Technical Tumbleweed: SharePoint

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

These are the directions for clearing the SharePoint Configuration cache. Sometimes the Configuration wizard will fail with an error about processes being updated by the farm admin account, or the timer service jobs will have issues. The cache is simply there to keep the server from making calls to SQL to gather frequently used information. The cache will be recreated when you restart the timer service.

Here are the steps:

Stop the OWSTIMER service on ALL of the MOSS servers in the farm.
On the Index server, navigate to:

Server 2003 location: Drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the XML files from the directory.
Server 2008 location: Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the XML files from the directory.

Delete all the XML file in the directory. NOTE: ONLY THE XML FILES, NOT THE .INI FILE.
Open the cache.ini with Notepad and reset the number to 1. Save and close the file.
Start the OWSTIMER service on the Index server and wait for XML files to begin to reappear in the directory.
After you see XML files appearing on the Index server, repeat steps 2, 3 & 4 on each query server, waiting for XML files to appear before moving to subsequent servers.
After all of the query servers have all been cleared and new .xml files have been generated, proceed to the WFE and Application servers in the farm, following steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 for each remaining server.

I found this list here.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Filtering for a Date Range on Data View Web Parts

So I was trying to set a date range on a data view webpart and found that the filtering was very limited. Luckily I found this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/02/25/filtering-and-formatting-with-date-values.aspx#filter_list_on_today_offset. It is part of a larger article that talks about many different date filtering options in SharePoint. It solved my problem and is a good reference for the future.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

SharePoint Search Using Search Server Express 2008

Recently I have been setting up Search Server Express for our WSS 3.0 server. I had everything installed and configured (I used this guide to help me: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297193.aspx) but I was receiving an error when I attempted to crawl the content. The error was: Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content.

I double checked all of my settings and everything seemed fine. So I went to google to see if I could figure any thing out. I stumbled across this technet thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointsearch/thread/84f93fbe-f4a6-4683-b25b-b595b9006ad7. About 1/3 of the way down the page there is a comment from Sandeep Lad that fixed my issue perfectly. He also references this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861. I thought it wouldn't work for me since I am on Server 2008 but everything appears to be running smoothly now.

Friday, March 12, 2010

SharePoint Survey and PreSaveAction

So my company wanted to have employees take a quiz after viewing a PowerPoint slide about safety. So I created a new survey in SharePoint to accomplish that task. After completing the quiz they tested it and decided that they wanted the ability to have it graded. I thought no problem, I will just use a workflow. Then they added a new wrinkle, they wanted a message to be displayed when they clicked finish to show if they had passed and then only save the results if they pass. So I decided to go the route of JavaScript. After looking at several sites I came up with the following code(most of it was copy and paste from other sites):

---------------------------------------Begin Code----------------------------------------------

[script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">]

function PreSaveAction()

{

var questiononeselected = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","RadioButtons","Energy Control protects employees from injuries caused by:","value");

var questiononevalue = questiononeselected.value;

var questiontwoselected = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","RadioButtons","LOTO stands for:","value");

var questiontwovalue = questiontwoselected.value;

var questionthreeselected = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","RadioButtons","An “affected” employee is defined as:","value");

var questionthreevalue = questionthreeselected.value;

var questionfourselected = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","RadioButtons","An “authorized” employee is defined as:","value");

var questionfourvalue = questionfourselected.value;

var questionfiveselected = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","RadioButtons","Only “authorized” employees are allowed to remove Lockout tags.","value");

var questionfivevalue = questionfiveselected.value;

var questionsixselected = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","RadioButtons","Customers, vendors, and outside service personnel are not required to follow the Company’s Energy Control policy.","value");

var questionsixvalue = questionsixselected.value;

if (questiononevalue != "All of the above")

{