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How to allow users to submit forms but not view submitted forms?

How can I make it so that users can submit Infopath forms to a form library, but not be able to see the contents of other users' forms that have been submitted? I know I can change their default view,...
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Page redirection in sharepoint 2010 webpart(sandboxed solution) using c# code is it possible?

I am using a sandboxed solution (sharepoint 2010 project is on office 365 hence using sandboxed solution) and want to go from one page to another on a button click event. This is achieved by ...
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Can I display a field from a form in my form library view?

Once a user has submitted an Infopath form, can I have one of the fields in it (i.e. location 'London' or 'NYC') display in the library view of all the submitted forms? If so, how do I do this? ...
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Contribute permissions for specific parts of a site

We're assessing SharePoint to use for our intranet site. I want specific groups of users to be able to edit some hierarchies of content but not others. For example, HR contributors should be able to ...
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How to create Site (SPWeb) on Sharepoint Online

I have a problem creating Sites on Sharepoint Online. The code that works on-premise do not work on Sharepoint Online. I do not want to bother you with the code, i just want a clean start. So my ...
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Claim auth from ADFS

I asked this question @StackOverflow[1] but maybe this is a better location for it: I try to connect to a SharePoint Online instance via a WPF-Application (C#). I have found this article[2] that ...
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Visual Studio 2010 opens "Create New Site" page in browser when I run "Start Debugging" instead of the site I am trying to debug

I am an Office 365 user and fairly new to Sharepoint. I am trying to write a sandboxed solution for SharePoint online. To do this, I have setup a local developer environment and am currently trying ...
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How does Sharepoint Online Event Receivers work?

I have created this Sandboxed Event Receiver on ItemAdding on a custom list. It works on my on-premise server, but it does not work on Sharepoint Online aka. O365. Anybody know how to create an ...
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Why does my Event Receiver (sandboxed) not work on Sharepoint Online, but works perfect on premise

using System; using System.Security.Permissions; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Security; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow; namespace ...
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Creating a poll in Sharepoint Online (lists or other approach)

There seem to be many web parts available for on-premise versions of SharePoint but I've not been able to find an easy way of doing them on SharePoint Online. My idea was to create a list that had a ...
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Adding custom page properties

I'd like to add some metadata to pages on my site. It looks like 'page properties' is where I should be doing this but the only pair there is for "Name". I assume it's possible to add customer name/...
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Embedding video

I've got a requirement to embed video on out intranet site. I've tried following the instructions here: http://community.office365.com/en-us/blogs/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2011/09/26/hosting-...
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Infinite loop error when using delimited repeating table from InfoPath

I am using a form template from infoPath 2007. The form has a repeating table. When the user enters data into a field I want a delimiter to append to the end of the line- so that I can easily export ...
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How to see if current user exists in people and groups field, using ecma/client-object-model

I have a list which has two fields. (Title,EditPermission). The EditPermission is "people and group" field. I can use the following code to compare the current user with the spuser in that field ...
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Adding users in Sharepoint

How do you add users in Sharepoint Online without importing from AD? I've seen a few places mention you can do it but when I create and save a user it complains it doesn't match a name.
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Manually Workflow printing items from list

I have a problem with list item and printing them. I must create workflow or jscript printing this item using template. Steps that I need to do: Select item/items on list Run workflow or jscript (...
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Word services - how to use?

I have question - how can I use Word services? And how I can use Word automatically converse to PDF file?
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Need to be able to select on a column that can have one ore more values

I have a column in a sharepoint list that lists the various departments within my company. One or more of these departments can be selected. Since the column does not show up as a selection when I ...
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Workflow changing Title an Name of the file

I want to create workflow which can change the Title and the Name. This workflow activate after create or change element. I try to get something like that: Name - Identyfication_number The ...
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Remove prefix string# from list

How can I remove prefix string#? from list using calculation field. How can I remove prefix string#? from list using calculation field. I have column [Nazwa klienta] - this is a calculated column. To ...
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Create complete site programmatically

I want to create a complete site in Visual Studio (Sandbox solution), so it is easy to deploy (with one press on the button on site collection level) to Office 365 / SharePoint Online. I can create ...
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Use an existing domain for user's email addresses in Office 365

We have a small team who wish to use Office 365 for collaboration with partners. They only really want to use SharePoint; they're happy with their internally hosted Exchange for email, and are not ...
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Recommended Visual Studio solution design for new SharePoint 2010 intranet

I'm currently working on a large SharePoint 2010 published intranet development project. The initial months of planning have been completed and we're now gearing up to commence the actual dev/build. ...
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SharePoint Online / 365 - Parse .MSG file server-side without outlook

I need to parse .msg files saved from Outlook, extract subject and attachments. Is it possible to parse msg files without a 3rd party extension in a sandboxed solution? The .msg files will be ...
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How do you add Meta-tags/CSS/JavaScript to head on SharePoint Online (without unghosting the MasterPage)

I’ve found a few semi-related articles on how to add meta-tags to the head (without changing the definition of the page I believe). I need to do this in a couple different ways… first of all I need to ...
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What is Site Content and structure in Sharepoint Online and what it is used for or how to create a site structure?

