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• AlanKohl Unable to retrieve external data for the following connections:

  Hi there! I am hoping someone can help me out with a problem I am having. I have created an excel webservice that contains a couple of pivot tables. I have add the spreadsheet into my trusted location, I have also added the data connection into the trusted location. So when I open up the dashboard containing the pivot table it displays the pivot correctly. My problem occurs when I try refresh the pivot the table I get this error. Unable to retrieve external data for the following connections: The data sources may be unreachable, may not be responding, or may have denied you access. Verify that data refresh is enabled for the trusted file location and that the workbook data authentication is correctly set Does ...Show All

• Tony Sperling wss3.0 how to create first website with or without using templates

  Hi All, I am new to sharepoint website development. Today i install windows sharepoint services3.0 on my system. I am facing some problem: 1. After that, i got a SharePoint Central Administration v3 website installed in IIS. Now i need to create a new website.For this, i go to the Application mangement tab in sharepoint central adminsitration site. I clicked create or extend new application.In this tab , i am filling every detail(like port,URL), but it is not respoding. Am i doing anything wrong.Do i need to create a website in advance for this. 2. I wish to use template to create sharepoint website.So do we get any templates installed by default when we install wss3.0. I couldn't trace one ,so i downloaded a ITDev ...Show All

• Patrik J O/R Mapping

  O/R mapping is quite interesting.  I would like to post this question for discussion. I have the following classes: Employee, FullTimeStaff, PartTimeStaff, etc.  FullTimeStaff and PartTimeStaff have many attributes and behaviors in common and also many other unique attributes and behaviors.  So, FullTimeStaff inherits from Employee and PartTimeStaff also inherits from Employee. Do you think it is good to map both FullTimeStaff and PartTimeStaff to a single table called Employee (the table contains an extra field to identity whether he is full time or part time) in the database a employee table with the attributes they have in common a table with employeeTypes and a table with employeeType specific attributes is ...Show All

• Computer Guy69146 [Visio] Bug in localized Visio with ER-diagram when choosing datatype for a column!

  Hello, I'm working with a localized version of Microsoft Visio Professional 2003, it's Dutch. I noticed that 3 datatypes for columns of entities in the ER-Diagram are localized, while the rest is not. The three datatypes are: datatime, money and text. Their names a re translated to dutch in the dropdown. When I select one of these datatypes for a column the actual displayed value becomes char(n) where n seems random: -2038955848 -685768521 -827850569 The actual value of n will change when I restart Visio.I have already repaired the installation using Add/Remove Programs, but the bug remains. What can I do Thanks for any advise! -M ...Show All

• new.wind CSF 3.0 installation trouble

  Hello, all During CSF 3.0 installation I have the next warning message on "UDDI registration" stage: "Warning: Please make sure Publish URL is valid or you have permitions to Publish UDDI". After that it is not possible to continue installation. I have FULL permitions (Domain Administrator). Hey Mikhail, Did you install uddi soap service and which version of sql server do u have. If its 2005 then it was an issue. I think now there are UDDI services available for 2005 too. Venu Hi Mikhail and Venu, UDDI 2.0 is not yet supported on SQL Server 2005 - still only SQL Server 2000. Hopefully that will change at somepoint - we are working with the UDDI team ...Show All

• Cody Evans Unable to connect ...

  Hi, I have a SingleServer instalation for MOSS. I get this "Unable to connect..." error in BDC Item list web part. I think is something with the credentials the goes to SQL Server. <LobSystemInstance Name="Charisma TS"> <Properties> <Property Name="DatabaseAccessProvider" Type="System.String">SqlServer</Property> <Property Name="AuthenticationMode" Type="System.String">RevertToSelf</Property> <Property Name="RdbConnection Data Source" Type="System.String">MyServer</Property> <Property Name="RdbConnection Initial Catalog" Type="System.String">DBName</Property> &l ...Show All

• A.F.B The participant 'HelloWorldParticipant' does not support action

  Hello As per the readme I am executing the helloworld example and am getting this error <FaultMessage>Failed to create session. The participant 'HelloWorldParticipant' does not support action 'http://tempuri.org/HelloWorld'.</FaultMessage> I searched the forum also and realised only I am getting this error :(. Can anyone please point out what I am missing here Regards Paul Please check the following things . 1. Check whether your participant service is working or not(Copy the URL in the Main -Service URI-Participant text in the IE browser ,If is shows you the WSDL then your participant service is working) 2. Check whether you have previlage to create session or not. Regadrs, ...Show All

