Samarendra Swain - SharePoint Tips

Avoid checked out issue while drag and drop multiple documents using Explorer View

2011-11-15T22:47:00.000-08:00

When multiple files are dragged and dropped into SharePoint using explorer view, all files are shown as checked out in SharePoint even though check-in/check-out are not required on document library.

Solution: Enable content type at document library level and make the Title column as optional for the content type document. Then try to upload the multiple documents using explorer view. It will work fine as expected.

Enable Web folders in SharePoint Explorer View

2011-11-09T00:59:00.000-08:00

Some of the below points you should aware if web folder is not working properly in your SharePoint site.

When you try to access an Explorer View page on Windows Server 2003, you will sometimes receive the following error: “Explorer View requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater and Web Folders.”

This is typically caused by the fact that Windows Server 2003 does not include Web Folders (FPRPC) technology and, by default, the Web Client Service is disabled.

You can resolve this in one of two ways:

1. Install Microsoft Office 2003 or FrontPage on the server. Office 2003 and FrontPage install Web Folders components which will then allow you to access the Explorer View using FPRPC.

2. Enable the Web Client Service on the server. (We have tested in our production which did not work out)

If anybody out there has been building demo machines on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 you will have run into this issue at some point. Explorer View does not work on document libraries, nor can you map a network drive to a SharePoint site.

Solution: The server platforms effectively don't like web folder views until you install the fix KB907306. That fixes works for both Windows 2003 and 2008.

Now you can happily map a SharePoint site to your network places and use the Windows Explorer to browse the SharePoint sites.

It does not seem to be the problem with an internet explorer. When you attempt to way in an Explorer View page on Windows 7 then you must receive the following error: “Explorer View requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater and Web Folders.” Actually this issue comes when your operating system does not include the Web Folders (FPRPC) technology and this service is disabled by default on client machine. To solve this problem, you just need to install the FrontPage on the server then you may try doing the same thing.

Reference Link:

http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1367884.htm

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-sharepoint-services-help/copying-or-moving-sharepoint-document-libraries-HA001154465.aspx

http://mctalex.blogspot.com/2009/05/explorer-view-in-windows-2008-and-2003.html

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=15123

Tips: Unexpected issue in the out-of-box functionality of SharePoint site

2011-09-08T23:31:00.000-07:00

One interesting issue !

Suppose just before yesterday you checked that your SharePoint site was working fine, but today you start getting unexpected issue in the out-of-box functionality of SharePoint site( like displaying All Items data, Deleting List Item/Library or Creating View etc.), Then you might thought that without any changes how can the issue arise. Yes you are right, but do you regularly verify the content database size of the site collection. Yes, those unexpected error comes whenever the Content DB has no free space to use. Now it's your task to increase the Content DB size.

I got below error while displaying All Items data for a library.

<---Render Method ----!>

Then I verify the event Viewer where I got the error that TempDB is expecting some space to do the SharePoint transactions(whether displaying data, creating or deleting items etc).

-Samarendra swain

SharePoint 2010 : Display new form, edit form and display form of a list/Library in full page instead of in dialog box.

2011-04-08T13:05:00.000-07:00

Go through the below steps to achive the same.

Open the List/Library.
Go to settings of the list/library.
Go to advanced settings.
Select 'No' in Dialogs section like below screen shot.

Now check the New form, Edit form and Display form for that list/library. You will able to see the forms in full page instead of dialog, like below screen shot.

Enjoy !

Remove â€™s while exporting excel file using RenderControl method of GridView or DataGrid or DataList control.

2011-02-17T23:20:00.000-08:00

Example: ‘Employee’s home’ was coming like ‘Employeeâ€™s home’ while exporting to excel file where it should come like the original one.

