My Column in Search Result

We have a requirement in our project where we have to fetch the search result from a given list. Additionaly we have to display some columns from the list in serch result display.

We found a good article from Andy Burn's blog for how to do this.

Multiple Document Upload with jQuery

Here is the article with jQuery code from Marc for uploading multiple documents in SharePoint library and at the same time you can name, add description and check-in all together. Click here to see the article.

Thanks Marc :)

Graph in Sharepoint

It is amazing, you can now have your own Graphs in SharePoint and that is without much programming efforts. We can now use SPGraphviz.

It is one of the amazing tool which is freely available for create your own graphs.

Windows Live ID Authentication for SharePoint

This is a SharePoint feature that allows you to enable your site with Windows Live ID authentication and take advantage of the huge number of already registered Windows Live ID users.

A great feature available on CodePlex

SharePoint Error Reporting

SharePoint Error Reporting set up a custom error page to provides error and debug information to the site administrator.

No longer an Unexpected Error Has Occurred, or Unknown Error message.
A very good tool on CodePlex

Filtering with Web Part Connections

SharePoint connected filter WebPart help is nicely available with example on EndUserSharePoint

Title column Compulsory in Document Library

We had a requirement for one of the project where we were migrating existing portal to SharePoint with almost 11 years of documents.

We had created a document libraries as per requirement, so users where uploading documents in bulk or say multiple documents in once. Now as they were uploading the documents in bulk they wants to make Title field compulsory so it will look better at the view time.

Click here to find the way.

Modify the message that appears on an empty document library

We came across a very simple problem, and solution is more simpler. :)

We wanted to change the message appearing when there is no document in the document library.

Solution:The text comes from the core.resx resource file, located in 12\RESOURCES. It's divided up into four resources; just open the resource file in any text editor and search for "noitemsinview_doclibrary", and you'll find the strings.

NOTE: This will change globallly... and you shouldn't rely on changes to the system resource files directly - hotfixes or service packs might overwrite your changes.

Search Crawling Stops or The parameter is incorrect in sharepoint search

This is one of the worst problem I came across. :(

I don't blame Microsoft for this, but I can say a wrong governance model is the reason for this.

Problem: My client complaint that a new item added on the site is not comes under a search result since last few days. I spent lot of a time to find out the real cause. When I have gone through the Search Crawling log an error is found saying "The parameter is incorrect in sharepoint search". When I checked for all the other sites on the farm all are working fine with search and none of the site has given such error at the time of crawling. That has increased my curiosity.

After spending a full day at last I found a reason and its a cause for small party ;), thanks to Mattias Lindberg

Solution: The reason which stops the crawling for the site is the user we have added in the site are more than 5000 in a particular group instead of adding an AD Group.

I am just copying the workaroung given by Mattias below.

Our solution was to require sites with over 1500 members to use an AD group for keeping track of membership, as recommended by the KB for SPS 2003. One disadvantage with this approach is that you must maintain membership by updating the AD group so you can no longer request membership using SharePoint standard dialogs.

Probably an article is wriiten for SPS 2003 but infect it is applied to MOSS 2007 as well.

Set Domains for People Picker in SharePoint

I am currently working with one of the retail client where we have one requirement as below.

Client is having 4 different domains set for their different group of companies.
1) abc, 2) def, 3) uvw and 4) xyz.
Now client doesn't want a users from domain "uvw" to search by anyone (including site admin) in people picker.

Solution:
I have found a very good article by Joel Oleson @ set propery for people picker

you can use a command as "stsadm.exe -o setproperty -url http://server:port -pn "peoplepicker-searchadforests" -pv "forest:foo.corp.com;domain:bar.foo.corp.com", LoginName, Password"

Charting in SharePoint using Google APIs

Charts in SharePoint using Google APIs, very good article from Alexander Bautz on EndUserSharePoint.

Preview Image on Link Mouse Hover

One of the very common requirement. And I found a very good article on EndUserSharePoint one of my favorite site for learning something new on SharePoint.

Click here to learn how implement a MouseHover on Link for Image Preview.

SharePoint Approval workflow restart on Edit Item

This is a very old and very common requirement. But after working on SharePoint since last 3 years this is the first time I came around with such problem and it is very surprising for me as well that why I never came across such problme in past.

1. I never came across such requirement
2. HotFix is already installed on the servers.

Problem Statement

I have one Document Library called : Company News, I have attached a sequential workflow with Approval and Publisher group with On Add and Edit items. Now whenever a new item is created in document library it starts the workflow and approver approves it.

Once approver approve the item, it goes to publisher being asequential workflow for their approver. But since publisher is also approving the item, it is still showing an item as InProgress.

Solution

Download the HotFix from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955586

Session Timeout in SharePoint

Since long I have a question that how can I implement a session time out in SharePoint sites. But i never explore as there is no such requirement in any of my project till now.

Suddenly the requirement came and we have to suggest a way to do that with the minimal efforts. And after searching on google i found this and this..., though still we haven't implemented it :(

I am giving you the easiest way directly here to implement that, edit your master page and add the below script in javascript block.

function MySiteTimeOut()
{setTimeout("SessionTimeOut()", 300000);}

function SessionTimeOut()
{document.execCommand("ClearAuthenticationCache");}

This is the same function called when you click on Sign-out in SharePoint site.

Hide WebPart at run time

In one of my project we had a requirement to hide the WebPart based on the logged in user's department-id. We are not able to use Audiance Targeting to achieve this cuase we were getting user's department id using webservice from 3rd party system only.
What I did, I wrote my custom RSS Viwer WebPart with custom field. And Thanks to SharePoint Developer Center, I found a solution to hide the webpart at runtime very easily.
See the Code Snippet below.
protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
{
if(your condition)
HideWebParts();
}

private void HideWebParts()
{
if (this.WebPartManager.DisplayMode != System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartManager.EditDisplayMode
&& this.WebPartManager.DisplayMode != System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartManager.DesignDisplayMode)
{
for (int i = 0; i <>
{
if (WebPartManager.WebParts[i].Title == this.YourCustomWebPartName.Title)
{
WebPartManager.WebParts[i].AllowHide = true;
WebPartManager.WebParts[i].Hidden = true;
} } } }