September 2009 - Posts

• SPWebPartManager doesn't honour the WebPartCancelEventArgs.Cancel value while deleting the webpart

  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.Cancel Read More... Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 2:35 PM by nishandv | 0 Comments

• Setting the property 'AllowMultipleValues' resets the control's type to "Lookup" when it is inherited from SPFieldLookup class.

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 2:07 PM by nishandv | 0 Comments

• Issue with Multi Field/Group values and SPWorkflowTaskProperties.ExtendedProperties

  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.ExtendedProperties["CustomAssignToUsers"] Read More... Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 4:20 PM by nishandv | 0 Comments