Sunil Programming Tips

Workflow beta for sharepoint

2005-12-15T20:23:00.000-08:00

http://beta.microsoft.com/source/bpVault.asp?ProgID=1093000000&ContentID=157174.

Adding Lookup field to SPlist

2005-10-25T21:41:00.000-07:00

check the below link for more details
http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2005/05/13/406734.aspx
private void CreateLookup()
{
SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost/sites/employee");
SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();

// Get the Department List from the web for lookups
SPList departmentList = web.Lists["Department"];

// Get the Employee List from the web
SPList employeeList = web.Lists["Employees"];

// Add a new lookup field to the Employee list called Departement
// that will use the Department list for it's values
employeeList.Fields.AddLookup("Department", departmentList.ID, false);

// Create 2 new departments in the Department list for lookups
AddDepartment(departmentList, "Information Services");
AddDepartment(departmentList, "Finance");

// Now create 5 employees with lookups into each Department
AddEmployee(employeeList, "Mickey Mouse", departmentList, "Information Services");
AddEmployee(employeeList, "Goofy", departmentList, "Finance");
AddEmployee(employeeList, "Donald Duck", departmentList, "Information Services");
AddEmployee(employeeList, "Daisy Duck", departmentList, "Information Services");
AddEmployee(employeeList, "Minnie Mouse", departmentList, "Information Services");

// Cleanup and dispose of the web and site
web.Dispose();
site.Dispose();
}

private void AddDepartment(SPList list, string name)
{
SPListItem newDepartmentItem = list.Items.Add();
newDepartmentItem["Title"] = name;
newDepartmentItem.Update();
}

private void AddEmployee(SPList list, string name, SPList deptList, string deptName)
{
SPListItem newEmployeeItem = list.Items.Add();
newEmployeeItem["Title"] = name;
newEmployeeItem["Department"] = FindDepartmentByName(deptList, deptName);
newEmployeeItem.Update();
}

private int FindDepartmentByName(SPList list, string name)
{
int itemId = 0;
SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
query.Query = "" + name + "";
SPListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(query);
if(items.Count == 1)
itemId = items[0].ID;
return itemId;
}

TimeLastModified property does not work

2005-10-25T20:57:00.000-07:00

The web parts and their configuration data i.e. property values are stored separately from the web part page itself,
So the page is not changing in this scenario,
therefore the TimeLastModifiedDate property of the page doesn’t change.
You should use LastItemModifiedDate of SPWeb or LastContentModifiedDate of SPSite.

Solve uninstall WSS before SPS

2005-10-25T20:50:00.000-07:00

Use this KB article if WSS was removed before SPS:http://support.microsoft.com/?ID=827755

Save Changes to Your Web Part does not work

2005-10-18T20:46:00.000-07:00

Check Web Part Zone Properties Whenever You Attempt to Save Changes to Your Web Part
Web Part zones have properties that control whether a user can persist changes. If you attempt to save changes to a Web Part without the correct permissions, it could result in a broken page. For this reason, you should account for any combination of permissions for your Web Part.
Following are the list of properties in the WebPartZone class that determine whether a Web Part can persist properties:
· AllowCustomization property. If false, and the user is viewing the page in shared view, the Web Part cannot persist any changes to the database.
· AllowPersonalization property. If false, and the user is viewing the page in personal view, the Web Part cannot persist any changes to the database.
· LockLayout property. If true, changes to the AllowRemove, AllowZoneChange, Height, IsIncluded, IsVisible, PartOrder, Width, and ZoneID properties are not persisted to the database regardless of view.
Fortunately, the Web Part infrastructure does a lot of the work. You can check the Permissions property, which takes into account the values of the zone's AllowCustomization and AllowPersonalization properties. If, however, your user interface permits changes to the properties controlled by the LockLayout property, you must explicitly check this value, typically in your property's Set accessor method.

SharePoint document library Upload

2005-10-17T21:07:00.000-07:00

I use this http://blog.baeke.info/blog/_archives/2005/3/3/393158.html which can set metadata values at the same time. If you don’t need to set metadata then you can just use the filesystemobject in a vbscript to copy the file to the unc equivalent path of the document library. This .wsf script copies an image into a picture library

Completely avoid the random generated URL’s that SharePoint

2005-10-17T21:06:00.000-07:00

Example: instead of http://dpe/c10/demos it really should be http://dpe/demos

I know that this is a limitation of the current shipping version of SharePoint, but I wonder if anyone has come up with a simple/cheap workaround that is reliable.

