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CAML Query on a Calculated Lookup Field

I wrote some CAML Queries to modify the View of a List and all is working fine as long as I do not reference a Lookup Field which points to a calculated Field. I tried different types in the value ...
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How to list all alements by CAML to SPGridView

Is it possible to display the listitems retrieved from a CAML query in a SPGridView? How can I implement it?
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Is it possible to have CAML Join without Lookup Columns?

I am new to SharePoint. I am developing a web-part in that I am trying to join two list. I have a same web-part in that lists were join using LINQ query. But it takes more time to fetch the data. So ...
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Complex CAML, where parameter is null?

I have a page with 2 webparts One webpart is just a form with a textbox. 2nd webpart is listviewwebpart that filters based on the first webpart input. However the user wants that when the page is ...
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Help Return Lists With With No List Items

This is my first time posting and I'm looking for some help, so hopefully someone has an answer. I used the search, but didn't find anything. I created a custom list definition, and content type ...
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How tu change a date format in CAML

I have got a wrong format of date to a CAML. I have got (yyyy-mm-dd) and must to be understand by CAML to the format(dd-mm-yyyy), how could I done this. Please help me. I tried by ...
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Caml accent-sensitive

I wonder if the caml supports accent-sensitive, I'm doing a query and have many records with an accent and realized that these items are not appearing What can I do in this case? I can use any search ...
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Should we use web service lists.asmx over CAML when working with large lists

There is a list that has around 100k items in a SharePoint Site Collection. This site has been customized to serve certain business requirements through visual webparts. While, regular CRUD ...
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Issue while Fetching recurring items from Sharepoint Calendar

I want to fetch all the items on a particular day. Programmatically the entry is added as recurring event, Now i need to fetch all the instances of recurring event, on each day as per the date ...
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sharepoint caml is fast - how?

We all know that Caml is faster than using linq, since linq internally gets translated to caml. But can anyone explain how caml is best to do sharepoint queries or how it is fast or what makes it ...
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Should I learn CAML? [closed]

I've been spending the last few days studying sharepoint and plan to work with it for a long time - but I've only just heard the word CAML mentioned and seen it's querying in action, is it something ...
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Filter list based off a set of IDs

I've written a web part that generates several KPIs based off a list given: - List and column names placed in custom configuration values - Parameters at run time Each KPI is composed from a set of ...
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CAML query to find a value that does not begin with

I want to build a CAML query to search for all title fields that do NOT begin with a certain value: something like this: Where Title NOT BeginsWith 'myvalue'. How can i do that in my CAML query?
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How do I test if I will be able to execute a query (does the site exist)

When I run a (CAML based query) executeQuery against Sharepoint, sometimes the site does not exist (it is created by a workflow process which may not have run). When this happens, I get a ...
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Can I get the list of files for two or more directories?

My current query is below and works adequately enough. The sharepoint developer is creating a workflow that will look at files in the "Documents" folder, and if it certain flags are set, the ...
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When I execute a CAML query, how do I know what ListItem details I can include?

I was querying a SharePoint library, trying to retrieve some file attributes. Apparently some things like FileType and Date are not supported, even though those fields are listed as a built in field. ...
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Sharepoint 2010 ALERT settings - customize possible set of lists

I want to customize possible set of lists on which user can set "alerts ON". Customizing just ribbon button ("Alert me") for not showing on specific list isn't enough because - on some list on which ...
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CAML 'Endswith' equivalent?

I have to pull the data from the custom list by using a CAML query. I would like to use the "Endswith" option in the CAML query however it seems to be unsupported in sharepoint 2007. What would be ...
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Best way to get CAML for a custom content type

I am trying to get the CAML for a custom content type that I am creating. What I am really doing is creating the content type in Visual Studio 2010 and then deploying that content type to my sandbox. ...
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Visual Studio reports fake schema validation errors. How to clean SharePoint schema cache?

I have recently generated a couple of ListDefinitions using both SPSource and VSeWSS SharePoint Solution Generator. In both cases, surpisingly, Visual Studio reports fake schema validation errors in ...