SharePoint Issues

Refinement Panel Issue in SharePoint 2010

jay — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:46:35 GMT

Hi,

In SharePoint 2010 result (Installed FAST Search) page, I am getting results. Refinement panel says "No Refinements Available". I had checked refinement Filter Categroy Definition its looks fine,

Any suggestions / solutions

thanks in advacne

Regards,

Jay

MOSS2007 Custom Web Parts Installtion

cg084 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:22:02 GMT

All,

About 6 months ago i created 3 custom Web Parts in Visual Studio and these were deployed brilliantly when using the Studio Add-In. No Deployment Errors and Installtion through Studio was fine. I did this on our Single SharePoint Server running Windows Server 2003 SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint 2007 using an Enterprise Key. This was a singe server farm.

However the current situation is that this server has suffered heavy usage and search index use is slowing the server dramatically. We have also had several outages due to database and service issues on the server.

We have taken the decision to commision 3 new servers. Each running Windows Server 2003 64bit SQL Server 2008 and Moss2007. These machines were configured as follows. 1st Machine is running OS and SQL Server 2008 only designated as our Database Server. 2 machines running Server 2003 64 Bit and MOSS2007 64 bit installed only 1 of these is configured as Front End using the Complete Installation the other is configured as the Search Index Server using the Complete MOSS2007 Installtion. MOSS was installed with our Enterprise key.

The configuration is operation and has no errors as reported by the MOSS Best Practice Analyser.

I then made a site back up of our Single Server and resotred this to our New Farm of servers. At this point all is still ok search works Content and Navigation works but the 3 custom web parts i deployed on the single server (Old MOSS2007) report they are not safe.

Rather than having Studio install these Web Parts i used the SETUP.BAT file studio created in the Bin\Release Folder of my solutions. This installed works fine to add and remove the web parts on the single server environment but when i try to install on the the new farm environment it installs and deploys but fails when trying to activate the feature. Error message along the lines on trying to activate the feature in this scope.

I can confirm that the Web Part Feature folder is in the 12 hive with everything it should have. It also places the dll in the GAC and adds the relevant Safe Control entries in the Web.Config file with the correct public Key token.

I have noticed the following:-

The DLL in the GAC is showing the processor architecture as X86 on the new 64 bit environment wheras it was MSIL on the single server 32 bit environment.
The Web PArt appears in the Web PArt Gallary and is editable.
When trying to add the Web Part on to a new Page i get the Cannot Import the Web Part Error.
It Does Not Appear in the Populate Gallary screen.

If you use the BAT file to install on both servers running Sharepoint the 1st install has trouble activating the feature wheras the 2nd server sees its already installed but activates the feature fine. Whichever way round you install.

I have tried the -force switch and that made no difference.

Any ideas of where to look next would be very helpful. In this case its not an option to install and Use Studio to deploy the web part. Way i see this issue is that 1st we are operating 64 Bit now and 2nd we are running a farm of server now.

Many Many Thanks.

Craig.

Help with accessing a custom DLL from web part

pete — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:58:03 GMT

I have a third party custom DLL that I'm trying use from my web part. I've deployed the DLL to the GAC, it's strongly named, listed in the SafeControls of the webconfig. I can successfully use the DLL when using an ASPX page, but when I try using it from a web part, I get an error. Just including it in the references causes it to error. Thoughts anyone? I'm new to SharePoint and ASP.Net so I fully admit this could be a newbie-level issue.

Wild Card Search

Larry — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:24:58 GMT

I have 2 problems. 1 is that the stsadm command does not recognise my server name ( -url hill-server2003 ). This is happening on 1 machine. On another with a different server name, I get to the point where I have added it as a web part, but I don't get a query box. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I am not real up to speed with SharePoint. I am just starting out.

Thanks

I solved the url problem. You have to put http:// in front of the server name, but I still don't get a query box after installing the web part.

How to access a remote site using spsite ? Gives error message as "Verify the url ..."

Raji — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:37:20 GMT

I am trying to access the sharepoint site using spsite class.. the code works when i am passing a sharepoint site on my pc but fails when i try to pass a remote site...in spsite class..

Please reply ...

Thanks

Raji

Wildcard Search Installation

lozza789 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:04:56 GMT

Greetings!

I'm trying to install the Wildcard Search web part and have noticed that Visual Studio 2008 is listed as a requirement. What is this used for? I have Visual Studio 2005, would this work? Also, I can't see where Visual Studio is used for the installation. Am a bit stuck.. help!!

Thanks in advance

Lawrence

Wild card search other languages

nicodejong — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:39:20 GMT

I would like to use the free provided wild card search on a 64 bit Dutch MOSS installation.

Any known issues? Thanks for the reply.

Enterprise Library 4.0 and SharePoint WSS 3.0

Jax67 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:30:55 GMT

I read with great interest that you were successful using version 4.0 of the data enterprise library. I use it for all my ASP.NET apps and want to use it for a simple SharePoint application I'm writing. But I'm running into issues.

Did you have to add the dll's as SafeControls in the WSS web.config file? I don't have them in there yet.

When I add the dll references to my application, it still works. But once I put using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data in my .cs file, I get an error.

I would love to see a detailed explanation on using 4.0 and SharePoint.

Thank you very much!

BEST BETS not working - after installing the Wildcard Search web part

Owens — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:50:22 GMT

Hi,

I have installed MOSS Wildcard Search Web part onto my sharepoint server.

I have added, deployed the solution through Central Adminstration... and also activated the same thru Site Collection Features option in the site settings.

The wildcard search is working fine.

BUT I AM FACING A PROBLEM after installing the Wildcard Search Core Results web part, BEST BETS are not working.

Please do help me in this regard.

Thanks,
Owens Jesse

using the BDC business data type picker dialog box

boneill — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:52:15 GMT

Hi, can anyone help me figure out how to initiate the business data type picker dialog box?? I want the user to be able to select a business data entity and Im trying to find some code showing how it works with the business data list web part. Thanks!

Enabling Versioning on a Document Library

CoreyRoth — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:28:26 GMT

This forum is used to track issues that people have run into with SharePoint and hopefully get some resolutions.

An issue I have ran into recently is enabling versioning on a document library. I am using a ListTemplate and I have attempted to enable versioning using the following methods.

Set VersioningEnabled in the elements.xml file of the document library template.
Set VersioningEnabled in the schema.xml file of the document library template.
Through the API, by getting a reference to the list, and setting the EnableVersioning property to true and then calling Update() on the list.

I can understand methods 1 and 2 not working perhaps, but when I use the API and set properties on the list (using OnFeatureActivated), I expect it to work. It unfortunately does not.