Some scenarios developers may want to restrict users from deleting webparts from a page, the scenarios varies. SPWebPartManager has got a event named ‘OnWebPartDeleting’.The issue here is, the deletion of the webpart cannot be avoided by setting the WebPartCancelEventArgs...

When you develop a custom field type that inherits from SPFieldLookUp/SPFieldUser(not sure about any other controls) . The derived field type has its own rendering controls. The issue arises when multiple values are to be stored in a field of the custom...

I encountered an issue when assigning a multi-user data to a workflow task field from within the workfflow. There may be various reasons anyone wants to create a User/Group field with multiple values and set it within in the workflow as below, SPWorkflowTaskProperties...

The max number of characters that can be passed through FullTextSqlQuery is 4096 characters, beyond this length throws an exception ArgumentOutOfRangeException. You will get the same behavior when using the webservice QueryEx(XmlNode) as well. 1: private...

1: namespace MyNewProfileHandler 2: { 3: public class MyUserProfileHandler : MySiteProfileHandler 4: { 5: public override void SetMySiteOwner(Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext context, UserProfile profile, string newOwner) 6: { 7: base .SetMySiteOwner...

Removing Association 1: SPSite site = new SPSite( "http://localhost" ); 2: SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(); 3: SPList list = web.Lists[ "Shared Documents" ]; 4: SPWorkflowAssociation _association = null ; 5: foreach (SPWorkflowAssociation association in list...

1: SPSite spSite = new SPSite( "http://localhost" ); 2: SPWeb spWeb = spSite.OpenWeb(); 3: SPList spList = spWeb.Lists[ "Shared Documents" ]; 4: SPList workflowlist = spWeb.Lists[ "NewHistoryLibary" ]; 5: SPWorkflowAssociation association = spList.WorkflowAssociations...

You might have experienced a road block when trying to the update the ‘ ModerationStatus’ field with other fields. Any attempt to do so will result in an exception “ You cannot change moderation status and set other item properties at that same time ...

Here is the scenario, you may want to get an object(SPListItem) without iterating through the list item collection, if you know the URL of the file the GetObject() returns the item. Section#1 1: 1. SPSite site = new SPSite( "http://nishand:100/sites/RootSite...

1: SPSite spSite = new SPSite( "http://nishand:100/sites/InternetSite/" ); 2: SPRecycleBinItemCollection collection = spSite.RecycleBin; 3: 4: for ( int x = 0; x < collection.Count ; x++) 5: { 6: collection[x].Delete(); x = x-1; 7: } 8: The above...

When we set SPWeb.ParserEnabled to false, it disables the document parser (there will not be any property demotion and promotion), it means that the file properties and the WSS properties will not be in sync. So when you search for a custom file property...

By default the SPWorkflowAssociation.AutoCleanupDays property value is set to ‘60’ days, to set this property we need to call the SPList.UpdateWorkflowAssociation(SPWorkflowAssociation) function, SPWeb.Update() won’t work here. 1: SPSite site = new SPSite...

When we create a site either through UI or OM, it will not come as a tab unless you check the option ‘ Sit e Actions-->Site Setting-->Navigation-->Show subsites to true’. On checking the option results in displaying all the subsites as ‘Tabs...

Note: Make sure that you have enabled search based alerts SSP-> Search Settings -> Search Based Alerts 1: SPSite spSite = new SPSite( "http://nishand:300/sites/PubSite/Search/" ); 2: SPWeb web = spSite.OpenWeb(); 3: Query alertQuery = new KeywordQuery...

1: SPSite site = null ; 2: SPWeb web = null ; 3: site = new SPSite( "http://server:100/sites/DevSite/" ); 4: web = site.OpenWeb(); 5: SPRoleAssignment roleAssignment = new SPRoleAssignment( "domain\\user" , "alias@domain.com" , "Nishand" , "Simple Test...

When we use InfoPath form as a workflow form with an attachment control, on selecting a file says that “The selected files was not found”.This seems to be a small bug:) in the product. Note: It's not advisable or supportable to customize out of box files...

When we add a field to the site content type SharePoint doesn't push-down those changes to the document library and the list level. The below code sample is for push-down all the changes to document libarary and the list level.The sample code from WSS...

Per my observation, this behavior is due to some internal expection occured because of HTTPContext.Current is invalid, As a work-around execute the code within a web-based application.

Adding “XmlFormView” control to a custom aspx page that provisioned within SharePoint throws an exception “Session state cannot be enabled here.” XmlFormView control requires session state to be enabled. To enable the session, open the web application...

A work-around to this issue is, execute the code under admin privileges(impersonate the user), you can either follow the Win API impersonation or using the SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivilages() method. You would get errors like, 'Microsoft.SharePoint...

When we create an FBA site through console app or a windows app, we need to have the membership provider and the role provider information within App.Config file. It would be with the same structure as we have in the web.config file of SharePoint WebApplication...

1. Shared Services Administration: ShareServices1> Search Setting >Crawls Rules > Add or Edit Crawl Rule Path : http://* Crawl Configuration : Include all items in this path Specify Authentication : Use the default content access account 2. Shared...

What I found from my research is, before updating the “ChoiceList” set the “MaximumShown” property to a higher value (depends on how many items you are adding). e.g. using (SPSite site = new SPSite(" http://servername")) { ServerContext context = ServerContext...

Some SharePoint objects needs an instance to work perfectly, one example is here; Sample 2 works however the Sample 1 doesn't :) Sample1 SPSite site = new SPSite(" http://server:100/sites/InternetSite/ "); SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(); web.RootFolder.WelcomePage...

It would be very painful to debugg the workflow, VS provides help to some extend, however for details log information you have to change the web.config for your web application in which the workflow is running under. Open your web.config, Add the below...