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Remove Pages from Breadcrumb

Today, I was doing some branding for Publishing site, which is migrated from PHP/HTML using custom code.

When I enabled the breadcrumb on pages (obviously we used our own custom page layouts), the “pages” and “.aspx” in the filename is kind of annoying. Initially I thought of removing this by adding javascript/jquery on page.

But I keep thinking [...]



SharePoint Designer workflow does not send email to Groups

This is the kind of repeating/common issue asked in MSDN Forum : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointworkflow/thread/7d0166b7-6226-46bb-86cf-105647c79c47

 

The workflow which is created by SharePoint designer doesn’t send email to the members of SharePoint Group.

This is known issue and Designer Team gave the workaround to solve this problem.

On SharePoint site, click Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Modify All Site Settings.

Under Users [...]



SharePoint 2007 Config LDF File Grown up like Beast

Today my server started throwing low disk space error in C drive. I had more than 60 GB free space in my drive, No clue what happened. Then I started drilling into my folders to find the issue.

Finally, I found the SharePoint_Config_Log file size is 52 GB. :-O

 

Solution:

Right Click the Database

Select Tasks -> Shrink -> Files

Select [...]



PDF Full Text Search Configuration for SharePoint 2007 x64

 

Download the Filter for x64 from adobe here, if you are using 32 bit it will be installed by default from your adobe installation.

 

Update default value of the following two registry entries with “{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf
{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}

 
KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf
{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}

 

Open Central Administration
Go to SharedServices
Click Search Settings
Select “File types”
Create new entry with the extension as “pdf”

 
Go to “Drive:Program Files\Common [...]



Cannot open database requested by the login the login failed

I got into the below issue, when I try to access the site collection search scopes.

Cannot open database “Uday_SharePoint_SSP_Content” requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user ‘Uday\Uday.Ethirajulu$’. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Search.Admin.Pages.SearchAdminPageBase.ErrorHandler(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.OnError(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, [...]



CodePlex Release : List Search WebPart

Hi Community,                        

I have contributed List Search WebPart for SharePoint in CodePlex.

Project Description:

                              This Project provides the List Search WebPart for WSS 3.0 / SharePoint 2007. Just add the WebPart to page and specify the list name, filter fields, display fields and criteria.

Simple Interface for Tool Part with advanced features for list search.

Features

Ajax Enabled
Easy configuration of [...]



How to Create Custom Menu Item in Site Actions

The below sample feature creates new menu item in Site Actions menu, Please replace the GUID in the below code.

Sample Feature File

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

<Feature

    Id=”<GUID>”

    Title=”Custom Menu Item”

    Description=” ”

    Version=”1.0.0.0″

    Scope=”Site”

    Hidden=”False” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/”>

    <ElementManifests>

        <ElementManifest

            Location=”elements.xml” />

    </ElementManifests>

</Feature>

 

Sample Elements [...]



TreeView Doc Lib V 2.0 in CodePlex

I have released the next version of TreeView Document Library WebPart for SharePoint 2007.

Added features in this release:

 

Automatically populates the list of document libraries in dropdownlist in toolpart

Collapsed TreeView can be managed from toolpart property

Automatically shows the appropriate icons for the files in document library

 

WebPart included as feature in solution package.

Please post your comments or additional [...]



Programmatically Retrieve List of Document Libraries

The following code snippet is used to retrieve the list of document libraries.

 

SPWeb _web = SPContext.Current.Web;

SPListCollection ListColl = _web.Lists;

foreach (SPList _lst in ListColl)

{

if (_lst.BaseTemplate == SPListTemplateType.DocumentLibrary)

{

[...]



WSS 3.0 Application Templates Grouped by Business Area

If you are looking for free application template, which suites your business area, read this resource on TechNet. It has list of 40 Application templates grouped by the following business category.

 

Business Management/Finance

Human Resources

Operations/IT

Project [...]