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April 2007 - Posts

Add subsites and provide navigation functionality in MOSS 2007 - a code approach!

Creating sub sites through MOSS 2007 interface, creates a top navigation automatically. You’ll be able to reach the sub site and back to the root page with on click (actually 2 J - to and fro you see). However, this seems to be missing when we create
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Make the "Overwrite existing file(s)" check box to be unselected by default in SPS 2003

Following the post from Make the "Overwrite existing file" check box to be unselected by default in MOSS 2007 , this post is to show how to do the same trick in SPS 2003. Due to the structural change between SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007, it takes a bit more
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MOSS 2007 Content Migration

Content Migration is an important aspect in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This allows Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 application to be upgraded to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites. But before you do the actual
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Customizing PlaceHolder values in MOSS 2007

Found something interesting when working on a customer’s request, so thought I’d share it! A customer of mine wanted to get rid of the “Error: Access Denied” message that’s displayed to unauthorized (but authenticated) users in MOSS 2007/WSS V2. Instead,
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Make the "Overwrite existing file" check box to be unselected by default in MOSS 2007

One of our customers wanted a way to *uncheck* the “Overwrite existing file” option by default. For better understanding, here’s what it is: 1. Open a team site in WSS V3. 2. Navigate to a document library. 3. Choose the *Upload* option to upload a document.
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Embed a dynamic excel spreadsheet and chart object into web part

A customer of mine called in with this requirement of embedding a dynamic excel spreadsheet and chart object into a SharePoint (both V2 and V3) web part. After few hours of battle, we came up with the following code sample that works like charm. Following
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"Invalid data has been used to update the list item. The field you are trying to update may be read only" - when updating BEGIN - END fields in an event list through Object Model code

When updating the "Begin" or the "End" datetime fields in a SharePoint 2003/2007 event list, the error "Invalid data has been used to update the list item. The field you are trying to update may be read only" is seen at the point where Update() method
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