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911 - MOSS Query Tool

Tariq — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:43:11 GMT

With the closure of GotDotNet this wonderful tool has gone missing. I redid my machine today and went looking for it. I couldn't find any alternative hosting for it either.

Does anyone have a copy of it that they can share please? Would greatly appreciate the help.

Thanks,

Tariq

Technorati tags: SharePoint, Search, MOSS, Query

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

MOSS BDC Design Studio by Simego

Tariq — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:57:30 GMT

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 that I see is that it is not able to load an existing application definition file.

One pro from the tool mentioned above is that unlike most of the others it can actually generate entities for Stored Procedures and Views.

Check it out

Technorati tags: SharePoint, MOSS, BDC, Generator, Application Definition

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Customizing List Item Permissions at a Granular Level

Tariq — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:58:06 GMT

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

Great Post on SP Security Model

Tariq — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:26:07 GMT

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

Is There no Way to Add a Document Template as a Feature?

Tariq — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:52:19 GMT

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 document template I would either have to write code or modify the site definition. Isn?t that a bit unclean? Why cant it be done as a feature?

Technorati tags: tariq, sharepoint, wss, documenttemplate, feature, moss

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

VS Template for WSPBuilder?

Tariq — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:48:02 GMT

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 me out to WSPBuilder by Carsten the other day (man was I so out of it :( ). But wait Rich Finn has done a number on the WSPBuilder and introduced it as a Visual Studio Template. Which should be a help, but doesnt really solve the problem of multiple projects.

So here is whats spinning around in my head. A Visual Studio Project type (Setup and Deployment or any other kind) which you can add to your Solution, and to which you will add references from your other projects. The project would be intelligent enough to determine the output type of the referred projects and place the output in the appropriate folder structure as per WSPBuilder, and on compile time call wsp builder.

I think its an interesting idea that would ease a bit of pain from the developent chores involved with MOSS Solutions, but implementing it might be a bit of a challenge.

Does anyone else have any other ideas? or recommendations/tips on this or how they go about developing MOSS/WSS Solutions.

Technorati tags: Sharepoint, MOSS, WSS, Visual Studio, Development, Automation, Build, Proces, Help

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

WSS MOSS Resources

Tariq — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:47:18 GMT

Nothing much in this post.

Just some intersting MOSS/WSS resources on the web.

WCM

Andrew Connells SharePoint WCM Resources - http://andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/MossWcmResources.aspx

Localisation

Mikhail Dikov's post on Feature localisation - http://www.mikhaildikov.com/2007/03/sharepoint-resources-types-use-and_2163.html

Troubleshooting

Dan Attis's post EventReciever example on changing absolute urls to relative ones - http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/09/27/11463.aspx

Technorati tags: Sharepoint, MOSS, WSS

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

Managed Property Stumbling Block

Tariq — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:24:12 GMT

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 to be displayed are filtered by type you declared.

Also note columns declared as Number in a list are of type Decimal and not Integer.

Technorati tags: SharePoint, MOSS, Search, Managed Propperties

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com

MOSS Metadata Propperty Mapping Wierdness

Tariq — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:38:58 GMT

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

ConnectionPoint Ids

Tariq — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:47:02 GMT

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("DisplayName", "ConnectionPointId")]
public IWebPartField ConnectionInterface()
{
return this;
}

Technorati tags: MOSS, WebParts, Connections, ConnectionPoint Ids

Cross-posted from tariqayad.com