RE: Diagnostics on running workflows

2009-06-02 Thread Jeremy Thake
You could use CAML and filter by a particular property...not seen any sample code of this though. From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Bill Williamson Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 12:08 PM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: Diagnostics on running workflows We have a few ru

RE: Customise OOTB approval workflow email

2009-06-02 Thread Chris_PY_Teh
yeah mate :D, it's been awhile i saw some posts on modifying email template for alerts but i am not too sure it actually applies for workflow email as well. *sigh* this whole thing is quite frustating :( "C

RE: Customise OOTB approval workflow email

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Milne
Christian, Long time no see :) I heard a while back that you can modify the email template files in the MOSS hive, but it's not recommended (would set the template for all workflow emails server-wide). Using custom workflow you could probably duplicate the OOTB email template and point your work

RE: Security - document libraries

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
If you delete /Forms/WebFldr.aspx I think you’ll find they won’t be able to, least not via the View drop-down. Just something else I discovered by accident one day. ☺ You can also hide the toolbar or specific action items easily enough too using CSS and/or javascript. I recently did this for ou

RE: Customise OOTB approval workflow email

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
Nope. Custom workflow is required. :( Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney -Original Message- From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of chris_py_...@manulife.com Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 4:01 PM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: Customise OOTB approval

RE: Security - document libraries

2009-06-02 Thread Brian Farnhill
Agreed - I have seen it done before with an event handler that sits on the ItemAdded method to update the permissions of the item as soon as it is created. The only potential issue with that is when someone leaves the organisation, you will require someone with appropriate access to change the p

Re: Security - document libraries

2009-06-02 Thread Bill Williamson
And when they connect via fileshare? IMO views are not a replacement for security. This sounds like something for workflow. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Paul Noone < paul.no...@ceosyd.catholic.edu.au> wrote: > · Create a custom view. > > · Filter it on [Me]. > > · Se

Customise OOTB approval workflow email

2009-06-02 Thread Chris_PY_Teh
Hi Everyone, Is there a way to modify the email format/content/design that was sent by approval workflow to notify approvers when workflow is being initiated? We are close to finish the project and the user wants the email to be customised as they don't really like the wording/layout of the email

RE: Security - document libraries

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
* Create a custom view. * Filter it on [Me]. * Set as default view. * Delete other views (yes, you can do this). * Lock down permissions on the list. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Be

Security - document libraries

2009-06-02 Thread Peter Milliner
Hello all, I have a user that requires timesheet creation (using an excel template) to a document library but does not want other users to see each others timesheets. Does anybody know if it is possible to configure a document library so that the user can only see the documents they have up

RE: Diagnostics on running workflows

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Milne
I know you can use CAML in an SPQuery to return collections of SPListItems based on query parameters rather than iterating through lists, but I don’t know if you would be able to search on active workflows. Kind regards, Chris From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On B

Re: My Site Language

2009-06-02 Thread Sezai Komur
Apologies! I didn't read your question correctly Meir. You could maybe check the following: My Site root site collection regional options, http://mysite/_layouts/regionalsetng.aspx, which is probably set to English (United States). In another farm - create a new My Site host site collection - and

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Brendan Law
On every SharePoint install I do, I always create a D:\MOSS directory on a separate partition with an Index folder (for the search full text catalog, set during install time), a Sites folder (where I put each of the web site's files, set when you create web applications) and a Logs folder (where

RE: Reporting Services - Auth issue.

2009-06-02 Thread Tom Bizannes
Are you sure? Most issues are just items in the web.config that you can tweak. Sounds like you are using iis7? Regards, Tom From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 9:18 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: Reportin

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Nathan Rhodes
I would use VHD resize to expand the C:\ VHD than just use the inbuilt expand function in disk management on Server 2008 and expand the C:\ to however big you resized the disk. No need for partition magic. Glad I can see the back of this product J. Regards, Nathan From: ozmoss@ozmos

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Ishai Sagi
You can install to the D drive - but that would still deploy the 12 hive to the COMMONPROGRAMFILES location. -Original Message- From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 2:16 PM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: SharePoi

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Nathan Rhodes
I have always installed SharePoint to the D:\ having the applications running on their own spindle. This should give better performance I am very surprised if this is unsupported. Are you referring to the core files eg C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12. I don't

Diagnostics on running workflows

2009-06-02 Thread Bill Williamson
We have a few runaway workflows, and would generally like to know what workflows are currently running in our system. >From what I have read, the only way to do this is (using the api, pseudocode): foreach(site in sites) { foreach(list in site.lists) { foreach(item in list.items) {

Re: My Site Language

2009-06-02 Thread Meir Dahan
Guy's in my question i said that i have already set this option in the SSP. when user try to create is site *he gets the screen* to select the language. In our case we have two languages (English, Hebrew) and no meter what he choose the My Site will be in English. Also English and Hebrew are ins

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Ishai Sagi
According to Microsoft (http://www.tech-archive.net/pdf/Archive/SharePoint/microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices/2008-12/msg00011.pdf) you cannot change the location of the WSS installation files - it uses the system variable "%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%" Presumably you could change it before ins