1.What is Site Content and structure in Sharepoint Online and what it is used for or how to create a site structure? Please provide me some good links or videos on activating and using it. I searched ...
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How to create web template based on Moss 2007 web site in sharepoint 2010

I have a small requirement.. We are migrating moss2007 to sharepoint 2010 online ( cloud) I have a Moss 2007 web site with some of the webparts( both out of box webparts (list view webparts) and one ...
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How to create an Information Management Policy Setting in Office365 SharePoint Online

I have setup the public-facing website and created a document library in Office365 SharePoint Online. I would like to configure an Information Management Policy Setting for the document library that ...
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Change work hours in SharePoint Online

I want to change hours work in sharepoint online. I have found something like that: http://jamestsai.net/Blog/post/How-to-change-SharePoint-Calendar-default-start-hour-and-end-hour-of-Day-View.aspx ...
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Common XML file for a SharePoint farm enviroment

We have create a object model DLL and display some result on based upon XML file stored on physical disk on dev box its working fine. Issue with our production enviroment is that we have four server ...
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Videos in sharepoint

I have my sharepoint site. My requirement is to efficiently show videos in my site (like the one in youtube). But I don't know what should be ideal approach to store videos. FYI: I would have ...
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Is it possible to get detailed error messages in SharePoint Online?

When doing any sort of development/testing work against SharePoint Online, there are bound to be some errors. Some errors manifest in the form of exceptions, which can be logged to a special-purpose ...
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Add Content with a sharepoint webserver with in sharepoint farm where we have more than 1 webfrontend server

We have a sharepoint farm (with three web front end server and these server maange by a loadbalancer) we can access our sharepoint portal via two way one is using loadbalancer url and second directry ...
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SharePoint 2010 Webfrontend serer showing diffrent result

My client has two SharePoint WFE in a farm. While we are trying to access the SharePoint portal with server name, we have encountered one issue with server 1. The issue is on a list page, a user is ...
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add image to list from fileupload Asp control by using JavaScript or JQuery

i have list called SharesList has image column, so i need to make the end user upload image from his/her local pc... please i need any solutions immediately. var siteUrl = '/deanships/...
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Parent child relationship inside a document library

How can I implement parent child relationship inside a document library. The document library will have different documents for countries. The same document library will have documents for states ...
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Sharing library or site in SharePoint without login to the account office 365

I want to share my library create on SharePoint Online. But I want to send only a link to this person and he can access to this library (this person don't have office 365 account). Is there any ...
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Feature activation suceeds in sandboxed server environment, but fails in SharePoint Online. How do I find what's wrong?

I am currently developing a solution in C# with a feature that uses the SharePoint API to create a number of sites, lists, list views etc. The final result is going to be used on SharePoint Online. ...
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Audience rule – slow compilation

I’ve got a problem witch audience rule – I have create new rule on Monday, but this rule are not compile. Is there any solution to start / compile manually? Or where I can set the interval between ...
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Save the Excel Webpart changes in SharePoint Online

I have been displaying an Excel Workbook as a webpart in SharePoint Online. The users are allowed to edit the excel file. I am trying to save the changes done by the user. Is there any other way to ...
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List View Lookup Threshold Exception not thrown when submitted without Query element

SharePoint 2010 includes a list view lookup threshold as part of its resource throttling. Columns that count as a lookup include Lookup, taxonomy (managed metadata), and User (PersonOrGroup) The ...
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Getting error after site restore

On server we have created new web application and restored the content database using stsadm command. Restoration got successfully completed but when we try to open site using browser we get below ...
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What is a good approach for generating serial numbers in SharePoint Online?

I want to be able to generate serial numbers for use in (for example) uniquely identifying list items. The serial numbers all need to be unique, and preferably monotonically increasing (0001, 0002, ...
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Read SiteMapNodeCollection of another sitecollection in a webapplication

I am having a three site collection along with subsite in a same Web Application as below SiteCollection1 SubSite1.1 SubSIte1.2 SiteCollection2 SubSite2.1 SubSIte2.2 We have the requirment to ...
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Auto Insert new field into SP List on page PostBack

I've just created a new webpart. I'm a beginning on Sp Word. I built a new WP the get some data from textBox and put it into a content list. But every time I do Refresh a new void item is inserted ...
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Adding description to sharepoint link URL using the C# CSOM

I'm currently adding the URL except the description is an ugly link. I would like to add the description to the URL in a links list on sharepoint online. My current code to add a new item from an ...
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Encrypting Data in SharePoint Online

Is there a way to Encrypt the data that is being stored in SharePoint Online? We would like to encrypt any data that is being sent out from our office to be store in SharePoint Online so we can ...
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Programmatically refresh SAML token for Sharepoint Online

Am using Map Network Drive in Windows Explorer to add a Sharepoint folder. This link is valid for the lifetime of the security token that Sharepoint returns (say 10 hours). When the token expires, the ...
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FileUpload Control in Sandbox solution

FileUploadControl.HasFile always returns false. When I tried using HttpFileCollection HttpFileCollection files = Request.Files; after adding System.Web Namespace it says 'Request' does not exists ...
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Order of Server Reboot in SharePoint Farm [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Order of Server Shutdown and Restart in SharePoint Farm We have a SharePoint Server 2010 farm with 2 WFE Servers and 2 APP Servers. Can you please suggest the order of reboot ...
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