I just like to start by saying that this post is not ground breaking. However, when I tried to do this it did take me a while to find the answer, so I thought I’d just blog to add it to the grey matter. As I’m sure you are all aware you can provision multiple [...]
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Connecting two web parts declaratively using a file provisioning module
Posted: 31st October 2011 in Configuration, Deployment, SharePoint, Web Parts0
Blocking anonymous access to a SharePoint list while still being able to write to it
Posted: 12th July 2011 in Configuration, Security, SharePointScenario: Using a Data View Web Part to create a form to submit anonymous user’s enquiries. These enquiries were submitted to a list called “Contact Us” on the root sites. This was all very well, but as it was a internet exposed publishing site, the anonymous user had to have RW access to the list [...]
SharePoint Integrated Mode Report Throwing Exception rsErrorReadingNextDataRow
Posted: 1st June 2011 in SharePoint, SSRSWhile deploying reports to SSRS through SharePoint, in integrated mode I received the following error ,seen in the screen shot below: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot read the next data row for the dataset StaffByDepartments. (rsErrorReadingNextDataRow) Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131904 After Google-ing about, and finding no real answer I decided to [...]
Changing Title Column Heading on SharePoint List
Posted: 11th May 2011 in Deployment, SharePoint, Sharepoint 2010Scenario: You want to us the inherited title field in your list definition,but you don’t want it to be called title. To override what is displayed in the new/edit form is straight forward enough. You just add the DisplayName attribute to your Title FieldRef with the ID of {fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247} in the Content Type. Overriding Title [...]
Reading from web.config’s AppSettings in a SharePoint timer job
Posted: 8th April 2011 in Configuration, SharePoint, Sharepoint 2010Well, this was not as straight-forward as i first thought. Why? Because the timer job does not run in the same App Domain as the web application. They are in two separate processes : W3WP.EXE and OWSTIMER.EXE for the Web Application worker process and the SharePoint timer respectively. So, how do you go about it? [...]
Adding properties to a Custom SharePoint Timer Job
Posted: 16th March 2011 in SharePoint, Sharepoint 2010I’ve never really had to do this before as most SharePoint jobs usually operate at Farm level. However, on this occasion I had to run the timer job of a specific Site Collection. First stop of course was Google, where I found a lot of blogs spouting that the way to do it was to: [...]
After spending quite some time trawling the internet to find that answer to the above how to replace the $ dollar sign with a £ pound sign. I found that none of the solutions fully described how to do this. Admittedly, it might just be me that’s thick though. Anyway, here’s how you go about [...]
Unable to use a form on an Application Page to submit data to another site collection
Posted: 25th February 2011 in SharePoint, Sharepoint 2010I’ve just been trying to create an application page which will submit data to a list in another site collection in SharePoint 2010. I went through the usual process of using SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges to add the list item as can be seen in my generic list insertion method below. Insert List Item Method /// <summary> /// [...]
To be able to use and InfoPath form in SharePoint it first has to be browser compatible. To do this select Tools –> Form options and ensure the “Design a form template that can be opened in a browser or InfoPath” checkbox is ticked. Now, select file –> publish and from the publishing wizard, select [...]
SharePoint 2010 Claims Based Security, InfoPath Data Connections and GetUserProfileByName
Posted: 26th January 2011 in Infopath, SharePointOkay, what I needed to do was to retrieve PropertyData from from Active Directory to populate values in an InfoPath form automatically. If you are using Windows Authentication, its quite straight forward, but if your using Claims Based it doesn’t work. Firstly, I’m going to describe how to get this data using Windows Authentication and [...]
