RE: WSPBuilder and Feature Activation Dependencies

2008-12-15 Thread Brian Farnhill
error message). I hope that helps Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Phone:02 6225 4307 Mobile: 0408 289 303 Fax: 02 6225 4334 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net> Web: www.uniqueworld.net<http://www.uniqueworld.

RE: Automatic, customisable folder type in Document Library

2009-02-03 Thread Brian Farnhill
folders based on info stored elsewhere (perhaps in a list?) Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225 4307 Main: 02 6225 4333 Mobile: 0408 289 303 Fax: 02 6225 4334 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net&g

RE: Permission issues

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Farnhill
n create a list item somewhere in the same site, if they can then there is definately nothing going on with that feature. Is there anything in the 12 log to indicate what else could be going wrong there? Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225 4307 Main: 02 6225 4

RE: My Pictures Webparts Issue

2009-02-16 Thread Brian Farnhill
emory isn't that good!) Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225 4307 Main: 02 6225 4333 Mobile: 0408 289 303 Fax: 02 6225 4334 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net> Web: www.uniqueworld.net<http://www.un

RE: How to deploy CustomSiteAction.xml file via a feature

2009-03-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
e existing file first. To do this in an implementation we did recently we used one feature to delete to existing file and then use the second feature to put the new one in. I know its not a pretty solution but it does the job. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225

RE: How to deploy CustomSiteAction.xml file via a feature

2009-03-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
I'm not quite sure what you are referring to here? What does the list template gallery have to do with it? You are uploading one file to an existing library, not creating a new library Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225 4307 Main: 02 6225 4333 Mobile:

RE: How to deploy CustomSiteAction.xml file via a feature

2009-03-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
ies to set what is being deployed to where. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225 4307 Main: 02 6225 4333 Mobile: 0408 289 303 Fax: 02 6225 4334 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net> Web: www.uniq

RE: How to deploy CustomSiteAction.xml file via a feature

2009-03-03 Thread Brian Farnhill
complex receiver. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225 4307 Main: 02 6225 4333 Mobile: 0408 289 303 Fax: 02 6225 4334 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net> Web: www.uniqueworld.net<http://www.uniqueworld.

RE: Using Office 2007 and SharePoint to generate Word 2003 Documents

2009-03-23 Thread Brian Farnhill
ember exactly where I found my info on how to do it all but I would have got it all from Google so have a look around and see what you can find. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225 4307 Main: 02 6225 4333 Mobile: 0408 289 303 Fax: 02 6225 4334 Email:brian.

RE: SharePoint Designer is now free. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-04-02 Thread Brian Farnhill
Free doesn't cut it - I want MS to pay me for the fact that I have had to use it at all over the past two years :-) lol Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Direct: 02 6225 4307 Main: 02 6225 4333 Mobile: 0408 289 303 Fax: 02 6225 4334 Email:brian.

RE: SharePoint Designer is now free. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-04-02 Thread Brian Farnhill
Sent: Friday, 3 April 2009 9:28 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: SharePoint Designer is now free. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] It’s still 1,000,000 times better than good old frontpage was. From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Brian Farnhill Sent: F

RE: HTML Viewer Service

2009-05-11 Thread Brian Farnhill
The document conversion stuff creates a copy and maintains a link just like you said, as far as I know that's the only way it works and won't do an on the fly conversion (the conversions it does do get queued up to be converted, they aren't an instant thing) Brian Farnhill Consu

RE: createtaskwithcontenttype

2009-05-18 Thread Brian Farnhill
deployed via a feature to store my own data. I hope that helps. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Mobile: 0408 289 303 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net> Web: www.uniqueworld.net<http://www.uniqueworld.

