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End User
Setting up an alert for blog posts is a bit hidden.
Without a shortcut, the easiest steps I can find to setup a new alert are:
Click a blog post
Click "Posts" in the breadcrumb
Click Actions -> Alert Me
Site Administrator
To manage existing alerts, make sure you are within the site that contains the blog. For example, if your Posts list is at ...
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Ok, the problem is solved. In the newest verstion oh Windows Live Writer 2011 you don't need the metaweblog.ashx. Just do the following to connect to your blog.
Add Blog -> Other Services -> Enter normal webadress without path to metaweblog.ashx and credentials (WLW knows what service to use).
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Here is a thread about it on msdn
The essence from the thread:
You'll need to activate SharePoint Server Publishing
It is not available in enhanced rich text but it is in Publishing HTML. Change your column type to Publishing html and it will work
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Yes, you can change the order. The webpart that displays the posts is just a list view webpart. The trick is this -
go to the posts list
add a new view, get it sorting the way you want, test. save.
go back to your blog homepage
edit the page
edit the 'posts' webpart's properties
select your newly created view in the 'list views' section
click OK.
Save.
...
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Create a view only showing published items and change the alerts to be on changes to an item that appears in that view.
Note that the list needs at least one view with a filter for that option to appear
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The advantages would be as I see them:
Tighter integration into the company SharePoint platform
Single user login for intranet / blog
More business orientated, linked with the mysites this can be customised to show hierarchies and business structure
Integrates with people search
More administrator control
Single code base, meaning less in house variety of ...
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I'd recommend using Windows Live Writer (WLW) rather than Word for editing blog posts. Word is really overkill and not specifically designed for blogs like WLW is.
WLW is a free download from Microsoft:
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-writer
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This question came up some time ago on the MS foras.
The answers are more usable for anonymous access (eg removes for all) but see if it gets you going. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/thread/4848315b-c9c2-4bbb-a1cd-f3a106e0fd8e
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EDIT I have now tried this from within a console application local to my SharePoint VM. I can confirm it works in that environment (both "Created By" and "Modified By" were updated). Let us know if you run into issues using it from within your Windows Service.
If I understand your requirement correctly you could most likely update the list item after the ...
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The blog post rendered by xslt transformation. In this case you should change XSL template for your posts in 14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\XSL folder. You can use this post as start point to understand how does it work.
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When you say that it didn't work, does it fail to parse, or does it simply not match your desired data? <Value IncludeTimeValue='TRUE' Type='DateTime'><Today /></Value> should work, I tested this in a query in U2U and it worked fine. I would check <Geq> as well as <Leq> to make sure it's not an issue of timezone. SharePoint's ...
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Although it is not mentioned directly in the MSDN documentation, the <Now/> element only takes effect when used inside the DateRangesOverlap element. Please have a look at the CAML example given in both links. When used outside the tags, where you would normally use a <Today/> or a <Month/> element, SharePoint simply ignores it which makes ...
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2;#post1 is a SPFieldLookupValue where the LookupValue is "post 4" and the LookupId is 2.
The LookupId of the item being looked up is the list item ID in the list it's being stored in.
To set the value of a lookup field you have a few options:
newItem["PostTitle"] = 2; // Just pass the lookup ID
newItem["PostTitle"] = new SPFieldLookupValue("2;#post1"); ...
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Create a site definition based off the blog template:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg276356.aspx
or a better way is to utilize feature stapling, where you can inject your customization for just about anything, including changing master pages.
http://www.mssharepointtips.com/tip.asp?id=1065
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Has anyone experienced this
Yes :)
and might have a workaround
You might end up in implementing a Workflow/Timer job if you want to automate the publishing process. However, you could use major/minor versioning to write "draft" versions of a post that not gets published until you click on Publish as Major Version.
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Ouch.
Your SQL Server seems very slow
I think something is slowing down your SQL Server.
To be sure, can you check that all SharePoint sites are slow during that time ? (not only the blog)
I would recommand you to take a deep look onto the SQL Server, in particular :
Is there an antivirus that may be the cause ?