Code Snippet:

Function ExportToExcel( GridView gv)

{

HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();

HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", string.Format("attachment; filename={0}", "Test.xls"));

HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/ms-excel";

System.IO.StringWriter oStringWriter = new System.IO.StringWriter();

System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter oHtmlTextWriter = new System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(oStringWriter);

gv.RenderControl(oHtmlTextWriter);

// add the below marked line to fix that issue

HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1252");

HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(strHeading + oStringWriter.ToString());

HttpContext.Current.Response.End();

}

Sign-in as different user using windows authentication in SharePoint

2010-10-05T08:26:00.000-07:00

You can add an hyperlink to your page and href value should be '/_layouts/AccessDenied.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true'. Please see the below example.

<a href='/_layouts/AccessDenied.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true' >Sign in as different user</a>

Check it out and let me know.

How to open a .TIF file in SharePoint site ?

2010-09-15T08:54:00.000-07:00

Normally if you upload a .TIF file to a document library and try to open that, it shows the dialogue box where you will see 'Find' option instead opening the file. For that you have to do some minor setting in your computer.

Step 1: Select any .TIF file and right-click and select 'open with' option.

Step 2: Select Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

Step 3: Select the checkbox for opening this kind of programs always.

Step 4: Click OK.

Step 5: Open that .TIF file from SharePoint site, you can able to see that.

Image:

Enable rating feature for Document library in SharePoint 2010

2010-08-25T07:36:00.000-07:00

Step 1: Go to the library settings of the document library.

Step 2: Click on 'Rating Settings' link of the document library.

Step 3: Click 'Yes' to enable rating feature for the document library.

Template ID of SharePoint Libraries and Lists

2010-04-20T03:26:00.000-07:00

T-ID Description
100 Custom List
1200 Administrator tasks list
104 Announcements list
303 Blog Categories list
302 Blog Comments list
301 Blog Posts list
105 Contacts list
120 Custom grid for a list
118 Custom Workflow Process
130 Data Connection library
110 Data sources
108 Discussion board
101 Document library
106 Events list
150 Gantt Tasks list
100 Generic list
1100 Issue tracking
103 Links list
114 List template gallery
116 Master pages gallery
201 Meeting Agenda list
202 Meeting Attendees list
204 Meeting Decisions list
207 Meeting Objectives list
200 Meeting Series list
210 Meeting text box
211 Meeting Things To Bring list
212 Meeting Workspace Pages list
117 No-Code Workflows
2002 Personal document library
109 Picture library
300 Portal Sites list
2003 Private document library
111 Site template gallery
102 Survey
107 Tasks list
112 User Information list
113 Web Part gallery
119 Wiki Page library
140 Workflow History
115 XML Form library

How many Site Groups can you create in a Site Collection ?

2010-04-02T08:09:00.000-07:00

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287790.aspx

Read very carefully.

Breakroleinheritance takes a long time to excute.

2010-03-30T06:43:00.000-07:00

This is an issue in SharePoint Service Pack 1 and hotfix is available here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422

Or you can upgrade to SharePoint SP 2.

70-541: Enumerate list items.[perform enabling permissions]

2010-02-22T06:40:00.000-08:00

using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://testsite"))

{

using (SPWeb objWeb = spSite.OpenWeb())

{

SPUser objUser = objWeb.EnsureUser("manuhsolutions\\samarendra");

SPList objLst = objWeb.Lists["ListName"];

SPListItem lstItem = objLst.GetItemById(1);

// break inheriting parent permissions for this List.

lstItem.BreakRoleInheritance(false);

// assign Role to the defined User

SPRoleDefinitionCollection objWebRoleDefn = objWeb.RoleDefinitions;

SPRoleAssignment objRoleAssign = new SPRoleAssignment(objUser);

// change the name of the role definition to [Contribute]

objRoleAssign.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(objWebRoleDefn["Contribute"]);

lstItem.RoleAssignments.Add(objRoleAssign);

}

}

70-541: Change a user's permissions to edit a list.