RE: createtaskwithcontenttype

2009-05-18 Thread Brian Farnhill
put in a code action at the very start of the workflow that checked to make sure the required additional content types were associated with the tasks list. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Mobile: 0408 289 303 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.fa

RE: createtaskwithcontenttype

2009-05-18 Thread Brian Farnhill
tures Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Mobile: 0408 289 303 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net> Web: www.uniqueworld.net<http://www.uniqueworld.net> Blog: blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://bl

RE: 'Explorer view' and office documents

2009-05-31 Thread Brian Farnhill
thing to upload). Have you tried putting the same documents into the document library through the regular upload? This should let you know if it's explorer view or SP itself that has the problem. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Mobile: 0408 289 303 Email:brian.farnh

RE: Trusted Domains and user accounts

2009-06-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
he domains SharePoint will happily resolve users from either domain, and that doesn't relate to what SharePoint imports into the SSP for its user profile data either. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Mobile: 0408 289 303 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<

RE: Security - document libraries

2009-06-02 Thread Brian Farnhill
permissions of the item to someone else, so that process needs to be managed. Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Mobile: 0408 289 303 Email:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net<mailto:brian.farnh...@uniqueworld.net> Web: www.uniqueworld.net<http://www.uniqueworld.

Blank email alerts

2009-06-04 Thread Brian Farnhill
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/2da0fd95-2156-4b9f-a0b2-8107ee470185 but the only response I got was the updatealerttempaltes idea. Does anyone else have any clue what might be causing this? Regards, Brian Farnhill Consultant Technical Consulting Mobile:

RE: Multiple deletion of SharePoint groups

2009-07-06 Thread Brian Farnhill
Your best bet will be to delete them through code then - SPWeb.SiteGroups.Delete will do the trick. You could probably put together a powershell script to do it for you. From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Tuesday, 7 July 2009 2:14 PM To: ozmoss@o

RE: Site Collection Admin - use group

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Farnhill
sure you can put AD groups in there) but for site collection admin you have to select only specific people without the use of groups, that's a bit of a fail in my book Regards, Brian Farnhill Blog: <http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> http://blog.brianfarnhill.com | Twitter: &l

RE: Site Collection Admin - use group

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Farnhill
ion under people and groups, that page has a people picker (still limited to people only) but you can put as many in there as you like. Not sure why the CA site does it differently because there is no difference. It is still a pain having to manage it for individual users though! Regards,

RE: Web.config BAK files

2009-11-24 Thread Brian Farnhill
, but don't hold me to that. I usually just leave them be. Regards, Brian Farnhill Blog: <http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> http://blog.brianfarnhill.com | Twitter: <http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill> @BrianFarnhill _ Canberra SharePoint User Group: <http://w

RE: Lookup Column rendering

2010-04-20 Thread Brian Farnhill
down list. Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | Twitter: @BrianFarnhill<http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill>

RE: .NET 3.5 SP1 loopback issue

2010-05-09 Thread Brian Farnhill
the host headers for the deployment to a remote box that you browse from a different machine). Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | Twitter: @BrianFa

RE: Screen recordings

2010-06-08 Thread Brian Farnhill
ike that with it and I've been using it for ages. Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | Twitter: @BrianFarnhill<http://twitter.com/Bri

RE: Searching Sharepoint from MS Office Apps [Sec: UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-09 Thread Brian Farnhill
Does anyone know if there is a group policy option (or similar) for adding sources to that research tab like that? Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.

RE: Safe delay between solution deployments [Sec: UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-07-06 Thread Brian Farnhill
o complete and then a bit of time to that. Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | Twitter: @BrianFarnhill<http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill

RE: quick one WSS Search [Sec: UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-07-12 Thread Brian Farnhill
Isn't this included in Search Server express 2008, which is basically WSS with some of the search stuff that got included in MOSS after the infrastructure update? There is a 2010 version as well - http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/search-server-express.aspx Regards,

RE: Get Selected Images in Custom Action

2010-10-03 Thread Brian Farnhill
I'm pretty sure that the following JavaScript will get you the ID's SP.ListOperation.Selection.getSelectedItems() Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.bria

RE: best practice for site templates

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
tried restarting services, restarting VS, all sorts of stuff, but it just wouldn't fly. So if you do start using Site Definitions with VS2010, be aware that there are some tricks it will play on you. Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Sol

RE: best practice for site templates

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
Well it explains the half assed effort in putting it in to the SP2010 dev templates at least :-P Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | T

RE: WSS 3.0 SQL Express 4GB limit

2011-02-08 Thread Brian Farnhill
emory), but that is free so worth looking at if you are on a tight budget. Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | Twitter: @BrianFarnhill<http

RE: Office Web Applications 2010

2011-02-28 Thread Brian Farnhill
Sure can't, Office web apps will throw an error and I'm pretty sure it will offer the user the option to download it and open it locally in word. Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhil

RE: Workflows, Stats and ... Videos!

