Bend Sharepoint without bending the rules : September 2009 - Posts

September 2009 - Posts

Friday, September 25, 2009 8:48 PM

How to create a custom view page with custom web part in the list definition , Bend it !!

The view pages for the list are created based on the “ViewPage.aspx” in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\Pages. The ViewPage.aspx inserts the DataFormWebpart to display the items in the View. Now What

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Friday, September 25, 2009 8:45 PM

Word macros in the custom template for the document library disappears once document saved - SPS 2003 / MOSS

I have came across an interesting integration of Smart Documents with the SharePoint Document libraries through the custom template. I thought of sharing this with you guys. As long as you are using the OOB template.docx then we never worried about the

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Friday, September 25, 2009 8:35 PM

"Standard View, with Expanded Recurring Events" is missing in the custom calendar created from the custom calendar list definition. Bend it through custom ToolBar !!

I have came across another interesting issue with the custom calendar list definition last week. As the SharePoint doesn’t consider your custom list definition as the “Events” type it doesn’t give you the option to create “Standard View, with Expanded

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Friday, September 25, 2009 8:21 PM

SPSearch.asmx doesn’t return results when integrated with Search server 2008

Last week I came across a very weird issue that the client application for Search using the SPSearch.asmx web service is not returning any result in WSS 3.0 environment. I investigated the client application and the Query Packet built within it and for

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Friday, September 25, 2009 11:35 AM

How to hide the new menu folder option from document library by default to all the document library instances

One of our customer came with a requirement of hiding the new menu folder option from the document library instances by default. This can be done through UI as well but customer don't want to do this manually through UI. By default folder creation

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