This article might offer some help depending on the number of areas you have and the taxonomy of your portal:
https://blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/archive/2005/05/18/419160.aspx

Custom security in templates

2005-10-17T20:56:00.000-07:00

ExecuteUrl property of a template as a way to automatically do the redirection and do your own security thing

Metrics With New Reporting Tools For SharePoint Portal Server

2005-10-12T20:35:00.000-07:00

check the link.....
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/11/ReportingTools/default.aspx

copy or duplicate a list view

2005-09-28T20:45:00.000-07:00

Not through the WEB UI but you can with FrontPage 2003. Just copy and paste an existing view.aspx page.

Resorce Events in SPS

2005-09-26T21:05:00.000-07:00

arrStrEventName[0] = SPResource.GetString( Strings.AlertAllChanges );
arrStrEventName[1] = SPResource.GetString( Strings.AlertListAddChanges );
arrStrEventName[2] = SPResource.GetString( Strings.AlertListModifyChanges );
arrStrEventName[3] = SPResource.GetString( Strings.AlertListDeleteChanges );
arrStrEventName[4] = SPResource.GetString( Strings.AlertListDiscussionChanges);

Clear Logon Credentials to Force Reauthentication

2005-09-26T21:03:00.000-07:00

Check this links
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=195192
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/constants/clearauthenticationcache.asp

can mysite feature be disabled

2005-09-21T22:25:00.000-07:00

Don't give user create personal site rights.

using Search.aspx Get methods

2005-09-21T22:15:00.002-07:00

Check the link below
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/SearchGET_SV01073871.asp

The “w” parameter would allows me to pass CONTAINS Boolean searches into a SEARCH.ASPX page.

Add a Content Editor Web Part to Page

i. The w parameter is where the CONTAINS clause is specified.
ii. The s parameter specifies the search scope, in the example the scope is defined as searchscope.

This will show all of the items within Shared Documents in mysites on the kiosk server:
http://kiosk/search.aspx?s=People&k=kiosk&w="DAV:href"%20like%20'%personal%'AND"DAV:href"%20like%20'%Shared%20Documents%'

using Search.aspx Get methods

2005-09-21T22:15:00.001-07:00

using Search.aspx Get methods

2005-09-21T22:15:00.000-07:00

Open the document in own Application window

2005-09-15T23:13:00.000-07:00

check this link
http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/DocEdit.aspx?menu=Articles

You can hide the site sittings link with removing it from code

2005-09-15T23:06:00.000-07:00

#SettingsOrReturnURL {display: none}

Meta Data of the document library

2005-09-15T00:20:00.000-07:00

Database called the property store is used to store all of the metadata from the documents within the document library
Check this link
http://www.brienposey.com/kb/boosting_performance.asp

customize alert creation confirmation email message of SPS

2005-09-12T21:50:00.000-07:00

\SharePoint Portal Server\DATA\Alerts\1033

AlertAutoDeactivationNotification.xsl
AlertCreationConfirmation.xsl (This one is just what you are hunting for)
AlertNewsLetterNotification.xsl
AlertResultNotification.xsl

Simple way of moving contents in SPS

2005-09-12T21:40:00.000-07:00

A simple way would be to open the existing site in FrontPage and back it up using FrontPage. Then create a folder in the original site (naming it whatever you want to call the secondary site) and then right click on the folder and elect to convert to a web. Open the new folder in FrontPage and restore the backed up instance to that folder. You will now have a fully working copy of the original site underneath it. You can then go ahead and delete whatever content you want on the top level original site.

add subsite in SPS

2005-09-12T21:32:00.000-07:00

To add a subsite under a site/subsite please try using this code
SPSite siteCollection = new SPSite(siteUrl); //[siteUrl : new site that is to be created]
SPWeb SubSitesWeb = siteCollection.OpenWeb();
SubSitesWeb.webs.add(“”);

siteURL can be something like “http:///default.aspx”
OR
“http:///sites/site1/default.aspx”

ASP 2.0 Webpart Model for SPS

2005-09-12T21:25:00.000-07:00

ASP 2.0 web parts will be supported in the R2 timeframe. This means that you can run WSS with 1.1 and 2.0 web parts on the same box with R2. Our longer term strategy is to have customers focused on SPS and WSS v.NEXT with the release of the O12 servers. There are some huge announcements that will be getting some attention at the PDC. That is where ASP 2.0 and the next generation web parts will come to life since the 2.0 framework has web parts as a core part of the 2.0 framework and IDE.

