In Part 1 I looked at the structure of our Taxonomy field – which is in fact two fields. We also saw how the TaxonomyField definition has an array of properties related to it too. As a reminder, here’s a screenshot of the XML for it:
These properties are quite important, as they tell us what we need to know to get the correct TermSet for our field. Continue reading
I have been working on an integration that needs to read terms from SharePoint’s Managed Metadata service, for a particular field, and then populate that field with those values. All this has to be done via SharePoint’s web services – so the relevant ones here are the TaxonomyClientService, and Lists web service.
This has proved particularly bloody hard. Continue reading
I had a slightly unusual situation. We’ve a customer who has using the Telerik RadEditor version 4.5.6 for SharePoint 2007. They’re upgrading to SharePoint 2010, and want their existing content to continue to work.
They’ve using the Telerik RadEditor web part quite a lot, so we had to keep that working. We’ve put in Assembly Binding Redirects using an SPWebConfigModification (more on that in a later post).
However, we also needed to put in the SafeControl entry for the old assembly. Continue reading
As mentioned before, I’ve been automating the building and analysis of our SharePoint code, and this led me to ask, can you run SPDisposeCheck as part of a TFS build process?
Yes we can. Richard Fennell has a concise and simple description of how to do it. It’s best to read that, but in case that site goes down, the short of it is – use InvokeProcess to run SPDisposeCheck, and it’ll return a value that is the number of errors/warnings it finds. I find that that’s enough to choose whether to write a warning to the output of the build, and I don’t then parse and write the individual warnings into the build. These should be captured by the build log, and they’re pretty obvious, so it doesn’t seem worth the hassle. You could do it if you really wanted to.
Don’t forget you can use attributes to prevent false positives – though I still have issues with anonymous delegates that are false positives (how do you add the attributes?), and that’s what’s causing the two warnings above.
Recently, a few of our customer’s systems that I’ve looked at have had the Publishing Infrastucture site collection feature activated, but purely for the top navigation. That seemed quite a heavyweight approach to me. Continue reading
This error has caused me so much pain when trying to use SharePoint’s JavaScript client-side object model (CSOM), so, in case I have it again:
Function.createDelegate(this, onSuccessMethod)Function.createDelegate(this, this.onSuccessMethod)I don’t know why this difference should cause this error, but I’ve proved it true.
If you know of other causes of this error, let me know, I’ll add it to the list. I love the experience of debugging JavaScript…
For some reason a new web application on my development VM always returns a 503 Service Unavailable when you go to it.
It turns out that this is due to the app pool supporting 32 bit applications! Change the setting in IIS (App Pool > Advanced Settings > Enable 32 Bit applications should be false)
I had a problem that one of our development machines had been configured in a ‘Least Privileges’ configuration – and it was a bit too least. The content app pool could not write to the logs. OWSTimer and WebAnalytics both could, but there was nothing from W3WP for that web app.
Just a reminder to myself…
Well, the solution was to add the app pool account to the ‘Performance Log Users’ group in AD. You find it under BUILTIN. Reset ISS. Voila!
A curious problem – Timer Jobs have a Title (which you can set), and a description, which you can’t set – as it has no setter:
This is a shame, as I like that you can see a description about the time job in Central Admin:
The solution – strange as it seems, override the Description property in your new timer job.
I had two of my colleagues come to me with the same complaint – that the Basic Search Center site template in SharePoint 2010 doesn’t have any navigation to get ‘back’ to the rest of the site collection:
I pointed out to them that there are good reasons to consider having the Search Center separated from the rest of your content. I’d even suggest a separate Site Collection if using the Enterprise Search Center. (This uses the publishing features, and you might not want them turned on in your existing site collection).
However, my colleagues didn’t need all that, and really did just want a simple search center in the same site collection as their content. For example, a departmental site collection needed its own search center and search experience. But they’d really like users to be able to navigate back to the rest of the site collection.
So, I set forth to fix this dire state of affairs for them. Continue reading