Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Reason why Lexmark X4550 does not work on Vista Home Premium

Reason why Lexmark X4550 does not work on Vista Home Premium

 

I found that the reason why the lexmark X4550 does not work is that the printer is set to be compatible with the 64-bit version of windows vista.

Reply:

Hello Rieko,

 

Thank you for sharing your experience!

 

We will change the type of this post to be "comment", which will help more community members find this as an helpful information for similar issues. However, I lack the environment to test this conclusion.

 

For reference, I'd love to share the following page from Lexmark website:

 

http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/downloads.cgi?ccs=229:1:0:583:0:0

 

Besides, if the driver for Windows Vista 32-bit editions has been released but fails to work in many scenarios, please contact Lexmark to report this issue. That will be helpful for them to issue a fix.

 

Thank you again for the information!

 

Important Note: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web site. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites; therefore, Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any software or information found there. There are inherent dangers in the use of any software found on the Internet, and Microsoft cautions you to make sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any software from the Internet.

 

Regards,

Lionel Chen

Microsoft Online Community Support

 


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Reply:
Thank you for the website on how to make the Lexmark X4550 work 32-bit Vista.

I went to the website and downloaded the software from the website and was able to set the printer. Within minutes, I was able to use my printer.

 



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Send mail prorammatically with custom view url

 How can I send email with custom view url to specific user or group? I am using Visual Studio and created timer job which will send mail for some pending jobs. I created custom timer job and able to send simple mail, but I am not able to figure out to get my custom view url and include in mail body.

Any Idea.

Reply:
I also noticed that if you hardcode any url which contain file name (my document.doc), it should send  in following format

http://portal/Shared%20Documents/my%document.doc  

But it is sending in following format, so once user click on url, it will  be treated as broken link
http://portal/Shared%20Documents/my document.doc


I am using VS 2005.

Any Idea.

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Reply:
I am assuming you need to send url of page which contains your custom view. You can get this information using this code:
string customViewURL = list.Views["view name"].Url; 
 
you can use UrlEncodeAsUrl method of utility class to encode the special characters in your URL (like space )
string encodedURL = SPEncode.UrlEncodeAsUrl(customViewURL); 


-Sridhar http://sridharu.blogspot.com

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Reply:
  Hello

I am trying to access site using following  in different manner and getting error but when I run to that line, it fails telling me that I need to use the new keyword to create an instance. I added the reference to System.Configuration and also added the imports System.Configuration.  Let me know If I am missing anything


using (SPWeb spWeb = new SPSite(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["timerJobSiteName"]).OpenWeb())   
SPList akList = spWeb.Lists[System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["timerJobListName"]];  
 

I also try to set as below
    strSiteName = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["timerJobSiteName"];  
             
    strListName = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["timerJobListName"];  
    strViewName = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["timerJobViewName"]; 

Also tried this also

   
    strSiteName = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["timerJobSiteName"].ToString();     
                
    strListName = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["timerJobListName"].ToString();     
    strViewName = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["timerJobViewName"].ToString();   
 


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Wish: What's on your Compliance Wish List?

Many of you have heard of Solution Accelerators before - but did you know that the Solution Accelerators team is also responsible for driving significant improvements into Microsoft product lines?

On the Security and Compliance team, we'd like to hear from you - what software do you want to see from Microsoft that will help you with your Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) needs?

Let us know what you want.  Simply create a new discussion here in this forum, and start your subject line with "Wish: " (no quotes).

When you see a Wish that you agree with - jump on the discussion! Add your own thoughts, offer alternatives, and suggest improvements. Feel free to describe how you're fulfilling the need today to give others a hand. You can also talk about the regulatory or GRC reasons behind the wish - what's really driving this particular need?

Wishes may be for additional features or changes to existing products, or may be new products that Microsoft does not offer today. Don't constrain yourself - be creative!

Our team will be triaging all the wishes we receive, and working to drive the most important ones into the company as part of our GRC Mobilization effort. We'll make sure these ideas are heard!

