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Is Sharepoint 2003/MOSS 2007 able to return a document snippet containing search terms?

Is there a search API for getting a short text containing the search terms so that I can use to display to users? ...

Sharepoint: Custom SiteMapProvider for custom list

Hi All, I need to customise the title property for SiteMapNodes. I am using WSS, and have created a custom document library. While navigating through this library I want to change the names of the nodes in the breadcrumb displayed above the list name. So far I have: created a class inheriting from System.Web.SiteMapProvider, added ...

How would you convert an ASP.NET site to work as a SharePoint site?

Imagine you have an ASP.NET site which includes code behind. You now need to move this site to a SharePoint environment where it will be the root site of a site collection in its own web application. What is the easiest way of achieving this without completely re-working each page? Here are some options - there may be others: Convert e...

Source control with SharePoint?

Have you tried to use SharePoint with version control such as Perforce (or Subversion), how did you do it? ...

Infinite loop in SharePoint Workflow

Hi guys, I'm making a demo workflow that is a while loop with a sequence of a single delay, that delays for 5 seconds. I've made the while loop use a Declarative Rule Condition where I set it to 1 == 1. All fine, but the loop only ever loops once, and then my workflow sais "Error Occurred". Any idea what's going on? For the record, th...

custom site definition template wss 3.0

Is it possible to create a custom site definition template with 'n' number of custom document libraries and content types. I have copied the ONET.xml file from the STS folder, i.e. I am trying to create a template the same as that of the OOTB Team Site template by modifying the ONET.xml but it fails. My ONET.xml contains the default con...

SharePoint caches incorrect credentials

Every morning when i fire up my VM and IE (in my host OS) and go to my SP site it always logs me on automatically as DOMAIN\george which is a user I created for testing permissions. So every morning after that I click "sign in as a diferent user" to sign in as my sys admin user instead and most days that is the only user I use. Any ide...

Why do SharePoint Designer workflows, when edited, seem not to update on the SharePoint site?

I've ran into this scenario a lot it seems. I'm not sure if it's an issue with SharePoint Designer, or SharePoint itself, but the following seems to occur often: I create a Workflow in SharePoint Designer, and when I save it, it's good to go, and works as expected. However, when opening it later for edits in SPD, I can make changes to...

Using WSPBuilder to build a solution for a web part I developed

I have only ever deployed web parts from development by clicking F5. Now, I know I have to have a manifest file, feature file, etc and it all goes into a wsp file. I understand the wsp file is what gets added to Central Admin. So my problem is this. I have found lots of sites that show how to use WSP Builder, but they don't seem to show...

Real time chat implementation for SharePoint

I have a client interested in a real time chat application for a SharePoint intranet portal to enable online interview style chat sessions. Has anyone got reccomendations for a product on the Microsoft Stack that does this? Something that is integrated into SharePoint would be prefferable, but any ASP.NET product would suffice. The sol...

WSS deployment

What is the best way to deploy a heavily customized SharePoint solution from test environment into production? ...

Is there a way that Sharepoint can index a doc and a companion file but treat them as one piece of information?

I have an external system that will send us events in XML. The event will include a link to an Office document and some other metadata. Now I want Sharepoint to index the document and metadata together. The result I want to achieve is - when a user search hits either metadata or contents of the Office document, I can render a page inclu...

Parser error in custom asp.net sharepoint page

Can anyone help me with this error? full image here It happens usually once a day when trying to load any one of a number of custom asp.net pages in my sharepoint web site. If I recycle my application pool the error disappears (usually for the day). So far this is what I’ve tried to eliminate the error (which has helped reduce the ...

Credential window while creating a Document Library Item

Problem Statement - When I create an item in a Document Library named "My Documents", a new instance of Microsoft Word appears along with the credential window. Which is quit annoying issue from end users point of view. Is it possible to avoid this pop up?. Please let me know any solution to this issue. ...

why my sharepoint workflow always stop when i use this code ?

I need to find an user in a list to set the assignedto task property, these informations are in a list. So i use this method : public static SPUser GetSPUser(SPListItem item, string key){ SPFieldUser field = item.Fields[key] as SPFieldUser; if (field != null) { SPFieldUserValue fieldValue = field.GetFieldValue(ite...

Sharepoint managed Properties

I have a custom Content Type inside a list that has over 30 items, and I have added several "managed properties" to the "crawled properties", in the SSP. All of them work except 1. The column "Synopsis" is a multiline field with no limit on it's length. It appears as a crawled property "Synopsis", and is mapped to a managed property 'as...

SharePoint Document Library Customization for document view

I have a document library in MOSS 2007 which has folders and files. Document View in the document library has the following columns: document name, type, Created datetime, created by,modified datetime. How to configure the view so that it doesn't show any information for "modified", "created" and "created by" fields for folders. In other...

sharepoint file upload

I can upload a 250MB file to sharepoint 2007 but nothing larger. I have changed the two webconfig file, set the admin site to 2047MB and it still fails. Please help this was to be completed asap. thanx ...

Difference between StaticName and InternalName (in the SPField class)

I want to make a CAML query semi-smart - in that I can give it a Title (which is what the end user sees) and it looks up the appropriate "Title" to pass as part of the CAML query: var caml = "<OrderBy><FieldRef Name='" + field + "'/></OrderBy>"; It looks like I can iterate of the Fields collection of the list using the object model, a...

Using a Web Service to access data outside MOSS using AD for authentication

So here is the scenario: I have a MOSS 2007 box and I want my clients to be able to access a SharePoint site via the internet. I am told that I will be using an IPA and AD for authentication. However I have a DB outside of SharePoint that holds various business data and I want to use Web Services to access the data, manipulate it, and s...