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• MarissaM Adding "Person Column" to a list

  I may be barking up the wrong tree but thought I would throw it out there. Using MOSS and the BDC, we have the capability to add Business Data as columns in a list. How would I go about creating a "People" type in my BDC that pulls the data from the user profiles in MOSS What I would like to do is have a drop down or search screen for selecting a person from the profile store instead of keying the information into a contact list and then having the information be out of date , etc... It would be much easier to just allow them to select a person and pull the data from there. They would also get the "Presense" pawn next the persons name etc.. which would be very useful. Does this sound possible Has anyone done th ...Show All

• Ido Ran Enhancing Excel web access Webpart

  Hi Is it possible to enhance the functionality of Existing Excel web access webpart Basically i want the cells to be editable so that the data change can be reflected in the pivot chart Is this possible Regards Abhijit You can't edit the cells in the grid, but you can define parameters in the workbook, and have users update them using the web part parameters pane. See: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101054751033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101000061033.aspx Did the above posts answer your question If so could you please mark it as the answer Otherwise let us know what you still need help with. Thanks! - Lui ...Show All

• lucerias User Aware Service

  I have an SDP Platform setup which has some services available. I am creating a new service (Service1) which has to maintain its own set of users and has a custom Token Manager which validates the request with this user set. The users can be mapped easily from the platform with the Identity manager. Now Service1 has some methods which extract information for a particular user using the userId present in Service1. There are two ways of getting the userId from the SDP Platform 1. In my service method I extract the information from the SOAP header (WS: Security) and use it. 2. Instead of having the service to extract info header, I introduce an interceptor for the service which can extract information from header and provide it as a ...Show All

• JDS63 Sharepoint site creation (beginner)

  We have our intranet site already created and I have been given the task of adding a few links that would allow users to click specific links and automatically setup network printers. when adding "new item" it ask for the URL, But of course the path/locations of these printers is basically UNC. Can anyone tell me what has to be done to get site to recognize the UNC or convert it or something Hi, You could try the following: file://\\servername\printershare Regards, Ian http://www.wssdemo.com ...Show All

• Ravi Santha What is the most valuable principle in design?

  In looking at SOA, earlier component based design, separation of concerns, etc. It seems to me that architecturally they can all be lumped in to various flavors of abstraction. So, it occurs to me and seems to hold true in my designs that the most valuable principle in software design is abstraction. Does anyone feel that a different principle is more critical Are there different schools of thought (SOA, SOC, Interface based design, etc.) that are contradictory when dealing with abstraction New to the forum, but have been wanting to talk with people that make an effort to further their design knowledge. Hi again, <<Well it would be interesting to have a look on Java again after 1.4.2 (this is ...Show All

• canadian_coder Installing ADAM(urgent)

  Hi, Can anyone tell me if installing ADAM on a machine(win-xp prof, which is part of the network) will it intefere with existing AD on the domain controller According to the whitepaper it says its a user based service and a ADAM is a lightweight version of AD(2003). Need an ans asap. No what i wanted to know is if installing ADAM on XP(a network client) interferes(contacts or merges the AD users with local) with the AD of the domain controller Adam does not interfere at all with Active Directory the only way for the two to talk is via ADAMSync. You can install numerous adam instances on an XP machine and as long as they use different ports you will be fine. ...Show All

• yqiang Authentication mechanisms for SOA patterns in Product architectures

  Hi, I have got this question and thought i should post it across to find out the real answer. If we considered any product architectures that were built on Microsoft frameworks, say, MS Dynamics, Pivotal CRM (the company i work for), the default authentication model that is considered for is Windows Authentication for both Rich and smart client applications. This reminds the fact that both the user and the servers have to be placed within the same LAN boundaries and require to be in the Server's Active Domain System directory. I'm wondering how would the authentication systems works, If we were to host the same application as a hosted application model, (as MS Dynamics has an alternative models other than on-premise) as it ...Show All

• rtaiss Lookup field question

  Hi, For a website i'm trying to add a field to a page layout where i can link to other pages in the site. So i use the lookup field and select a value (in my case a page within /pages) to look at. Now whenever i click on the value in the lookup field in the created page i'm always being redirected to this folder /Forms/DispForm.aspx ( the exact location is for this particular document is  /Forms/DispForm.aspx ID=11&RootFolder=*) Why doesn't the lookup field just use the  (in my case) Pages/Gezichtsherkenning.aspx I don't want users to look at the properties for this page. Is there a better way to link to other pages within a site. (i prefer that users only have to select the page instead of typing url's ...Show All