2010-02-22T06:37:00.001-08:00

using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://testsite/"))

{

using (SPWeb objWeb = spSite.OpenWeb())

{

SPUser objUser = objWeb.EnsureUser("manuhsolutions\\samarendra");

SPList objLst = objWeb.Lists["ListName"];

// break inheriting parent permissions for this List.

objLst.BreakRoleInheritance(false);

// assign Role to the defined User

SPRoleDefinitionCollection objWebRoleDefn = objWeb.RoleDefinitions;

SPRoleAssignment objRoleAssign = new SPRoleAssignment(objUser);

// change the name of the role definition from [Limited Access] to [Full Control]

objRoleAssign.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(objWebRoleDefn["Full Control"]);

objLst.RoleAssignments.Add(objRoleAssign);

}

}

70-541: Remove a user from a site group

2010-02-22T06:26:00.000-08:00

using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://testsite/"))

{

using (SPWeb objWeb = spSite.OpenWeb())

{

SPUser objUser = objWeb.EnsureUser("manuhsolutions/samarendra");

SPGroup objGroup = objWeb.SiteGroups["Test Group Name"];

objGroup.RemoveUser(objUser);

}

}

70-541: Create a custom SPQuery object.

2010-02-22T06:23:00.000-08:00

using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://testsite/"))

{

using (SPWeb objWeb = spSite.OpenWeb())

{

SPList objList = objWeb.GetList(objWeb.Url + "/Lists/" + "ListName");

SPQuery query = new SPQuery();

query.RowLimit = 10;

query.Query = "<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name=\"Title\" /><Value Type=\"Text\">" + "Samarendra" + "</Value></Eq></Where>";

SPListItemCollection itemColl = objList.GetItems(query);

if (itemColl.Count > 0)

{

SPListItem lstItem = itemColl[0];

}

}

}

70-541: Add a user to a site group

2010-02-22T06:16:00.000-08:00

using (SPSite objSite= new SPSite("http://testsite/"))

{

using (SPWeb objWeb = objSite.OpenWeb())

{

SPUser objUser = objWeb.EnsureUser("manuhsolutions\\samarendra");

SPGroup objGroup = objWeb.SiteGroups["Test Group Name"];

objGroup.AddUser(objUser);

}

}

How to increase the size limitation while you save site as template include content in MOSS 2007

2010-02-10T21:44:00.000-08:00

By using the STSADM command , you can maximize the size limitation while you wish to save site as template include the content.

command:
stsadm -o setproperty -pn max-template-document-size -pv 52428800

(52428800 is in byte format which is equal to 50 Mega Byte)

enjoy.......

Displaying alert message while saving a infopath form.

2010-02-05T05:17:00.000-08:00

You might have marked that, in each and every infopath form, there are two buttons 'save and close'. There might be requirement for displaying a alert message on the click event of the save button.

To achive this , open the core.js file from this location \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\INC and serach Toolbar.ExecuteAction and update the script by looking to the below script.

.
.
.
.
.
Toolbar.ExecuteAction = function(strAction, objEvent)
{if (!BaseControl.CanHandleEvents())

{return;}

switch(strAction)

{case ("refresh"):

{if (document.forms[0] != null)

{View_SubmitForm(false , 24, 0, false );}

break;}

case ("submit"):

{if (View.PreSubmitActions())

{EventLog_Add(

9,

null,

"",

"",

"",

true ,

false ,

false ,

9,

0);}

break;}

case ("view"):

{;

break;}

case ("save"):

{EventLog_Add(

14,

null,

"",

false,

false,

true ,

false ,

false ,

10,

0);alert('Data Saved Successfully');

break;}

case ("saveAs"):

{EventLog_Add(

14,

.
.
.

Renaming the menu items in SharePoint Site Libraries and Lists for a Specific Site

2010-01-21T04:23:00.000-08:00

In SharePoint document Library/List we find menu items like New, Uploads, Actions and Settings etc. At times there might be requirements to rename these menu items for a specific site. The following Javascript function can be used to achieve the objective.

