I’ve been trying to find a way to extend SharePoint breadcrumbs across multiple site collections, and I’ve been unable to find a way. I can set the portal site connection setting on the site collection to link to its parent site collection. But, that will not show only one parent site collection. Here’s an example of the type of setup...
I'd like to do SharePoint development with IronPython, but I haven't seen any examples where IronPython is embedded in SharePoint. Does anyone have a working example that would get me started? ...
Dear All, My Problem is the following, I have an ASP.Net web site hosted on IIS. This web site connects to an Access 2007 DB file on the same server. The DB file contains links to sharepoint lists on another server on the same domain. If I run the web site on the visual studio built-in server, I can Open connection to the DB file and ...
My company is in need of a task management system to handle scenarios as simple as "Purchase a computer for X" to "Relocate a person to another country". The simple scenarios are a single tasks handled by a single person, whereas bigger tasks can be broken down into multiple sub tasks delegated to multiple people during the workflow. Add...
Hello All, I have installed MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008. I am facing a strange problem: I am unable to logon to SharePoint using IE 8, but am able to using Firefox. Pl note that I have taken care of the security in IE. After creating a web application, when I try to chage the web application for creating a Site collection..I am ...
I have an arbitrary url. I know this url represents some path on my local SharePoint server. With the SharePoint API, I want to know if there is a site corresponding to this url. What's the best way to do this? I thought this should work: using (SPSite site = new SPSite(url)) { using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { bo...
I am trying to build a WSS 3.0 site. I am having difficulty with the dialog box that pops up when I try to check out a document. I tried to solve this by enabling forms based authentication but when I click on the document, Microsoft Word opens and I get garbage (MS Office also fails). All I want to accomplish is to log into my WSS 3...
We have a WSS 3.0 installation with Search Server, which is used to search for documents and Save the search definition to repeat the search later. The users want the option to be able to download all the files in their search results as a one-off Zip file. I have a very basic solution where the Zipping of the files is done in the web p...
hi, Is there any method available for sharepoint that can do the following: Create an internet site suing wss3.0. login using fba. no need to login to edit documents from library that logged in user has access to. change the password of a user from the site? ...
I have custom approval state machibe workflow , this workflow attached to list and enabled to start when any item added or changed according to requirements, when my workflow reached publish state i write custom code to change it's Moderation status to Approved then workflow finished (item state will changed as i want ) but the problem t...
I have done impersonation in SharePoint quite a bit in the past by doing something such as the following. SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web; string currentWebUrl = web.Url; SPUser user = web.EnsureUser(loginToImpersonate); using (SPSite site = new SPSite(currentWebUrl, user.UserToken) { using (SPWeb impersonatedWeb = site.OpenWeb())...
Anyone used the blueprint (http://www.blueprintcss.org/) with Office Sharepoint server publishing sites? If yes, what do you think? Any catches or problems ? does it really save time and make it easy to make the site working fine cross browsers? ...
The Excel Services and Excel Web Access ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I'm wondering if Excel Services or any component of that technology could be used without running a Sharepoint Server. Thanks in advance! - phi ...
In a SharePoint website I defined a new column that is used in three different content types. Now I want to define a different default value for this column for each content type. Is this possible using the webservice interface of SharePoint? Is it possible at all? ...
The Search Core Results SharePoint web part uses XSLT 1.0 to transform search results for display. I would like to manipulate some of the result text using regular expressions. Alas, XSLT 2.0 (containing regular expression support) is not available and Microsoft don't currently plan to implement it! One thought was to override the web p...
i have a wss 3.0 site up and running using forms based authentication. Is there a way to upload multiple files (basically copy and paste a folder containing files)? also, when i try to access the site using designer 2007, i can't access the site and it asks me to install sharepoint services or frontpage extensions. how can i modify the ...
Is it possible to get a list of alerts for ALL users within a given site? After messing with the GetAlerts method in /_vti_bin/Lists.asmx, it seems it always executes in the context of the user who provided it with credentials, and will only return the Alerts for THAT user. I was hoping to get a list of EVERY alert within the site. I kn...
Hi I've got a requirement to hold a DateTime value in a SharePoint field but to customise the display in a list view so that it shows as a mmmm string. The underlying value must remain as the DateTime so the sort is chronological rather than alphabetical. So I think that a Custom Field is the way to go, I'll also get some added benefi...
I don't suppose there's a way to get at the SPFarm through the OOTB web services? I've got some external code that I want to search an entire farm looking for particular feature that has been activated at site level. Then to go to a document library that the feature creates and copy all the documents into another SQL database. The featur...
I'm trying to find how to access the "index" or "position" of questions in a SharePoint survey list from the object model. I was hoping to find it with SPField.RowOrdinal but its always 0. Any thoughts? ...