Thanks for helping out,

 

Derick Campbell | Group Program Manager
Solution Accelerators - Security and Compliance

SOLUTIONACCELERATORS

Did you know? Over half of the top 30 security downloads on Microsoft.com are from our team.

- "Shifting the effort of compliance from people to technology"

 

 

 

 

 


Forum goes psycho in Opera

This forum does not work at all in Opera. When you try to answer/post anything and the dialogue pops up on the bottom of the screen, all the buttons and text is piled together an nothing works. I can provide crazy screen shots if desired.

morten

Reply:
Morten,

Could you provide details on which version of Opera and which OS?

Thanks
Rob J, Forums Dev

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Reply:
here's the dump:

Opera Version 9.26
Build 8835
Platform Win32
System Windows XP
Java Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.6

morten

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Reply:
Weird, 'll have to investigate some more. I'm posting this response from Opera 9.23 on Vista(32). Everything seems ok, I did have to click in the upper left of the Editor Text Box to be able to start entering text but layout looks ok.
Rob J, Forums Dev

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Reply:
I can confirm experiences of both of you. First, I saw what Rob saw, and I pressed something on the keyboard and got buttons and text piled together. And right now text I am typing goes throgh the "Post Options" box :). As I continued, text no longer was being entered, but the top pane starting scrolling.

On the second try (when I am editing now), the edit box is small, and buttons and labels are still clumped together.

I am using 9.26 on Vista.
  • Edited by romh0 Monday, March 17, 2008 6:39 PM added Opera version

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Reply:
We'll take a look at this for a future release. The help file does not list operah as a supported browser.
Brent Serbus STO Forums Program Manager

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Reply:
Brent Serbus said:

We'll take a look at this for a future release. The help file does not list operah as a supported browser.


Brent Serbus STO Forums Program Manager

It's "Opera", like the art form, not the talk show host. And it's a popular browser, especially on smaller devices so it really should be supported.

morten

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Reply:
Brent Serbus said:

We'll take a look at this for a future release. The help file does not list operah as a supported browser.


Brent Serbus STO Forums Program Manager



I corresponded w/ one of the site managers and he said that y'all are testing the forums in Opera as you've been developing them?
Expression Web l Standards Based Web Authoring

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Reply:
I can also confirm the aforementioned experience, with Opera 9.25, WinXP 32.

I'd also suggest the editor font size is a bit bigger by default.

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Reply:
I would suggest font size at least 1.5 times as big for everything here as I usually leave my binoculars in my car (to see street names far away). The footer on this page displays text in bigger font!
  • Edited by romh0 Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:33 AM added

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Reply:
Anna,

While we fix significant Opera bugs as we find them, we prioritize support for IE and Firefox, which together are responsible for 96%+ of our traffic.

Jeff
Jeff Day, Community Platform GPM

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Reply:

Testing latest on 9.52 opera 


Brent Serbus STO Forums Program Manager

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litesuite.comhave a lovely little charts webpart

Hi all, I stumbled across this lovely little charts webpart that is so cheap it's unreal, but it is seriously lacking some features and requires funding to bring them on.

Take a look yourself and see if you agree with the questions I have listed below and if anyone has a project that could assist on the future development of this product then please contact them.

http://www.litesuite.com/default.aspx
  1. Is there a way of just displaying say the top 10 results in the chart?
  2. Is there a way we could display the average of a column? for instance if you had a lot of invoiced jobs against different business units and wanted to show the average cost per job per business unit
  3. Can we display the totals per month when each line item is a individual date so it is in the list as 25/10/2008 rather than October?
  4. How do we calculate totals? so each list item has a total number of jobs connected to it, these are then allocated to a business unit or user, the chart needs to show on the x axis the business unit or user and the Y a total number of jobs, this is should be calculated by the total number of each list item, currently I only get 1 as each list item only has 1 rather than say business unit 'Sale' having 15 items in the list and the chart plotting 15 on the Y axis etc etc (probably something I am missing)
  5. In the Labels section you have Format: {%Value}{numDecials:0} to you have a list of variables we can use there?
  6. Are we able to modify the presentation, background vignette and keyline?
  7. Do you have an example of connecting charts together?