The code snippet shown below can be called from inside the specific SharePoint Page.

e.g AllItems.aspx page inside a Document Library/List.

This javascript function needs to be called on Page load event using _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push method.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("renameMenuItem('New', 'My New')");
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("renameMenuItem('Settings', 'My Settings')");

function renameMenuItem(oldMenuItemName, newMenuItemName)
{

var vAnchorTag;

var vAllAnchorTags = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
if(oldMenuItemName.length!=0)

{
for (var j = 0; j < vAllAnchorTags.length; j++)

{

vAnchorTag = vAllAnchorTags[j];

if (vAnchorTag.innerText.indexOf(oldMenuItemName)!=-1)

{
vAnchorTag.innerText = newMenuItemName;
try

{

if(newMenuItemName.length != 0)

{

vAnchorTag.parentNode.previousSibling.firstChild.firstChild.alt

= newMenuItemName;

}

else
{

vAnchorTag.parentNode.previousSibling.firstChild.firstChild.alt

= oldMenuItemName;

}

}
catch(err)
{
}
}
} // End For
} // End If
}// End Function
</script>

Check it out from here: http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/Renaming-the-menu-items-in-SharePoint-Site-Libraries-and-Lists-for-a-Specific-Site-209.php
Try it out and enjoy...

Create custom application page in sharepoint 2007

2010-01-21T04:13:00.000-08:00

/*******************Test.aspx*******************************/
<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/_layouts/application.master" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.LayoutsPageBase" %>

<script runat="server">

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.Label1.Text = "Samarendra swain";
}

protected void btnSubmit_onclick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   this.Label1.Text = "Hi...";
   this.txtValue.Text = "click submit";
}

</script>

<asp:Content ID="Main" ContentPlaceHolderID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<h1>Testing custom application page</h1>
<asp:Label Text="Hello World" runat="server" ID="Label1"></asp:Label>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtValue"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" Text="Submit" OnClick="btnSubmit_onclick" />

copy this test.aspx file in this location _layouts/Test.aspx
run with this url like http://testsite/_layouts/Test.aspx
</asp:Content>
/**********************End********************************** /
Try it out and enjoy.............

Create a Custom View for Survey List

2010-01-21T04:02:00.001-08:00

In SharePoint, custom views are used to display the items in a list/libraries with custom look and feel.Therefore you have to choose a view format like Standard View, Calendar View, Datasheet View or Gantt View and accordingly you can customize the display style by choosing Filter condition, Sort method, Group By condition etc. SharePoint allows us to create custom views for the list and libraries. But for the Survey type list, SharePoint documentation doesn't mention anything about creating a custom view.
Below mentioned steps are can be adapted to create a custom view for Survey List.

Steps-:
1.Open a SharePoint Site......Open the Survey List.
2.Find the ListID from the URL like
List=%7BF2141E9F%2D8EA2%2D42EE%2DA965%2D52F1D7362066%7D

3.Now change the URL in the browser as
http://SiteName:PortNo/_layouts/ViewType.aspx?List=%7BF2141E9F%2D8EA2%2D42EE%2DA965%2D52F1D7362066%7D

4.Then choose a view format for the survey list.

5.Type a custom View Name.

6.In the same page open the style tab, choose a style for this view e.g Basic Table (Don't set the style as Default).

7.Then press OK to create the view.

Edit the Custom View

1.Open the Survey List
2.Go to Site Action....Click on Edit page....Click on Modify Shared Web Part
3.Now click on Edit the current view
4.It will open the view .Modify the view & save it.

Check it out

Custom EnsureUser function

2009-12-17T02:16:00.000-08:00

The functionality of web.EnsureUser("login name") function is to resolve the user from the sharepoint site. But there might be a case where the login name you are passsing as a parameter, which does not exist in the site, then it will give you a run time error.

