Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature with Id 'GUID'...
Really frustrated!!! Using SP 2010 with VS 2010. Created a simple project with just 1 elements.xml file for adding 2 columns. Scope of the feature is "Site". When I right click and deploy it gives...
View ArticleDifference between getting url metodes in powershell
Hello,Could someone tell me the difference between the $site = Get-Spweb http://myserverand the $site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("http://myserver/") ?Both return the url of the site.What...
View ArticleGet firstname and lastname using profileManager from SharePoint picker
I created a sharepoint picker and when user enter an ID and click on submit, then the following code should get me their firstname and lastname from active directory. Right now it is working for only...
View Articlecopy sharePoint list security settings
Hi , I have duplicated some libraries from a root site web to its subsites and i would like to keep the same security configurations applied to the libraries of root sites because these libraries have...
View Article'Created By' user email not getting sent from workflow - SharePoint Designer...
I've created a workflow using SD2010 that is supposed to send an email to the creator of a list item once it has been completed. I also cc'd myself in the Define E-Mail Message dialog. The cc'd email...
View ArticleHow to call powershell script from aspx page
Hi All,I have a aspx page and i want to execute a powershell script and get the output (reports) as a excel file on the click of a button. The scene is like, i have twp drop down buttons and one button...
View ArticleList folder creation... help needed.
I have 10 custom lists underneath 'Lists' in the quick launch of a particular site. I want to create a folder under 'Lists' that will store archived items from the lists available. For instance I...
View ArticleHow can we get the individual library item from the picture library to...
I have 5 library items in the picture library and 5 sitepages ,I want to show individual item into each sitepage i.e, LibraryItem1 in sitepage1 ,LibraryItem2 in sitepage2 ... LibraryItem5 in sitepage5...
View ArticleSendEmail and special character in State Machine Workflow
Hi,I use a SendEmail activity in a State Machine workflow (SharePoint 2010) to send an email.The body message may contain french characters (é, è...) but it seems these characters cannot be used...
View ArticleSharepoint 2010 Meeting Workspace Recurrence Event and Attendees list
We have a calendar and there is an event receiver that creates a Meeting Workspace for the event and also adds items to Attendees list. It works fine when I make my event normal but when i make...
View ArticleBring in the same CSS for editform.aspx which is like renders like OOTB...
Hi I have created a VS2010 list definition and I wanted to use a custom editform.aspx . I have done this succesful with c# behind which writes data back to the list What I would like is use the same...
View ArticlePurpose of Connectable Web Parts
Hope that this question is not too dumb to ask, but I am just not seeing the purpose of connecting two Web Parts. If Web Part 1 has some functionality and Web Part 2 has other functionality and one is...
View ArticleResponse.TransmitFile is not opening the links directly from SharePoint...
Hi, I want to open a pdf file from a sharepoint library. I am using Response.TransmitFile to do that. But it throws me the error "'url' is not a valid virtual path". Is there anyway otherway to do...
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TechNet Wiki is looking for and celebrating the best of the best!Is that you? Do you consider yourself an expert, authority, or just pretty good at this technology?Show us your forum solutions and...
View ArticleSPTimeZone conversion to TimeZoneInfo
Hello, I am trying to convert back and forth from an SPTimeZone object to a TimeZoneInfo object. I have a WPF client application calling to a WCF service hosted in the _vti_bin and I would like...
View ArticleDynamically setting the WebId property of site columns on feature activation
I need to create several site columns as a lookup column referencing lists in the root web, however these lists will be used on child sites and thus they need the id of the site that contains the list...
View ArticleFriendly Messages SharePoint 2010
Hi..How to show User Friendly messages in SharePoint 2010 instead of error pages and Correlation idsRavindranath
View ArticleIcon in Sign in and Sign Out Welcome Screen
Hi..I want to add icons to Sign in and Sign out welcome screenRavindranath
View ArticleSet up alert on document from .net client object model
I want to set a new alert on document(s) residing in a document library through a asp .net application. is it possible to do it via .net client object model? I know there is a alert service exposed by...
View ArticleCan I send to a fax number using SPUtility.SendEmail?
We are using SPUtility.SendEmail to send notification emails from our SharePoint 2010 application. We were hoping to be able to use this with our fax server and just send [Fax:0121XXXXXX] to SendEmail...
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