for questions completely specific to SharePoint 2007 and **not past or future versions**
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Workflows dying randomly with the following error: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.
I have a series of workflows (MOSS2007 SP2) that start each other in order using Useful SharePoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities - StartAnotherWorkflow. Occasionally the workflow dies and ...
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4answers
1k views
Catch exception in web part, or let it bubble up?
I'm writing a web part for other sites to use in their SharePoint installation. In the logic of the web part I throw exceptions at certain failure points. I'm wondering whether it is a better ...
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2answers
468 views
Trimming audit events
We'd enabled all types of audit events for our production web-application and ended up with an issue with DB as auditData table grown to 50GB. Now, we want to reduce the size of the AuditData table.
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1answer
731 views
Setup an item level auditing for a sharepoint document library
I would like to setup an item level auditing (Opening or viewing or downloading) for a sharepoint 2007 document library without enabling audit for the entire site-collection.
This link may help us ...
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1answer
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Auditing Disabled Yet AuditData Table Still Growing
We had a situation where auditing was enabled for our site collection and generating monstrous amounts of data in our database. So we finally were able to trim all of that data out and then went in ...
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1answer
341 views
Enable audit setting for a production site collection
Shall we recommand to have an audit settings enabled for a production site collection? if so, what are all the things that we have to consider before that?
what would be the maximum size of an ...
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3answers
527 views
Guidance for using ASP.net MVC as part of Sharepoint 2007
I am interested in using ASP.Net Mvc 2.0 as the basis for a website but it will need to hook into SharePoint 2007. Am I just dreaming that it is possible or should I just stick with webforms?
Has ...
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3answers
1k views
problem deploying webpart on a farm
a customer has a problem deploying a webpart I developed for them on a farm. The webpart is packaged as a .WSP solution with WSPBuilder and it seems to work fine when deployed to a single server.
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3answers
2k views
Tool for listing subsites and size
Does anyone know of a tool that lists all site collections and subsites together with quote size/usage?
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1answer
390 views
Redirect Users to the welcome page if not registered in sharepoint Application
Need some pointer on the best way to implement this requirement in sharepoint
" The content on the sharepoint site is only accessible to the registered users, so when the users visits the site for ...
2
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1answer
58 views
How can I view the creation date (and creator) of a child site (not an admin person)
Is there any way an end user (with contribute or full access) can view the properties of A CHILD SITE...as in when it was created and by whom?
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3answers
197 views
Equivalent of a database table in SharePoint?
I'm making a Publishing site, and part of this site will display information about company products. We have a number of products, and each one should have its own description page. The description ...
2
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2answers
1k views
SharePoint Custom Module Development and Deployment
Good Day,
We're working on custom module (Information Management System) for SharePoint. The project file of this module is a Class Library which contains User Controls. The User Controls was based ...
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3answers
326 views
Create a SilverLight application and use SharePoint Object Model inside
The idea is to create a SilverLight 3 Application (not a web part) that will be used inside SharePoint 2007 (not a web part but a full aspx page that will be called from a Sharepoint feature), for ...
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1answer
1k views
InfoPath form approval custom workflow
sorry if this is a noob question, but I have to start somewhere!
I'm working with Sharepoint 2007. I have a custom content type, Room Booking Event. When one is created, I want to start a workflow ...
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1answer
230 views
SharePoint for Transactional Systems
Most of you in this IT World must have been building applications/solutions for Transactional Systems (Insurance/Banking/Retail) using a various Development Tool (e.g. - .NET/ASP/VB/Java) and a RDBMS ...
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2answers
1k views
Collect data from user: custom email
Within my workflow I am using the 'Collect Data from user'. I want to send a custom email (by turning of alerts on the Task list) and using the Send Email action.
My problem is I want to send a link ...
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1answer
474 views
“Cannot find ContentPlaceHolder” error when anonymous access enabled
I have a custom master page, custom.master, for a publishing site. It was working fine, however I just enabled anonymous access to the publishing site, and now browsing to the home page for that site ...
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2answers
794 views
“You must close your browser to complete the sign out process”
When logging out of SharePoint I get the following message:
Sign Out: Close Browser To Complete Sign Out.
You must close your browser to complete the sign out process.
Why is it necessary ...
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1answer
1k views
stsadm createsite “User cannot be found” error
I'm trying to create a site collection via stsadm. I do:
STSADM -o createsite `
-url "<url>" `
-title "<title>" `
-description "<desc>" `
-lcid 1033 `
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1answer
1k views
Tasks list: Workflow action: Create New List item
Within my workflow using SPD I am using the "Create New Item" action to create a new Task list item this is fired when a holidayrequest item is created.
My problem is I cannot see how to create/store ...
2
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1answer
593 views
Strange CSS when adding a user to the people picker
I have a problem happening on IE only when you put some name or add some name to the people picker. It will then validate and display users side by side. I think SharePoint injects the users using ...
0
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2answers
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Edit Web Application description
Is there a way to edit the Description property of a Web Application after the application has been created?
I can't seem to find any way of doing so via any of the administration options in the ...
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1answer
153 views
Exception setting ApplicationPoolPassword
Following the example in this blog post, I am trying to create a new Web Application with PowerShell.
However, when I try the line:
$WebAppBuilder.ApplicationPoolPassword = "password"
I receive ...
0
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1answer
695 views
How come GetListItems filtering on a field's equality to a value fetches this field's value as undefined/null
I think I found a bug. Please share if you know more about it.
I use GetListItems operation to fetch items to display on an ajaxified form. Just an hour ago everything was fine, but now when I query ...
