A user is an agent, either a human agent (end-user) or software agent, who uses a computer or network service.
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Filter out folders from a user alert against a list
I have created an alert for a user against a list (more specifically, a document library).
I want the user to be notified of all changes regarding list items (documents) and not any sub folders.
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CAML query for field of type “Person or Group” which allows multiple selections
Consider a list which has a column of type "Person or Group" (single selection) witch contains a SharePoint group. I want to return all rows for which the group is within a list. I know the IDs of the ...
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User alerts being sent for something that happened before alert was created
I create a web.
I create a doc library within this web.
Create folders within this doc library.
Then 'subscribe' (i.e. create an alert for) a user for this doc library.
Why, if I'm doing things in ...
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How to make SharePoint simpler for end users?
We are going to use SharePoint for our intranet. The perception at my office is that SharePoint is too complicated for average users to learn. There are many different ways to do any given task, and ...
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Get current logged user name for user “Account operates as System”
When I'm try to get current logged user name for account domain\username and I added many users to this option "Account operates as System" In code I got the system account not the real name of user ...
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How to access programmatically to Active Directory Properties from an SPUser
I'd like to know how can I do to access to Active Directory information (eg: Department) of an User starting from an SPUser... I've User Profile Service configured and I see in Sharepoint those ...
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Login takes SHAREPOINT\system Account
When I Open m Web sometimes it Takes "SHAREPOINT\system" Account insted of My Own Account.. Can anyone help me why it is doing like that?
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Deny user access to a “Document Library”
I'm using Sahrepoint 2010. I've created many Document Libraries according to how many departments we have in the company and i want to specify access permission to users for viewing and opening ...
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Is it possible for a User to create a new User bypassing Admin?
In out organization, We have to create lots of new users in various departments. So, I want Head of Department to create their own users and not approach Admin for same. Is such a thing possible?
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Sandboxed Webpart - Is it possible get the current logged in user?
Using standard windows authentication I attempting to get the identity of the logged in user so I can update a value in a list that this webpart is interacting with.
I have tried:
SPWeb currentWeb = ...
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1answer
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PS Script to output members of targetted groups into a file
I have an auditing / documentation requirement around my SP Environment upon which members of specific groups need to be listed. Now, rather than doing this manually via screen-shots and / or cut and ...
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Programmatically Add/Remove User to Audience
I've been searching everywhere for information on how to programmatically add a user to an Audience. Is this at all possible? We'd like to set up Audiences as a kind of "Subscription" base where our ...
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How many users can user profile service handle?
I have a question regarding the user profile service. It is more functional question.
The question is how many users can the user profile service handle?
By this i mean, lets say i have a sharepoint ...
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How to know the GUID of a Database?
I follow this step by step http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff681014.aspx for reset the User Profile Synchronization Service but I need the GUID of the synchronization database. I searched a ...
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User Profile to SharePoint Full Synchronization is missing from the list of timer jobs
'User Profile to SharePoint Full Synchronization' and 'User Profile to SharePoint Quick Synchronization' are missing from my list of available timer jobs. The User Profile Service is configured, Sync ...
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Navigation breadcrumb visibility for visitors
I have a website which contains mostly normal webpages, which are stored in the Shared Documents section. The visitors are only able to read these pages. But when you see the breadcrumb in the above, ...
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terminated employee still shows up in user search
From Central Admin > user profile search > Employee not listed (meaning nightly sync took him out)
However, went to a site permission and type the terminated employee's user id "tpatel" and SP ...
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Using Sharepoint Modal
we are implementing a feature in sharepoint where the user can share documents, we are reworking our own UI to make it easier for the end user. We have a modal popup where you can select multiple ...
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How to Use ECMA CSOM to Set a Field of Type SPFieldUserValue
I have a JavaScript array containing the string representation of some usernames (domain\username format).
Using the JavaScript CSOM, what is the best way to create a new item and add those usernames ...
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How to convert string into SPUser?
I have a string "System Account", how can I convert the string into SPUser?
I've tried SPContext.Current.Web.EnsureUser("System Account") and also web.AllUser["System Account"] but hit error.
Please ...
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Get the current user interacting with a site workflow
I have a SP 2010 state machine Site workflow with lots of custom InfoPath forms.
In some cases I need the user that's interacting with the workflow (many users can interact with the Workflow, not ...
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1answer
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User Permissions SharePoint 2010
I am working with SharePoint 2010. My requirement is to have some user groups blocked for some of my custom pages those reside in "Site Pages" library.So that users in those groups can not access the ...
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503 views
Is there any event reciver available for user group events?
I have to update some list whenever a new user or group is added to the site.
Is there any event receiver available for users/groups?
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1answer
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How to: Know “reachable” files for an user
I'd like to know if in SP there's a method to know all the files "linked" to a user. This feature must be cross site collection and return all the files over the webapp that the user can read or ...
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User Profile Service = “An unexpected error has occurred.”
This is for a new SP 2010 install. I have a server running SP 2010. In IIS I have created an empty web site, "share.example.com". In SP Central Admin, I have created a web application bound to the IIS ...
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Getting the logged in user given the SPWeb, regardless of elevated priveleges
I have a requirement to be able to always get the logged in user.
The object the calling process is going to pass is the spweb.
