Questions related to pages that have the publishing infrastruture activated. Mostly used in WCMS scenarios and internet-facing sites.
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Best way to package publishing content types
I'm currently planning on how to package my Publishing content types in a WSP to make deployment in production easier. I came a cross the following choices
1- create a feature receiver and ...
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Replace the Default Page in a SharePoint WebSite
I have been asked to programmatically do the following in a SharePoint 2007 team site collection:
Create a website using the OOTB blank site template. (Please note, for project specific reasons, we ...
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Sharepoint 2007 Site Actions IE9 doesnt work
We have a public facing website which is custom branded. Up until viewing the website in IE9 all standard Sharepoint functionality worked such as Site Actions.
All browsers work with it. Recently ...
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SPItemEventReceiver ItemUpdating and BeforeProperties / AfterProperties
I've bound and ItemUpdating event to a document library of a MOSS publishing site, I’m then trying to compare the Before and After properties.
When I amend the field in the UI I expect the two values ...
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Publishing Site “Save site as template”
How to save site as template for a Publishing Site ?
I am not able to understand how this is done
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1answer
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Making global changes to a group of publishing pages
Is it possible to change a property on a group of publishing pages on SharePoint 2010? We have a custom page field called "IntranetContactEmail" that we need to update across one web site. How do you ...
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Adding a Back to Top web part
Is it possible to create a web part that publishing page editors can insert and all it contains is an anchor tag to take the user "Back to Top" of the page?
I've added this to the top of the pages' ...
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How to get a web.config file in a sharepoint 2010 publishing site?
I am working on a sharepoint 2010 project and I noticed in the soultion their is no web.config.
I asked one of my fellow co-workers and he mentioned something about we don't have access to to it as ...
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What is publishing Site or Page and why do we need it?
Article found on this but not in plain English. Anyone else wants to give it a shot with plain (non-lawyer version) English.
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Difference between Publishing Master Page and Standard Master Page
In SharePoint Designer, you can create a new Master Page or a new Publishing Master Page from Content Type. So what is the difference between a Master Page with a Content type of "Publishing Master ...
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List Template doesn't appear in gallery after wsp deployment
I have a list template (.stp file) inside a module that I am deploying to a Publishing Site (SP2010) via a wsp. The elements.xml has the correct mapping to the _catalogs/lt folder.
When I deploy, my ...
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Page layouts vs. Master pages
When do you create a custom page layout vs. a custom master page for a site? Is it good practice to create custom page layouts only for limited branding of SharePoint 2010? I'm thinking the page ...
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Training site editors to use SharePoint
We are rolling out about 30 departmental web sites on SharePoint 2010 for our intranet. They all use a common look-and-feel and have publishing pages. The users have capability to edit pages and ...
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Path to jQuery file for SharePointWebControls:ScriptLink
I'm working in SharePoint 2010 Designer to create a custom page layout. I've added a SharePointWebControls:ScriptLink control but am not sure what the path is to my jQuery library. It's uploaded to ...
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What's the difference between a Publishing Site and an Enterprise Wiki Site
I have an existing Enterprise Wiki Site and I would like to convert it to a Publishing Site. What's the difference between a Publishing Site and an Enterprise Wiki Site. It looks like both types have ...
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remove *.debug.js from master page
When I view my SharePoint site I see a lot of .debug.js files being added by SharePoint. Is there a way to stop this happening.
cui.debug.js
core.debug.js
sp.debug.js
sp.ribbon.debug.js
...
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Folders in Pages Library?
In a publishsing site, there is a library called Pages. The web interface does not allow to create directories underneath.
However, it's possible to create directories via SharePoint designer.
This ...
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1answer
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Rules of thumb for when to use a site, a subsite, or a site collection?
I am developing a company website/portal in SharePoint, and am trying to figure
out the best way to organise it into site collections, sites and subsites --
I'm confused by the terminology I think.
...
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2answers
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Reducing amount of clicks to create Publishing Page in SharePoint 2007
I have a customer who is using the MOSS 2007 WCM Publishing Site.
To create a page in this environment you need to:
Select Site Settings | Create Page
Fill in:
Title
page url
select a ...
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1answer
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Site output cache with Forms authentication in a sub site
I have a Sharepoint 2007 puiblishing site. The top level site is purely anonymous and one of the children is using Forms authentication using Custom membership provider. The Admin site is using ...
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1answer
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How can I update a publishing page's page layout via PowerShell?
I have a few publishing pages that need a page layout change. The layout includes a Content Editor Web Part pointed to an html file in the site assets folder. The layout changes but the Web Part ...
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1answer
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SharePoint : Better Large Pages Library Approach
I'm working on project migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
The application build on SharePoint 2007 platform was years back and it contains a lots of data (approximately 100GB in ...
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1answer
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Take a Publishing Page “Offline”
Is there a way to take a Published Publishing Page offline such that it isn't accessible to anonymous users of a WCM website?
If you un-publish, the page's most recent version will still be ...
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1answer
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Can you use Content By Query to retrieve items from it's parents?
I know you can use the Content By Query component to retrieve items under the current site, however, I want to do the opposite.
I'd like to look for items in the parent sites of the current site. I ...
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How to rename a publishing page in code
I'm trying to do a bulk page rename (NB. the file name e.g. default.aspx, not the displayed title)
foreach (PublishingPage page in pweb.GetPublishingPages())
{
Console.WriteLine(page.Name);
...
