can a PHP intranet share Windows logins?

I have created some PHP-based intranet resources that require users to log in. The users create their own logins, and I verify that they are logged in using a cookie. I've been asked if I can tie that login to their Windows login instead. My initial response was "a web page cannot access your Windows login - that would be a security ris...

Client ID of a Silverlight Control in A Sharepoint WebPart

Background: I have a Silverlight Control in a sharepoint webpart that exposes some scriptable methods. I use those methods to call a webservice and get an array of menu options. These menu options are then injected into Sharepoint ECB menu which appears on clicking an item in a list. The problem I am having is being able to get the cli...

Use Personalized Web Part Views WSS 3.0?

I want to use "Explorer View" for just myself. I can create default views for web parts, however I can't seem to see the view selector when I select "Personalize this Page" feature from WSS 3.0. ...

Using custom SharePoint rendering templates

In MOSS 2007 (SharePoint), is there any way to access the current SPField from inside a ListFieldIterator rendering template? ...

What setup do you use for SharePoint (WSS/MOSS) development?

I'm curious to know how other SharePoint developers setup their dev workstations. My current setup: Desktop with Server 2008 (only for Hyper-V, was using Vista before) Use Visual Studio 2008 on local machine for dev work Keep a local copy of SharePoint DLLs for referencing, no local SharePoint install Run SharePoint in a Server 2...

SharePoint "Group By" is broken when using "Allow Multiple Values" for a column

I want to show the documents in my document library grouped by category. The category is a lookup column that I added that allows for multiple values. Unfortunately this breaks the "group by"-functionality completely. Is there a programmatic solution to this problem? ...