Gary George
  • Edited by Mike Walsh FIN Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:22 AM Subject changed so that we know this is a charts webpart
  • Moved by Mike Walsh FIN Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:23 AM General information post (Moved from SharePoint - Design and Customization to SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion)

Reply:
Moving to the General forum.

I would have liked to see a disclaimer that you don't work for this company nor have any commercial dealings with them !!

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Reply:
Nope I definitely don't work for them, actually think he is a one man band.

Our portal project doesn't have any cash in it to fund the future development of the bits we require which means we will probably opt for the more expensive Dundas charts.

Gary George

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Reply:
Thanks Gary,

There have been a couple of cases recently in the SP forums where someone has posted what seems to be a general information post but where in fact it's been an ad for their own product, so I watch out for that. (and delete them)

Thanks for the confirmation that this is a genuine non-biased recommendation !

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need a more informative website for "Windows SteadyState"

This is a complaint about the SteadyState website...

 

While the website is estheticily pleasing and easy to navigate; it has very little useful information.

It is pages of prose describing by I would want to use "Windows SteadyState".

             ....pssst!!!  I already know why!  ...otherwise I would not have spent the morning searching to find and read the SteadyState webpage.

 

Please consitter cutting down the "why use SteadyState" part and increase the technical information part:

  • How does it work?
  • What is protected and what's not?
  • How much granularity will I have in controlling what modifications are retained and what are restored to previous state?

P.S. All  through your website, you have "Watch a quick Demonstration of what SteadyState can do"

[i.e. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/demo_player.swf]

           It doesn't demostrate a single thing! Just another person telling that I need "Windows SteadyState".

 

 

The only positive that I could find on your website was a link to this forum [kudos!] and this page -> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/support/windowsdiskprotection.mspx

 

Kevin


Reply:

 

Hi Kevin, I fully understand your concern. I'll forward your valuable feedback to our product group. Thank you!


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Registration confirmation email is confused about the product

Bug report. I got email thanking me for registering SQL Express 2008, but the subject is "Thank you for registering Visual Studio 2005 SQL Express!". I find that a little confusing...

 

Also, I thought I had registered SQL 2008 Express, but the body of the email is about SQL 2005 Express. Maybe I didn't correctly remember my path through the webpages.

Reply:

This has been reported and is being fixed. Thanks for the report.

 

Regards,

Mike


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Simple CSS question on Master Pages - Just need to replace Title image and Text with an Image?

I need to replace Title image and Text with just a  centered Image

 

I can simply make the change in default.master as desired, but the change does not make it to application.master so _layouts pages don't reflect the change.

 

I understand I *might* be able to accomplish with by modifying core.css?

 

Basically how? and will I need to make any change to web application level files?

 

Also, is there any way to point application.master to default.master of the page being called? Those two files appear to be very close. Default.master appears to live in the db I guess.

 

Thanks for any help or information.


Reply:

Hi,

 

these forums are about Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid) - are you sure you posted in the right place?

 

 


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Icon view and text view

i would like to use the icon view

i can only see the text view now

Reply:
Icon view is not available in LCDS Community version 2.0.
  • Edited by V Longacre Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:06 PM Updated

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SP in Safe Mode

It is a good idea to install any Service Pack in Safe Mode -- also disable any Malware protection software.. Norton has been known to hose up quite a few systems with Service Pack installs.

Reply:

 jace5869 wrote:
It is a good idea to install any Service Pack in Safe Mode -- also disable any Malware protection software.. Norton has been known to hose up quite a few systems with Service Pack installs.

 

Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950717/en-us
"Steps to take before you install Windows XP Service Pack 3".

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950718/en-us
"How to troubleshoot an unsuccessful installation of Windows XP Service Pack 3".

