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PeopleEditor in UpdatePanel, values dissapear when AJAX posts from a Submit Button

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:27 Z

Has anyone noticed their PeopleEditor inside updatepanel lose their values when you click a submit button elsewhere in the update panel?

I notice that setting:

EnablePartialRendering="False"

enures that the value stays however, the whole page posts when this is set.

If you think you've run across this in your travels please let me know.

Thanks

How can I create a phone directory in SharePoint?

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:55:58 Z

Is there a way to connect sharepoint with Active directory and to create phone directory in a list or something similar?

If anyone knows a step by step tutorial please post it.

thank you

Delete List Folders Keeping Folder Items

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:11:00 Z

I've searched high and low for previous topics on this. Apologies if I'm repeating something!

I have a list with folders with items. I want to remove the folders and keep the items in the list. If I delete the Folder it naturally deletes all associated items. I can't seem to find anywhere in documentation or blogs or this site, how you can move items away from folders! Very frustrating.

This is a problem because if you export the list to Excel/Access to analyse the items (in this cast Tasks!), you get a false count on the folders, which in my case serve no real purpose. I just need a flat list of items/tasks!

Can someone guide this noob please?

Regards, Mark

List View Web Part - "Select View" drop down limitation

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:11:57 Z

Ref: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/926a9432-b6a7-4db3-8abe-1aaa85a7111e
Refers to a "hard coded" limit of 50 items available to a list view web parts "Select View" drop down control. You can have more views... but you can't apply them.

I'm far into the design of a WSS solution when I came across this limitation. I have a small number of lists and libraries. Then several web part pages to display portions of the lists, but that is assuming several VIEWS. This is huge limitation in this solution. My only solution is to create multiple lists which is counter-intuitive since the document types are broken down by security and type.

Is this only for WSS, or all sharepoint?

Navigation alternatives for WSS3 / move sites

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:59:46 Z

Hi,

out of the box the navigation in WSS3 is OK, but when growing it's getting more and more, let's say uncomfortable...

in MOSS 2007 you have this nice dropdown-based navigation, based on the structure of the site...

What I'd like to know: are there any common alternatives to the default navigation?

Would it be possible to create an own sitemap and enable a menu based on it? this shoul dinclude permissions, of course, that the user only sees the entries he can access..

I'm not that happy anymore with the two-way navigation, the horizontal one at the top (to navigate between workspaces/sites) and teh vertical one to move inside a site/workspace and to it's children..

In that context: If I'd like to restructure my navigation/structure, is it possible to move existing workspaces/sites?

In detail: At the moment I have a public workspace (root) and for each department internal workspaces (/department1, /department2), inside these workspaces it is possible to have additional children (/department2/workgroup).

Now it will happen that people from different departments should work together, so I have to create a new workspace in the root /workgroup1), which increases the width of the navigation...

So I'd like to create an own navigation structure for the sites, having at the top level "Public", "Departments Internal" and "Workgroups" and below these layer the several sites...

Is it possible??

Laptop for Sharepoint Developemnt

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:56:27 Z

Hai All,

I am planning to buy a laptop in order to work with sharepoint ,which brand of laptop would be better for development purpose.I have an option in my mind sony Vaio SR series(Configuration:8 GB Ram, 500GB HDD,3.06 Ghz max CPU,6.5 hrs max battery,4.4 lbs,13 inch screen).please suggest me whether i can go for this laptop or not or suggest me one(Laptop) with good configuration for sharepoint development purpose.

Regards,

Arun.R

For a WSS 2.0 site, the Edit DropDown menu doesn't appear on the Shared Documents page

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:52:45 Z

I'm getting reports from some users that the dropdown menu for each item in the "name" column in the Shared Documents page doesn't appear. This is the menu that lists options "View Properties," "Edit Properties," "Edit in Word," etc. A grey box appears around the item and a button appears, but no dropdown menu appears.

For affected users, the Internet Explorer Status Bar displays "errors on page" and the error is "Object Required" on "Allitems.aspx" on line 12129
We've tried clearing browser caches and history -- no effect.
One user downgraded from IE8 back to IE7 -- no effect.
Not all users are affected. My own machine / IE browser displays the page correctly -- I can't duplicate the error.
One user's machine used to display the menu correctly but now does not. I haven't been able to identify changes that might have caused it.
Affected users have the same problem with other sites on the same server.
One affected user demonstrated that he could connect to a similar SharePoint site on another server and that it properly displayed the dropdown menus on that site.
While the menu in the "name" column doesn't appear for affected users, the menu for user names in the "modified" column does appear.
The site was built from a standard template. I'm unaware of any modifications using an editor like SP Designer.
SharePoint 2.0 on Windows 2003 Server.
Client machines are typically Windows XP with all SPs installed.

