Comments for Andy Burns' SharePoint Blog

Comment on How DisableEventFiring / EventFiringEnabled works by Andy

Andy — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:32:43 +0000

Well, unless you don’t want those ItemUpdating and ItemUpdated events firing, no, it probably is not related.

I would check who your code is running as. I’m not clear what you mean by an ‘SP Administrator’. Do you mean a ‘Site Collection Administrator for the site I’m working in’? ‘Cos a Farm Admin does not have guaranteed access to any content. Alternatively, use elevated privileges and have your code run as the App Pool account.

Note that from a console app, Item event handlers will run as the account running the console app. Within IIS, though, the process would run as the app pool account.

Comment on Working with the TaxonomyClientService: Part 2 – Get the TermSet (and understand it!) by Andy

Andy — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:28:11 +0000

It sounds more like the issue is the web reference or service reference to the TaxonomyClientService web service. Have you checked those?

Comment on How DisableEventFiring / EventFiringEnabled works by Ashwin

Ashwin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:55:52 +0000

I’ve written a console app that uses the SP object model to update a property/column value of an item in a document library. So the code is as simple as:

item["some column"] = “some value”;
item.Update();

The console app is executed as an SP administrator on the SP front-end server, so there is no issue with security, rights, etc. as far as I can tell. But then the following output gets spit out on the console window, and I am wondering if there are any adverse side effects because of it, and if it has anything to do with the topic of your article. The item value does get updated, by the way.

1 2/19/2012 10:23:47 AM ItemUpdating http://server/sites/web/Shared Documents/Document01.pdf > http://server/sites/web/Shared Documents/Document01.pdf
1 2/19/2012 10:23:47 AM ItemUpdating SetID: Key=shared documents/Document01.pdf value=

0002871
634652438271779415
false
false

10 2/19/2012 10:23:47 AM ItemUpdated SetValue: 0002326

Comment on Stupid bloody owssupp.dll by Tom King

Tom King — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:16:36 +0000

You guys will love this. Mine gives this error, but just sometimes. If I click on the document title, it loads into Word just fine. If I click the arrow next to the title and choose “edit in word” then I get this error. I also get the error if I try to edit the template in advanced settings. Makes no bloody sense.

Running Win 7, SharePoint 2010, Word 2010.

Is it my imagination, or do Microsoft products have an increasing number of weird pointless errors? I’m getting tired of it.

Comment on UpdateListItems Web Service fails when using item level permissions by Manoranjan

Manoranjan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:50:30 +0000

Hi Chris,
We are also facing the same error. The same code using UpdateListItems is working fine in SharePoint 2007 but not in Sharepoint 2010. Throws the error code “0x81020030The URL is invalid”. Can you please share us the steps if you manage to resolve this error.

Regards,
Mano

Comment on More SharePoint Breadcrumb WTF by Andy

Andy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:49:40 +0000

Hi CK,

Yup, that’s about right. Without customisation it’s easy to end up needing sites, and subsites, and subsubsites, and so on.

You can achieve a better experience by customisation the navigation – particularly if you’re willing to add custom Navigation Providers – but yes, with the standard functionality, the navigation side of Publishing Pages isn’t excellent – precisely because it does cause a proliferation of sites.

Comment on More SharePoint Breadcrumb WTF by CK

CK — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:39:11 +0000

Hey Andy,
I dont know if you still look at the comments on this page but I have something that has been bugging me for a while.

I am about to embark on a trek, that is, setting up a SP installation for a small company with fairly minimal customization.

However, breadcrumbs with SP bother me, I feel like from many other CMS’s I have tried, you can related parent and child pages, and have a simple hierarchy of information. This doesn’t seem possible to me without making subsites for each of the “parent” categories of information.

Am I being clear with what I expect? I would want to see something like the following in my breadcrumb trail. Main page> parent page which is also a category > second page hosted within the same site, but fitting within this parent category. I seem to be unable to figure this one out!

Comment on Stupid bloody owssupp.dll by Larry W. Virden

Larry W. Virden — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:03:38 +0000

So. today this problem appeared on my work desktop. It is 32 bit, Win XP, and I am using the 32 bit IE 7 (where I am stuck for the moment). A few months ago, Office 2010 was installed. In the last week, out of the blue I first had a popup appear when I would try to use the SharePoint 2007 browse user widget. The popup from IE said that the page had a broken script. However, other people used the page just fine. Tracking down some action for that problem led me to a note on a web site suggesting that one run ie with all add-ons turned off to see if the problem went away. It did. I tried disabling some of the add-ons and that too seemed to resolve the problem. Then today I noticed word started warning me that there was a security issue and that add-ons were turned off. Then I started getting the stupid message about needing a windows sharepoint compatible application. When I went into word’s file option, there was a button to check for issues. When I clicked it, it told me that there was a dll in the office 12 tree which had a signature that wasn’t approved. So I began a virus scan to check things out to see why suddently this dll would appear without a recognized signature.

