How to create a newsletter using 2 lists in SharePoint Foundation

Firstly, we are using sharepoint foundation so Infopath forms are not an option for us.

We have a Visual Studio sharepoint project which deploys a complete sharepoint site. The site contains a number of external lists and we want to be able to create customised view/edit forms for these lists and add them to our Visual Studio project so they can be deployed as part of the new site. The idea is that we can deploy the solution to a fresh site with a default set of forms which can then be customised for different implementations of the site.

Here's the steps we have been using to try and do this:

1. Deploy the base project (BDC) to the sharepoint site

2. Create external lists based on the BDC content types

3. Use Sharepoint Designer to create new edit/view forms for the lists and set these as the default forms for the list

3. Save the site as a template

4. Import the template into a new Visual Studio project and select the lists we require. This gives us a List Definition, a pages module (with element file), an elements file and a schema file (both for the List Instance).

5. We then add the contents of the imported project to our main solution as follows:

• Create a new List Definition (including List Instance)
• Copy the contents of the imported Elements.xml to the Elements file for our List Instance.
  

Learn how to create a list in SharePoint Server 2010 and associate it with a new content type. Next, you disassociate the list from the content type and then delete the list.

Hi,   I  want  to migrate wss3.0  site into sharepoint foundation 2010 site . earlier we  were creating site based on .stp file  in WSS 4.0 . but now we  have   to build same site in sharepoint foundation 2010. I followed  the old way  intall the .stp file  and  based on that trying to create new  site  but getting some error  old version template is not supporetd my this version. how could  l able to create  site  in sharepoint foundation 2010 based on wss 3.0 template . Please help Thanks in advance Jandel Singh

Hi,   I  want  to migrate wss3.0  site into sharepoint foundation 2010 site . earlier we  were creating site based on .stp file  in WSS 4.0 . but now we  have   to build same site in sharepoint foundation 2010. I followed  the old way  intall the .stp file  and  based on that trying to create new  site  but getting some error  old version template is not supporetd my this version. how could  l able to create  site  in sharepoint foundation 2010 based on wss 3.0 template . Please help Thanks in advance Jandel Singh

Hi, I have a contact list in outlook exchange which contains a list of contacts and distribution lists. I would like to move this data onto a sharepoint list. The individual contacts have copied across with no problems the distributions lists which have groups of users inside them did not copy across. Can anyone tell me if they are supported at all in sharepoint foundation 2010?

Hi,

I need to create a custom page layout in sharepoint foundation 2010.

I am aware that wss 3.0 and sharepoint foundation do not have the publishing infrastructure.

I need to know if the same procedure that is used to create custom web part pages in WSS 3.0 is to be used in SharePoint foundation too or are there other ways.

I am relatively a fresher to sharepoint technology.Please help.

Thanks in advance:D.

 

I installed and successfully setup development environment in win 7 ultimate through PowerShell. When I tried to create new web application in “Manage web application” option of central admin, I found “New” button greyed out. I applied all the solution while browsing internet:

1.       I run internet explorer as administrator

2.       I run central admin as administrator

3.      

Hi,

I have seen numerous articles for the above, but they all just gloss over the step I am having a problem with, assuming nobody will have an issue with it. 

I'm trying to create an External Content Type so I can use it to display external data (from SQL Server) in an External List.  When I get to the step to add the connection and the SQL Server connection dialog box appears, I enter the server and database names and click OK with the Connect with User's Identity radio button still selected and I get the error message: login failed for user ''. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.  I've tried to read up on the different purposes of the radio buttons on offer on this dialog box but don't know which I should really be using and don't think I can create a target application ID anyway in Foundation (for the other two radio button options) as that has to be done in the secure store services.  Can anybody help with this?

Hi,

 

I need to create means to create pressreleases. In SharePoint 2010 Standard/Enterprise that isn't such a big deal. I create a pagelayout et voila. Seems that Foundation does not provide this functionality.

My Questions:

1. Is this correct?
2. If not how can I create this functionality?

I already found this link but...

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010programming/thread/bd543dc8-0532-401d-88aa-3746b1822114

Thnx!

Hi,

Error while accessing the Sharepoint Foundation http://sharepoint server:port/_vti_bin/lists.asmx. we got below error. please help us to sort this below error.

The top XML element 'string' from namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/' references distinct types Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapXml.SoapXmlElement and System.String. Use XML attributes to specify another XML name or namespace for the element or types.

 

Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

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Date and Time: 10/25/2010 10:32:28 AM

Thanks & Regards,

Balaji

 

When you create a built-in or custom list in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Windows SharePoint Services creates a Web Part, a basic building block of a SharePoint site, to display that list. These Web Parts are called List View Web Parts. Windows SharePoint Services stores List View Web Parts in the site collection Web Part gallery. (The site collection Web Part gallery is the most central gallery of Web Parts for a work group. By default, the gallery name is the name of the site, such as "Our Team Site Web Part Gallery." )

A list is a feature in SharePoint that stores a lists of information. For example, a list can be created to store web links in the human resources team site. A list is usually created for a specific type of information. Lists can contain metadata to describe the particular information in more detail and to make it easier to find.

Usually we do this by performing the action under RunWithElevatedPrivileges method and updating the listitem using SPListItem.SystemUpdate() method (see here). but this approach has its own flaws like (RunWithElevatedPrivileges will run under system account, we cannot use SystemUpdate for SPSite,SPWeb,SPList, since it runs under system we will "CreatedBy" by as SystemAccount).

 

I'm in the process of migrating from a WSS 2 site to WSS 3/MOSS. On the old site I used an Infopath 2003 form for absence requests. During the migration I now use Infopath 2007. There wasn't any problem initially when the form was stored with the SharePoint form library. However, when I published the form as a content type from Infopath 2007 and then added that content type to the form library, there are two columns for each piece of data from the form. (One from the content type and one from the form list.) I relinked each old form (list content type) to the new AbsenceRequest content type and removed the original one from the list. However, the duplicate column names are still there. Since they came from the Infopath form, they are not editable or deletable from the SharePoint list management interface. The duplicate column names make it tough to build views since it isn't apparent which column to use in the form building UI. It can be determined form the overview display, but it is very cumbersome.

 

Does anyone know a way to get rid of the old, absolute, columns?