Month: January 2009

How to enable blog site template within publishing portal

 

  1. Navigate to your site.
  2. Click Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Modify All Site Settings
  3. In the Site Settings, select "Page layouts and site templates"
  4. On the Page Layouts and Site Template Settings page, add the Blog site template.
  5. Choose OK to save your settings.

     

Problems with Infopath forms over Internet & ISA Servers

Yesterday, one of my client sent me a request that they published our workflow solution built over InfoPath 2007 Form services and WWF over internet and suddenly discovered that users could not access or submit the form using FQDN.

Their users were accessing SharePoint sites and InfoPath form in one of following different ways:

The form is set to full trust, published from InfoPath as a site content type and deployed as Administrator-approval required form (browser compatible) and then activated through Central Administration. It was activated at http://intranet.

At that time, I enabled SharePoint logging and started drilling into log files where I came to know that for some odd reason InfoPath form was submitting the data to the internal URL which was http://intranet. Strange!!!


The following error message was generated on submitting the form (also for ISA server users):

The form cannot be submitted to the Web server either because your computer is offline or because the host server is currently unavailable. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.

On closing the form users were then redirected to http://intranet (the URL that the form is published to in InfoPath) which of course they could not access.

 
The following post seemed exactly the same as our scenario:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointworkflow/thread/111e0764-8342-4fb0-8d19-68d5a75ed45a/.

So, we added a Link Translation rule in the ISA Server to replace the FQDN InternalDomain with ExternalDomain (Without http://)

Eg:

  1. https://internet.ourcompany.com
  2. internet.ourcompany.com
The form is now working correctly for all users.

How to delete My Site of a user within SharePoint

To delete my site of a particular user, run following command
 
stsadm -o deletesite -url http://spswebname/personal/username.
  
You can fine stsadm command at $:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\bin and don’t forget to replace spswebname with actual web name, and username with the name (loginname) of that user. For this, login as SharePoint administrator.

SharePoint navigation – Make current item highlighting work

Yesterday, one of my clients asked me to add list pages in teh global navigation and I am sure everyone who uses MOSS will be familier with a well known isuse of its navigation that it does not highlight list pages and pages which are in libraries other than Pages library and at root.
 
So now I have left with one option which was to create my own one but wait a minute, SharePoint Menu control which is inherited from ASP.Net menu control is a sealed one so no luck. Then I decided to do a little bit google and found this cool article with source code as well.
 
Try this one and enjoy 🙂