But this function will work like a brilliant. It will check the user and if does not exist then add that to "Home Owners" group. You can specify your own group name also.

public SPUser CustomEnsureUser(string fullName,SPWeb web)
{
SPPrincipalInfo objInfo = SPUtility.ResolvePrincipal(web, fullName, SPPrincipalType.SecurityGroup | SPPrincipalType.User, SPPrincipalSource.All, null, false);
if objInfo == null)
{
throw new SPException(SPResource.GetString("User could not be found", new object[]{objInfo.LoginName}));

}
if (objInfo.PrincipalId < 0) { web.Groups["Home Owners"].AddUser(objInfo.LoginName, objInfo.Email, objInfo.DisplayName, string.Empty); } return web.SiteUsers[objInfo.LoginName];}

How to open SharePoint Group easily in Out-Of-Box functionality.

2009-12-16T23:22:00.000-08:00

Suppose you are creating a application ,where you are creating sharepoint custom groups day by day. After some days, suppose there are 5000 custom sharepoint groups and you need to Modify settings/update users/delete users in a specific group. Then how can you go to that group easily ?

Step 1.Where ever you will see that group,just right click on that and click properties and get address url like:

http://testserver/testsite/_layouts/editprms.aspx?
obj=%7B9FD2AD57%2DB7E1%2D4C7C%2D9A7C%2DA1BB85B20AEC%7D%2C614%2CLISTITEM
&sel=17637

Step 2: Take the sel value(i.e 17637) and Type the url as the below example:
http://testserver/testsite/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=17637

Then you will reach that Group direcltly.

Try it out and enjoy !

Copy a folder from one list to another list programmatically.

2009-12-14T23:09:00.001-08:00

using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://testserver/spsite"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
string sourceListUrl = "CustomList1/";
string destinationListUrl = "CustomList2/";

SPFolder rootFolder = web.GetFolder(sourceListUrl);
foreach (SPFolder objRootSubFolder in rootFolder.SubFolders)
{
if (objRootSubFolder.Name != "Forms")
{
folder = web.GetFolder(objRootSubFolder.ServerRelativeUrl);
foreach (SPFolder objFolder in folder.SubFolders)
{
objFolder.CopyTo(destinationListUrl + objRootSubFolder.Name + "/" + objFolder.Name);
}

foreach (SPFile objFile in folder.Files)
{
objFile.CopyTo(destinationListUrl + objRootSubFolder.Name + "/" + objFile.Name);
}
}
}
}
}

Delete all site groups programmatically.

2009-12-14T23:01:00.000-08:00

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate
{
using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://testserver/spsite"))
{
using (SPWeb spWeb = spSite.OpenWeb())
{
SPGroupCollection objCol = spWeb.SiteGroups;

for (int count = 0; count <= objCol.Count - 1; count++)
{
spWeb.SiteGroups.Remove(0);
}
}
}
});

Delete all the items from a custom list or a document library.

2009-12-14T22:55:00.000-08:00

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate
{
using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://testserver/spsite"))
{
using (SPWeb spWeb = spSite.OpenWeb())
{
SPList objLst = spWeb.Lists["List Name"];
SPListItemCollection objCol = objLst.Items;

for (int count = 0; count <= objCol.Count - 1; count++) { objLst.Items.Delete(0); } } }});

Updating a list item by avoiding unnecessary call to event receiver.

2009-12-14T22:44:00.000-08:00

If there is custom list and a event receiver[For creating/updating list item] is binded to that, then suppose we want to update the list without calling to the event receiver, then we have to disable the event firing and call the SystemUpdate() function instead of Update() function. Below here is the example in 2 steps:

Step 1:

class UpdateList: SPItemEventReceiver
{
}

Step 2:

SPListitem listItem = lst.Items.Add();
listItem["Title"] = "Samarendra Swain";
listItem["Company"] = "Manuh Solutions";

base.DisableEventFiring();
listItem.SystemUpdate();
base.EnableEventFiring();

Fetching SPList object properly.