As this is legacy code, I cannot change what the calling processes ...
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1answer
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Get current user in SPFeatureReceiver?
I am working on a web application-scoped feature which creates a site collection. I would like to set the person who activated the feature as site collection owner. To do that, I would have to either:
...
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Learning resources for first time sharepoint end user?
A new end user has started using your sharepoint site. They have never used sharepoint before. What do you recommend they start read/watch/listen to? What is the best resource for first time ...
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Auto forward user at login to specific url
When a user calls http://moss.domain.tld he should be auto forwarded to a url like http://moss.domain.tld/customers/xyz based upon his user or assigned group. Is this possible with sharepoint?
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Show deleted users in User Information List programmatically
I am working with retrieving user info programmatically in WSS 3.0. I understand that users are stored in each Site Collection's User Information List. Deleted users are not visible in the User ...
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SharePoint Online (Microsoft 365) - Notification of external user invitation acceptance
Just wondering if there is any way to manage the SharePoint Online external invitation system on a more granular level? The out of the box system where you go to Site Actions > Share Site seems very ...
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1answer
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Using SP_Admin account, can I sign in on behalf of another user?
When we get reports of error from users it's sometimes hard to know what actually happened. The error report from the user may not be as descriptive as you would wish and it would be easier if you saw ...
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1answer
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WSS 3.0 Write to New Column in User Information List
I am working on a site that is using FBA in WSS 3.0. This is an external facing site, so in the FBA User Management page (UsersDisp.aspx) I would like to add a column that displays the user's company ...
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How to get users/usergroups from an lookup column from SPField
I have a custom list for example "MyCustomListA"
I have created a custom ListForm template and overide the ListFieldIterator. I have overide the ListFieldIterator and CreateChildControls to implement ...
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Opening site collection with admin user to prevent access exceptions
I have a custom webservice hosted in SharePoint. Within this service, I need to at times look up sites by id. Despite running code in an SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPriviledges block, I still get Access ...
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How to insert Case Sensitive Login Name for a Sharepoint User
I'm in a claim based installation of sharepoint 2010. My users are matched by user GUID in this form:
provider|GUID@mydomain.dom
My GUID is case sensitive.
If I use ...
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1answer
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Grant access to Sharepoint site for a non-domain user
We have two ActiveDirectory separate forests (no trust is established between them). And user from another forest/domain wants to use Sharepoint site (resides on our forest) like we do.
I read the ...
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How to grant access to Intranet site to External Users?
Our company recently acquired few small companies. We are in the transition for getting all the files and documentation. I created a "Document Center" site for this project.
What is the best way ...
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SPListItem item[“Author”] throws ArgumentException on blog lists only for some users
We have a webpart on our SiteCollection home page which aggregates the most recent posts from a number of blog subsites. The code looks like this:
using (SPSite site = new ...
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1answer
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Tracking User Activity for badges
I'm creating a QA site similar to Stack Overflow on SharePoint.
I'd like to be able to integrate some badges into the System.
I've thought of a few ideas, but I'd love some divergent thinking on ...
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1answer
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Web Services and Claim Based Authentication Problem
I'm facing some problems accessing by Claim Based to my web service.
On my App there's only Claim Based: windows auth is disabled and NTLM also.
If I access to Sharepoint by web based interface, this ...
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Selecting single user from User Information List
I've got a problem with not being able to select a single list item from the User Information List,
I have used U2U CAMLbuilder to build a query that extracts an entry with the ID = 1
When run in the ...
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1answer
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SharePoint User ID is wrong
I am having a weird issue with a user in our SharePoint farm. When you see the users name within SharePoint the URL sharepoint tries to go to is
http://FARMURL/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=173
This ...
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User's display name “Firstname Lastname” resets to domain\user every day
At least one particular user gets reset every day, display name keeps being set to domain\user format.
I have been fixing it by SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, using command:
Set-SPUser ...
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1answer
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FilterDefinition CamlQuery
I working with custom AlertTemplate. I only want to send an Alert if field "Beställare" or "Agent" contains my UserId I Have tried with this query, but I always get an Alert when something chanches.
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Users Activity Data
We have started tracking users activity in Sharepoint 2007, and while it doesn't matter that much, I know I am going to be asked - what does the data represent? Our highest users Value is 14.7. Is ...
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Migrate SharePoint (MOSS 2007 & SharePoint Server 2010) Users from one domain to another
We are preparing for a companywide domain user migration from Domain A to Domain B (of all corporate apps and services). However, only about half of the users will be migrated because the other half ...
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Show one of the 3 views depandant on current user
I have builded in Visual Studio (c#) a custom list, custom content type and 3 custom views. I am using sp 2010.
The list is working ok and I can see and select the 3 views. It is possible for the end ...
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Enable access to Authenticated users only for 'layouts/user.aspx' page
Hi i wan to enable access to all Authenticated users only for page 'layouts/user.aspx'.They should be able to read the contents in this page.
It has to be done acorss thousands of site.Can anyone help ...
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How to find which user last visited a site or recently downloaded a file available on SharePoint?
Is there a way to find who visited the site at last and who downloaded file recently in SharePoint? Also can we log who are the users that used/accessed the file? Can anyone provide some guidance on ...
