Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
When I use the “Send to >> E-Mail a Link” in SharePoint 2007, it gave me the wrong link!!! It created a link like this one: https://mysite%2Ecom/test/agenda.doc, But it should be: https://mysite.com/test/agenda.doc Notice how the server name is URL encoded too. The %2E’s should be periods. To fix this: we need to…
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In a SharePoint site, When I logged in as an administrator, all pages accessed successfully. But as a regular user it scolded me with Access denied Error 🙂 Enabled the stack trace and Turned off custom error message page to get the actual error. Error detail: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied. Below it,…
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Internet explorer displays the message at top “You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page.”? Fix: This is because Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration. So simply disable IE ESC to fix this issue. Go to Start >> Administrative…
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Using Windows Event – Logs During development its worth to log errors either in Windows Event log or in SharePoint log files for further troubleshooting. Beside this you can also use Trace.write or Debug.write Use SharePoint Log Files:
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When I try to open a SharePoint 2010 list in Datasheet View, It scolded me by throwing below error: The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: – A datasheet component compatible with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not installed. – Your Web…
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When trying to activate a feature using stsadm -o activatefeature, It gave me: Access to the Path <feature path> is denied. Error! Then I used -name switch instead of -filename and it worked!
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During a development project, calling SPQuery returned all items from list! Looks like it just ignored the filters we applied. Fix: This above code returns all items in the list, but if you remove the <Query> tag all works fine: “<Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name=”Title” /><Value Type=”Text”>Test</Value></Eq></Where></Query>“;Â Remember, Query XML is case sensitive! So <Where>…
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Problem: SharePoint Designer Automatically switches to Contributor Mode! Another day, when I was trying to open a SharePoint site in SharePoint Designer, it automatically opened in the contributor mode! Troubleshooting: So I tried: Prompt for user name and password security settings in IE, then re-opened the SPD. Yes, It prompted me the…
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Yes, it happened this morning. I’m unable to do a search on my MOSS website. When tried search, I got an error: “The search request was unable to connect to the search service.” when I tried to do a full crawl, then it hangs there with the “Starting” stage, Then I tried to stop and start the Office…
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How to delete all the survey responses in SharePoint 2007 all at once without having to go through deleting one at a time? Datasheet view? Oops, it doesn’t support the datasheet view. How to Delete All Survey Responses and results in one click? Here is an easy solution: Go to Site Actions…
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