Can anyone suggest how I can help these users?
I've wondered if a toolbar or other IE add-on could cause this. We've tried disabling some add-ons, I assume we can trust add-ons from Microsoft.

Problems enabling incoming e-mail WSS

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:56:03 Z

Hello together,

at the moment I am having problems with the enabling of incoming mail in SharePont libraries with WSS 3.0 (SP2).

The SMTP server is installed
I already enabled the general incoming mail settings on "Operations" --> "Incoming e-mail settings", the ldap path is correct (copied from adsiedit.msc)

I receive an "Error in the application" when I want to enable "Incoming e-mail settings" in a library.

The application pool identity of the web application and the central administration is the same. The identity has rights on the OU to create objects. For testing, I added the identity to the domain admin group. Addtional the identity is Secondary Site Collection Administrator and Farm Administrator.

In the WSS log I see the following enty:
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x8007200B): The attribute syntax specified to the directory service is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007200B) at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.CommitChanges() at Microsoft.SharePoint.EmailIntegration.SPEWSADManager.CreateContact(String Alias, String FirstName, String LastName, String ForwardingEmail, ContactFlags Flags)SPEWSADManager::CreateContact

I presume it is a rights problem and the WSS can't create the contact, but I think all rights are ok.

I don't know if it matters, but the sharepoint server is a dedicated server in an hmc 3.5 (hosted messaging collaboration) environment.

Thanks for the help.

Tom

Syncing up a SharePoint Calendar with a Specific Outlook Calendar

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:46:50 Z

Right now the Actions > Connect to outlook appears to be tied to the user who performs the operation and their personal calendars.. is that correct?

Is there any way to have a sharepoint calendar automatically sync up with a specific and public Outlook calendar visible to all outlook users?

And if so (doubtful as that sounds), will the outlook calendar update the sharepoint calendar? and how will invitees not in sharepoint appear in the SharePoint calendar.

Are any of the above features addressed in Sharepoint/Outlook 2010?

Thanks for any help or information.

Helpdesk Application Template - email notification

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:48:04 Z

I have used the helpdesk template in WSS 3.0 and I have the outgoing email settings setup, but I can't figure out where to go to setup email notification. What I am trying to do is set it up so that if a ticket is created it will send out an email to IT@domain.com from helpdesk@domain.com and then if a ticket is assigned to a certain person than that person would receive an email. Also when a ticket is created I want the user that created the ticket to received an email to them know that it is created with a link that they can click to get to the status and if that ticket is updated at anytime I want that user to receive emails with the details of the update. I think I can figure out how to do the logicstics of everything if someone can help me to get to the area that works with turning on and editting the email notification. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Licensing - Splitting Sharepoint Server Functionality

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:08:47 Z

Hi,
I have a customer who has asked if he can split some of the functionality out of Windows SharePoint Server, he wants to run one server for WFE and another for search and indexing but buy only one SharePoint Server license. Is he able to do this? He has advised that he was told by somone at Microsoft that this was fine as long as he could prove he was only using the underlying features of WSS not MOSS.

File upload error in Sharepoint

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:14:37 Z

We are not able to upload any files > 20mb even though the maximum is set to 50mb. We get a File Not Found error in Sharepoint which returns immediately. There are no errors in the SP logs; however, after inspecting Fiddler I can see several 401.2 and 401.1 errors on the _layouts/Upload.aspx page. These are the only errors that I can find around this problem, but what is strange is that these errors also show up in Fiddler for a successful file upload (<20mb) followed by 200 result.
The issue only occurs in our production environment, but we can't find anything that could be the culprit.

I don't think it's timing out because it doesn't even seem to get that far.
I would appreciate any advice before I'm forced to open a support ticket. We are using IIS 6.0, MOSS Std, Win Svr2003 Std. SP2
Thanks!

