With great power comes – PublishingWeb.DefaultPage

Posted by Eric Bartels

or at least the power of “Use Remote Interfaces – Use SOAP, Web DAV, or SharePoint Designer interfaces to access the Web site”. In a SharePoint project I’m working on it was necessary to get the default page of a publishing web in case where it differs from default.aspx.   In the environment the project [...]

Server Type “complete” is missing when installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows 7 or Windows Vista

Posted by Eric Bartels

I really like Windows 7! As I am a SharePoint developer I was happy that (thanks to Bamboo) one can install SharePoint on Vista and Windows 7. After I figured out why my first installation try went wrong I hit another strange issue. When installing MOSS you have to choose which role your server is [...]

Do not use DateTimeField when displaying the date of your field

Posted by Eric Bartels

I have a “DateTime-field” inside a list which contains both date and time. In order to allow the user to edit this information inside the publishing page I used the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.DateTimeField. If you only want to display that field-value you can simply use the ControlMode-property and set it to Display. If you want to display [...]

One reason for: “The crawler could not communicate with the server. Check that the server is available and that the firewall access is configured correctly..”

Posted by Eric Bartels

Today the crawler of the search service of my MOSS-Development system stopped working from “one second to another”. The crawl-log showed me this error. The crawler could not communicate with the server. Check that the server is available and that the firewall access is configured correctly.. The start is essential I reconfigured everything, I checked [...]

Site-Definitions within SharePoint are useless!

Posted by Eric Bartels

Last week I nearly fell of my chair I was sitting on. I found a kb article filed under http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898631/en-us. This articles describes what is supported and what is not supported regarding site definitions within SharePoint. We do not support modifying a custom site definition or a custom area definition after you create a new [...]