Nishand's Blog : SharePoint

The InfoPath form's 'Attachment control doesn't work with SharePoint Workflow forms.

nishandv — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:59:16 GMT

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 (comes with the SharePoint installation). There is a possibility that these files be overwritten in a future service pack, thus losing your changes.

Work-around:

a. Locate the ASPX page that your workflow form opens up in the _layouts directory on your server.

e.g., %Program Files%Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS

b. In this aspx page, locate the reference to MasterPageFile. This will look something like

MasterPageFile="~/_layouts/application.master"

c. Now open the masterpagefile that you found above in notepad and locate the form tag.

d. Add the attribute enctype="multipart/form-data" to this tag and save.

e. iisreset and try your workflow with file attachment again.

Hope this works!!!

When you try accessing the ProjectDrillDownPart reference from a windows/console application returns 'ErrorWebPart' object instead of orginal object

nishandv — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:21:36 GMT

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.

"User cannot be found." error when creating an FBA site programmatically through Windows application or a console application.

nishandv — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:04:19 GMT

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.

App.Config for your Windows/Console application should be like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="SharePoint">
<section name="PeoplePickerWildcards" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>

Updating UserProfile Property of type ChoiceList

nishandv — Sun, 20 May 2007 23:45:54 GMT

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.GetContext(site);

UserProfileManager m_mngr = new UserProfileManager(context);

PropertyCollection props = m_mngr.Properties;

Property location = props.GetPropertyByName("CountryList");

Location.MaximumShown = Location.MaximumShown +1;

property.ChoiceList.Add("India");

property.Commit();

}