2011-03-10 Thread Brian Farnhill
ible the OOTB stuff is in that regard. Hope that helps! Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | Twitter: @BrianFarnhill<ht

RE: SharePoint 2010 Rich Text Editor Vs RadEditor for SharePoint

2011-03-23 Thread Brian Farnhill
+1 to that - and I doubt you would get one that is able to integrate with the ribbon and all that as a third party thing anyway Regards, Brian Farnhill Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Microsoft Virtual Technical Solutions Professional Blog: http://blog.brianfarnhill.com<h

RE: Content Types and SharePoint 2010

2011-04-17 Thread Brian Farnhill
You could just accept that doing things declaratively through CAML is just horrible and write some code to fix your columns up in the feature receiver :) [cid:image001.png@01CBFDD1.357826D0] Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303

RE: SharePoint 2010 Scripted Install

2011-04-26 Thread Brian Farnhill
AutoSPInstaller does do a basic config of the USPA - just the fact that the service itself is rather "temperamental" means it won't always work :) [cid:image002.png@01CC04CF.EA18D8A0] Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 28

RE: SharePoint 2010 Scripted Install

2011-04-26 Thread Brian Farnhill
up though. [cid:image003.png@01CC04D1.25C2C860] Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: @BrianFarnhill<http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill> | blog: blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | xbox: Noble Downfall

RE: SharePoint 2010 Scripted Install

2011-04-26 Thread Brian Farnhill
different parts of it, based on the features that you can't use on Windows 7. Haven't actually tried that though because I got past the idea of using Windows 7 for SharePoint pretty quickly and went back to my trusty VMs. :) [cid:image002.png@01CC04F1.8BBE0F60] Brian Farnhill

RE: SharePoint 2010 Scripted Install

2011-04-26 Thread Brian Farnhill
That's all the Windows 7 install is designed to be, which is why the AutoSPInstaller doesn't play nice, it's geared towards the full install that will run on a server environment [cid:image003.png@01CC04F3.F4019450] Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | ShareP

RE: Load data from XML file to SharePoint library as metadata

2011-05-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
A PowerShell script could do that pretty easy - reading XML with PowerShell is insanely easy, and putting the data in to SharePoint is pretty straight forward as well. [cid:image001.png@01CC08B9.CCB44540] Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone

RE: Load data from XML file to SharePoint library as metadata

2011-05-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
s.get_Item("List name") Then the $list object is just an SPList, so you can call to add items to it the same as you would through the object model. [cid:image002.png@01CC08BC.54384730] Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twi

RE: SharePoint 2010 - designer settings

2011-05-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
I don't believe so - SPD2010 won't install where there are any components of Office 2007 kicking around, but if you installed the 2010 stuff first you might be able to install 2007 afterwards maybe? Worth a try [cid:image002.png@01CC08BD.8708BE00] Brian Farnhill Solutions

RE: sharepoint search server express 2010

2011-06-13 Thread Brian Farnhill
it to crawl your Foundation farm (which can be running as many servers as you need) as an external site. Then you can just direct users to the search site collection on the search server to do search, everything stays in the main farm. [cid:image003.png@01CC2A82.994E6AB0] Brian Farnhill

RE: sharepoint search server express 2010

2011-06-13 Thread Brian Farnhill
.aspx [cid:image001.png@01CC2A85.A6F96180] Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: @BrianFarnhill<http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill> | blog: blog.brianfarnhill.com<http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> | xbox: Noble D

RE: Page layouts

2012-01-09 Thread Brian Farnhill
he change to be sure. Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: <http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill> @BrianFarnhill | blog: <http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> blog.brianfarnhill.com | xbox: <http://live.xbox.com/en-AU/