2009-12-14T22:23:00.000-08:00

When ever we need to access a Custom List or a Document Library , we normally write like:

SPList lst = web.Lists["List Name"];

But this is a performance killer. So avoid this and modify the code to:

SPList lst = web.GetList("http://testServer/Lists/ListName");

Proper Use of AllowUnsafeUpdates property.

2009-12-14T22:16:00.000-08:00

Normally if we do not need to set the AllowUnsafeUpdates property to true in case of windows application. But if you are calling the SharePoint API in web based application then we need to set the AllowUnsafeUpdates property to true before creating/updating anything(e.g. creating/updating list item in a list).

Suppose there is assignment to create a list item and bind custom permission to that list item, then we normally write BL like:

web.AllowUnsafeUpdate = true;

SPLIstItem lstItem = list.Items.Add();
lstItem["Title"] = "Samarendra Swain";
lstItem.update();

Then with the return listitem object, we write BL to bind the role defination to the list item.

lstitem.BreakRoleInheritance(false);

SPRoleDefinitionCollection objWebRoleDefn = oSPWeb.RoleDefinitions;
SPRoleAssignment objRoleAssign = new SPRoleAssignment(objSPGroup);

objRoleAssign.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(objWebRoleDefn["Full Control"]);
lstItem.RoleAssignments.Add(objRoleAssign);.

If you will run this, then you will get a run time error because of the AllowUnsafeUpdates property value set to false.

So,if you are writing lstitem.BreakRoleInheritance(false); then it makes the AllowUnsafeUpdates property value to false , so that after writing that line, you have to write again web.AllowUnsafeUpdate = true;

Then your code will run successfiully.

Getting QueryString Parameters with JavaScript in SharePoint

2009-10-13T07:47:00.000-07:00

To get the query string parameter in a sharepoint page using javascript, below is the code snippet.

// call the EnsureSetup method
JSRequest.EnsureSetup();

// get the querystring parameter named empid e.g ...\test.aspx?empid=55&empname=sam
var empid = JSRequest.QueryString["empid"];
var empname = JSRequest.QueryString["empname"];

***********************************************************************
Output : empid = 55 and empname = Sam
***********************************************************************

Author: Samarendra Swain

Display the matching results in People Picker Control by clicking on check names link

2009-09-30T04:25:00.000-07:00

You will find a function EntityEditorCallback(result,ctx,preventAutoPostBack) in core.js file. At the last line of the function, just call this function: onClickRw(true,false);

what ever you write in People Picker Control, It will display the matching results by clicking on Check Names link Or by pressing enter key.

No need to again click on that text and see the matching results.

-samarendra swain

Delete a sharepoint group programmatically ?

2009-09-24T09:07:00.000-07:00

To delete a sharepoint group using object model, below is the code snippet in c#.

// objSPWeb is SPWeb object
objSPWeb.SiteGroups.Remove(groupName);
objSPWeb.Update();

Update the List item permission programmatically

2009-09-24T09:01:00.000-07:00

Suppose if you have already bind a sharepoint group to a list item in a custom list/library for integrating permission then later on , if you want to modify the permission for that list item, below is the code snippet to achive it.

SPRoleAssignment objRoleAssignment = objListItem.RoleAssignments.GetAssignmentByPrincipal(objSPGroup);
objRoleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Remove(web.RoleDefinitions["Full Control"]);
objRoleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(web.RoleDefinitions["Contribute"]);
objRoleAssignment.Update();

Samarendra Swain

How to get the users of a Active Directory group in SharePoint.

2009-08-27T22:12:00.000-07:00

While adding a new user to a SharePoint group, you can enter Active Directory group name, so that all the users inside the AD group can access the SharePoint site, which is completely a out-of-box functionality in SharePoint. But there might be requirement where we need to access users of a specific AD group independently to perform some action against each of them.