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3answers
455 views
Implementation of IAlertUpdateHandler
Has anyone implemented IAlertUpdateHandler interface successfully?
Actually I've to suppress alert subscription notification email. I've following code in PreUpdate method:
public bool ...
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1answer
149 views
Adding fields to an InfoPath form for a SharePoint content type
Can I add fields to an infopath form used as a SharePoint content type w/out losing my existing data for previously completed forms?
2
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1answer
794 views
Best Practices for Deploying Timer jobs in Server Farm Environments with multiple WFE
i have a timer job which i want to run only once per day, for the entire farm. How do I
Deploy it in a multiple WFE environment? Do I run the stsadm -o deploysolution command in every WFE, or just ...
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1answer
675 views
How do I return similar results from a fulltextsqlquery search that are similar to what a keyword search provides?
I've set up the crawl to index pages based on rendered output, but now in the SELECT statement for the query, what column name can I use in the where clause?
By using a keyword search, I get results ...
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2answers
988 views
Advanced Personalization in SharePoint (User Preferences, Web Part drag and drop)
I need some pointers / thoughts on how to achieve this advanced personalization in SharePoint with User Preference, profiles, favorites...etc. I see a product is already on the market so it's ...
2
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2answers
2k views
Warning of undisposed objects in Microsoft's own SharePoint code
I found many 8l1n warnings of undisposed objects in the SharePoint ULS logs.
The interesting thing is that the entire stack trace does not show anything in my code.
I am not sure what to look for in ...
2
votes
1answer
494 views
Lookup site column not saving/storing metadata for Office 2007 documents?
I'm having this issue on several server environments.
We have a list at the site collection root. There is a site column created as a multi-value lookup on that list's Title field. This site column ...
0
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1answer
355 views
My Calendar Webpart is not displaying the local time
My Calendar webpart (OOB) is showing US time irrespective of the customer location, is that expected? if so, how it could be resolved ?
Note:
Our servers are in US however customers are in throughout ...
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1answer
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Changing Web Front End Servers IPs
I have a MOSS 2007 farm with two WFE, one index and a SQL cluster.
For some network reason, we need to change the IP addresses of the WFE.
Would this affect the farm in any way?
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2answers
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Unique item in sharepoint list
can i create a unique item in sharepoint list, to prevent duplication entries, without deploying any app to the server?
Also if it can be done through the sharepoint designer , how it can be done ??
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1answer
395 views
Upgrading workflows from 2007 to 2010
Are there any "gothchas" when upgrading workflows from 2007 to 2010:
In place upgrade on server
Conversion of VS Solution
What happens to running workflows?
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1answer
1k views
Execution order of event receivers and workflow on a list
Is it possible to know beforehand whether event receivers on a list will always execute before any workflows associated with that list?
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1answer
858 views
Failed to instantiate file “myComms.webpart” from module “WebPartPopulation”: Source path “myComms.webpart” not found.
I have a webpart i build using WSpBuilder and it works OK.
When i use Deploy from Visual Studio it installs the WSP sharepoint and add the webpart to the webpart gallery.
But it seems the feature does ...
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4answers
199 views
Infopath with SharePoint or other solution?
We are looking for a solution to be able to let users design forms and deploy them as webforms. SharePoint and InfoPath does indeed look interesting but I have been struggling with some limitation ...
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6answers
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Safari/Mac/SharePoint Issues
I am testing a colleague's public facing SharePoint site. I am using Safari on a Mac. The site renders fine when I use IE and Firefox on Windows as well as Firefox on a Mac. However when I use ...
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2answers
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Full webpart Sharepoint 2007
How can i create a full webpart , that i can import in sharepoint 2007.
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1answer
761 views
Programmatically detecting SharePoint 2007 vs 2010
Is there any way to programmatically determine which version of SharePoint (2007 or 2010) is currently running, using the API? I have a web part that needs to emit different blocks of Javacript based ...
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3answers
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How can I create a multilingual site without variations?
I am new to SharePoint but know basics.
The project has already been developed in English for the USA.
It consists of user controls, developed webparts, . . it has images, Flash players, videos, ...
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1answer
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How do I administer search in SharePoint 2007 vs 2010?
Please provide some links that explain where to access Search Administration in SharePoint 2007?
How does it differ from SharePoint 2010?
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2answers
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Print Preview in SharePoint
We have a requirement to print the page without print dialog.
We have tried the following JavaScript:
function PrintIt() {
var WebBrowser = '<OBJECT ID="WebBrowser1" WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0 ...
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1answer
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WebDeleting Event for New Sites created ? ?
I am using the WebDeleting event which is based on features. Just activate the feature, and whenever a web is getting deleted, the event handler throws a message saying "Web can't be deleted".
...
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3answers
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Can you detect permissions on a list via Ajax or SharePoint web services?
The context for this is the SPServices or Imtech (SP)LookupAddNew function that let you add new items to lookups without navigating to the target list.
Can we avoid adding the link for users without ...
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2answers
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Coding for a SharePoint site at the application level
I have a logging module in my solution that adds log entries to a List<>. I’d like to set up a timer that calls a “WriteEntriesToLogFile” method which writes the entries in the List<> to a file ...
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3answers
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Displaying Page list items in RSS gives wrong title
I have an external site at which I'm displaying news using Sharepoint Pages. I would like to publish these news pages using RSS, which works fine. But the title is the file name without the file ...
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1answer
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12 hive, what does the 12 represent?
Perhaps a silly question, but what does the
12 in "web server extensions/12" mean?
