Opening a Infopath 2007 browser based form through a link in i.e. a links webpart is done by first opening the form manually, copying the complete URL, extracting the “&Source…” part from the URL and using the URL as a hyperlink. See example below:
I have a form which opens with this complete URL:
http://intranet/eforms/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://intranet/FormServerTemplates/DeclCashSal.xsn&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1
After I extract [...]
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Because of the strict security on Windows Server 2008 it is no longer possible to just copy and paste the dll files to the GAC like we did with version 2.5. You have to do this with a tool called GACutil.exe. This tool can be found (when you have installed Visual Studio 8 ) in [...]
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The situation is that I created a demo portal with a lot of sites each with a document library. Some sites are location sites, others are department sites etc. The document library on the location sites each have a site column (metadata) with a prefilled value corresponding with the name of the site and the [...]
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Recently I was working on some infopath forms for a customer. At first I had made these forms in my own development SharePoint farm together with all the data connections (.udcx files). I had to move all the forms to the SharePoint farm of my customer. In this post you can find how I managed this and got everything working in the new [...]
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Recently I was troubleshooting a SharePoint farm of a customer. The crawl of the content sources did not work and always ended with a “access denied” error in the crawl log. In the eventlog event ID 2436 appeared: “Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add [...]
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We didn’t do a stsadm export import (see previous post), but used the backup and restore commands instead. This has some consequences which I shall list here. After I had restored my backup file with command ”stsadm -o restore -url http://<destination-url> -filename backup.dat -overwrite” (the overwrite option is very important) I had to reset some settings [...]
Microsoft Consulting Services has collected some SharePoint Best Practices on this website. The “Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007″.
Today I have installed Faceted Search 2.5 (a CodePlex tool). The dll files were not copied to the GAC (c:\windows\assembly) with the batch file which is provided together with the Enterprise Library Package. So I had to copy the files manually to the GAC. First I tried to copy the dll files from one directory to the other [...]