Below is the code snippet in c# to acces each users details of a specific Active Directory group.

NameSpace: using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;

bool reachMaxCount;

// objSPWeb is the SPWeb object
SPPrincipalInfo[] adGroupUsers = SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup(objSPWeb, "DomainName\\GroupName", 100, out reachMaxCount);

foreach (SPPrincipalInfo objAdUserInfo in adGroupUsers)
{
      string loginName = objAdUserInfo.LoginName;
      string displayName = objAdUserInfo.DisplayName;
      string emailId = objAdUserInfo.Email;
}

**************Fetch the AD users using LDAP**************

public void GetADUsersInADGroup(string domainName,string groupName)

{

string userNames = "Users : " + Environment.NewLine;

string anyADUserID = "samarendra";

string anyADUserPassword = "password";
DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + domainName, anyADUserID, anyADUserPassword);

DirectorySearcher dSearch = new DirectorySearcher(entry);

dSearch.Filter = "(&(objectClass=group)(cn=" + groupName + "))";

SearchResult results = dSearch.FindOne();
if (results != null)
{

DirectoryEntry objGroup = new DirectoryEntry(results.Path, anyADUserID, anyADUserPassword, AuthenticationTypes.Secure);

System.DirectoryServices.PropertyCollection pcoll = objGroup.Properties;

for (int count = 0; count < pcoll["member"].Count; count++)

{

DirectoryEntry deUser = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + domainName + "/" + pcoll["member"][count].ToString(), anyADUserID, anyADUserPassword, AuthenticationTypes.Secure);

userNames += deUser.Properties["cn"].Value + Environment.NewLine; // cn is for login Name

}

objGroup.Close();

}

}

Samarendra Swain

Adding/Customize action menu in SharePoint

2009-08-26T01:23:00.000-07:00

A common requirement that every Sharepoint developer is asked for today is customization of the SharePoint site based on various customer specific requirements. Most often customers have requirements where they want to add some additional features to action menus like Site action menu, ECB menu or List/library Action menu, etc. To achieve this, we have to write custom action in XML and consume it within the site as a new feature. In Sharepoint if we need to integrate new feature for a List / Library, we can achieve this easily by creating a custom action feature.

1. Create a folder named TestCustomAction under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES directory.

2. Next, create a file named Feature.xml in the same folder with the following codes.

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3. Next, create another file, TestCustomActions.xml in the same folder with the following codes.

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4. Create a page named TestCustomActions.aspx under layouts folder and add your own Business Logic.

5. Finally, deploy this feature by running the command in the command prompt.

To activate this feature: stsadm -o installfeature -filename TestCustomAction\feature.xml -url http://TestServer/Site.

Finally to see the changes in the site do an iisreset.

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Samarendra Swain

Create custom property in a web part as a dropdown list

2009-08-25T08:48:00.001-07:00

SharePoint allows you to create custom web parts to help you provide highly customized solutions to your clients/users. The properties of these web parts are added by default but to further customize the solution, you can also create custom properties. The following example demonstrates how to add a custom dropdown property to a custom webpart.
// Create a Enum for Languages

public enum LanguageByEnum

{
English = 0,
French,
Spanish
};

// Create Get/Set for the dropdown property

protected LanguageByEnum languageName;

[Personalizable(PersonalizationScope.User),
Category("Select Language"),
WebBrowsable, WebDisplayName("Select language:")]
public LanguageByEnum SelectedLanguage
{
get { return languageName; }
set { languageName = value; }
}

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Samarendra Swain

Create SharePoint Web Application Programmatically

2009-08-25T08:40:00.001-07:00

Generally web applications in SharePoint are created using the out-of-box functionality provided within Central Administration. But because of some client's needs there might be a requirement of creating these web applications within a custom utility solution. This functionality can be achieved programmatically using Microsoft SharePoint APIs. By this, one can easily create a web application & associate a content database to it, register the web application in the IIS server, create an associated application pool and define different credentials for the web aplication.

