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Issue with SPFile.SendToOfficialFile() while using with custom access policy (copy of WSS_Minimal)

sowmyancs — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:02:25 GMT

Recently I had worked with an another interesting case with one of my customers. She has developed a custom webpart to iterate all the files in a SharePoint document library and send that file to a record center, also she want to implement partial trust...(read more)

A tricky work-around to avoid infinite loop while updating an item in ItemUpdated Event in a very special scenario.

sowmyancs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:40:43 GMT

I think this post’s title is little confusing, anyway here is another scenario to play with a List Event Handler. Recently I had worked with one my customers , he had implemented the code to send documents to a record center using SPFile.SendToOfficialFile...(read more)

Move a SPListItem without loosing its ItemId – Custom List

sowmyancs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:22:43 GMT

Once I got a requirement to move a list item from one folder location to another within the same list (e.g. move the item to a sibling) while retaining the same ItemID. Example: Here is the original structure... List 1 Folder...(read more)

Important point need to remember while working with DateTime filtering values in FullTextSqlQuery

sowmyancs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:11:45 GMT

Once I was working with a custom search webpart issue in which search was implemented by using FullTextSqlQuery method, but it was not returning any results whenever we use contains predicate to filter the date time type columns. There was a custom managed...(read more)

Feature stapler for MySite to activate the Publishing Infrastructure Feature

sowmyancs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:34:10 GMT

Recently, I had worked with another interesting requirement in which customer has some specific requirement with MySites. Their basic requirement was whenever the “my site” get provisioned that time they want to activate the “Office SharePoint Server...(read more)

“who” is “where” given a map of SharePoint ?

sowmyancs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:51:22 GMT

Once I got a request from one of my colleagues in MS and his customer wants to find out “who” is “where” given a map of SharePoint. So, if there is a Site A being visited by X and Y and X happens to be interacting docLib B – is there a way one could query...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek !

sowmyancs — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:37:01 GMT

Check the below links for getting a Sneak Peek of next version of SharePoint… · 2010 Sneak Peek Home: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx · 2010 Sneak Peek Overview Video: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Overview-Video.aspx...(read more)

Generate a report about all the sites and lists under a site collection

sowmyancs — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:53:00 GMT

One of my customer wants monitors their SharePoint environment in order to meet governance requirement. Primary goal was generate a report of site hierarchy under a site collection including webs and libraries etc. created during specific timeframe. Thus,...(read more)

How to filter AssignTo column with current user “[Me]” if the value is a group of members ?

sowmyancs — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:41:41 GMT

Actually I got this requirement as a Question about using [me] filters for Group Membership: Consider I have a SharePoint Group created called “My Group” and I am a member of the group. I am adding an “Assigned To” column to a library and all users...(read more)

How to delete a user from BDC permissions list

sowmyancs — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:32:00 GMT

Once one my colleagues had a requirement where he want to delete users from ‘Business Data Catalogue Permissions’ programmatically. Here are the few classes that you can use to deal with the BDC permissions programmatically: Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.Infrastructure...(read more)

workaround to the issue with the DataSheet View (if you have custom master page)

sowmyancs — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:21:00 GMT

On creating a new ‘Datasheet View’ in a simple OOB Custom List or Document Library (where System master page is a custom master page) leads to either a hang (IE8) or an infinite loop (IE7) Leading to ever growing of window height both resulting in a CPU...(read more)

Issue with upgrading the web part pages created from the custom web part page template from SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007

sowmyancs — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:16:00 GMT

Once I had worked with a case in which customer has created a custom web part page template in SPS 2003 as per the following MSDN article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd583147.aspx . When customer upgraded from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 he found...(read more)

SharePoint state machine workflow : some issues and work-arounds

sowmyancs — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:45:00 GMT

In this post I am giving some possible issues that you may face while working with state machine workflow and the work around to resolve those issues. Issue 1 ======= Sometimes, if you have a SharePoint state based workflow that has a DelayActivity and...(read more)

Things to remember while creating custom content types through feature.

sowmyancs — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:23:00 GMT

Sometimes you may face an issue that, once you create new content type it will not display it in the Site Content Types in the site collection. You can check these issues by analyzing the custom Ctypes.xml deeply. Make sure that the you are adding the...(read more)

Issue with SharePoint designer workflow to start under System Acccount.

sowmyancs — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:22:00 GMT

If you create a workflow in SharePoint designer and if you use choose “When create a project, auto start this workflow”, then you may see that the workflow is not starting once you add an item. The reason This behavior occurs because a security fix in...(read more)