Is there a robot used to copy data that ...
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Unfortunately ID is not supported in XML defined Alert Templates; you will need to use an IAlertNotifyHandler class to insert the ID as needed.
You can find out more on how to do this here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/14/how-to-customizing-alert-emails-using-ialertnotificationhandler.aspx
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One of the possible solutions is :
1) Create a list 'Votes' to hold votes with a look-up column 'Post Id'. This column will fetch the look up values from 'Id' column in Posts list. Also, create 'Vote'(Yes/No) and 'Voted by'(Person) columns.
2) Create a custom control which will have just a button to vote. You can hide the button from current user if he is ...
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You can create sub-sites for your publishing portal that are not publishing sites using the stsadm command: stsadm.exe -o createweb -url http://path-to-publishing-site/subsite-name -sitetemplate -title
For more information, see here: http://sharepointhillbilly.com/archive/2009/07/09/creating-a-sub-site-of-a-publishing-site-that-is-not.aspx.
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If you want to avoid server side code, then CSS through your custom master page is the way to go.
I looked at the webpart that renders the Create Blog link. The Create Blog link will always be shown to the My Site owner until a Blog site is created. Your only options are to hide the webpart through CSS or remove the webpart by manually editing the page or ...
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Unfortunately, this doesn't look to be possible out-of-the-box.
There is a Codeplex project that addresses this limitation. They acknowledge SP2010 does not support provisioning of pre-dated posts and provide an alternative web part that works with pre-dated posts.
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The summary view doesn't show up when you edit posts. You need to modify the view associated with the blog widget. I stumbled on the following and it does the job.
On main blog page select Site Actions -> Edit Page.
On "Posts" widget select Edit -> Modify Shared Web Part.
Under selected view there is a drop down but also just below that a link "edit the ...
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See if this helps you:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/Roji.Joy/customize-sharepoint-2010-blog-post/
It basically consists of:
Make a copy of the blog.xsl from hive.
Make your changes to the copy.
Edit your Posts.aspx in SPD.
Modify the XslLink property of the Posts webpart to point to your custom blog.xsl
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Using Search Core Results web part is definitely the best approach out of the 3 options you mentioned and it's easier than you might think:
Add the Search Core Results to the page (may need to activate the Search Server Web Parts site collection feature to enable make the web part available)
Set the Location web part property to Local Search Results if ...
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The target attribute is modified by SP.UI.Dialog to get the behaviour it thinks is the right one.
The way you can control how links behave in a SharePoint Dialog is by specifying rel attribute on your link. In your case you want sp_DialogLinkInternal like this:
<a href="/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1" rel="sp_DialogLinkInternal">Link to post 1 ...
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Unfortunately, according to following article 'Now' Element doesn't exist. I had the same issue yesterday.
Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List
EDIT
I found the original article. Written by Karine Bosch (SharePoint Consultant at U2U). U2U built the CAML Builder.
http:
...
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I can give you the overview of the process and hopefully kickstart something that will get a post with more detail:
You will need to add a CQWP to the page and configure it to pull posts. Then you will need to export the webpart and modify the fields it is pulling in. By default you only get the titles, you need to configure it to get the "rich html" ...
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I got it working, with help from rjcup's answer (which help me link them together). here's my working (uncleaned) code:
protected void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string qmSPSiteURL = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["qmSPSiteURL"];
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(qmSPSiteURL + ...
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Which will work best to achieve my requirements; to have a wiki site
or to have a blog site OR there is a better approach to follow?.
I would rather have an Enterprise Collaboration Site with Publishing Feature enabled for the requirements mentioned below. It just gives the little extra "room" for managing content. And then as and when required ...
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I checked the pages html source, and from what I see, they just created a list with all posts, only displaying its month and year. A custom javascript was used to group the items, grouping by month, year.
<script type="text/javascript" src="/blog/Scripts/archivewp.js"></script>
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