RE: anyone know of a good reliable picture slide show web part?

2010-04-27 Thread Mike MOSSuMS Stringfellow
You could try a bit of Content Editor webpart code. In the past I've embedded an ms project gantt chart direcly in the CEWP by pulling out that object from the mpp in shared docs - can't find the code though sorry. There a post here on doing something similar for powerpoint, although

RE: anyone know of a good reliable picture slide show web part?

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Noone
If you're after a decent pack of quality web parts it's hard to go past the motion10 Solution Pack. For a non-developer it's a no-brainer and offers tons of missing functionality. It includes the following features and can be downloaded here:

Re: anyone know of a good reliable picture slide show web part?

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Denniss
Thanks Ishai This is great! (Silverlight is currently not an option on our intranet) Care to share any further details on how this comes together? Cheers Chris Ishai Sagi is...@extelligentdesign.com 27/04/2010 4:41 pm Something like the web in the home page of

[SOLVED] List item attachments open as ZIP files

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Noone
Hah! Solved. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did. Scenario: A user adds an attachment to an agenda item in a MWS. The file to attach resides in a SharePoint document library on another site. The final attachment subsequently opens as a ZIP file on Windows-based PCs. Investigation:

Re: anyone know of a good reliable picture slide show web part?

2010-04-27 Thread Ishai Sagi
In a nut shell - you take a CQWP, change the XSL to render the pictures in a list (ul), and then use jquery to render the list as a slideshow. There are several jquery addons that do that. We used one called jquery.galleryview-1.1 You can look at the html we are rendering in that page to figure

RE: Migrating Content DB...log file growing INSANELY!!

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Noone
Usually the rule of thumb for an import is twice the disk space of the content DB. But in this case you've already done that and are now just re-attaching? I've never watched this process through SQL so can't say if it's normal or not. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From:

RE: Migrating Content DB...log file growing INSANELY!!

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Turner
Do a full backup then a transaction log backup in SQL. After that you should be able to shrink the DB (in SQL Server tools). You *could* change the recovery model to simple (but I would not recommend that for production DB's), then shrink. Regards, Paul Turner Senior Solutions Specialist

RE: Migrating Content DB...log file growing INSANELY!!

2010-04-27 Thread Ken Thompson
It got up to around 13.5GB and finished attaching the content db. After import I was able to shrink the file, back down to .55MB hahah. Ken Thompson IT Support - Systems Administrator HomeGround Services 68 Oxford Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066 Tel: 03 9288 9668 (Ex 668) Mob: 0404 852 325

RE: Unexpected Error after database migration

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Noone
Does this page contain a dataview web part? Does the datasource specify the default value of 1? Is there a list item with ID 1? Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Ken Thompson Sent: Wednesday, 28 April

RE: Unexpected Error after database migration

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Noone
Oh, and...were any items in draft, checked-out, unapproved state before migration? :) From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2010 2:58 PM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: Unexpected Error after database migration Does this

RE: Unexpected Error after database migration

2010-04-27 Thread Ken Thompson
I reset the web applications service accounts to network service, that seemed to resolve the issue. It must have been using a local SharePoint server account I had previously specified when trying to add to the database on the new server. All working nowtime for a beer I think :-) Ken