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Organization browser web part can be easily used inside pages of the portal with default behavior of showing the current user as the selected profile which appears in the center of the organization browser when the page loads. However, sometimes you might prefer to show a different user by default, for example – a department’s page where the manager is shown with all his employees. Unfortunately, the organizational browser web part does not come with suitable properties which allows us to tweak the...
After building the Treeview and connecting it to the selected item inside the Lightswitch screen I wanted to extend the control so it will show images along with the textual labels. Same as the label value, my images are also stored inside Lightswitch as a property. In my case a sub-property of the “Site” property. (In my case each position is attached to a site, which has an image representing the flag of the site’s location – and I’m building a positions tree!) My sites List Details screen looks...
In his great article “ Hierarchical Data with LightSwitch ” Michael Washington is demonstrating how Lightswitch can be extended using custom Silverlight controls. The article helps to build a tree view control for displaying hierarchical information such as departments, categories etc. After implementing the solution I wanted to extend the tree view so it will effect the screen itself and refresh the selected item data according to the selected node in the tree (The solution brought in the...
My “portal sharing web part” is a web part I’m currently working on which will allow users to interact socially with one another based on “my site” – directly from the portal itself. The look will include 3 buttons for 3 actions: Upload an image Status update Post a survey In this post I will focus on the 2nd button – status update. As you know “my site” now has a “users says” feature which is basically a status update: Using my web part I wanted to allow users inside the corporate portal to update...
I recently came across a familiar situation where I needed to synchronize user profiles inside SharePoint 2010 so they will include the profile picture which is defined elsewhere. Usually users have their pictures included inside the Active Directory either as an extended schema or as a field which holds the URL where the image can be found. These cases are covered and can be easily solved in various ways. One of them is described here (Hebrew) using FIM or here (English) using simple mappings. My...
After setting up a new web application for a new portal I faced a crawling problem of the new site collection. Description: Right after starting the crawler it stops, giving 2-3 error messages, all with the same syntax: Error in the Site Data Web Service. (Value does not fall within the expected range.) The crawl log was the only place the error was logged, with no additional information regarding the cause of the problem. Searching the web came up with very little solutions, while...
A few days ago we started migrating a portal site from one web application to another on the same machine. As part of the migration process I needed to copy lists from the old site to the new site. Some lists, contained Person list columns, with single or multiple selection. While the migration went smoothly during the export/import process itself the result was weird – all the user names were altered on the new portal. Reason: 1. Person list columns store the user name (as text) and...
In case you came across a situation where you suddenly can’t browse your MOSS 2007 application locally, but still can access remote MOSS servers while others can access your application remotely: KB963027 The solutions are: 1. Uninstall the update 2. Use IE6… 3. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963027/ – read for more details For more information see also: http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2009/04/sbs-2008-ie-update-kb963027-breaks.html http://spiderwool.blogspot.com/ http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive...
When trying to use ACT 5.5 Internet Explorer Compatibility Tool I got the following message: “The file size exceeds the limit allowed and cannot be saved” You can read about the problem here and download the hotfix needed in order to fix it here .
While browsing using Internet Explorer 8, I received several times xss filter notice saying: “Internet Explorer has modified this page to help prevent cross-site scripting” resulting an empty page, usually after trying to submit a form. Although this is a security issue handled by IE in order to protect the user, sometimes it is blocking legit sites trying to do legit operations. If you are a website owner and you received complains regarding this issue you can check your web site using ACT 5.5 AKA...
I managed to wrap both search provider into a feature so it will be easier to deploy them. The new feature includes a simple WebPart which displays link buttons for installing the providers. Installation process can be viewed here: The entire solution can be downloaded here . In order to compile these files need to be copied into your Program Files/Netwise. (The wsp file in located inside wsp/Debug folder inside the project)
This post is following the previous one . In this post I will demonstrate the second search provider for MOSS – the documents search provider for IE8. I will be using the same solution, using the same method so this time I will only demonstrate the changes between the two. (The HTML is the same HTML from the previous post) The service The interface looks like this: [ServiceContract] public interface IDocumentSearchService { [OperationContract] [WebGet(UriTemplate = " /Search?q={word} "...
In this post, and the one following it I will present two new search providers for MOSS 2007. Search provider is an old feature of common browsers, IE8 brings it into a new level with the extended visibility it provides for search results. You can read more about IE8 search providers IE8 search provider . The two search providers I will present will be: 1. People search provider for searching people in the portal. 2. Documents search provider for searching documents in the portal. As we all know...