Actually, the way it will work will be that WSS will support running on the ASP.NET 2.0 runtime when WSS Service Pack 2 ships. WSS Service Pack 2 is in Windows Server 2003 R2. That doesn't mean that we'll support new ASP.NET 2.0 features like the new Web Part model automatically, though.

that SPS 2003 Service Pack 2, unlike WSS Service Pack 2, will not include support for running on the .NET 2.0 CLR. That means that the aforementioned developments will only work in a WSS-only (i.e., non-SPS) Web application. SPS 2003 will do a number of Good Things, but this won't be one of them.

the prospect of needing to continue to develop with the current Web Part model until we release the next releases of Windows SharePoint Services ("v3") and the Office "12" servers.

Advance Discussion board in SPS

2005-09-07T23:47:00.000-07:00

check this link
http://spsutil.sourceforge.net/

Integrating SPS with OCR engines

2005-09-05T22:48:00.000-07:00

Here you can find an example on how to integrate sps with standard twain scanner:
http://blogs.msdn.com/roberdan/archive/2005/02/20/376972.aspx
that links also to a short powerpoint that can be found here: http://roberdan.officeisp.net/public/Shared%20Documents/Integrazione%20WSS-Scanner.ppt
http://www.nsius.com/c/products/autostore/route/sharepoint-portal

training link for sharepoint

2005-09-04T20:54:00.000-07:00

check the below link
http://shareptmktg/C3/Training/default.aspx

SSO Problem with Win 2003 SP1

2005-09-02T05:56:00.000-07:00

"Failed to connect to the database server. Verify connectivity and rights for the configuration account and try again."On a project I was recently working on we ran into this error message when configuring SSO in SPS.Well ... after much hair pulling ... we found that we were not alone. There are a couple of posts from people on the net about workarounds that may or may not work (they didnt for us). I also found another MS consultant working with another customer who was having the same problem.It is funny how problems look like one thing on the surface ... but are totally related to something else under the hood. As it turns out ... this problem is due to Windows Installer 3.1 that happens to be installed when you apply Windows Server 2003 SP1 !The problem is fairly easily resolved however ... by manually tweeking a registry entry.Find the ImagePath registry entry at the following location:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\ssosrvRemove the quotation strings from around the the ImagePath value ... and away you go.The result of all this is that there is currently a KB being written that will outline the problem and the steps to fix it.
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1 @ Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:10 AM I have also had this problem when I tried setting up single sign on AFTER installing SP1. My initial error was the same as yours: "Failed to connect to the database server. Verify connectivity and rights for the configuration account and try again." I have tried the RegEdit you have suggested which results in the new error message "A Single Sign-on error has occurred. Please contact an administrator. Details: Unspecified error" Any ideas? I don't really have the option of a full reinstall of the server. Thanks Robert Hankin (rhankin@richmond-foods.plc.uk) Robert Hankin
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1 @ Friday, July 15, 2005 6:16 PM Thanks for this, you saved me big yesterday. James
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1 @ Monday, July 18, 2005 5:57 AM i did remove the quotation string at the imagepath in the registry..but the error still same as before which "failed to connect to database.."
pls help me..i spent a lot of time to solve this.. allez
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1 @ Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:52 PM Thank you very much for this information! Cindy
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1 @ Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:43 AM We experienced the same error but found a different root cause.
We found that some of the various tables in the SP DB had as the owner. We ran a SQL script to determine which tables had this issue and then changing the ownership to a service account. NOTE: We do not have Win2003 SP1 installed, although we do have Windows Installer 3.1 installed. I did not find any quotes around the regestry values. Gareth
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1 @ Monday, August 01, 2005 3:22 PM I had this problem, i've Windows 2003 SP1, and SPS 2003 SP1 chang privileges to tempdb on SQL Server for my service account to db_owner and change de database name from SSO to SSO_DB and works Edgar
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1 @ Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:20 PM I'm also having the same problem but removing the quotation strings alone from the registry didn't work for me.
I also had to stop & start the service of Micrsoft Single Sign on before it worked.
Thanks for the registry information! iuy
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1 @ Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:30 PM Yes you do have to restart the Microsoft Single Sign-on Service before this works. Here is the KB Article: KB901203

Microsoft Office SharePoint Virus Scan Engine API

2005-08-31T22:48:00.000-07:00

check this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/tsovAntiVirusOverview_SV01081979.asp

Performance counter for sharepoint

2005-08-31T22:45:00.000-07:00

Check this
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/050825.htm

How to stop the !New tag appearing when you add items to your SharePoint

2005-08-31T21:37:00.000-07:00

stsadm.exe -o setproperty -pn days-to-show-new-icon -pv #Days -url [Your Virtual Server's URL]

refer http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825510

re-create the “Explorer View” for document library if u deleted it

2005-08-31T00:20:00.000-07:00

To re-create the “Explorer View” the following was completed:

