Link to Advanced Search
To create a link that leads directly to SharePoint Advanced Search use the following
http://MyPortal/Search.aspx?d=
A collection of helpful tips and resources on maximising the value from a SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services Implementation.
To create a link that leads directly to SharePoint Advanced Search use the following
I have been trying to implement a global design banner change to my SPS site and after fiddling around for a long long long time I finally got it all working. If anyone ever needs to go down that path.
To create a new WSS Site Definition
The ability to delete items in SharePoint is managed via the permission "Delete items from a list, documents from a document library, and Web discussion comments in documents". However if you revoke this permission, the user is no longer able to rename documents either. They can change all other properties but cannot rename.
If you click on an Office document in SharePoint to open it - it loads it in the relevant application, but in Read-Only mode. The way to open a document to edit - is to access the context menu and select "Edit in Microsoft Office Word [or like]". This is especially annoying when searching for documents, since the search results does not show the context menu and does not provide a link to the document library containing the document. So the only option is to load the document in Read Only mode but then to save it - the user needs to know which document library it belongs to and then manually navigate to it.
Apparantly "Users who are members of custom site groups cannot access Web Parts when they view Web Part galleries in SharePoint Portal Server 2003". This is because the webpart gallery is nothing but a custom list - however it is not set to automatically inherit permissions - so none of the custom site groups can access any of the standard webparts in the web part gallery.
This error occurs when "Integrated Authentication" has not been enabled on the website. This is usually the case with the Default Web Site since that is created when IIS is first installed and SharePoint doesn't update the security settings.
The "<!-- #RENDER FAILED -->" error message sometimes appears in WebParts where
Using SPSBACKUP from the command line may sometimes cause the following error to be logged on the Database Server
If the "Include this property" check box is not selected for "PreferredName" in "Site Settings" > "Manage Properties of Crawled Content" > "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:profile", then the search results will display "Public.aspx" instead of the users display name in all SharePoint Search Results.