Monday, March 17, 2008

WSS - Search Indexer

If you get the following error when trying to run a search on a WSS site:Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer. Contact your administrator for more information.You'll need to set the indexer on the content database of the site collection. This is done by going to the Central Adminstration > Application Management > Content Databases.In the Search Server

Friday, March 14, 2008

Customizing Alert Emails

You need to create a copy of AlertTemplates.xmlhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/07/customizing-alert-notifications-and-alert-templates-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

Create a Custom Site Definition - Link Dump

Intro: How to create your own custom site definition (Todd)http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2007/08/16/creating-a-custom-site-definition-in-wss-v3-moss.aspxCreating a Site Definition from an Existing Site Definition (MSDN)http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms868598.aspxand more generically Customizing Templateshttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa151982.aspxCreating a

File not found error when creating Site from Template

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2367212&SiteID=1

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Filter Views based on Approval / Workflow Status

You need to create the filter based on the integer representation of the status value you are looking for, like this:Not Started 0Failed on Start 1In Progress 2Error Occurred 3Canceled 4Completed 5Failed on Start (retrying) 6Error Occurred (retrying) 7Canceled 15Approved 16Rejected 17

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

More Branding stuff ...

How to remove the SharePoint blue!Joel once again to the rescue. This is quite a nice solution...http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/04/12/master-page-and-themes-on-wss-sites-in-moss.aspx