• asalcedo dynamic formatting using string.format

  Hi, I have a different scenario in formatting string. The format value and format type are in database. So the code needs to format the value accordingly. Say, if it is currency value it has to the currency format. If it is number value it has to the number format. Here I have given the sample code. string strValue= "1234567"; string strFormat="{0:c}"; System.Console.WriteLine( string .Format(strFormat,strValue)); System.Console.ReadLine(); But the above code does not formatting... I hope you have solution for this. thanks in advance chandra babu Hi Babu, You should pass the strong typed parameter as value. String.Format expe ...Show All

• PedroCGD Update the Answer field of an existing listitem

  Hi, I'm trying to add an answer to the Answer field of an existing listitem. I can reach the item, but none of the updates are being done. I update the answer field like this : item["Answer"] = "NEW ANSWER"; List.Update(); This doesn't give any errors, but it doesn't do anything. Does anyone know how to update this Greetz ! Since you changed the item and not the list, you should be calling item.Update(); instead of List.Update. yes ideed this was the problem. Stupid mistake . Greetz ! ...Show All

• bitbonk (wss 3.0, Visual Studio 2005) How to display a pop up message ?

  Hi, i am coding an eventhandler for a list more precesily i am overrriding the Itemadded, I would like once the listemitem is added to inform the user of some details by a pop up. Is there a way to do that or something similar to keep inform the user of some detail after a item added. Thanks a lot for your help hi, I also have the same requirement, did you find any solution Sorry but i have found nothing ...Show All

• MessiahAndrw About Report center site

  All I am a newbie for SharePoint product and would like to ask you some question. 1. I now try to develop the sharepoint site on WSS 3.0 and want to create the dashboard page. AS I understand, it bases on MOSS template "collaboration type" (Report center site) but that template does not have on WSS 3.0. Where can I find it 2. What is the big difference between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 It will have any problems If I try to some site on WSS 3.0 first. I then migrate those sites to MOSS 2007 later Thank in advance Gogzilla Hi SharePointBloke Thanks again for your reply. It is very useful for me. Gogzilla Hi Thank you for your reply. I have alre ...Show All

• TruePsion Why would I ever use ServicedComponents for in-service data access?

  If this question belongs in another forum, please let me know where. Otherwise ... I've designed some data access objects that hit SQL Server 2005. They're to be used inside service boundaries in high-volume situations where scalability is an issue, so they'll execute on a separate server from business logic. Now I have to decide how to host them. I'm an experienced architect and developer (or I like to think so, anyway), but my .NET experience is modest, so I've been reading up. Based on my research, one conclusion I've arrived at is that at least for SQL Server 2005, it doesn't make sense any more to use ServicedComponents for data access. Yet so many of the examples of how to create high-volume data access components use Enterpris ...Show All

• Bigwave Selecting the Right tool for UML

  Hi all, I am in making a decision of selecting a UML tool for better class design, sequential diagrams and so forth. with your all experience kindly suggest me which one would be better and more useful. (Visual Studio do provide UML tool but it is not stable currently. At the same time since it is a Microsoft product so they will make their tool look and feel rich + enhance the functionality in the coming years) Following are the choices - (or you can suggest one) 1) Rational Rose, 2) Visual Paradigm 3) Enterprise Architect (sparxsystems.com.au) 4) Visual Studio Provided UML 5) Visio As keeping current market tools in mind and as a designer of the system I have to make a deci ...Show All

• FSchmid Upgrade to MOSS 07 from WSS 3.0

  Our company is looking to deploy WSS 3.0 in the next few months.  Our concern is that we will want the added features and capabilities of MOSS 2007 in the near future, but current planning and budget says to hold off.  My question --- if we have a WSS 3.0 install implemented, how much is involved to move to MOSS 2007 while retaining our data and site structure I actually made the mistake of installing only WSS when I actually wanted the MOSS version. I had completed all the configuration and created some test sites. To perform the upgrade, I simply ran the MOSS installation and it updated the server with the extra components without losing my sites. The only thing I had to do was select the ...Show All