Take a copy of an existing WebFldr.aspx from another document library (which has explorer view) using frontpage and copy it to the Forms directory of the document library that had the “Explorer View” removed from it.
Edit the WebFldr.aspx file and make the following changes:
Around line 99 or 100
{C00DF4E5-0547-4EA0-900B-09921313BAAA}
The number appearing in braces after ListView”> must be changed to reflect the same number as the listview from the broken sites AllItems.aspx

<View Name="{46A0A6CC-F0FB-45AC-9DCB-94D8AE435B19}" Type="HTML" ReadOnly="TRUE" DisplayName="Explorer View" Url="Shared Documents/Forms/WebFldr.aspx" … (remainder of line truncated)
The numeric in this View Name=”()” needs to be unique and also replicated towards the top of the file (see next line)

Around line 75 or 76

Items in bold must match.

Ensure that the following line is modified to point to the correct Document library (as this will still contain the previous locations details):
http://xx_sitename/xx_foldername/xx_sub_folder/Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx

Save the WebFldr.aspx file go back to the site and reload it.
Should result in a nice new “Explorer View” link appearing where it should have been.

I realize this may be a simplistic way of doing this, but I am certainly no expert and this was easy enough to figure out.

How To Integrate an Existing Windows SharePoint Services Installation with SharePoint Portal Server 2003

2005-08-23T21:29:00.000-07:00

check the below link
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=824877

Managing External Content in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

2005-08-23T21:28:00.000-07:00

check this link
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/reskit/c2261881x.mspx

Sharepoint Reporting Services tool pack

2005-08-23T21:27:00.000-07:00

Check this link

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=03607516-cbec-4724-b4a4-aa7f09304ba5&displaylang=en

office webparts for sharepoint

2005-08-23T21:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=38BE67A5-2056-46A1-84B1-337FFB549C5C

Sharepoint Content sources

2005-08-21T22:09:00.000-07:00

check this link
http://www.msd2d.com/msd2dsitemap2.htm

Live communication Webparts for SPS

2005-08-21T21:57:00.000-07:00

Some interesting Live Meeting integration stuff

Download details: Live Meeting 2003 Add-In for IBM Lotus Notes
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=daf521db-b4fb-4507-a844-c18fc17860d2&DisplayLang=en
Overview
With this Live Meeting Add-In, you can use IBM® Lotus Notes® to perform Live Meeting Web conferencing tasks, such as scheduling meetings without logging into the Conference Center. Using the Live Meeting Lotus Notes Add-In Pack, you can:
Schedule and enter a meeting in your personal place
Schedule future meetings for both Auditoriums and Web Meeting Places
Check seat availability
Display the Organize Meetings page directly from IBM Lotus Notes
Set up default preferences including text for your e-mail invitations

Download details: Live Meeting 2005 Web Parts
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06e51c3b-ee57-498b-823d-e5550ebc11b4&DisplayLang=en
Overview
The Live Meeting 2005 Web Parts integrate Live Meeting with Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server to aggregate information together within a single portal so that teams can interact more effectively.By integrating with Live Meeting Portal, users can seamlessly view their upcoming Live Meetings or recently made recordings without having to log-in or remember any passwords. Not only do the web parts provide a view into Live Meeting from SharePoint, but they also allow a user to conveniently publish meetings and recording into a shared event calendar, so that team members can interact more effectively by having everything in one place.

Download details: Live Meeting 2005 Add-in Pack
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d1984810-117a-45ff-bfec-2756c6111097&DisplayLang=en
Overview
The Live Meeting Add-In Pack consists of three distinct add-ins: the Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook, the Office Collaboration Add-in, and the Live Meeting add-in for Instant Messaging, each which offer unique features. Live Meeting Add-in for OutlookWith the Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook, you can:
Schedule a Live Meeting from Outlook
Identify individual meeting participants as attendees or presenters
Send separate invitations for attendees and for presenters
Specify default meeting options and override those defaults for specific meetings
Live Meeting Add-in for Office Collaboration
With the Office Collaboration Add-in, you can start a Meet Now meeting directly from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, or Project. The document appears in an application sharing session.
Live Meeting Add-in for Instant Messaging
If the recipient also has the Live Meeting Add-in Pack installed, you can start a Live Meeting from Windows Messenger or from MSN Messenger.