Example code using C#.Net

// namespace required
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

// Create new object of SPWebApplication & SPWebApplicationBuilder class
SPWebApplication newApplication;
SPWebApplicationBuilder webAppBuilder = new SPWebApplicationBuilder(SPFarm.Local);

// Set necessary values to webAppBuilder object

webAppBuilder.Port = portNo;
webAppBuilder.RootDirectory = new DirectoryInfo(@"D:\projects\TestWebSite3030");
webAppBuilder.ApplicationPoolId = appPoolId;
webAppBuilder.ApplicationPoolUsername = appPoolUserName;
webAppBuilder.ApplicationPoolPassword = password;
webAppBuilder.CreateNewDatabase = true;
webAppBuilder.DatabaseServer = dbServerName; // DB server name
webAppBuilder.DatabaseName = dbName;// DB Name
if (isSQLAuth)
{
webAppBuilder.DatabaseUsername = dbUid; // dbUid is username of the DB sever
webAppBuilder.DatabasePassword = dbPwd; // dbpassword is password of the DB sever
}
webAppBuilder.UseNTLMExclusively = true; // authentication provider for NTLM
webAppBuilder.AllowAnonymousAccess = isAnonymous; // anonymous access permission

// Finally create web application
newApplication = webAppBuilder.Create();
newApplication.Provision();

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Samarendra Swain

Enable publishing feature programmatically in MOSS 2007 site

2009-08-25T01:07:00.000-07:00

In SharePoint, integrating publishing feature is possible only in MOSS 2007 site and not in WSS site.By turning on publishing feature you can use Web Content Management(WCM) feature in the site.Once the WCM feature is enabled you can then brand the site with your custom look and feel and can also enable the multilingual support in the site. The multilingual feature helps in creating different folder-based sites according to the languages set to the site.

While creating a site collection or site & workspaces using SharePoint API , you can add these two lines code to enable the publishing feature.Provided below is an example using C# for enabling publishing feature at site collection level.

Code in C#

// Turn on publishing feature
// objSiteCollection is the Site Collection object
objSiteCollection.Features.Add(SPFarm.Local.FeatureDefinitions["PublishingSite"].Id);

// Make the necessary changes to the local server to use the feature
SPFarm.Local.FeatureDefinitions["PublishingSite"].Provision();

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Samarendra Swain

Programmatically assign specific permission in SharePoint

2009-08-24T23:58:00.000-07:00

SharePoint site security helps manage permissions for different resources within a site by defining the levels of accessibility permissions for different peoples and groups. In SharePoint, always the top-level or the parent level permissions are inherited to it's child contents (e.g. a sub-site inheriting permissions from it's parent site collection).

In-order to create unique permission we need to break the inheriting parent permission and create new permission level for the SharePoint content. These permissions can be defined for specific users or groups.

Provided below is an example using C# for defining custom permission for a list item.

// assign a item to SPListItem object.
SPListItem objLstitem = objLst.Items[0]; // objLst is the SPList object

// get the user by ID/Email
// objSpWeb is the SpWeb object

SPUser objUser = objSpWeb.SiteUsers.GetByEmail(samarendra@test.com);

// Break inheriting parent permissions for this List Item.
objLstitem.BreakRoleInheritance(false);

// assign Role to the defined User
SPRoleDefinitionCollection objWebRoleDefn = objSpWeb.RoleDefinitions;
SPRoleAssignment objRoleAssign = new SPRoleAssignment(objUser);

// specify the name of the role definition like [Full Control][Read][Contribute] etc.
objRoleAssign.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(objWebRoleDefn["Contribute"]);
objLstitem.RoleAssignments.Add(objRoleAssign);

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Samarendra Swain