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Thought I should bring this to attention since it’s a weird issue and the solution isn’t obvious when googling. The issue is - In MOSS an Ajax-Partial postback, causes the page to loose its page title. Like shown below So whats the fix? Appaprently additional spaces between the <title> and the <asp:ContentPlaceHolder> cause this issue. The solution is to remove the spaces. <title id=”onetidTitle”><asp... id=”PlaceHolderPageTitle” runat=”server”/></tit...
Hi All, just wanted to point out a teensy weensy but maybe very useful tip. It might be outdated information if you are using SharePoint 2010, but if you are using SharePoint 2007 then you might find this useful. I am sure all of you working with SharePoint has come across Heather Solomon through her blog, it being a really wonderful resource for skinning SharePoint. Heather also has provided a ton of help to the SharePoint community by sharing the minimal masterpages for WSS and MOSS. What I wanted...
Dated: March/2008 Yes as saddening that sounds, it seems it is true. Having a bit of slack time and not being able to give VS2008 a whirl earlier due to project pressures, I broke it out today all eager to gauge what elegance this IDE brings, specially since I had the need to write a test WebPart. Out of instinct I went File -> New Project -> *hold up where is the SharePoint Category. So then me thinks ah! its not built in to the product, maybe another extension for Visual Studio. So googled...
I am actually pleased that today we have a bit of variety in tools that can generate BDC Application Definitions. An addition to this list of tools is "MOSS BDC Design Studio" by Simego, which actually quite good and easy to use. The site offers a 14 day trial version, and prices aren't that bad (but me thinks it should priced more a little bit more reasonably). But still for all the tool is quite good, it seems to be limited to SQL Server and WebServices which is a limitation. The other limitation...
I am sure some of you have been stuck with this, or are reading this because you are still stuck with this problem. i.e. not being able to change the granular permissions of a listitem for a user or a group. Well then I shouldnt waste your time but should point out to null's blog which shows you how its done. Technorati tags: sharepoint, moss, permissions, securtiy Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Was doing some deep digging in google to find a comprehensive post on MOSS's Security Model, and came across Reza's post. Its a good read and comprehensive. Technorati tags: SharePoint, MOSS, WSS, Securtiy, Object Model, Permissions, SPRole, SRoleDefinition, SPRoleAssignment Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Yes, that's the question I have been pondering for the last couple of hours (maybe more). And I am begriming to believe that it cant be done. Other than for the route of either writing a feature receiver to upload the template to a list on activation (but I think this approach is unclean) or modify onet.xml (a site definition?). I think both approaches are unnecessarily complex for the task at hand. Think about it, just so that I could have a custom document library or form library with a custom...
I've been pondering about the lack of a more efficent process for developing MOSS/WSS Solutions (I mean a solution to a business probelm and not a wsp) lately, because believe it or not, when your MOSS Solution contains more than just one component, e.g. WebParts, Features, ASPX pages, Workflows etc, there is no Solution template in Visual Studio where you can add all these project types and have them compile to a single wsp. Its kind of a pain to develop without this functionality. Serge pointed...
Nothing much in this post. Just some intersting MOSS/WSS resources on the web. WCM Andrew Connells SharePoint WCM Resources - http://andrewconnell.com/bl... Localisation Mikhail Dikov's post on Feature localisation - http://www.mikhaildikov.com... Troubleshooting Dan Attis's post EventReciever example on changing absolute urls to relative ones - http://devcow.com/blogs/jda... Technorati...
aka, List Column not appearing in Managed Propperty Selector. I am not sure if I have blogged about this before, but I do recall falling for this stumbling block earlier. If I have blogged it, then this is a worthy reminder When wanting to map a crawled property as a managed property, please be cautious when declaring the managed property to select the appropriate type, because when you click that "Add Mapping" button to select the crawled properties to map to, the crawled properties that are going...