RE: Urgent help - Search scopes sharepoint 2010

2012-01-16 Thread Brian Farnhill
re it's just the rules of your scope that will affect how they work, so just make sure that the version the crawl account can see is what you expect to see and that your rules are fine, and that should help you figure it out. Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | ShareP

RE: Auto-update webpart property when object renamed

2012-02-05 Thread Brian Farnhill
getter for the property to look up the list name and return the string. Then you can rename the lists in the UI as much as you like, but because you are only ever working with the ID for it internally things shouldn't break Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint S

RE: Auto-update webpart property when object renamed

2012-02-05 Thread Brian Farnhill
ust refer to the list you need as SPContext.Current.Web.Lists[ListId] and you should be fine. Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: <http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill> @BrianFarnhill | blog: <http://blog.brianfarnh

RE: Auto-update webpart property when object renamed

2012-02-05 Thread Brian Farnhill
Just noticed you can also drop the line with the private _listId variable too because I used the declarative getter/setter for that one, no need for the private property in that case Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter

RE: At your Disposal

2012-02-22 Thread Brian Farnhill
u. In fact if you don't want to use a using statement you can just call dispose yourself and have exactly the same effect when the code is compiled. Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: <http://twitter.com/

RE: At your Disposal

2012-02-22 Thread Brian Farnhill
n and then that's one less thing to dispose of. Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: <http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill> @BrianFarnhill | blog: <http://blog.brianfarnhill.com/> blog.brianfarnhill.com | xbox:

RE: How to find Unused Page Layouts In Public facing site.

2012-03-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
ou could iterate over all your pages and build a list of page layouts in use and then compare that to the list of available page layouts and go from there. Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: @BrianFarnhill | blog: blog.bri

RE: How to find Unused Page Layouts In Public facing site.

2012-03-03 Thread Brian Farnhill
Can you give us some more info about what didn't work with the approach I gave you? You getting specific errors? What exactly didn't work Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: @BrianFarnhill | blog: blog.brianfa

RE: How to find Unused Page Layouts In Public facing site.

2012-03-05 Thread Brian Farnhill
t property names there but I might have been a little off on some of them. 4) I’m not doing anything to check that the Pages list exists before I go looking for it, so either do a check there or handle the exception in that catch block accordingly Hope that helps Brian Farnhill

RE: Remove list item receivers on feature deactivate

2012-03-07 Thread Brian Farnhill
feature is activated and then shove it in the property bag or something so you know specifically which one to pull out when it gets turned off though (I would probably just hard code it though - what are the odds that someone else will have the exact same guid there right? :-P) Brian Farnhill

RE: Debug list item receiver event

2012-03-07 Thread Brian Farnhill
if your code is being hit at all or what line is failing? Got anything more detailed in the ULS? (That error can show up if you have registered the handler incorrectly and it can't find it, there is usually more detailed info in the ULS to highlight this though) Brian Farnhill Solutions Arch

RE: Hidden Risk list fields reappearing

2012-03-08 Thread Brian Farnhill
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RE: Sort ListCollection using Enumerbale.OrderBy method

2012-03-14 Thread Brian Farnhill
Pretty sure you need to use OrderByDecending instead of just OrderBy in the lambda LINQ statement there Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelligent Design | SharePoint Server MVP phone: 0408 289 303 | twitter: <http://twitter.com/BrianFarnhill> @BrianFarnhill | blog:

RE: Sort ListCollection using Enumerbale.OrderBy method

2012-03-14 Thread Brian Farnhill
Can you string them together on one line like this? (My LINQ stuff is a little flaky off the top of my head - that's what I have ReSharper for most of the time!) .Include(l => l.Title . ).OrderByDecensding(l => l.ItemCount) Brian Farnhill Solutions Architect, Extelli

RE: Video and Image Upload, Resize and Convert

2012-05-01 Thread Brian Farnhill
you (which when you are doing video stuff is going to be insanely important). Bottom line is that whatever solution you come up with I would be doing my best to keep the conversion grunt work away from the WFE's and document converters give you that flexibility. Cheers, Brian Farnh