 

Microsoft Windows XP Solution Center

 

Microsoft TechNet Service Pack 3 Resource Page

 

Microsoft TechNet: "Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)"

 

From Microsoft MVP Harry Waldron:
"WinXP SP3 - Read all prerequisites for a successful installation".

 

Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 April 2009. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.  Go to http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | select "Windows XP" then select "Windows XP Service Pack 3".

 

 

[If this post helps to resolve your issue, click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.]


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thanks

thanks

Wake on Lan in Console SMS 2003

 

Hello guys, I created an MSI package that adds WakeONLAN in SMS console.
 
Access
 
http://welingtonlima.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B5CDE85B04A57348!271.entry
 
Hugs
 
Welington Lima

Reply:
Thank you, but this forum is for System Center Config Mgr 2007, not SMS 2003

 


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Reply:

And SMS 2003 does not even have Wake on LAN capabilities natively, so would be a 3rd party or custom add-on. Configuration Manager does have WOL native in the product.


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Configuration Manager 2007 R2 RTM Released

 

Hi All

 

Configuration Manager 2007 R2 RTM now avaliable for Download

 

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager/en/us/default.aspx

 

sanka


Reply:

Has been for a while now, this is not new news :-)


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Delay Activity sleeping and not waking up

I was having a major problem with a new SharePoint site with delay activities in workflows not working.  After a week of screaming/drinking/morescreaming I found this update which was published July 2008. Problem solved

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx

Cryptographic Error While Signing Assembly" error: What worked for me.

Hi Folks;

I've been working for a couple of hours trying to solve this error that I received while trying to build a BizTalk project I had moved from my development machine to our test environment.

I tried alot of things like rebuilding the snk file, making a new solution and importing the files over yet I kept getting this error.

Eventually I noted that the server was getting slower and slower to build.  Finally, out of sheer frustration I rebooted the server (I actually had to do a cold boot performance was so bad).

When everything came back up I rebuilt the project and deployed it without incident.  I'm wondering if perhaps it was timing out while using the snk file.

I'm posting this so search engines will pick it up and hopefully I'll save someone else a couple of hours of work.

Reply:

Usually you can get cryptographic errors like this when you move your .snk file or you are building on a separate box with a different path to the .snk file and it cannot find the file. There are a few other scenarios when this error can occur.

 

Your performance problems were likely a Visual Studio performance issue - it can consume memory pretty easily and if you have been working for a long time it is a good idea to restart Visual Studio. Generally I would recommend keeping as few BizTalk items open as possible because the BizTalk designers take up a lot of memory in maps, orchestrations, etc. and so you can eat through memory with even 5 or 10 medium sized maps or orchestrations open at once.

 

Thanks,

 

 


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Reply:
Good point, thanks!

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SPView.RenderAsHtml with Group By doesn't display any data (REVISIT)

Sorry I could not post on the original Thread as in my subject line, but this issue frustrated me for a day and it must be revealed

There was in issue in the "SPView.RenderAsHtml with Group By doesn't display any data" thread that included a solution to the problem was a work around by registering script to collapse the listviewwebpart group.  The problem was that if the groups were set to be colapsed be deafault, expanding them causes a javascript error (and a very NOT helpfull error message from IE, if you know what I mean).  This issue was only seen when adding the viewpart programmatically through a feature reciever.

The cause for the issue, at least in my case, was the creating of the listviewwebpart in the feature reciever.  Webparts have an 'ID' property to uniquely identify them on the page.  What I soon discovered was that MS uses that ID to create javascript variables based on that ID string.  In my case, I used the Guid.NewGuid() method to generate this ID, not realizing that the ToString() included the curly brackets '{,}' in the string, thus causing javascript errors when firing off webpart scripts.  I removed the curly brackets from the ID and viola, everything magically works.

I could only assume that is may be the cause of other proplems.

So the lesson today is: WebPart.ID must be a unique "Alpha-numeric" value only.