I am noticing some wierdness with the MOSS's metadata propperty mappings. The scenario I tried was, went to a document library and added a new number column, did an incremental crawl, came back to search settings and went to add a new metadata propperty. If declare the metadata propperty as Integer it does not pick up my new column, but if I declare the metadata propperty as text it does. Is that wierd or what? Technorati tags: MOSS, SharePoint, Search Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
A little obscure fact about WebPart Connections. If you are writing a WebPart that is a Provider as well as a Consumer it is better to give your ConnectionPoint's unique Ids. Infact if you have multple Providers on the same WebPartPage the connections wont work unless each ConnectionPoint like so [ConnectionProvider("Displa... "ConnectionPointId")]public IWebPartField ConnectionInterface(){return this;} Technorati tags: MOSS, WebParts, Connections, ConnectionPoint Ids Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
I was doing some work on the MOSS Search API to execute a few custom queries. I also wanted the Search Engine to return the blurb of text that contains the occurence of the searched term. A little digging around and I discovered there is a managed propperty that contains this. The managed propperty is HitHighlightedSummary (just in case any of you are stumbling down this route too). Technorati tags: MOSs, Search, SharePoint, Managed Propperties Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
I came across this tool from JOPX's list of SharePoint Tools (see my previous posting). Its a good thing I did, since now this is my favorite new SharePoint tool. It helps that I am playing around with Search these days to put the tool to good use. Thanks for the link Joris, and speschka you rule Technorati tags: MOSS, SHarePoint, Search Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Joris has update his list of SharePoint Tools. This time its more shiny and uber than before. He provides a very upto date aggregation of the tools available for MOSS that are out there. Check it out. http://jopx.blogspot.com/20... Technorati tags: SharePoint, MOSS, Tools Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Here are few lessons learnt from playing with the BDC on a project 1. Even though the BDC can crawl associated entities in your database schema, the search results will not show related entity instances for the item you searched. 2. In case of mapping 'complex' db schemas specially ones that contain m:n relationships between entities, sometimes it might be advisable to show un-normalized relationships via stored procedures or views, but this approach provides the following roadblocks Un-normalized...
This is a bit of a kludge in SharePoint 2007. In your site collection how do you move your search scope from one display group to another? Logically you would expect there to be an option in the context menu (i.e. Site Settings -> Search Scopes [Under Site Collection Administration]) of the search scope, or be able to change it in the subsequent page when clicking the search scope. That isnt the way. Here is how you would have to do it. 1. On the Search Scopes Page click on the name of the display...
Access Denied for User 'MOSS\crawlUser'. Securable MethodInstancewith Name 'TableIDEnumeratorInstance' has ACL that contains: User 'MOSS\administrator' with Rights 'Execute, Edit, SetPermissions, UseInBusinessDataInLists, SelectableInClients' or The parameter is incorrect. (Access denied by BDC.) If you get either of the error message above trying to crawl the BDC, the error could possibly be caused by the crawl account not having access to the BDC application defintion; i.e. the crawl account is...
Something thats new to anyone comming from SPS03 or WSS 02 is the logging in MOSS/WSS3. In MOSS/WSS3 SharePoint does some good logging and the log files are stored in "%commonprogramfiles%\Micro... Shared\web server extensions\12\logs" Technorati tags: SharePoint, Moss, WSs, Logs Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Via Mart Oooh - this tool from John is like an a couple of asprins for the developer writing those CAML queries. Thanks so much for this John Technorati tags: MOSS, SPS, WSS, Sharepoint, CAML Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
The Kid (Vincent Rothwell) has a post on how to create floating toolpanes in SharePoint. Link: http://blog.thekid.me.uk/ar... Lot of good content on his blog. Another SharePoint blog worthy of aggregating. Technorati tags: Sharepoint, Moss, wss, Toolpane, Themes, Templates, Css Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Continuing the YASQ series but now updated for MOSS let me introduce my contribution to Yet Another MOSS Quirk (YAMQ). I was trying to enable Windows SharePoint Search Service on a MOSS Server, on the configuration page I kept entering the required user accounts as just "UserName", and the configuration kept failing. I tried this over and over, and checkign the username, password, secuirty permissions etc. with no luck. The logs provided no help either. How do you get around it, you need to enter...
The other day I was totally playing around with configuring SharePoint to recieve emails. I totally went to town with with configuring Virtual Server (VS), Creating a Private Network within VS, and setting up MOSS Virtual Machine (VM) and Exchange/DC VM. For some reason I couldnt get far. I see the messages I send in Exchange's queue, and on the MOSS box in IIIS under SMTP Sessions I see a session with the Exchange box. But thats it, my lists dont recieve the emails I send. Anyways enough of my ranting,...