Recycle bin for sharepoint

2005-08-21T21:56:00.000-07:00

Check the below links
http://www.sharepointexperts.com/software_undelete.htm
http://www.nintex.com/Product-SmartLibrary.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/RecycleBinforWSS/default.aspx

Integrating Documtum with SPS

2005-08-21T21:54:00.000-07:00

check the link below
www.vorsite.com

Deleting Files from Document library

2005-08-18T23:30:00.000-07:00

SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost");

SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();

// get a collection of all sites that are under root

SPWebCollection webColl = site.AllWebs;

// iterate through all sites

for(int i=0;i< webColl.Count ;i++)

{

// get all lists for current site

SPListCollection listcoll = webColl[i].Lists;

//iterate through all lists

for(int j=0; j< listcoll.Count;j++)

{

// check if its a doc lib

if (listcoll[j].BaseTemplate == Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListTemplateType.DocumentLibrary)

{

// iterate thru all and delete

for(int k=0;k
{

listcoll[j].Items.Delete(k);

}

}

}

}

Templates for wss site

2005-08-16T21:08:00.000-07:00

check this link for templates for wss sites
http://sharepoint.bilsimser.com/pages/templates.aspx

download the .stp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/wssapps/default.mspx

Applying Permissions to Lists in Areas

2005-08-09T21:39:00.000-07:00

A nice feature of SharePoint Portal Server are areas. Think of an area as a mini-WSS site of it's own. You can create document libraries, custom lists, discussion threads, etc. all within an area. Items in the portal, including entire areas, have the added advantage over WSS sites of being able to use audience filtering and thereby only show content to those that it's aimed for (remember audience filtering is just what's presented, you still need to apply appropriate security to deny access to something to someone).

Security for areas is the same as you would apply security anywhere else in SharePoint. You can add new users, change permissions, etc. (although when you select the advanced permissions for an area you get more options like being able to apply stylesheets, browsing directories, etc.) One of the issues security in an area is that if you have say several document libraries in that area, the security is the same for all libraries.

When you select a list or document library (through the Manage Content option) in SPS, you'll see the typical interface like Change general settings, Delete this list, etc. What you won't see is the option that you see when you go into the settings in a list or library in a WSS site. Namely the Change permissions for this list option. When you apply permissions to an area (using the Manage Security option), you'll see the typical SharePoint interface to add users, etc. but no option to set permissions for a list or library. You can however still use a feature of SharePoint to apply individual permissions to a document library or list in the area, it just takes a little typing to get there.

If you hover over the Change permissions for this list option in a WSS site, you'll see a url similar to the following:

http://servername/sites/sitename/_layouts/1033/ShrOpt.aspx?obj={1234567A-BBBB-C999D9999999},list

This is the page where you can set permissions for a list or document library (for document libraries, the end of the url will say ",doclib" instead of ",list"). The page exists in a virtual directory that's available to any WSS site and... portal area! This same url format can be used for an individual document library or list at the portal. You just need to know the GUID (the 1234567A number above). To find this out:

Select Manage Content from there area where your document library or list lives in the portal
Select the document library or list from the ones available
Select Modify settings and columns for that list
Take a look at the url you've gone to. You'll see listedit.aspx?List={... The numbers between the {} characters is the GUID for that list. The easiest way to get from this page to the ShrOpt page is to change the URL from this:
http://servername/_layouts/1033/listedit.aspx?List={30BDBE4A-829A-4FD1-A237-D1D3D60EFF02}
to this:
http://servername/_layouts/1033/ShrOpt.aspx?obj={30BDBE4A-829A-4FD1-A237-D1D3D60EFF02},list
Now you'll be at the Change Permissions: Document Library (or list) page
Modify the permissions as you normally would, adding or removing users and setting up permissions.
These permissions will only be applied to the document library and not to the entire area so you can now create read-only areas

WSS Web Services Web Reference

2005-08-09T21:38:00.000-07:00

WSS Web Services Web Reference
Administration Service http:///_vti_adm/admin.asmx
Alerts Service http:///_vti_bin/alerts.asmx
Document Workspace Service http:///_vti_bin/dws.asmx
Forms Service http:///_vti_bin/forms.asmx
Imaging Service http:///_vti_bin/imaging.asmx
List Data Retrieval Service http:///_vti_bin/dspsts.asmx
Lists Service http:///_vti_bin/lists.asmx
Meetings Service http:///_vti_bin/meetings.asmx
Permissions Service http:///_vti_bin/permissions.asmx
Site Data Service http:///_vti_bin/sitedata.asmx
Site Service http:///_vti_bin/sites.asmx
Users and Groups Service http:///_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx
Versions Service http:///_vti_bin/versions.asmx
Views Service http:///_vti_bin/views.asmx
Web Part Pages Service http:///_vti_bin/webpartpages.asmx
Webs Service http:///_vti_bin/webs.asmx

