SharePoint 2010 Features

Following are the features coming with SharePoint 2010

1. Inline editing for list items : no need to hit the datasheet view

2. BDC will be a two way road : sp2010 may support inserting data from BDC

3. No IE 6.0 Support : SharePoint 2010 will be “targeting standards based browsers (XHTML 1.0 compliant) including Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.x. running on Windows Operating Systems.

4. With same architechture as of MOSS 2007, the stress will be on intergarting the advanced UI features, watchout for office like ribbon control, ajaxed controls etc

5. Content Management Interoperability Services : This will allow SharePoint to communicate with other CMS

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Email Notifications not working in Sharepoint Tasks List

I had understood all the mechanics of the notification process I looked for something wrong in my environment.

Everything was fine so I started my research around Tasks list security. Here are the scenarios I tested and also my remarks:

1. I left the permissions inheritance unbroken. The list didn’t have any permission for the AssignedTo user. It was clear that trimming mechanism came into play and immediate alerts job doesn’t send any email. So ensure you assign the needed level of permissions to the AssignedTo user of the task item because it is the one that will receive the email notifications.

2. I broke the inheritance and added permissions only to the AssignedTo user. Surprise: that time was working! The task creation email notification was sent.

3. I moved the code that creates the permissions for the user above the one that creates permissions for the group. Surprise again! It was working.

4. I thought it might have something to do with the Update method call so I just commented out the first properties.ListItem.Update() statement in the original code of the event handler. This implementation worked as expected and it was our final solution.

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InfoPath publishing: The following URL is not valid

After publishing a lot of InfoPath forms, suddenly InfoPath 2007 started to present me with an error:
The following URL is not valid: www.url.com

Make sure you have a created site at root level.
No need to stop system event notification.
I have just created site at root level. when we create new site collection at that time do not forget to create root level site, if u create root level site it avoid the error “the following url is not valid” wich will come afterwards.

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Missing Master Page link under Look and Feel

1. Click on Site Action
   
2. Click on site settings
3. Go to site collection features
4. Activate the "Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" feature

Now Under Look and feel in site settings you can see the Master Page link.

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Custom Site Theme for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007) and WSS 3.0

SharePoint site theme basically consists of theme.inf, theme.css, and image files. Theme.inf file simply represents the title of the theme.

Theme.css is a stylesheet file that defines colors, header images and layouts of a site and image files can be referenced here to display on the page. By creating a custom site theme, you can easily change the style but in fact, writing and editing the stylesheet can be somewhat chanllenging when you have more than a hundred of elements to deal with.

Here is a short procedure of creating a custom site theme named "Ghost":

1. Copy any theme folder in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\THEMES" folder and paste with its name replaced with "Ghost". In this example, copy GRANITE folder.

2. In Ghost folder, rename GRANITE.INF file to GHOST.INF in upper case.

3. Open GHOST.INF file with notepad.

4. Change the value of title under [Info] to Ghost.

5. Replace every word, Granite, under [titles] with Ghost.

6. Open "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\SPTHEMES.XML" file with notepad.

7. Add the following lines under tag:

Ghost
Ghost
Ghost theme.
images/thghost.gif
images/thghost.gif

Notice that preview and thumbnail paths are images/thghost.gif. By default, MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 will not have such image files.

8. In order to display thumbnail and preview correctly, you will need to capture the screen and save the file in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES" folder with thghost.gif name. You can change the .gif file name if you change the thumbnail and preview file names in tag.

9. Do an iisrest for the server to recognize the new theme.