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InfoPath unclosed literal string error -

Posted by GeorgeH on February 19, 2011

I had an InfoPath form that previously worked fine, including some retrieve data connections to SharePoint. After adding a new data connection, the following error messages were displayed after attem... [read more]


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InfoPath - Get the row being edited in a repeating table programmatically

Posted by GeorgeH on January 23, 2011

I recently came across an issue with an InfoPath Form, where an XML Document was being constructed in the background when certain fields were updated in the form template. The XML being generated was... [read more]


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SharePoint Site Permissions Management Using Excel

Posted by GeorgeH on November 23, 2010

Managing site permission in SharePoint can become an onerous task when an environment expands to many sites with various permission setting applied for different users.  This is especially the ca... [read more]


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SharePoint Development: Re-Usable Data View XSL Templates

Posted by GeorgeH on November 19, 2010

An often overlooked feature provided by SharePoint Designer is the ability to link an external XSL Template and associated Style Sheets to the a Data View Web Part (DVWP), allowing multiple Data Views... [read more]

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Populate SharePoint list data into InfoPath form

Posted by zakir hossain on December 12, 2010

For application development using InfoPath form on SharePoint environment this is a common scenario for populating your SharePoint list data into the InfoPath form. These data may need to populate on ... [read more]

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Sharepoint:The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, Error while adding a Page to site Pragmatically

Posted by pathikhrawal on September 7, 2010

You get error “The Security validation for this page is invalid” when you try to add page or move a page. This error is due to Security validation error. This error is caused due to security valid... [read more]

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How to find Inactive computer accounts in active directory?

Posted by Praveen on December 13, 2011

Do you know how can we do this? Either we query the AD to get the information by writing code in C# or manually check the AD for the inactive accounts. But, there is another simple way which will get ... [read more]

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Step by Step Guide to Configure SharePoint 2010 Forms Based Authentication with ADLDS

Posted by nikspatel on December 12, 2011

It is very common to use Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services – ADLDS in Windows 2008 environments (ADAM in Windows 2003 environments) to store external users in extranet environments for... [read more]

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Restore SharePoint Site Collection using Restore-SPSite Fails with No Content Databases are Available

Posted by Phil Harding on December 13, 2011

Attempting to restore a site collection using the powershell Restore-SPSite cmdlet failed with the following error I had previously deleted the site collection using Central Administration, and in thi... [read more]

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Script to install SharePoint 2010 in Windows 7

Posted by Praveen on December 13, 2011

You are ready to install SharePoint 2010 in Windows 7? Then you are at the right place. For the installation you have to download all required and follow the complete MSDN article and then execute ste... [read more]

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Minimum System Requirements of Microsoft InfoPath 2010

Posted by aantwan1 on July 7, 2011

Before install Microsoft InfoPath 2010, you must make sure your computer has a minimum system requirements , Or this Software otherwise could not run on your computer and you might have to upgrade the... [read more]

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Publishing vs Collaboration site

Posted by Prasath C on January 3, 2011

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Open PDF files directly in browser SharePoint 2010

Posted by Praveen on December 12, 2011

Here is how you can tell SharePoint 2010 site to open the PDF files in the browser instead of prompting the user to save or open the PDF. This will be a great option to the most of end users. This nee... [read more]

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How to set SharePoint blog comments permission

Posted by zakir hossain on March 31, 2011

How to set SharePoint blog comments permission If you want to allow your SharePoint blog visitors to comment on blog posts you need to explicitly allow them to do so. You can also set permission ... [read more]

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'NaN' in InfoPath Decimal/ percentage field

Posted by Prasath C on January 27, 2012

In InfoPath 2007, we used to get NaN in our calculated decimal fields. So, I tried to add a Rule to check if the value is NaN and replace it is with '0' if it is true. However, t... [read more]

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Sumproduct in InfoPath 2007

Posted by Prasath C on January 26, 2012

An workaround to do similar to excel Sumproduct function in InfoPath 2007We had a requirement to calculate the sum of product of 2 column in a repeating table. See the screen shot ... [read more]

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Best Practices to Change App Pool Account for SharePoint Web Application

Posted by nikspatel on January 25, 2012

Updating SharePoint Web Application Pool is one of the most common actions for SharePoint administration. I have repeatedly seen many SharePoint administrators and my fellow collea... [read more]

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unbound (control cannot store data)

Posted by Prasath C on January 23, 2012

Scenario: In Design view of a InfoPath 2007 form, had several controls within a table and the table is placed within a section control. Deleted the section control and got the foll... [read more]

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Custom SharePoint Pages – Site Pages vs Application Pages

Posted by nikspatel on January 20, 2012

Although I have been building custom applications on SharePoint Platform since MOSS 2007 days, when it comes to making decision on whether to use application page or site page feat... [read more]

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Custom ADFS Login Form for SharePoint 2010 Claims

Posted by Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi on January 20, 2012

This week I've been involved in creating a custom login page for SharePoint 2010 to bypass the standard "select a login method" page for multi-mode claims-enabled web-applications.... [read more]

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Simple Feature Files Cleanup using Extension Methods

Posted by Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi on January 17, 2012

As every seasoned SharePoint developer knows, deactivating a feature does not remove the files deployed by that feature. The deployed masterpages, web part pages, wiki pages, page ... [read more]

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Download Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - now with SharePoint developer tools

Posted by Praveen on January 11, 2012

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is now available with the SharePoint developer tools and downloadable to public. Earlier version only has the Windows 8 stuff as a new thing alo... [read more]

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Microsoft InfoPath 2010 Troubleshooting

Posted by aantwan1 on January 11, 2012

While operating the Microsoft Office 2010 InfoPath numerous problems can hamper the workflow. In this situation one must opt for the various Microsoft Office 2010 InfoPath troubles... [read more]

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Resolve Microsoft InfoPath 2010 problems

Posted by aantwan1 on January 11, 2012

Microsoft Infopath 2010 is the latest application to develop XML-based data entry forms. The Microsoft Infopath is a part of the Microsoft Office package. The Microsoft Infopath 20... [read more]

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Easy Site Collection Backups

Posted by emmettlynch on January 10, 2012

If you need a simple cost effective way to schedule backups your site collections, here’s the script for the job. Just add a scheduled task and your set. (how... [read more]

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Create approval workflow in SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010 and Infopath

Posted by emmettlynch on January 7, 2012

Here an Approval Workflow that can be deployed on SharePoint 2010 and can be associated to any list or library… http://approvalworkflow.codeplex.com/ ... [read more]

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Add a SharePoint or AD group/user to all sites in a site collection using PowerShell

Posted by emmettlynch on January 7, 2012

This is a great script that allows you to do batch permission updates… function AddAccountToAllSites ($siteURL, $accountName, $permLevel, [switch]$skipRootSit... [read more]

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use InfoPath forms in Office SharePoint Server and WSS 3

Posted by aantwan1 on January 7, 2012

If you're considering using InfoPath with SharePoint, but are confused about your options for using InfoPath forms in SharePoint or you do not know how InfoPath... [read more]

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Using InfoPath 2010 to design form templates for SharePoint 2007

Posted by aantwan1 on January 7, 2012

You can use InfoPath 2010 with SharePoint 2007 to design form templates (with or without code) for publishing on SharePoint 2007, but must remember to first set... [read more]


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