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2answers
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Publishing SPWeb.Properties missing…why, how?
Has anyone ever seen a Publishing site "lose" the properties relating to the publishing functionality. Properties like PagesListId, PublishingFeatureActivated etc which actually control whether the ...
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1answer
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Sharepoint 2010 Auto update twitter status
We have a SharePoint 2010 installation branded for use as our corporate website. I am creating a "News" section using SharePoint Publishing features and I have been requested by the powers that be to ...
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Sharepoint 2013 add css in a page layout
I'm trying to add my custom CSS file in my sharepoint 2013 page layout. I add it with the link tag or with CSSRegistration and when the page is rendered, the css does not appear in the source.
Also I ...
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1answer
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How do I see the complete page content of an old version of a page?
I have a page library in a publishing site that has major and minor versions. I can click on a page's context menu and select View History and it gives me a list of all the major and minor version ...
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Sharepoint 2007 Publishing sites and integrating the blog site template
Has anyone had any experience of using the MOSS blog template for publishing sites?
It seems you have to turn off the ‘ViewFormPagesLockDown’ feature to stop authentication prompts when clicking the ...
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Alternatives to Feature Stapling?
I'm trying to determine if there is any way to automatically deploy a few web parts on the creation of new My Sites pages, but in a manner that doesn't use feature stapling. I know how to feature ...
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2answers
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Get list of all publishing pages checked out
For a specific SharePoint 2010 web site, is there a way to get a list of all publishing pages (Pages library) items that are checked out regardless of how many subfolders deep they are located? ...
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Which is Better a UserControl or WebPart?
What are the advantages of user controls over WebParts when dealing with SharePoint? Some I can think of are: familiarity, reusability, and development speed. I am planning to implement them in ...
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Remove broken resource relationships between pages and page layouts
We have a page layout that we want to delete from a site collection but according to moss it is still referenced by some publishing pages. The pages that are apparently using the page layout are no ...
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2answers
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SharePoint publishing portal v.s. collaboration portal
I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I want to develop a portal application with login function (logged-in user could have more function to use on the ...
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3answers
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Alert to warn site owner when content is outof date
Any idea how I can set an alert to warn site owner if content is out of date?
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1answer
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Creating a site definition
We have some 30+ departmental sites that need to be created for our intranet on SharePoint 2010 and are looking for ways to accelerate this process. One method suggested has been to use a standardized ...
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Problem applying content type bindings to an es-ES site definition
I'm building a publishing site which will support the following cultures:
de-DE (1031)
en-US (1033)
es-ES (3082)
fr-FR (1036)
it-IT (1040)
ja-JP (1041)
ru-RU (1049)
zh-CHS (2052)
I can create an ...
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1answer
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Dynamic Master Pages
Has anyone ever managed to implement dynamic master pages on a publishing site?
Something along the lines of the master page switching automatically depending the referrer or some other passed ...
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Can not update Navigation programatically
I have following code
var subWeb = newWeb.Webs.Add(subsite.Url, subsite.Title, subsite.Title, 1033, PublishTemplate, false, false);
subWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
subWeb.Update();
PublishingWeb ...
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2answers
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Where is the SharePoint object cache stored??
We have experienced a strange issue in SharePoint. We backed-up and restored a site collection from WebApp1 to WebApp2 and both the site collections have Publishing Features activated (BLOB CACHE was ...
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1answer
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How to add data sheet to a SharePoint web page?
I am using SharePoint 2007 + Windows Server 2008 with SharePoint 2007's publishing portal template. I want to add Excel style data sheet to a web page, could anyone show me how?
More details,
For ...
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1answer
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How to change the Publishing Hyperlink icon image
Is it possible to change the default images SharePoint 2010 Server uses to show next to the Publishing Hyperlink column type? This is enabled via the "Display link with icon" checkbox in the dialog ...
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2answers
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Is there a maximum number of entries for the Navigation Editing and Sorting control?
Is there an upper limit to the number of item that are displayed in the Navigation Editing and Sorting control in the ‘Site Navigation Settings’ page?
I have 49 items in the global Navigation and 54 ...
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<View> (ListViewWebPart) from within publishing page in feature
This is in the context of MOSS 2007.
I have a custom site definition. Currently in ONET.xml we have the following Module:
<View ...
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2answers
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Convert SPD Based site to use Features / Solutions
I've inherited the maintenance and development of a client's MOSS 2007 website. The website has been maintained via SharePoint Designer since it's launch. We do actually have copies of some feature ...
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2answers
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How to filter a list on SharePoint
I am using SharePiont Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and I am using publishing portal template. I am developing using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5. I have defined a custom ...
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Missing “People and Groups” List Settings menu
We have a fairly large public facing publishing site in which we've just noticed that the "Settings" menu is missing from the "People and Groups: All People" menu. I'm not sure how long it's been gone ...
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1answer
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Full control user can add Page Layout to top level site but not the sublevel site
Has anyone seen the problem that we can add page layout to the top level site but not the sublevel site?
I've got the following behaviors:
In the "Site Settings" the "Master pages and page ...
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1answer
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Site owner permissions are not allowing user to view unpublished pages
I'm running into somewhat of an odd issue. All of my site collections have been created as Blank Sites, and I've enabled features as required. One of the features that's been enabled on every site ...