I experienced an issue with the SharePoint Solution Generator today it kept crashing right the first screen (i.e. choosing Site Definition and clicking next). The exception being thrown shows that the tool is looking for a SharePoint site on the default website i.e. http://ServerName Now in this paticular case there was no SharePoint site on the on port 80 so http://ServerName would naturually fail. As much as I would like to I am not going to complain about this being a silly Exception. The workaround:...
In a MOSS publishing site (can I say CMS 2007?) there is an editor in which you can change the navigation elements shown on the Top Navigation. At first glance you would assume that it would be easy to manupilate elements on that top navigation bar through code. Infact Todd has an in-depth article showing you how to add and remove items from the navigation bar. But have you tried to hide an element. Its not as easy at it would seem. TheSPNavigationNode.IsVisible propperty is readonly, and I am yet...
Mikael Gannotti has a posting on how to rename a MOSS Server. http://www.mikeysgblog.com/... Thanks for the tip Michael. Technorati tags: Rename, MOSS, Sharepoint Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
Ever want to use a control that would allow you to choose users in a WebPart. I needed to today, and came across the People Editor control for MOSS. Ishai Sagi has a good post on its usage tags: SharePoint, People Lookup, WebParts, MOSS Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
A colleague of mine ran I ran into a bug in MOSS today with the DVWP. i.e. It treates numeric fields as text for sorting (when sorting on column headers is enabled), hence if you sorted in ascending order on the column, the values would be like 1, 10, 11, 2, 3 etc. This happens even though the field is formatted as a number and even when the type is set to x:float. on the sort column. tags: SharePoint, DVWP, Bug, Sorting, Numeric, MOSS 2007 Cross-posted from tariqayad.com...
MOSS B2 TR expired on me today. It took me totally by surprise. I backdated the machine by one day and it was fine. Brought it forward by one day, and it said the trial period had expired. Was a bit confused since all web posting for this issue cliam it happens on Domain Controller, and my MOSS server wasnt a domain controller. Anyways the fix is to run the patch for the DC. StandaloneDCWorkaround.msi Thanks for the link Jan tags: SharePoint, Moss, Office Server, 2007, Beta 2, Technical Refresh,...
A colleague of mine had a problem today where she connected to RSWebParts on MOSS 2007 and SharePoint gave her a security exception. The solution was to make an exception for the RSWebparts assembly in WSS_MinimalTrust.config. The problem with that approach is that you do know the PublicKeyBlob of the RSWebParts to make the exception. How you go about finding a the PublicKeyBlob is to open up the assembly in ildasm. Check the assemblies manfiest, and there will be the PublicKeyBlob in there. tags:...
Lately I have discovered a quirk with document libraries in WSS v3 and MOSS that is not very consistent. Basially the problem I am seeing is that SharePoint doesnt consistenly handle query parameters passed to aspx pages store in document libraries. For instance if you had a page in a document library called MyPage.aspx, and if you were to point it in your browser as http://server/[site]/Document Library/MyPage.aspx?MyQuery... your page would load only some of the time. More of than not SharePoint...
So I spent my first day at my new employer's and I am not as impressed as I innitially thought I would be. Spent most of the day setting up or trying to setup MOSS 2007 Beta 2. Ran in to a couple of issues innitially. First there was the issue of a concurrency problem when configuring MOSS. At stage 8 in the configuration process, the Configuration wizard it gave me the following error. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Admini... was thrown. Additional exception...
I and a few others were on on a call with Microsoft Consulting (India) who were giving us a presentation on SharePoint 2007. Interestingly the consultant said that the Beta is good for deployment and the only changes to be expected in the final from the Beta would be minor stuff like 'UI look and feel'. And there I was thinking "Bullshit!". It just could have been the consultant trying to make the sale, but he should know better than to bullshit with people who actually use the product. Any who....
I think the SharePoint show is a really great idea. Its only at episode 3 so far and I am loving it. So far most of the material we’ve been seeing about SharePoint that comes from outside Microsoft is by way of blogs and articles these have mainly been literary pieces, i.e. most of them lack personality and voice (I mean most of them are text). The SharePoint show on the other hands adds that human touch which is quite awesome. Kudos to Gene for comming up with this. As someone who works with...