Unable to import profile it remain in "enumeration in course"

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:10:28 Z

AD win 2003 sp2 + moss 2007 SP2 enter

I have try all possible configuration: Change the admin account for source import, change the method (custom source, default domain, etc.etc) but it does not work. In the "fantastic" log the only word that seems to be related about
the import profile: it's "connection status: closed."
In the import profile status it remain in "enumeration in course"

Any help?
tanks
Max

Visio 2007 erasing SharePoint metadata

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:24:09 Z

Does anyone know what might cause Visio 2007 to overwrite, or rather erase the metadata of a document stored on SharePoint (a WSS 3 machine)? I work in a large department where this is happening for everyone using Visio 2007. A Visio document is on SharePoint, and there is metadata associated with it (some custom fields for categorization). The document opens fine in Visio 2007 for editing. Users can even go into the document properties in Visio and update the metadata. But when the document is saved back to SharePoint, all the metadata is gone.

Visio 2003 does not exhibit this problem (which is what the department is now using), though curiously, neither do Word 2007 or Excel 2007. In the Office 2007 suite, only Visio seems to erase the metadata.

I was just wondering if anyone might know where to look. :-)

Thanks!
DrJazz

WSSDW Test Data Loader

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:10:41 Z

Hi All,
Can anyone tell me where this resides? Looked on Codeplex and only see MOSSDW which does not appear to have the basic features I want - I just want to load a list with 'lots' of items (to start with anyway).

Many thanks

Technical Team Lead

Error in Survey SharePoint.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:22:56 Z

Dear Friends,
This is related to Survey customization.
I am getting error in the survey while changing ToolBar Type to Full Tool Bar.Please see error below.

An unexpected error has occurred.
Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily close Web Parts or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator.
Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.

SiteSettings-Edit Page--->Edit--->Modify shared web part--->ToolBar Type---Full Tool Bar

am confused :(

Thanks

Alternative access mapping

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:31:59 Z

Hello!
Whether probably to use as Alternative access mapping the kind link http://portal.ru/filial1?

With the best regards, Anton

Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 #50070 unable to connect to the database.....

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:42:43 Z

My problem is not the typical one that you would think of when you see Event ID 1000 #50070....

My sharepoint is working fine and the database that sharepoint relies on exists and is functioning properly.
The database that is causing this error no longer exists and i need to know how to tell sharepoint to stop trying to connect to this database that it doesnt need anymore.

- It is currently using a DB called STS_servername_448260875
- Event ID 1000 is being caused because it is unable to contact database STS_servername_732946780
- The error event ID 1000 is being thrown up once every hour to the second.

I inherited this issue with my job and i am just trying to keep the event logs clean so i do not know what the previous configuration was nor do i have very much knowledge about sharepoint but from my limited point of view it looks like maybe sharepoint was upgraded at one point and a new DB was created....

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Is it possible to have different colours for different tasks in Gnatt view?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:46:03 Z

Is it possible to have different colours for different tasks in Gnatt view?

Content Query Web Part Pages Library not available

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:24:52 Z

Hi all,

I have a problem on our Sharepoint environment. When we add a Content Query Webpart. I can't select Pages Library as a List Type...
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this ? This should be available, or not ?

Kind Regards
Hans

Missing content types

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:49:34 Z

Hi All,

I have added a content type to an existing document library (which already has 4 content types) and I can select it from the NEW menu. However, if I try to upload a document, I can only select the exisitng 4 content types, as the newly added content type is missing form the list.

Any ideas please?

Thanks
Ian

SharePoint Novice

Action menu item not showing 'export to spreadsheet'

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:03:25 Z

I have office 2007 installed on my pc but I dont see an option to export to spreadsheet on any of the list items. is it a ie problem or something ?

"The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view" (SPS 2003 and Office 2003)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:13:27 Z

I've been using Sharepoint 2003 with Office 2003 for two years now without issue; but today, without warning or any changes to my settings, I'm receiving a message that "The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed, your browser does not support ActiveX controls, or support for ActiveX controls is disabled. " when attempting to view a newly created datasheet in Sharepoint 2003. I do not find adequate information anywhere to assist me in troubleshooting. Please help!

Thanks,
Sue

Require Check Out and Windows Explorer

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:30:55 Z

Hi Folks,

By default I like to have my libraries set to require checkout. This is all fine most of the time, but if someone adds a bulk of files via Windows Explorer they're all in a checked out status. The user then has to go to every single file and check it in. Very painful and time consuming. Is this behaviour by design or a bug?

how can we set the sharepoint userprofiles to GMT timezone?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:37:33 Z

Hi

If the server is residing in one geographic location and if people are accessing sharepoint calendars also from different location then is it possible to do server setting such the people accessing from differnet geographic locatiosn need not do this
"click on your “Welcome your name” on the top right corner of the site and selecting “My Setting” . Click on “My Regional Setting” to uncheck “always follow web settings” and setting your preferences"

Is it possible to do some server setting like GMT time zone ?

