WCM Training

I got the chance to attend WCM Traning from Andrew Connell.This was Awesome.I learned lot from this cource.

Understanding Field Controls and Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites

I red a new article which was Published by Andrew Connell
I prepared a small notes on this article....
The CEWP doesn't store version history, it doesn't participate in any publishing approval workflow and it does store absolute URLs rather than relative URLs. Even if you enter a relative URL into the editor, it will be converted to an absolute URL. The rich text editor that the Publishing HTML field type is tied to does not convert relative URLs to absolute URLs.
What are the differences between Web Parts & Field Controls and when to use them?
Field controls differ from Web Parts in two fundamental ways: who has control over the layout and structure of the page, who has control over the content on the page, and where the content is stored.
Web Parts
Beginning with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007, the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part framework manages all of this on behalf of Windows SharePoint Services. This means that Windows SharePoint Services no longer controls which Web Parts are on the page or their locations on the page, and does not manage the content stored in the Web Parts. The content and configuration data for Web Parts, known as personalization data, is stored in the ASP.NET 2.0 personalization data store. In Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites, this personalization data store is kept in the SharePoint content database.
It is important to understand how Web Parts work within ASP.NET 2.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites. When a Web Part is added to a page in a SharePoint site, ASP.NET 2.0 inserts a block of XML into the Web Part zone that notifies ASP.NET 2.0 about which Web Part to load and what data to assign to all of the Web Part's public properties. When the page is requested, the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part framework examines this XML to find the Web Part to load (by assembly and class), loads the control, and sets the values of all the public properties. Finally, the page rendering process renders the Web Part.
This XML data is stored in the ASP.NET 2.0 personalization data store—not with the page itself. This means the personalization data is tied to the page's URL and user context, not to the page or version of the current page (as in a SharePoint Server publishing site).
The advantage to using Web Parts for content is that you can personalize the content on a user-by-user basis if the publishing site has a way to uniquely identify users, such as by requiring a logon.
Field Controls
A field control pulls data (in display mode) from a particular column in a list item and writes back to that column in edit mode. Pages in a Publishing site are stored as items in a list; the Pages list. Because they are in a list, they can leverage all the benefits a list has to provide, but visioning & history is the most important here. When a developer places a field control on a page layout, they have the ultimate control of where it is placed on the page.
Field controls provide developers and designers a higher level of control over content pages than Web Parts do. Content owners can only add and manage content within field controls. They cannot move field controls on the page or override the settings set by developers.
What is the significance?
• Consistent lookand feel (A corporate brand)
• Structured organization of contentand a versioned and/or historical record of the content.
If structure and history is important on your site, you should ONLY consider field controls for your content. If you want to have a more relaxed authoring environment where structure & history isn't important, Web Parts are better.
To summarize: the content in Web Parts is not versioned and there is no history, but the content in field controls is versioned & a history is retained
And My Guru explained how to add Safecontrol entries into Web.config file ….

Renaming a SharePoint 2007 server

Hi today i configured my MOSS Server with 4GB RAM.But unfortunately i found the mistake that the formate of my system name.I have expected prob may occure.I renamed my system name.... Fuck....

Now i am unable to acess my CA site.

My face is blank.....

After Googling i found one wonderful aricle.

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/09/09/sql-server-error-fix-sharepoint-stop-working-after-changing-server-computer-name/


Finally got it.
Tx Pinalkumar

Info Path Interview Questions

Some Info Path Interview Questions writen By Wong-A-Ton
She is InfoPath MVP.
http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/infopath-2007-frequently-asked-questions-faq.htm

How to Create a quiz application using Survey template in SharePoint 2007?

Using "Survey" list template, I recently created a quizzing application. In my application I have a list with Question s, choices and answers. Using some object model I was able to make use of the SharePoint survey list template to organize a quiz within our organization.
I inherit some of the functionality from the following link. Sridhar has gave a start up idea for my requirement.
http://blogs.msdn.com/sridhara/archive/2008/12/15/howto-create-a-quizzing-application-with-sharepoint-2007.aspx
Using his tool I am able to create a Demo Exam to attend the employee. I am imitating the permissions to the lists from Sridhar.
Well, in the code, the Read/Write Securities for the survey list are set to 2, which means "Users have Read access only to items that they create" and "Write only my items" respectively. However, once a user answers all questions and submits the quiz, he/she can ‘t attend the test again.
Here the results are declare immediately.
The results are storing in a separate list . In that I am maintaining Employee Name, Date of attempt, Score. For this I am using ItemAdded Event handler.
I am creating a feature for this.

How to add People picker control into Sharepoint Page Template?

I have a requirement that add a people picker control into on page template.Why means my input values will be store in DB Custom Table.Once get all details i can get reports using SSRS.


For adding People picker control u have to register the following dlls in my aspx page template.

How to check the authorization to load a page ?

I achived to check the authrization of user follwoing way.

public static bool IsUserExistsInGroup(string aGroupName, SPWeb aWeb, string aUserName)
{
SPGroup userGroup;
SPUser user;
bool userExists = false;
try
{
userGroup = aWeb.Site.RootWeb.SiteGroups[aGroupName];
try
{
user = userGroup.Users[aUserName];

if (user != null)
{
userExists = true;
}
}
catch
{

}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
return userExists;
}