Workaround for "There was an error processing the request" error

This is just a heads up for those devs who might be interested. It may be that you already know this, but it bears repeating for the benefit of others. (And if you do know, why haven't you let anyone else in on it? ;-) Note that I did not discover this workaround myself; it was revealed to me by a user by the handle BurrManator over on the EW forum.

I should note that this also explains quite handily why some users do not encounter the problem, and why those who attempt to replicate it may not be able to.

When the poster clicks Submit and this error occurs, the message "There was an error processing the request" appears, in red, below the Submit button. No other indication is given to the user, and neither the message nor anything else visibly changes upon subsequent attempts to submit the reply. Unfortunately, in the background the message is being reposted every time the user clicks Submit, resulting in multiple copies of the same reply being posted. New users are prone to generating a regrettable number of duplicate posts.

The error is apparently tied to the Alert mechanism, because all that is required to get a successful Submit, first time, every time (at least in my two-dozen or so trials so far), is to uncheck the "Alert Me" checkbox in the Posting Options box. For a more convenient and permanent solution, unchecking the option to enable the Alert Me checkbox by default, in Application Settings in the user profile, will cause the option in Post Options to be disabled by default, instead of enabled.

Yes, this will mean that those who actually want to receive alerts will have to use one of the other, less-convenient workarounds (like clicking the forum breadcrumb at the top of the page to return to the forum after submitting and receiving the error). Personally, after trying for a week to get alerts in my Inbox, I finally succeeded, only to have brought home to me once again the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for; you might get it." At my level of forum participation, I was drowning in alerts, and soon opted out of that.

Just a suggestion, now, but perhaps you might want to put a sticky at the top of each forum experiencing this issue, explaining the workaround so that new users (of which the EW forum gets tons) will not be generating scores of duplicate messages a day. Thanks.

cheers,
scott
  • Edited by paladyn Saturday, September 20, 2008 7:06 PM

Reply:
 The forums team has identified some configuration issues related to our usage of live alerts. These should now be resolved, please let us know if not.
Brent Serbus STO Forums Program Manager

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Nvidia released 178.13 WHQL

 

Hey for you Nvidia card users Big bang II arrives?

Not advertising for Nvidia. Letting the card users know there is a new driver available!

 

  Nvidia has released 178.13 W.H.Q.L video drivers for the following older cards

 

6100, nforce 400, 405, 410                                                 6500

6150, LE,Se ,SE 450,                                                        6600 GT, LE, VT,

6200, A-LE, LE, Turbo Cache, SE Turbo Cace                     6610 XL

6250                                                                                 6700 XL

6800 Series GPU                                                              6800 GS, GS/XT, GT, LE, Ultra, XE, XT     

7025 /Nvidia nforce 630A                                                    7050 PV / Nvidia nForce 630a

7050 /Nvidia nforce 630i                                                     7100 /Nvidia nForce 620i

7100 /Nvidia nFoce  630I                                                   7150 /Nvidia nForce 630i

7100 GS                                                                          7200 GS

7300 GS, GT, LE, SE                                                       7350 LE

7500 LE

7600 LE, GS, GT                                                             7650 GS

7800 GS. GT. GTX SLU

7900 GS GT/GTO, GTX                                                    7950 GT, GX2

please do not get excited, there is  support for the newer cards. Just please visit the release notes, and for the fixes included. and the performance table.

 

supports Cuda/PhysX on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200 series GPUS with a minimum 256 meg dedicate memory. Nvidia physics driver package v8.09.04 is included. Demo is included.

 

Support for 2-way and 3 way Nvidia SLI, with GTX 200 series GPU on Intel d5400XS Mb.

Support for Single GPU, and Nvidia Sli tech on Direct X; 9, 10 and Open GL, including 3 way and Quad SLI technology.

Supports Nvdidia GeForce 3d stereo tech

supports Folding @ home.

