Questions tagged [sharepoint-2007]

SharePoint 2007 is a Server Product from Microsoft. It is an Application Development Framework that helps you create web applications in no time. It combines collaboration and web publishing, providing a wide palette of functionality (Content Management, Search, wiki, blog etc.) all under its stack.

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SharePoint 2007 is a Server Product from Microsoft. It is an Application Development Framework that helps you create web applications in no time. It is used for collaboration, web publishing and file sharing as well as providing a wide palette of functionality: content management, search, wiki, blogs, etc.

Questions that suit this tag:

  1. Those related to the functionality of SharePoint.
  2. Specific help with code or debugging.
  3. Advice on best practices.

SharePoint 2007 is also known by the following names:

  1. MOSS – Stands for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
  2. SharePoint – with the release of SharePoint 2010 this name has become ambiguous.

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InfoPath 2007 drop down populates from MOSS07 list, but doesn't Alphabetize

We have an InfoPath 2007 form that populates a drop down from a SharePoint 2007 list of Employees. However, when opening the form in the browser (like it is designed to do) it does not alphabetize the drop down. But if i open the form on my…
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SharePoint > Custom Page-Library & PageLayout

I have a custom page-library which a custom content-type and a page-layout all inside a site-definition. Works as expected. The only thing I cannot get around is that if I upgrade the solution with the page-lib, ctype, page-layout via stsadm…
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A very small Q on sharepoint calculated formulas

I have a column called "name", I wanna to create a new column to be group. if the file name contains "MDSN", will return "MDSN" file, if not, will reutrn "non-MDSN" I found a way starts-with(@FileLeafRef,"MDKB"), but I also wanna control the return…
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Access denied error while creating SPAlert programatically

We are using sharepoint 2007 We have created custom page for programatically creating alert. The issue which we are facing is, If logged in user is Site Collection Administrators then only email is getting triggered. The users other than Site…
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Powershell to perform SharePoint list operations

I have two identincal SharePoint 2007 lists. Can I use powershell to do the following: Copy the first list into the second with all it's item version history. Remove all version history from the first list Clean out some 15 columns for every item…
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Default Content Type and Content type order using Folders in a Sharepoint List

I have a Custom List Definition (schema.xml) i have set up Site Columns (through A feature) and numerous content types also through a feature, this all works fine. I have a list definition (schema.xml) and i have put the content types at the top in…
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increase text size font in Sharepoint website

Has anyone implemented an ‘increase, decrease text size’ java script function in a Sharepoint web site? I’m attempting it using the getElementByTagName and getElementByID functions but they don’t seem to be doing much and behaving very oddly - by…
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get last modified date of sharepoint group.

How to get last modified date of a sharepoint group. how to get date when a user is added to a sharepoint group. thanks for your help. Arvind
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Update base template and apply to all sites who reference it - MOSS 2007

More SharePoint questions from me again today! I thank everyone that has helped thus far! Here is my situation: I have to create a custom application inside of sharepoint. I am using a document library which hosts web part pages and i am using Web…
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How do I show the Auto ID from the SharePoint list on the Detail page?

I've got a list of issues and I'm using the auto id to identify the issue. I would like the number to show up on the detail page for each item, as well as possibly adding it as a read only field on the edit page of the item.
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SPSite in Visual Studio 2010

So instead of banging my head against the wall for another couple of hours, I thought I'd just double check a few things here. First of all, I've been trying to access lists stored on a SharePoint 2007 server (which I should start off by saying is…
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"Hidden" columns in Sharepoint 2007

I'm trying to make a custom list for inquiries, where users will fill in some information such as "Name", "Reason" etc. When they've finished filling in the information and added the item, the administrator will then go through the item, and fill in…
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Disable output caching on individual web part (MOSS 2007)

We run our external website on Sharepoint 2007, and all the content is pulled from list data and generated using C# web parts. Here is my problem: I have a web part on the home page that displays a random header banner on every page load. …
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What are valid SPAlert EventTypeBitmask values?

According to many blogs on the internet when creating a SharePoint alert (SPAlert) from code you have to specify values for both the EventType and the EventTypeBitmask. However, I cannot find any explanation about the values of EventTypeBitmask. I…
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Compare Author to UserID in SharePoint XSLT

I've got a simple DataFormWebPart where I'm using XSLT to render out the contents of list. I want to compare the @Author field each list item to the current user, however the following won't evaluate to true: in the header of the XSL:
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