WSS Web Services Description
Administration Service This Web service provides administrative capabilities like creating a new top-level site, deleting a top-level site and getting the list of available languages.
Alerts Service Provides access to the list of active alerts and allows to delete active alerts.
Document Workspace Service This Web service is used to manage Document Workspace sites. It allows you to create new document workspaces, delete document workspaces, create new sub-folders, delete sub-folders, and so forth.
Forms Service Each list has forms associated which are used to display list items, create new list items, and update or delete existing list items. This Web service allows to get the collection of forms associated with a list and then get detailed information about each form.
Imaging Service SharePoint has picture libraries that users can use to manage pictures. This Web service allows to upload pictures, download pictures, create new folders, delete folders and pictures, and the like.
List Data Retrieval Service Allows you to run XPath like queries against a list.
Lists Service This Web service is used to work with lists and list data. You can obtain the collection of lists, add new lists, remove lists, add new list attachments, remove attachments, and so on.
Meetings Service This Web service is used to work with Meeting Workspaces. You can create a new Meeting workspace, remove an existing Meeting workspace, add new meetings, add new meetings using ICal files, and so forth.
Permissions Service Sites and lists have permissions assigned to them. This Web service is used to obtain the permissions assigned to a list or site, add new permissions, and update or removing existing permissions.
Site Data Service The Site Data Web service can be used to return meta-data about a site or list, get the collection of lists, get the attachments for a list item, get the collection of items in a list, and so on.
Site Service This Web service can be used to return the list of site templates. When you create a new site using the Administration Web service you need to specify the site template name to use that you can obtain through this Web service.
Users and Groups Service This Web service is used to work with users, site-groups and cross-site groups. You can add, update or remove users, site-groups, and cross-site groups. You can also add users or cross-site-groups to a site-group.
Versions Service Document Libraries and Picture Libraries can have versioning enabled, which stores a copy of every single file version. This Web service can be used to get the list of available versions, delete versions, and also restore a file version.
Views Service Lists have views associated that define what fields are shown, what filtering and sorting is applied, what grouping is applied, and so on. This Web service is used to work with list views. You can get the collection of views, add new views, remove views, update the Html code used to display a view, and the like.
Web Part Pages Service Web Parts are objects that you can place on Web part pages. This Web service is used to work with Web parts and Web part pages. You can get the list of Web parts on a page, you can add or remove Web parts, and so forth.
Webs Service This Web service is used to work with sites and sub-sites. You can get the list of list-templates, get meta-data about a sub-site, get the list of sub-sites, and so on.

Rendering a webpart inside another webpart

2005-08-09T21:36:00.000-07:00

code for rendering a webpart inside another webpart

protected override void RenderWebPart(HtmlTextWriter output){ SPSite site = new SPSite(webSiteURL); SPList docLib = site.RootWeb.Lists[libraryName]; SPView view = docLib.DefaultView;
output.Write(view.RenderAsHtml());}

Option Strict Off on .NET web project

2005-08-09T20:39:00.000-07:00

you can use the

Sample themes for ASP.Net 2.0

2005-08-09T20:38:00.000-07:00

link for sample themes
http://www.dotnettreats.com/tools/Default.aspx
http://www.dotnettreats.com/SampleThemes/Default.aspx

Accessing Webpart Maintaince Page

2005-08-08T21:53:00.000-07:00

Add ?contents=1 to the portal url this will navigate to the Webpart Maintaince Page

Site Usage Report in Sharepoint

2005-08-08T21:29:00.000-07:00

To access the WSS Usage on Portal and areas and not on WSS sites. This is not exposed in SPS , but you can browse to the link directly.
/_layouts/1033/usageDetails.aspx">http:///_layouts/1033/usageDetails.aspx

Antivirus Softwares for Sharepoint

2005-08-08T21:28:00.000-07:00

1.
Antigen for SharePoint
Company: Sybari Software, Inc.
Summary: Sybari’s Antigen for Microsoft Office SharePoint™ Portal Server 2003 and Windows® SharePoint Services is an antivirus and document-filtering solution specifically designed to meet the security needs of SharePoint administrators.Solution Type: Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services

2.
McAfee PortalShield for Microsoft SharePoint
Company: Network Associates
Summary: McAfee PortalShield provides comprehensive virus protection and content management for Microsoft SharePoint™ Portal Server 2001, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and Windows® SharePoint Services. Solution Type: Products: Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001

3.
PortalProtect for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
Company: Trend Micro, Inc.
Summary: Trend Micro PortalProtect provides comprehensive virus protection and content security for enterprise information portal (EIP) systems and their users. Designed for specific use with EIP systems built using Microsoft SharePoint™ Portal Server 2001, PortalProtect offers tight integration with the Microsoft virus scanning application programming interface (API) and other Microsoft technologies.Solution Type: Products: Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows XP TabletPC Edition

Rename a team site from http://portalname/sites/testsite to http://portalname/sites/teamsite.

