Archives | January 2009

Problem InfoPath complains that you have a linked image when you are trying to author a forms services (browser) enabled SharePoint form. Solution Select Design Tasks > Views Create a New View (bottom of Design Task's Views windows) Copy the contents of your offending view to the new view Delete the original "offending" view Refresh the compatibility settings an voila, all good! Explanation No explanation, this is clearly a bug.  This...

---

Problem Security Exception Uninstalling or Configuring WSS displays an error message in application event log stating "Failed to unprovision the SharePoint Central Administration Web Application". Explanation I ran into this error the other day with a botched install of Windows SharePoint Services Infrastructure update. I could neither uninstall or run SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard Solution I tried everything from deleting the web application's, app pools, to granting additional permissions to the IIS Admin com objects. Nothing worked until I uninstalled the Windows...

---

Edit the site in question using SharePoint designer or located and download the default.master from the master page gallery. Locate the following AspMenu control by searching the code for QuickLaunchMenu Change the StaticDisplayLevels to a lower number, I recommend 1 (don't do zero) Change the MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels to a higher number such as 3. Problem You want to make the quick-launch fly out like the top navigation. Did you know that the top nav and quick launch are just standard ASPNet menu controls? So it's easy to customize! Solution Caution - Setting the StaticDisplayLevels="0"...

---

(Also see http://www.sharepointassist.com/2009/12/02/owstimer-pegging-cpu-and-filling-logs/) Problem SharePoint not responding or responding slowly and you note OWSTIMER.EXE and w3wp.exe running at a combined 100%? In my case this occurred because a developer created a workflow and executed it simultaneously on an entire list of at least a thousand items. What ends up happing is that you get a snowball effect of users and OWSTIMER trying to access the system, eventually it gets overwhelmed and the server stops serving pages. Solution/Resolution Disposition...

---

Problem You're developing SharePoint workflows in Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 and then all of a sudden you get these errors when you attempt to compile your solution. I've noticed that this happens most often when you rename on of your forms and/or you rename the xsd myschema.xsd /c file you've created. Could not find schema information for the element http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/:StatusPageUrl Could not find schema information for the element http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/:Association_FormURN Could not find schema information for the element 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/:Instantiation_FormURN' Solution I...

---