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Brenton Crosby
Hey Paul, MOSS works quite happily when you move the logs to another drive partition. We ran into problems with the log folder ballooning out to over 10Gb and filling the system drive, so we just created a new D drive on the VM that it was on and has been happy ever since. You can just modify

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
And it is. Thanks. The problem is baselining these. At present they're set to absolute minimum level but are around 3GB on a farm that doesn't get much use. Plan is to create a D partition for all WSS servers and change the diagnostic/trace log path in CA. Is good? From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mai

Re: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Sezai Komur
You can move the diagnostic/trace logging to another drive, this typically fills up with hundreds of MBs even a few GBs, so its a good idea to have this on a separate partition. This is usually the main culprit for running out of drive space. The setting is in central admin Operations --> Diagnosti

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Nemtsev
Hello, I would avoid such shenanigans, because SharePoint doesn't support installation of core files on other drives. Even installation package ask you where to install, it keeps 12Hive folder on C drive. Just move DB to other drive and that's all Even there are some ways to move all files from

Re: My Site Language

2009-06-02 Thread Sezai Komur
In your Shared Services Provider under the User Profiles and My Sites section click the My Site settings link. The page displays a Language Options setting: Language Options Select whether users are allowed to choose the language of their personal site. The list of languages offered to users will

Re: Site Owner permission woes

2009-06-02 Thread Sezai Komur
Paul, That's weird, something is definitely not right in the site. To try and resolve this create a vanilla ootb site collection with no customisations and retest what Full Control users can do, event then it probably won't help with determining the root cause of the problem. It's damn tough trying

RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Daniel Brown
HI Paul, Yes it can be, without a problem, in fact it believe is recommended and how many people operate. OS drive is for OS Only while a second drive holds the installed applications. Cheers, Daniel From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: We

SharePoint ate my hard drive

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
Hi all, Does anyone know if SharePoint can be installed on a partition other than C? We've run into major disk space issues with our VMS (they were only ever allocated a 20GB drive). As a result I've uninstalled non-essential software, reduced diagnostic log retention and trace log levels. I'm

RE: Site Owner permission woes

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
Hi Sezai, "...you can enter an AD User or a SharePoint Site Group and if the person's account is a member of the group owner site group they should be able to manage membership of the group." Initially the owner of all the Member groups was the relevant Owner group for the site. This wasn't wor

RE: Site Owner permission woes

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
And here's a screenshot. [cid:image001.jpg@01C9E42E.6C7BEFE0] From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 8:56 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: RE: Site Owner permission woes Hi Sezai, Just your standard MOSS access denied page with

RE: SharePoint Site Permissions

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
Which is why site collections were invented. Just try managing them all if you're silly enough to turn on self-service site creation. :) Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Tom Bizannes Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 9:21

RE: SharePoint Site Permissions

2009-06-02 Thread Tom Bizannes
Just be aware that if you have a lot of sites with their own permission levels, then it can take longer for a lot of things to traverse the trees etc... This all comes down to planning your SharePoint setup which a lot of people do haphazardly until they hit performance and navigation nightmare

RE: Reporting Services - Auth issue.

2009-06-02 Thread Nathan Rhodes
Hi Guys I have confirmed that this is a double hop issue so I am going to go through and configure Kerberos. Fingers crossed all goes smoothly. Cheers, Nathan From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Rhodes Sent: Friday, 29 May 2009 10:39 AM To: ozmo

RE: Site Owner permission woes

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
Hi Sezai, Just your standard MOSS access denied page with a link to request access. The hilarious thing about that is that the email went to her as the site owner. :) From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Sezai Komur Sent: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 4:56 PM To: ozmoss@ozmoss

RE: custom field summary link for a list

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
Rany, there is no column like this. What are you trying to achieve? There is a URL field type but I think you want more than this. Are you wanting to create a list of links for each list item? Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On B

RE: My Site Language

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Noone
Do you have the required language packs installed on the WFEs? From: ozmoss@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozm...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Meir Dahan Sent: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 8:06 PM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: My Site Language I set the ability for the user to chose the language for creating My Site in

My Site Language

2009-06-02 Thread Meir Dahan
I set the ability for the user to chose the language for creating My Site in the SSP. But no meter what the language the user select the My Site creates in English. Any idea? -- Meir Dahan Mobile: +972-52-8316814 Email: dahanm...@gmail.com ---

RE: RSS Viewer Proxy Authentication [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-06-02 Thread Elaine Van Bergen
If your proxy uses windows credentials to let you through when Kerberos is working it should work fine with the proxy setting in the webconfig. When I have seen this error before it has usually been issues with Kerberos that were not obvious as the auth was just dropping back automatically to N

custom field summary link for a list

2009-06-02 Thread rany aof
hi i need to use the field "summary link" for a list but i can't it just good for a page content type does anyone solve this issue . ineed a field to use with a list that give me the option to add unlimited link with title thank you -