2005-08-08T21:22:00.000-07:00

Rename the subsites using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. To rename the root of a site, you have to request this from the server administrator and ask him or her to back up this site using STSADM, and then restore it back as whatever name you want, such as http://portalname/sites/teamsite.

Hosting ASP or ASP.NET pages in a SharePoint site

2005-08-08T21:19:00.000-07:00

Active Server Pages (ASP) pages hosted in a SharePoint site go through the SharePoint Internet Server Application API (ISAPI) filter, which does not parse ASP. Therefore, you will only get the raw source of the file if you attempt to browse to it.
In contrast, you could set up an exclusion on your virtual server that is extended with Windows SharePoint Services and put your ASP pages in that exclusion. Then you can turn on the Internet Information Services (IIS) ASP filter and have it parse those pages.

Setting Max Webparts Per WebPartPage

2005-08-04T23:14:00.000-07:00

Change the

in Web.Config file.

Share Point Farm Configuration Moving From Small To Large Farm

2005-08-04T23:02:00.000-07:00

Backup your small farm using spsbackup.exe (you may also want to backup the databases themselves using Enterprise Manager as well, just in case)
Add each of the new servers to the farm (Install SharePoint, set the database connection to the existing database)
NOTE: At this state on the Add Components page you will have a warning saying you are not using all of your servers.
For the server which hosts all the roles, de-select all but the one role you wish it to keep
For each of the additional servers, select only one role for each. Make sure you have at least 2 servers with the Front-End Role, 2 servers with the search role and 1 server with the indexing role otherwise you will not have a supported topology and SharePoint may not function correctly. (you can have more servers of each role and still have a larger server farm, so long as you meet the minimum for a large server farm I listed above. Just make sure each server has ONLY one role).
Make sure you do not have a red error at the bottom of the page (I think this is on the Add Components page) which says your farm topology is not supported. It should report your farm status is fine.
Configure network load balancing on each of the Front Ends (you can refer to the SharePoint Resource Kit or other documentation for how to do this. If you need more info, let me know)
Restore your backup.

If you are OK with losing your Index Catalog and having to recreate all of your content sources and re-indexing them, then you can skip step 7 (I would still recommend making a backup before you start just in case.

Performance settings with Sharepoint

2005-08-03T22:48:00.000-07:00

None of these are hard limits enforced by the system. They are guidelines for designing a server that has good overall performance.
Site collections (Database scope) 50,000 ... Total throughput degrades as the number of site collections increases. Web sites (Web site scope) 2,000 ... The interface for enumerating subsites of a given Web site does not perform well muchbeyond 2,000 subsites. Web sites (Site collection) 250,000 - You can create a very large total number of Web sites by nesting the subsites. For example, 100sites each with 1000 subsites is 100,100 Web sites. Documents (Folder scope) 2,000 ... The interfaces for enumerating documents in a folder do not perform well beyond a thousand entries. Documents (Library scope) 2 million ... You can create very large document libraries by nesting folders. Security principals (Web site scope) 2,000 ... The size of the access control list is limited to a few thousand security principals, in other words users and groups in the Web site. Users ( Web site scope) 2 million ... You can add millions of people to your Web site by using Microsoft Windows security groups to manage security instead of using individual users. Items (List scope) 2,000 ... The interface for enumerating list items does not perform well beyond a few thousand items. Web Parts (Page scope) 100 ... Pages with more than 100 Web Parts are slow to render. Web Part personalization (Page scope) 10,000 ... Pages with more than a few thousand user personalizations are slow to render. Lists (Web site scope) 2,000 ... The interface for enumerating lists and libraries in a Web site does not perform well beyond a few thousand entries.Document size (File scope) 50 MB ... The file save performance degrades as the file size grows. The default maximum is 50 MB. This maximum is enforced by the system, but you can change it to any value up to 2 GB (2047 MB) if you have applied Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1.