 

www.nvidia.com

 

Cheers

Keith

 

Resources to help end users with SharePoint naming restrictions

In my recent very early-in-the-process general discussion of what to expect with the upcoming implementation of SharePoint, I got sideswiped into a discussion of the filename and path length restrictions in SharePoint. At present, my client already violates the NTFS restrictions due to mapped drives and whatnot, and the seeming ability to save a file into a directory where the resulting path exceeds the limit.

At any rate, some people in the audience were aghast at the suggestion that they would have to adjust their behavior and stop naming files things like, "that one file that I opened last tuesday but it was the wrong one but i am keeping it just in case.doc"

A sample path taken from the server came out to 195 characters in the path alone.

Now I will say that this client does have a system that has been thought out, and the regulations of their industry require extensive documentation, and hence, complexity, so it is not simply that they need to cut out the wacky names. There are areas that hit the 128 character mark that are seemingly legit.

So, my need is this: Are there resources out there that I might use to assist me in developing shorter structures for their filing system? Things with theories about how to create a meaningful system that does not rely on 100% explicit file names and paths? In addition, can someone point to case studies where clients were in the same boat, and discuss how they guided a client through the process?

(I have not even approached the fact that, as I understand it, a space is 3 characters as far as the URL is concerned!)

Also, I am not interested in those who believe that there should be no need for folders and subfolders within SharePoint. That is not to say that I disagree entirely, but I am not going to attempt to move this client over to the use of metadata exclusively for searching and organization. Baby steps. There are old people who work at this company...

Reply:
I don't know of any resources like that.

I think that one way is to try and get away from having a smart file name and instead, put that info into the title.  But, that sounds like a hill to far for you client...

You may be able to automate that part of things with event receivers and/or workflow.
--Paul Galvin of www.Conchango.com @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulGalvinsSharepointSpace

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Deploy WSP to a specific site only

Hello,
I read the following thread about deploying my WSP to a specific website only and not the root folder.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/1e3d15f3-9730-4ba7-8901-a41f466709b2

I am not sure I understand what the poster suggested. They suggested setting my scope to web but I am new to this and not sure where this would go.

Here is a little background: I have created my project and deployed it to the root folder of Sharepoint and then activated my solution on the sub website I would like it to be active on.
I have also tried deploying my project to a specific weburl but the files are always put on the root along with the specified folder.

How do I get my project to launch just to my specific folder. I see a problem down the road with file names if the pages live on the root.

Thanks in advance for your help.
JennMoshier

Reply:

There seems to be a bit of confusion over terminology here:

A solution (WSP) is installed to a farm, and generally (there are exceptions!) it gets deployed to a web application.
A feature (which can be deployed using a solution) is also installed to a farm, but can be scoped to Farm, WebApplication, Site or Web, and gets activated.

A feature that is scoped to Web can only be activated on a web, a feature scoped to Site can only be activated on a site collection and so on.

I assume when you say Project you a referring to a feature and not a solution? Or perhaps a set of files? The answer to your question really depends on what your feature is doing, and how you have scoped the feature. When creating a feature you will have a feature.xml file, you can specify the scope in here. Depending on how you scope the feature will determine where you go to activate it (using the Site Settings or Central Administration pages).

Would you be able to explain a little more about what you are trying to deploy and I am sure you can get a more specific answer.

Cheers

Stu


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Reply:

Its all about the Feature, not the WSP.
WSP is like a cab file that wraps features for deployment.
The feature is an individual thing SharePoint can do. The feature has xml files associated to it and in those xml files you can set a scope. That is where you can set your scope for "web". By setting a feature scope to "web" that means it gets activated on a specific web.
So, when you mentioned that you created a project and deployed it to the root folder and activated your solution. You probably mean you activated a feature that was in your wsp solution on a sub website. Just go to your feature.xml file and look for the word scope. If this is set to "site" that means it is for the entire site collection. Try setting it to "web" and see if that gets you what you want. If you do this it should show up in the site features on each subweb instead of just once in the site collection features at the top web.


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Reply:
Stuart,
Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the terminology confusion. This is all new to me and my first attempt to build a web application for Sharepoint.

