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• 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

• FullTextSqlQuery with QueryText length greater than 4096 characters throws ArgumentOutOfRange exception.

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:30 PM by nishandv | 4 Comments

• How to implement custom User Profile handler?

  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(context, Read More... Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:53 AM by nishandv | 2 Comments

• How to add, remove and start workflow programmatically?

  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.WorkflowAssociations) Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:08 PM by nishandv | 2 Comments

• How to change the Workflow History list programmatically?

  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[0]; Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:58 PM by nishandv | 2 Comments

• Updating 'ModerationStatus' field

  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 ”. Read More... Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:24 PM by nishandv | 0 Comments

• SPWeb.GetObject() throws an exception when site context changes.

  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/" Read More... Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:04 PM by nishandv | 0 Comments

• How to delete SPRecycleBin items?

  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 code Read More... Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 4:44 PM by nishandv | 1 Comments

• What does the SPWeb.ParserEnabled property do?

  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 Read More... Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 11:57 PM by nishandv | 0 Comments Filed under: WSS V3, SharePoint Workflow

• Changing the SPWorkflowAssociation.AutoCleanupDays 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( Read More... Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 11:57 PM by nishandv | 1 Comments

• How to hide subsite's GlobalNavigation nodes/tabs through SharePoint API?

  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’. Read More... Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 11:29 PM by nishandv | 2 Comments Filed under: MOSS, WSS V3, SharePoint Workflow

• How to create SearchAlert Programmatically?

  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(spSite); Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:30 PM by nishandv | 1 Comments

• How to set user permissions programmatically?

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:19 AM by nishandv | 0 Comments