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Incrementing Date in Repeating Table

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:58:55 GMT

The business requirement of this post covers the following topic: each time the user adds a line in a Repeating Table on an InfoPath form, the Date Field of the line should increment by one day automatically. An example is elaborated in this post with the by default installed Expense Report Sample. Each time an Expense line is added, the Date of the Expense line will be incremented with one day.

Integration MOSS DAX with BDC through a custom field type part three

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:36:31 GMT

In this series of post, I'll show how you can integrate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with another line of business system, more specifically Dynamics AX. The purpose is to create a custom field type, which can be added as a column to a SharePoint list. This SharePoint column renders a dropdown box with values from a Microsoft SQL Server table's column. As such, in stead of duplicating the possible values on your SharePoint box each time new values are added in your line of business system, the available values for this SharePoint column are always in synch with your line of business system. This first post describes how to create your connection between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Dynamics AX. The second post describes how to create the custom field type. Currently however, the DAX project activities we are receiving in our dropdown list are based on a specific project. In this post, I'll describe how to receive those project activities for a project depending on the site the issue list is part of.

The path or file name is invalid error when opening Office document in

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:08:37 GMT

You browse to a SharePoint document library and when you click on the Name of a Microsoft Office PowerPoint file stored in the library, you receive following error: The path or file name for http://servername/libraryurl/filename.pptx is invalid. Please check that the path and file name are correct. Your PowerPoint application starts automatically up on your desktop, but the file isn't opened: however, yesterday everything worked fine. What is even weirder, if you do a search for the document and you click on its name in the search results, your PowerPoint application starts and the file opens without problem. What is also remarkable: if you go to your document library and you choose Edit in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, your PowerPoint application starts, the file gets checked out automatically and opens without error.

Export to Excel with X code

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:44:01 GMT

Every user of Microsoft Dynamics AX knows the possibility and the ease-of-use to copy-paste data from a Dynamics AX grid to a Microsoft Excel worksheet. However, as Dynamics AX developer, you can achieve the same through X++ code, with a lot of more possibilities. In this post, I show an example of such an export to Microsoft Excel. I am going to export the list of my customers to a first worksheet in my Excel file. For each customer, I'll add a seperate worksheet through X++ code and I'll export in that particular worksheet an overview of backorder lines with their quantity that has not yet been packing slip delivered.

Links List July 2009

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:28:47 GMT

I decided to share all my interesting reads and resources month by month with my blog readers. You can find these posts by searching on the label Links. I'll try to order the resources in logical categories. If you would like to see some interesting stuff added in the next month, don't hesitate to post a comment. So this is my Links post for July 2009.

Integration MOSS 2007 - Dynamics AX with BDC through a custom field ty

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:29:14 GMT

In this series of post, I'll show how you can integrate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with another line of business system, more specifically Dynamics AX. The purpose is to create a custom field type, which can be added as a column to a SharePoint list. This SharePoint column renders a dropdown box with values from a Microsoft SQL Server table's column. As such, in stead of duplicating the possible values on your SharePoint box each time new values are added in your line of business system, the available values for this SharePoint column are always in synch with your line of business system. This first post describes how to create your connection between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Dynamics AX. In this post, I'll describe how to create the custom field type. In a following post, I'll describe how to make this custom field type more generic by using a dynamic where clause in the query.

Visual Studio Macros for working with GUIDs in XML

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:45:04 GMT

Creating new GUIDs, especially in SharePoint CAML, can be a real time drain. This article walks you through creating some Visual Studio macros that can save you time.

Links List June 2009

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:08:15 GMT

Installing Windows SharePoint Services Application Template Core

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:08:19 GMT

This article and be used in conjunction with both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 aka MOSS 2007 If you don't already know, Microsoft has some advanced application templates you can download to your SharePoint Farm, I have also created some batch files below to help speed up the installation process. These templates can expedite implementation times and have some great new Server Admin Templates and Site Admin Templates to include

List Event Example Code

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:27:07 GMT

Creating a list Item event in Sharepoint

Links List May 2009

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:02:06 GMT

Integration MOSS 2007 â?" Dynamics AX with BDC through a custom field

Sun, 17 May 2009 03:52:44 GMT

Links List April 2009

Sun, 03 May 2009 03:00:55 GMT

Add url to the Description of a SharePoint Column

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:38:13 GMT

If you want to add a url to the Description of a SharePoint Column, this cannot be done by adding HTML tags in the Description field of the Additional Column Settings of a SharePoint Column. HTML tags added in the Description of a column are rendered in plain text, so that is not an option. You could achieve this though by use of the Content Editor Web Part and some JavaScript. In next example, I have create an Issue Tracking SharePoint List. In this list, I have a Lookup column called Contact, which points to a Contacts SharePoint List, located in the same site, and at the same level as my Issue Tracking List. I want to add a hyperlink in the description of my Contact Lookup column of my Issue Tracking list to the NewForm.aspx page of my Contacts list to make it more user-friendly for end-users to find where they can add values for that Lookup column.

Problems after farm restore

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:11:18 GMT

I had to do a topology change for a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 installation. The MOSS 2007 installation was currently on one physical server. The change implied splitting off the Database Server to another physical server, and keeping the original physical server as Web-Front End Server and Application Server. So I started a set of taks: I performed a farm level backup using the backup utility in SharePoint Central Administration. I ran the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to disconnect the server from the configuration database. I ran the Wizard again to create a new SharePoint farm. I launched the Office SharePoint Services Search and Windows SharePoint Services Search services. I restored the farm backup. All of which went pretty well, till I started doing some test: I ran into several problems.

Links List March 2009

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:14:17 GMT

Tutorials

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:56:20 GMT

List of interesting, mainly SharePoint links.

Wrong urls in SharePoint alert messages

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:44:03 GMT

Recently I ran into a problem with the automatic generated urls in SharePoint alert messages. For some users logging in using the Web-based form (and hence entering the Forms Based authentication Web Application, http://extranet url), the hyperlinks in the generated alert messages started wrongly with http://intranet. This was not the case for all users entering the Forms Based Web Application: for some the hyperlinks in the alert messages started correctly with http://extranet.

Links List February 2009

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:26:01 GMT

SharePoint Services - Setting up a Website with Forms Authentication

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:49:20 GMT

How to create a website in SharePoint and enable Forms Authentication

SharePoint not reachable through IE, with Firefox no problem

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:06:21 GMT

Problem description: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage At one of my customers, all of a sudden, the SharePoint website was not accessible anymore for some users. Those users were prompted for their credentials when trying to enter the SharePoint website, but then they got immediately a Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage error page. The SharePoint environment was a MOSS 2007 environment with Windows Authentication.

Create a Who is Who application on SharePoint

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:29:56 GMT

Most people having a SharePoint environment have already a lot of information about the users in another system stored, such as Active Directory. This article describes a step-by-step guide to promote this user information in Active Directory to the SharePoint environment, resulting in a Who is Who functionality on the SharePoint environment.

Links List January 2009

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:37:45 GMT

Invalid look-up value durig upload of a Word document in a SharePoint

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:38:01 GMT

During upload of a Word 2007 document in a SharePoint document library, you can run into following error: Invalid lookup-value. A look-up field contains invalid data. Please check the value and try again.

Search problems after Windows update

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:46:38 GMT

From one day on the other, no items got indexed anymore during the crawling process on our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installation. Looking in the Crawl logs, following error was found: Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)