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Did some playing around with Cooliris after seeing it in action on EndUserSharePoint.com. Trying to get it working with SharePoint took a little playing around but I eventually got it working by using PicLens Publisher on their site.
After installing this and running it on a set of photos, I uploaded the output content from this into a new document library on my SharePoint site.
I then inserted a Content Editor web part onto a .aspx page and edited the source code (highlighted in red below) to point to the .rss file in the document library.
<object id=”o” classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ width=”600″ height=”370″> <param name=”movie” value=”http://apps.cooliris.com/embed/cooliris.swf” /> <param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /> <param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” /> <param name=”flashvars” value=”feed=http://cooliris.com/static/images/feeds/home/media.rss” /> <embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://apps.cooliris.com/embed/cooliris.swf” flashvars=”feed=http://cooliris.com/static/images/feeds/home/media.rss” width=”600″ height=”370″ allowFullScreen=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always”> </embed> </object>
I finished off by creating a crossdomain.xml file, then inserted this into the root of the site via SharePoint designer. I then refreshed the page and the document library content was displayed.
Very nice, although as a lot of my users access SharePoint remotely (via Citrix Currently Presentation server 4.0) I won’t be putting it into action soon. Let’s hope it works better with XenApp 5.0!
I’ve was asked recently about adding mapping information onto our intranet, making it easier for staff to locate company properties. Although there is a lot of information out there connected with using Google maps on SharePoint, there is a lot of variation in it’s use. Summarized below are really the 3 (free) options you have got.
Option 1 – Static map
Follow the step by step instructions here. This will display mapping information on the web page, but the location is fixed. For a slightly better option insert a content editor web part and copy across the code from here. This can be made a little more dynamic if you apply for a Google API key – which is fairly easy to do! and follow some of the instructions.
You will have to manually insert the location (lat/long) in the code, but it only requires modify access to the web page not MOSS server.
Option 2 – Map displayed by selecting location from a list.
But what if you want to display a map by clicking on an address in a SharePoint list. This requires a more complex solution than option 1. There may be other examples of this, but the best solution I found was here at AMREIN ENGINEERING AG. Screenshot of my solution below. Check out their other free web parts – some of which are particularly awesome.
The instructions are concise and (if your knowledge of MOSS is sufficient) relatively easy to implement. It will involve amending the web.config file and adding some dll’s – so access to the MOSS server is required.
The only downside I came up with was that you have to display the latitude and longitude columns in the list view on the web page.
If like in Option 1 you apply for the Google API code, the map is dynamic.
Option 3 – Like option 2 but with more bells and whistles
Option 2 might suffice, but you might want contact information to pop up when you click on the map pin, or for directions to the location to be an option.
In this instance, I found web parts/code at Codeplex to be a good place to start with examples such as adding a map to a contacts list. To display points and locations on a Google map and get directions to and from that point you might want to consider this. Although this solution requires a pretty good knowledge of installing wsp files and stsadm configuration commands.
Again these solutions require access to the MOSS server and my advice here is to try these out on development servers beforehand and know what each stsadm command does what.
Hope the info helps…
I was looking to display a generic users’ inbox in a web page on my SharePoint farm. This is typically a service mailbox that people need to dip into from time to time and also send emails from. Research provided a few pointers but did not provide the entire answer I was looking for.
The standard OOTB OWA web part is fine for displaying the root inbox, but is limited when trying to display sub folders and the ‘New’ button. For this you will need to display the full OWA page.
This is simple to achieve by amending the web part and adding ?cmd=contents after the mailbox of the inbox you want to be displayed (shown below).
Assuming you have access to the mailbox the whole OWA web page will be displayed on the page. More information on additional commends when displaying OWA pages can be found here.
Recent testing has shown a couple of querky things when attempting to setup an Infopath form to recieve data from a SharePoint 2007 list. It took a little working out but the following apply;
- SharePoint list items formatted as ‘Multiple lines of text’ with the column setting set to either Rich text or Enhanced Rich text, are not available in Infopath when pulled through a data connection. I only resolved this by setting the item column to Plain text.
- Data pulled through the data connection is related only to the SharePoint list default view. I was pulling information across from a calendar view and only a month’s worth of data was available. You’ll have to set the default view to an ‘All items’ view to pull across all the data.
The font used by default in emails generated by SharePoint Designer workflow is Times New Roman and can look out of place in today’s corporate environments. It appears that there are no obvious ways around this in the workflow gui.
Chancing my arm, I tried basic html to change the font type, size and colour, coupled with tages for hyperlinks and it worked a charm. I also came across this blog post afterwards which covers some of the same ground.
Been digging deeper into MOSS backup’s and came across the following error when trying to do a backup in MOSS central administration.
“Error: Object MOSSContent failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Cannot open backup device ‘c:\mossbu\spbr00040000018.bak’. Operating system error 3(error not found).”
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Found quite a lot of articles relating to assigning security rights to the backup folder and sharing it out which I followed, but this still did not stop the errors. Then I came across this suggestion to use a UNC path for the location of the backup and voila – issue sorted.
I’ve finally switched over to IE7 and Vista and spent ages trying to figure out why I was being asked for a username and password when going into various sections of a MOSS 2007 portal – but never the homepage. With the proxy settings applied it worked fine, but when I removed them the security box appeared. It was nothing to do with security settings in the browser, it just needed a patch from MS. Just follow the details, apply for the hotfix and bingo. Appararently this hotfix will be part of Vista SP1.
I have recently been using one of the four Microsoft sample master pages as a starting point for customising a new corporate site. After many hours and days I finally picked apart the style sheets and got it to look right for the business. However this has all come crashing down because the base custom templates supplied seem not to allow printing of the main body of the page - only the top third will print. I’m no delveloper and so far have not been able to fathom out why this is happening. I have confirmed that this is also the case with all the templates except the Reverse one – which prints just fine.
I’ve had this more or less confirmed by MS and I’m awaiting confirmation if they will release any alterations. For now then it’s back to square one. If anyone else has come up against this then let me know. I could not find much talk about this at all.
Been doing some work involving lists, workflow and reminders and cam across this great article on setting up workflow reminders. I had an issue with the ‘Pause Until Date’ wokflow command and testing it out. It just paused and did not go onto the next step.
I got around this by using the ‘Wait for Field to change’ command instead and used a different methodology. If anyone’s had issues with using the ‘Pause Until Date’ I’d like to here about it!
I have since found that this is an actual fault and is fixed in SP1
My setup is as follows: MOSS 2007 & Exchange 2003 (Domain: MOSS07.co.uk)
Most of the documentation I found talks about setting this function up in a lab environment with simple email functionality and it took me a while to piece it all together and get it working with Exchange 2003.
I followed most of the settings found in this excellent article How to configure Email Enabled Lists in Moss2007 RTM using Exchange 2007 . I could not get it to work using the automatic configuration (see step 3), so had to go down the manual route as described in the article.
Under Management Service settings (Step 3B in the article) I put in ‘Active Directory container where new distribution groups and contacts will be created’ settings OU=Sharepointdl,DC=MOSS07,DC=co,DC=uk and Servermoss07.moss07.co.uk in the ‘SMTP mail server for incoming mail settings’.
The thing I had to change was getting Exchange to forward emails destined for email@Servermoss07.moss07.co.uk to the MOSS server (Servermoss07) – it does state this in the troubleshooting section of the article. I did this by creating a new SMTP connector and putting the server name (Servermoss07.moss07.co.uk) in the ‘Address Space’ tab. Once I had created this mail started being delivered into the drop folder on the MOSS server.