• Elad_23 Reorting Services and MOSS 2007

  Hello Can someone point me to an article on how to hook up MOSS 2007 to reporting services installed on another box Thanks We got it to work. Great, Can you describe to me what configuration are you using is a single server installation or farm Anything else that I am missing Thanks a lot Hi Ray, I think you need to install SQL 2005 SP2 and the associated sharepoint addin. (Trying to get this working myself.) http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/5/f250ed72-c102-4216-8653-63189e24fa02/readme_rsaddin.htm#_rsshare_installation_3 Martin Hello Martin, I am aware ...Show All

• seco Excel Services Secuirty Issue

  Hi all, I can view the content rendered by Excel Services with "Full Control" permission. But, a user group other than Full Control permission such as Read and Approve cannot be viewed the content and display the following error: ----------------------- File Not Found The file that you selected could not be found. Check the spelling of the file name and verify that the location is correct. Make sure that the file has not been renamed, moved, or deleted. ----------------------- Any ideas Paul Hi Paul, Let me try to understand your scenario.... you have a workbook in a SharePoint Document library, and you are attempting to load it in the Excel Web Access web part correct The workbook loads ...Show All

• Kunk Any News on the new bits ?

  As posted in a previous post, there is a new version of Knowledge Network Due out soon. ANyone hear anything else regarding dates for this Also wanted to get that other post bumped down so it wouldn't be showing as prominately ;-) Thanks Bob ! I am anxious to give it a try !! On the face you wont see much of a change than what John showed in the Channel9 video. This will mainily consist of code fixes to the client and server app. I could be wrong on this but this is what I have heard from the team. When they are posted I will post here and also place the info on my blog at http://bobfox.net/spblog FYI im chomping at the "bits" to get these also :) I will check with Product Team today to see if i can get ...Show All

• JuKiM WES Sample - Issues

  Hi, I'm working on CSF 3.0 Dev version. I'm trying to develop WES Adapter over HellowWorld Service. When I looked at the WES Toolkit sample which is shipped with Dev version, It is not an Adapter over any sample service. Whenever client sends a request WES returns the response from the stored xml files. Let me explain my scenario: I have a WES Adapter over HelloWorld Example. Using Health monitor WES need to aware the availability of HelloWorld service. So that client can easily take a decision using interating with WES adapter only, rather than directly intreracting with HellowWorld Service. My Question is 1. How to design WES Adapter for this scenario ( For ex. Send a request to HellowWorld Service (any method ) and wait f ...Show All

• Zadoras book about group motivation and leadership

  I know this is not the forum, but well, hope it won't be banned. At least I always find answers here . I am a young project leader (Avanade speech) who want to improve not technically, I want to improve my human factor. My first project is going ok, but I want people to work more and harder (without using latigo:P). I would like to buy a book about motivation and group leadership. I just want to know which is the best one. In my project people is going through differents moods, and I want to direct it if it is possible. Thanks in advance. believe me that the book I suggested you has all to do about showing soon screens to the customer, despite it isn't about psicological aspects of team motivation you asked (actually it ...Show All

• vicky_dceian Pattern to choose

  Hi, I have worked for several years as a developer/analyst and now I am trying to improve my design knowledge... I hope my question is right for this forum... I have a very large XML file (in excess of 350Mb and can probably get even bigger) that contain some hierarchical data (nested elements). I also have the XML schema that specifies the allowed hierarchical relation between the various elements (well, a schema…). This imply, for performance reasons that I have to use a XML reader of some type. Writing a "prototype" I ended up with a class that contains the reader and has several HandleElementXXX function that work on the reader… Starting from a main loop (while (!reader.EOF) the reading/parsing is delegate ...Show All

• arkiboys Upgrading WSS to version 3.0

  Good day everyone, Currently I have WSS V2.0 (unserviced pack) + WSP 2003 (unserviced pack) + MS Project Server 2003 (unserviced pack) on a single server. I'm considering upgrading WSS to ver. 3.0. I know that I'm few service packs behind in all thsese applications. Any suggestions/advices on where I should start and on which order Thanks in advance. Mohamed Regarding the statement: "However, regarding upgrading Windows Sharepoint Service 2.0 to version 3.0, I was told by Microsoft that MS Project 2003 WILL NOT work with wss 3.0 (wss 3.0 is completely different from wss 2.0) and hence I couldn't do the upgrade. They suggested to move to Project Serve ...Show All

• Alexander Yarushin UML/Modeling Tools you are using?

  One of the problems I have found in VSTS 2005 is the lack of modeling tools for the Software Architect. Jack Greenfield addressed and answered my concerns here . He also said MS is working on some addressing some of the issues. I responded to him here . I needed something today to allow me to continue doing my job which currently is implementing a product line engineering process. I am using UML on this project. In case you are interested, here is a list of the tools we are evaluating from MS and their status. I answered Steve Cook's question as to what UML I would like to see supported by MS here . XDE was out because it is not supported in VSTS 2005. Since no improvements have been made to Visio's UML features for so ...Show All