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Monday, December 15, 2008 9:44 PM

HowTo: Create a quizzing application with SharePoint 2007

With SharePoint 2007 "Survey" list template, I recently created a quizzing application. The thing with survey list is that it stack ranks the questions taking into account how many of the respondents favored each options within that question. But for
Posted by sridhara | 11 Comments
Attachment(s): CreateQuiz.zip
Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:18 PM

How do I use SecureString type in SharePoint 2007?

SecureString is the type that's used for passwords in SharePoint 2007. You might find its use when you are automating some "higher level" administration operation (like creating a web application for example). How do you use it is shown below: 1: private
Posted by sridhara | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:16 AM

Using Post Caching Substitution in SharePoint 2007 Web Parts

There are good number of articles that explains the different caching option Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides and ways to leverage them to achieve better site performance. However, there are scenarios where you might want to implement
Posted by sridhara | 3 Comments
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
Friday, June 27, 2008 8:55 AM

What happened to my My Links Web Part?

Well, did you add a link like "file://C:/folder1/folder2"? In one customer's environment this was the exact issue. A user added some file system link like the above and ended up with the following symptoms: 1. The user couldn't add the "My Links" web
Posted by sridhara | 4 Comments
Friday, June 27, 2008 3:42 AM

What permissions are behind the permission levels (roles) in SharePoint

Recently, I was involved in a support request where I had to find out what SPBasePermissions are assigned behind permission level in SharePoint using SharePoint OM code. First some basics about permission level and base permissions. If you are in your
Posted by sridhara | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:23 PM

Indexing MSCMS 2001 using MOSS 2007 indexer?

This might be a cake-walk for most of you, but I got delayed a bit to get MSCMS 2001 contents indexed using MOSS 2007. Basically what I saw after I setup a content source and started a full crawl was the below warning: The specified address was excluded
Posted by sridhara | 1 Comments
Saturday, June 21, 2008 7:48 PM

Project to customize the small search control in SharePoint 2007

The small search control that is rendered in the default SharePoint pages is a delegate control rendered through master page. You can find it defined in the master page as follows: < asp : ContentPlaceHolder id ="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat ="server">
Posted by sridhara | 8 Comments
Saturday, June 21, 2008 5:22 PM

Create and Publish web pages in Publishing SharePoint sites programmatically

Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing is the assembly that we need to use to get pages created and published. A sample is provided below: using ( SPSite site = new SPSite ( "http://moss" )) { using ( SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { PublishingSite pSite = new
Posted by sridhara | 6 Comments
Saturday, June 21, 2008 3:39 PM

"The site is not assigned to an indexer" error in SharePoint custom search

Strangely enough! We'll not see this issue with an OOTB search. It is seen only when we use search APIs or web service and perform a custom search. Apparently, when we use Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, the content database also gets indexed and this
Posted by sridhara | 1 Comments
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