Comment on PowerPoint Slideshows (.pps) open as PowerPoint Files by Rob

Rob — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:03:35 +0000

It’s crazy that one Microsoft product breaks the native functionality of a file type created by another Microsoft product.

Exactly the same problem here, except we’re looking at launching a set of instructions to our users through ppsx on our sharepoint intranet as it will, to a degree, limit their ability to print/save/email these instructions if they subsequently leave the firm. Not the most elegant solution to copy protecting something but we felt it would deter 99% of our users on the basis that they are just not that tech savvy.

If I get a solution to work here I’ll be sure to post it.

Comment on “To save to the server, correct the invalid or missing required properties” by Ken

Ken — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:05:23 +0000

I’m somewhat new to dealing with Sharepoint metadata. I’ve been searching for some time to find an answer, and this thread is the closest so far.
I have an email enabled library for receiving and processing resumes. I created a couple of custom fields to help organize and sort them. I also created a custom workflow to parse subject and body for key words and set the custome fields based on those, and notify the correct manager. When the documents are opened from the link included in the notification, the DIP is displayed and fields can be changed, but saving fails with the typical missing required items. The only method that has worked so far is to inspect the document and clear XML data, then save and re-open. The template is based on OOTB document type. There are no hidden fields, and the only required fields are Name and Nick Name. The culprit is Nick Name, but I cannot figure out how to either delete that field, or make it optional. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Comment on Stupid bloody owssupp.dll by Rich Van Rooyen

Rich Van Rooyen — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:01:59 +0000

Hmm… I just spent a pile of time messing with this…
Little hint…
Windows 7 64bit… Office 2010 32bit… Internet Explorer 32bit.

I don’t understand it, but I ran from the 64bit version of Internet Explorer and the “Connect To Outlook” options in the SharePoint Website worked fine…
Thanks to Robert Kenney for the tip on x64 bit vs x32 bit.

Comment on Error: The event receiver context for Workflow is invalid by Macrel

Macrel — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:29:48 +0000

This can also occur is you simply forget to code your createTaskXXX_MethodInvoking method.

Comment on en-gb is 2057 by Andy Parkes

Andy Parkes — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:42:02 +0000

Thank sir – this was a massive help!

Comment on Page hit counter in MOSS by Jitender

Jitender — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:29:00 +0000

can i use the same page for two different sites to get the hitcounter

Comment on Add a ‘Create New Document’ link to a page by Pooja

Pooja — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:48:05 +0000

Thanks for the article. But unfortunately I could not find the function that you said we need to search in the code. I resolved mine from the link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2639050

Its quite simple.
P

Comment on Don’t put your Record Center in a Collaboration Site Collection by Rebecca Ward

Rebecca Ward — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:47:31 +0000

You can use the Content Synidcation Hub to share your Custom Content Type across your 2010 instance so that the Records Center still recognizes the CustomContent Type that your home site collection used before it sent the file to the Records Center. And you can also use custom branding across the entire farm as well. We do here. We have a template that is applied to all sites, including the Records Center. It is uploaded to the Gallery, and then applied as part of the master page, but that is handled by another person, I am just the Records Center/Document Center/SyndicationHub/TermStore person.

Comment on Setting the date format on SharePoint’s Central Admin Site by Aniket

Aniket — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:36:20 +0000

How can we set the locale of a sharepoint site for a particular user according to his/her system locale through coding???

Comment on Add a ‘Create New Document’ link to a page by Paddy

Paddy — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:49:48 +0000

Hi…,

you can achieve this by adding the following script to the page where you need to change…. you can either add using SharePoint designer or use Content editor webpart…

document.getElementById(“testid”).innerHTML=”your new text goes here”

Where testid is the ID of the anchor tag… for which you need to change the text…

Comment on Add a ‘Create New Document’ link to a page by Neha sethi

Neha sethi — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:57:03 +0000

I have fixed this issue by selecting Full Toolbar in Toolbar Type. The default content type attached to the form library gets opened up and it no more redirects you to uplaod a document…

Comment on Bloody Stupid SPWeb properties by Andy

Andy — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:21:03 +0000

Yeah, I don’t think so, I’m afraid.