Posted in Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a little hack that I found quite useful.
In the event that the Save Site As Template option is missing for a sub site under Site Settings -> Look and Feel, then the easiest way to access this functionality is by appending “_layouts/savetmpl.aspx” in the URL for the site.
As an example, if I can access a sub [...]
Posted in Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you ever have had a scenario where you had a SharePoint site working with the Windows Authentication provider and had to turn on Forms Based Authentication, then you may begin to experience issues with checking out documents via Office (Microsoft Word as an example).
It is not a widely documented configuration setting but enabling client side integration will fix the issue of checking [...]
Posted in Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a list of development utilities that were discussed at the Sydney MOSS 2007 Solution Day at Microsoft:
WSS and MOSS Software Development Kit
Visual Studio Extensions for WSS
WSP Builder
STSDev
Caml Query Builder
Event Handler Explorer
SharePoint Manager 2007
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
FireFox Firebug
SharePoint Log Parser
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Spy
SharePoint 2007 Features
Update: A colleague from work, Eilidh, recommends the following stsadm extensions http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/08/stsadm-commands_09.html
Posted in Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found that a simple yet good introduction to the SharePoint 2007 SDK was by playing with the iterative code below that lists nested sites and nested lists within a site collection. A colleague of mine who has just started looking at the SharePoint 2007 object model found this a good quickstart because the code [...]
Posted in Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on February 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
When creating SharePoint 2007 receivers, the ListTemplateId attribute is associated with a “value” that is an optional unique identifier for the target template for which the receiver is being built. The value of templates are as shown below.
Value
Description
1200
Administrator tasks list
104
Announcements list
303
Blog Categories list
302
Blog Comments list
301
Blog Posts list
105
Contacts list
120
Custom grid for a list
118
Custom Workflow Process
130
Data Connection library
110
Data [...]
Posted in Analytical, Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This excerpt was taken straight from the MSDN but I’ve blogged this, just in case it gets archived. I believe it’s extremely useful when developing custom solutions for SharePoint.
Posted in Analytical, Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, Security, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SharePoint defines 33 separate user rights divided into three categories: list permissions, site permissons and personal permissions.The below is a description of user rights categorised by personal permissions.
Right
Description
Manage Personal Views
Create, change, and delete personal views of lists.
Add/Remove Private Web Parts
Add or remove private web parts on a web part page.
Update Personal Web Parts
Update web parts to [...]
Posted in Analytical, Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, Security, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
SharePoint defines 33 separate user rights divided into three categories: list permissions, site permissons and personal permissions.The below is a description of user rights categorised by site permissions.
Right
Description
Manage Permissions
Create and change permission levels on the web site and assign permissions to users and groups.
View Usage Data
View reports on web site usage.
Create Subsites
Create subsites such as team [...]
Posted in Analytical, Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, Security, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
SharePoint defines 33 separate user rights divided into three categories: list permissions, site permissons and personal permissions.
The below is a description of user rights categorised by list permissions.
Right
Description
Manage Lists
Create and delete lists, add or remove columns in a list, and add or remove public views of a list.
Override Check Out
Discard or check in a document that [...]
Posted in Analytical, Technical, tagged MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0 on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Parameters surrounding a typical deployment are as shown below,
Configuration
Users
Sites
Documents
Index
Availability
Single Server
500
1,000
10,000
100,000
Low
Small Farm
5,000
Thousands
Tens of thousands
Hundreds of thousands
Low
Medium Farm
100,000
Tens of thousands
Hundreds of thousands
Hundreds of thousands
High
Large Farm
500,000
Tens of thousands
Millions
Millions
High