Sharepoint List: source data from SQL Query

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:18:53 Z

Hi,

We use Sharepoint for Data collection. To reduce data entry errors, we would like to make available our Product Codes from our ERP system in a Lookup field.

What is the best way to do this? We don't want a static list that requires maintenance. Can we create a List that gets data from a SQL Select Query (ie select Product from Inventory) and then then use a Lookup field in another list to reference that data? I have spent a lot if time looking for a solution, but can't find one.

Thanks,

SharePoint and External Data

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:31:16 Z

I'm eager to promote the use of SharePoint among my colleagues and believe a great place to start will be to allow them access to data held upon our Oracle database server. I don't wish to give them Add or Edit permissions, just the sorting and filtering of data via a custom list. What would be the best way forward?

I've taken a look at the Business Data Catalog options, but am not sure if this is the correct route to go? I've also looked at using Excel and the Reports Library template. Can somebody give me a push in the right direction? many thanks.

Sharepoint 3.0 - Lookup data in external database?

Wed, 28 May 2008 11:21:51 Z

Hi,

We have installed SBS 2003 and this includes Sharepoint 3.0.

We're setting up a document library and for one of the fields we'd like to have a drop-down list with all of our clients in it.

We've got a list of all our clients in a SQL Server 2005 database, and this gets added to quite regularly. Rather than maintaining two copies of the same list, is it possible to:

1) Connect to the external database to do a lookup which will populate the list of client names?

2) Is there some way we could insert new clients into the Sharepoint list programatically?

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks

Problem installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Sever 2008 R2

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:16:49 Z

Hi,

Can ayone help?

I am having issues trying to install MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (i.e. Not Windows Server 2008).

I have installed WSS 3.0 no problem, but when I try an upgrade to MOSS using either; slipstream setup or the MOSS 2007 Upgrade I get the following message:

The program is blocked due to compatability issues.

This is drivng me nuts.

Can MOSS 2007 be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2?

Can anyone tell me how they got around the problem?

Your help will always be appreciated ;)

Thanks.

John.

Versioning being disabled by itself in one document library

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:17:20 Z

Hi All,

am currently facing an issue on a document library.

My document lib has more than 2000 items and has versioning enabled. Some how the version settings are changing automatically. I mean the versioning is being disabled by itself.

This is happening only on this library all other libraries in the site and site collection are working fine.

Im using WSS 3.0.

Can any one help with this.

Thanks in advance,
Sowmya

Meeting Workspaces in WSS 3.0 and Outlook 2003

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:51:28 Z

Hi, we have WSS 3.0 and PCs with Outlook 2003. We have been able to create meeting workspaces in Sharepoint, but I have seen that it is possible to create meeting workspaces in Outlook 2003. But when creating a new appointment in an outlook 2003 calendar, there is no meeting workspace button like described in the help guides.

Is there something I am doing wrong, does Outlook pointing to my Sharepoint site somehow?

thanks alot

An example of the button I don’t see is in this video

http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/asstvid.aspx?assetid=XT010944071033&vwidth=884&vheight=540&type=mediaplayer&CTT=11&Origin=HA010930841033

Linking a Meeting on Sharepoint with the Outlook Calender

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:18:59 Z

Morning

I wonder if one of you lovely people could help me. I am trying to set up something on sharepoint that will show a list of meetings so that people can register their interest in the meetings. What I would like to happen next is once they have registered interest an appointment would appear on their outlook calender. Is this possible if so how? or can you point me to the relevant section of the forums where I can find this answer!!

Thanks!!

Permissions

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:55:19 Z

Hello,

Could someone tell me what permissions are required for someone to be able to add more options to an existing site columns at top level?

I have a user, who is a member of the Site owener permission group and everytime she adds a new option to an existing site column, the new optins are not filtered down to the document libraries.

I have triple checked and the 'update lists' ioption is set to yes.

