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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:36 AM

Wildcard Search in SharePoint

Being able to perform wildcard search is probably an area that's missing in out of the box search in SharePoint. Here's a small web part sample you can use to perform wildcard search in MOSS 2007 (and it can be engineered backward to fit into SharePoint
Posted by sridhara | 5 Comments
Attachment(s): MySearchWebPart.zip
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:42 PM

"Failed to verify user permissions" error when using DspSts.asmx web service

I recently handled a case where the customer sees a "Failed to verify user permissions" error when accessing the DspSts.asmx web service in SharePoint 2007. Below is the code similar to what they were using to invoke the Query method of DspSts.asmx web
Posted by sridhara | 2 Comments
Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:07 PM

The buzz with "UrlQueryString" in SharePoint navigation

SharePoint's navigation APIs have a property exposed that allows us to set query string properties for a URL. Sadly, but not surprisingly, this only works when root site collection has publishing feature enabled. Reason is simple... One a WSS only OR
Posted by sridhara | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:00 AM

Organization Hierarchy a Mess?

The "Organization Hierarchy" is a cool little thing that let's SharePoint users to remember who their colleagues are and more importantly who their manager is. If you are wondering about customizing it, honestly, it's quite a bit of a work if you want
Posted by sridhara | 4 Comments
Monday, July 14, 2008 2:01 AM

FBA and User Display Names in SharePoint 2007

If you have been working with FBA for a while, you might have noticed that the user name displayed in the Welcome control shows the account name of the FBA user. This is because of the field the welcome control is mapped to. As shown here, the welcome
Posted by sridhara | 2 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 7:03 PM

Why are my SharePoint Groups drop-down disabled?

This was an interesting issue.  The problem a customer reported was that when they wanted to add a user to a SharePoint Group, the "Add users to a SharePoint group" drop-down was disabled.  On investigation, it was found the customer
Posted by sridhara | 5 Comments
 
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