Sridhar's blog

SharePoint programming and customization.

July, 2008

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    Wildcard Search in SharePoint

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    Being able to perform wildcard search is probably an area that's missing in out of the box search in SharePoint. Here's a small web part sample you can use to perform wildcard search in MOSS 2007 (and it can be engineered backward to fit into SharePoint...
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    "Failed to verify user permissions" error when using DspSts.asmx web service

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    I recently handled a case where the customer sees a "Failed to verify user permissions" error when accessing the DspSts.asmx web service in SharePoint 2007. Below is the code similar to what they were using to invoke the Query method of DspSts.asmx web...
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    The buzz with "UrlQueryString" in SharePoint navigation

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    SharePoint's navigation APIs have a property exposed that allows us to set query string properties for a URL. Sadly, but not surprisingly, this only works when root site collection has publishing feature enabled. Reason is simple... One a WSS only...
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    Organization Hierarchy a Mess?

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    The "Organization Hierarchy" is a cool little thing that let's SharePoint users to remember who their colleagues are and more importantly who their manager is. If you are wondering about customizing it, honestly, it's quite a bit of a work if you...
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    FBA and User Display Names in SharePoint 2007

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    If you have been working with FBA for a while, you might have noticed that the user name displayed in the Welcome control shows the account name of the FBA user. This is because of the field the welcome control is mapped to. As shown here, the welcome...
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    Why are my SharePoint Groups drop-down disabled?

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    This was an interesting issue.  The problem a customer reported was that when they wanted to add a user to a SharePoint Group, the "Add users to a SharePoint group" drop-down was disabled.  On investigation, it was found the customer...
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