Thanks
Ian

SharePoint Novice

Changes needed so that user can login using e-mail id for LDAP authenticated site in sharepoint.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:25:31 Z

Hi,

What are the Changes needed so that user can login using e-mail id for LDAP authenticated site in sharepoint.The LDAP server is Lotus Notes Domino version 4.5.I have updated the UserInfo table of the sites content database the tp_login column with the tp_Email column and also in web.config file.When i try to login with email id im getting Access Denied Error.

Regards

Dilip Kumar

Error on team website

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:16:33 Z

Hello
Till 2 hrs ago team website working fine. Suddenly i'm getting error as,
'Web Part Error: One of the properties of the Web Part has an incorrect format. Windows SharePoint Services cannot deserialize the Web Part. Check the format of the properties and try again. '
What could be error?

Regards,
Puneri

Why some computers cannot display some column/view ?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:51:51 Z

Hello,

We have about 100~200 computers in the company so there are all kind of configuration.
We're using Sharpoint Services 2007.

I'm just wondering why :
- on some computers Datasheet Views cannot be displayed and are replaced by Standard Views. What can cause this ?
- on some computers where Datasheet Views can be displayed, columns with multiple choices cannot be displayed in Datasheet Views. What can cause this ?

Thank you.

How to calculate Age using Calculated Value of a Column

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:47:24 Z

Hi all,

may i ask what is the formula to insert into the calculated field area to calculate the age?

i have one column named "Competitor's Date of Birth", and one column called "Competitor's Age"
i cannot use the [TODAY] function

is there any other way to calculate the person's age?

thanks

regards,
Kiat

Sharepoint Message

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:40:35 Z

Any help would be Appreciated

Issue: When trying to access any page as a User from Visitor Group, there is an error "Access Denied" . If we go back to the pevious page and click on the same link again, the issue resolves and no "Access Denied" error message.

Troubleshooting: I got the following Warning Logs relating the "Access" issues:

Userenv 1/24/2008 6:47:11 AM Warning 1509 Windows cannot copy file C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft\CLR Security Config\v2.0.50727.42\security.config.cch.7808.312902015 to location C:\Documents and Settings\ietemp\Application Data\Microsoft\CLR Security Config\v2.0.50727.42\security.config.cch.7808.312902015. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator. DETAIL - Access is denied.

Windows SharePoint Services 3 12/22/2007 9:22:46 AM Error 3355 Cannot connect to SQL Server. splcrm01 not found. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.

NOTE:

There was an update (security update 934525 (MS07-059)) that would have been implemented close to the time the bugs appearance.

Here is a link to a site explaining a known issue with this update.

http://kbalertz.com/943594/experience-performance-issues-after-install-security-update-934525-Windows-SharePoint-Server-environment-contains-collections.aspx

Link with 3 lists

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:56:57 Z

Hello !

This is the situation :

List "Employees" :

Code :

 

ID  | Title    | LastName    | FirstName

 1
  | Employe1 | Wayne       | Bruce 

 2
  | Employe2 | Stark       | Tony

List "Qualification"

Code :

 

Title          |  Description

Informatique1  |  Sharepoint

Informatique2  |  Windows 7

List "EmployeeQualification"

Code :

ID |   employeeid | qualificationid

1
  |   1
          |          1


2
  |   1
          |          2


3
  |   2
          |          2

I would like to obtain this display/view by example when I click on an employee :

Code :

Qualification |

Sharepoint    |

Windows 7
     |

How to do that ?

Thanks in advance !

Problem increasing the upload limit for sharepoint site

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:09:38 Z

I have sharepoint server 2007 installed as a basic installation .. i tried to increase the upload limit for files by doing the following:

1.In SharePoint 3.0 Central Adminisration, Application Management tab, and

Web application general settings I configured the Maximum upload size to a

maximum of 2047 MB. I was sure it was changed for the correct web applicaiton.

2.In Internet Information Services on the properties of the virtual server

I increased the Connection Timeout to 65000.

3.I Configured the web.config from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft

Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\web.config

From:

<location path="upload.aspx"> <system.web> <httpRuntime

maxRequestLength="2097151" /> </system.web> </location>

To:

executionTimeout="999999" maxRequestLength="2097151" /> </system.web>

4. I changed the executionTimeout value in the web applicaton Web.config file to:

5. I restarted IIS.

I'm still getting an error when trying to upload any file larger than 50MB.

The form submission cannot be processed because it exceeded the maximum length allowed by the web administrator. Please resubmit the form with less data.

Can anyone help me with this problem??