Advanced Search not working when Adding New Metadata Property with Non-English Column Names
Posted by admin in Articles, Sharepoint on 20. Dec, 2009 | 1 Comment
When using Advanced Search to search for items in a list using a specific property that use a Column name in Greek or any non standard ASCII characters.
after doing incremental crawl and adding the New Metadata Property with the Mapping to the Greek Column, Advanced Search is not working as needed and returns no result for [...]
How to Change the Redirect page URL in Variation
Posted by admin in Articles, Sharepoint on 10. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
You have Variations enabled in a SharePoint site based on English language as the main Variation label, and the 2nd Variation Label is for example French language and you want your users to be redirected to the French site whenever they type your site address instead of being redirected to the English site.
By default, the [...]
In Sharepoint Library excel files opens in Internet explorer not in excel client
Posted by admin in Articles on 17. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
Sometimes when you open an excel file from Sharepoint document library you the file opens in Internet explorer using excel services !! if excel services are not configured correctly for this document library then most probably you will get an error such as:
The workbook that you selected cannot be loaded because it contains the following [...]
How to Provision a service in Sharepoint
Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
To Provision a service, 1st enum all services to get the needed all the services and search for the needed service to provision as in the below example:
run: Stsadm –o enumservices
If you are searching for SSP Job Control Service as i did, you can see below that it is disabled so to start it you need [...]
Why the “SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard” needs to be run after the installation of the hotfix
Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
It is essential that you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration
Wizard after installation of a hotfix. This wizard or command line depending on the
way you run it, will perform an inplace build to build(b2b) upgrade on the
SharePoint installation. SharePoint hotfixes are inplace upgrades from one build of
SharePoint to another. The hotfix package simply copies [...]
Hidden Pages for User info and Variation RelationShips List in MOSS2007
Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
In sharepoint there is couple hidden pages that is used for administration purposes. I was able to find these 2 of them:
User info list which contains all the users in the sharepoint site, you can you it to delete user permanently from all groups in a site:
http://server/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx
RelationShips List which is used in variation:
http://Server/Relationships%20List
To know the feature name from it’s ID or GUID
Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
To know from the feature ID it’s name, use this list or download the excel file from the following URL: HTTP://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/attachment/8370432.ashx
How to know what Site Template are you using for your sharepoint site or web
Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
To know the site template used for any sharepoint site do the following:
In command line, navigate to stsadm.exe bin folder and run the following command:
“stsadm.exe -o enumallwebs -databasename <database name>”
Then copy the site template ID and check it in the below list:
Template Name
Description
GLOBAL#0
Global template (1033)
STS#0
Team Site (1033)
STS#1
Blank Site (1033)
STS#2
Document Workspace (1033)
MPS#0
Basic Meeting Workspace (1033)
MPS#1
Blank [...]
Get columns Totals for date column in a sharepoint list using XPath Query in sharepoint designer
Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
If you want to use totals in sharepoint list view to get the maximum/minimum/sum… or any of the totals for any column then it is easy, you just need to edit the view of your list and add the total you want based on any column.
But…. What if you need to have for example 4 [...]
How to Clear Sharepoint Config Cache
Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
To clear the config cache on the farm, follow these steps:
Stop the OWSTIMER service on ALL of the MOSS servers in the farm.
On the Index server, navigate to:
Server 2003 location: Drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the XML files from the directory.
Server 2008 location: Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the XML files from the [...]