An asterisk (*) indicates a hard limit; no asterisk indicates a tested or supported limit.
Portal sites (full) - typically 2 ... maximum 15 * Portal sites (child) - typically 10 ... maximum 100 * Areas - typically 1,000 ... maximum 10,000 Best Bets - typically 1,000 ... maximum 25,000 Area depth - typically 5 ... maximum 20 * User profiles - typically 50,000 ... maximum 1,000,000 Audiences - typically 500 ... maximum 10,000 Audience memberships - typically 500,000 ... maximum 5,000,000 SSO credentials - typically 100,00 ... maximum 100,000 Search indexes - typically 3 ... maximum 32 Content sources -typically 25 ... maximum 250 Search scopes - typically 25 ... maximum 250 * Indexed documents per content index - typically 100,000 ... maximum 5,000,000 Indexed documents - typically 2,500,000 ... maximum 20,000,000 Thesaurus entries - typically 1,000 ... maximum 10,000 Alerts - typically 50,000 ... maximum 1,000,000 Team sites - typically 10,000 ... maximum 250,000 Personal sites - typically 10,000 ... maximum 250,000

Communication between Portlets and Sharepoint Webparts

2005-08-03T22:26:00.000-07:00

The Java world has portal standards called WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) and portlets. Major Java portals seem to support it. It allows you to write a portlet using web services and defines standards for local portal component behavior. Some of the most important vendors in the J2EE world like BEA and IBM provide supports for portlets in some prodicts like WebLogic Portal.

Portlet is basically an extension of servlet but with some fundamental differences like a web page can consist of mulitple portlets but can have only single servlet, portlets cannot do browser redirect but servlet can.

Portlet is a an extension of servlet, can write html output, can forward but within the same portlet context, access to HTTP objects like session, request, response, along with similar Portlet objects like session, request, response.

Portlet is a concept of Java/J2EE technology and Microsoft SharePoint is based on .NET technology. They are competitive for each other.

WSRP will allow remote portlet Web services to be implemented in a variety of ways, including Java/J2EE and Microsoft's .NET platform. If we use WSRP release local Portlet as Remote Portlet, we can use “WSRP Web Service Toolkit for SharePoint Products and Technologies” to enable developers to load them.

Displaying custom webparts in FrontPage

2005-08-01T21:02:00.000-07:00

To display the custom webparts in FP
Your custom webpart should implement
IDesignTimeHtmlProvider interface provides design-time HTML for Web Form controls for use in Web development tools such as Microsoft FrontPage.

Check this example

using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;
namespace MyWebParts
{
[XmlRoot(Namespace = "MyNamespace")]
public class DesignTimeHTMLSample : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart, IDesignTimeHtmlProvider
{
private string designTimeHtml = "This is the design-time HTML.";
private string runTimeHtml = "This is the run-time HTML.";

public string GetDesignTimeHtml()
{
return SPEncode.HtmlEncode(designTimeHtml);
}

protected override void RenderWebPart(HtmlTextWriter output)
{
output.Write(this.ReplaceTokens(runTimeHtml));
}
}
}

stsadmin magics

2005-07-31T21:08:00.000-07:00

1) This can create a DB using the createsiteinnewdb, which allows you to create a new DB and create a site into this new DB.
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN>stsadm -o createsiteinnewdb -url http://rys1stsps/sites/site41 -ownerlogin ryshosting\administrator -owneremail ryanph@microsoft.com -databasename Alliance41_Site

Turning SessionState in sharepoint

2005-07-28T21:43:00.000-07:00

By default, session state is not enabled. If you open the web.config file for your SharePoint virtual server, you would find the following commented line in the section:

for more details
http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=69

Open links of Sharepoint List in New Window

2005-07-28T21:19:00.000-07:00

1)Fp2003
2)Convert the web part to a Data View, then edit it in FrontPage to add the HTML target attribute to the tag in the XSLT.
3)Open the site view source and find the list id which looks something like below
"{3989E586-E675-48D7-8656-65E938940A9C}-{AFD5597C-55CE-460F-B9F7-19AA95B30225}".
Add a Contain Editor Webpart below the List Webpart
open the source editor of the contain editor webpart and add the following script

Make sure that the Content Editor Web part is not visible on the page by changing its “Visible on page” property

Open links of Sharepoint List in New Window

2005-07-28T21:11:00.000-07:00

These are the workrounds to solve this problem
1)FP2003
2)Convert the web part to a Data View, then edit it in FrontPage to add the HTML target attribute to the tag in the XSLT
3)Open the viewsource of the page and find the lists webpart table id
some thing like

then add a contain editor below the list webpart and
open the source editor of the contain editor and the below script.