Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

Adding a Contact Selector/People Picker to an InfoPath Form

Problem You want to use the People Picker functionality in InfoPath that SharePoint supports natively. *** Look for the common mistakes section at the bottom of this article *** *** To query additional information about the selected user see this article: http://www.sharepointassist.com/2010/02/02/querying-sharepoint-profile-data-from-an-infopath-form/ *** Solution Follow the steps very carefully below.  It takes a lot of steps to get the contact selector working in InfoPath but once you ge...

“Request Failed” when creating SharePoint application pages with “CodeBehind” in SharePoint 2007

Problem You have developed an ASP.Net (aspx) web application that you are deploying to the applications (_layouts) folder in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) or Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) or you have developed an ASP.Net (aspx) page that supports a feature such as Association.aspx or Initiation.aspx. When deployed you received the following message(s) Solution Step 1 – Copy the assembly to your SharePoint application’s  bin directory Copy the assembly (dll) to the bin d...

Changing the location of the SharePoint Server Search Service Index File

Problem SharePoint Server Search Service is filling up your C:\ drive by writing its search index to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Data\Office Server\Applications. Explanation When you configure SharePoint one of the first services started is the SharePoint Server Search Service(MOSS 2007). It's a common mistake to allow your shared service provider to utilize the default search index location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Data\Office Server\Applications ....

Unable to delete a job from SQL Server 2005

Problem SQL Server has a broken reference somewhere preventing you from deleting a maintenance job, presumably a job that you created as a maintenance plan. OR (worse yet SQL claims that it isn't "aware" of this job) Solution So the ultimate solution to this problem is to delete the job and all of its references/dependencies/children using a stored procedure (don't worry, I provided the stored procedure below). Step 1 Backup your msdb database. Step 2 Select the sysjobs from ...

SharePoint Designer Workflow “stopped”, Document Checked Out

Problem You have a workflow that, on submission of a document, stops because the document is checked out. Solution Step 1 Open your workflow using SharePoint Designer and add a workflow step at the top of your workflow with the name Wait. Step 2 Add a workflow action Wait For Field Change in Current Item Step 3 Update the action to Wait for Checked Out To “to be empty”. Step 4 Test the workflow and verify the wait is executed