I am using Visual studio to create a group of files. I believe I am creating a feature cause I do have a feature.xml file.

Here is my feature.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<Feature Id="17693bb6-e4e9-465a-b28e-08feab7ab504" Title="OrderForm" Scope="Web" Version="1.0.0.0" Hidden="FALSE" DefaultResourceFile="core" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  
  <ElementManifests> 
    <ElementManifest Location="OrderForm\Module.xml" /> 
    <ElementFile Location="OrderForm\form.aspx" /> 
    <ElementFile Location="OrderForm\placeOrder.aspx" /> 
    <ElementFile Location="OrderForm\verifyOrder.aspx" /> 
  </ElementManifests> 
</Feature> 


Where in this file would I put the scope. To clarify things I would like to deploy this feature to a single subsite. Also not sure if this will help or not but here is my manifest.xml file for reference.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<Solution SolutionId="a9e098c9-757f-469d-b307-34560459ac9d" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  
  <FeatureManifests> 
    <FeatureManifest Location="OrderForm\feature.xml" /> 
  </FeatureManifests> 
  <Assemblies> 
    <Assembly Location="Stationery_Tool.dll" DeploymentTarget="WebApplication">  
      <SafeControls> 
        <SafeControl Assembly="OrderForm" Namespace="OrderForm" Safe="True" TypeName="*" /> 
      </SafeControls> 
    </Assembly> 
  </Assemblies> 
</Solution> 


Thanks again for all your help. Please let me know if I need to be more specific. Hopefully I will eventually get what you are asking for.
Jenn Moshier


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Reply:
Hi there

Its ok about the terminology, WSS/MOSS confuses itself sometimes too - I won't go into details though! :)

Your feature is already scoped to Web...which means when installed you will find it listed under the Site Features. Your solution manifest looks fine too, it basically adds the feature to the farm and places your assembly into the bin directory of whichever web application it is deployed to.

The module.xml file would be useful to see as I am guessing that it is this which is actually placing the files into the relevant locations..this could be where your problem is. The feature and solution files you posted look fine to me.

Stu

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Stuart,
Actually when I go to Site Features on the main website and the subsites my feature is listed in all of them. I made sure it was only activated in the subsite I wanted it in. But what is troubling me is that when I go to Manage Content and Structure my files are in the root along with in the subsite I activated the feature in. Here is my module.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<Elements Id="bbe03e33-64df-42cb-a499-a3fa0e5080dd" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  
  <Module Name="OrderForm">  
    <File Path="form.aspx" Url="form.aspx" /> 
  </Module> 
  <Module Name="VerifyPage">  
    <File Path="verifyOrder.aspx" Url="verifyOrder.aspx" /> 
  </Module> 
  <Module Name="PlacePage">  
    <File Path="placeOrder.aspx" Url="placeOrder.aspx" /> 
  </Module> 
</Elements> 

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Reply:
OK, i think I understand what you mean now.

Yes, the feature will be displayed in all your sub-sites (web's) under the Site Features heading - it is scoped per web so every single web will have this feature listed. You mention that the files are available at both the root of your entire site AND the subsite (web) in which you activated the feature.

This could be because you have activated the feature at the root at some point? (Deactivating a feature will not remove the files even if activating provisioned them)

Try deleting the files from the root AND the subsite you activated it in. Deactivate the feature at all levels, and then reactivate the feature in the subsite you want..and check the results. I can't see anything wrong with what you are doing at present.

Stu

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Reply:

I did notice that deactivating the feature did not remove the files. I guess what I am struggling with is when I initially select to deploy the solution from Visual Studio (even if I use the command prompt to run the setup.bat file and install the file to a specific weburl) the files are put in the subsite I want and in the root. Because we are developing and deploying more than once if I remove the files from the root, when I deploy the solution again the files go back to being in the root.

What I am trying to do is avoid having to delete the files from the root everytime I deploy. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Jenn


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Reply:
Does anyone know if there is a way to do this? To only have my files go into a specified folder and not on the root also?

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