It is almost time. Monday August 1st i will be leaving Tam Tam for another company called LogicaCMG. My year of work at Tam Tam was a lot of fun and i have learned a lot there. I even started this blog at Tam Tam. I wil certainly continue this blog but at a new location. The new location i already mentioned in a post is going to be http://net.bloggix.com

 

From my collegeas at Tam Tam i got the fish shown in the pictures above. Their names are Stef and Paul. Thanks guys :)  

I was setting up SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on one of my home computers. After installation of the Services Packs i went into the administration website to create a new Portal. Before that i made a folder and added a new website to the IIS 6.0 pointing to that folder.

Strange enough the new created website for the Portal was not selectable. Going into the list of virtual servers showed my why.

It seems that some sites and also the one i just made is set to "Not Administrable". After doing a google search (whichs delivered ony 3 hits on this subject) i found out you had to install the service packs. But i already did that. Today i finally found the solution.

Because i'm not always working at home i use a Removable Harddisk which is FAT32 formatted. It seems that putting the folder on a FAT32 formatted disk is causing this problem. Moving it to a NTFS partition or reformatting the FAT32 partition will solve this issue.

Mart Muller did a great post about adding a reply programmatically to a discussion board. Just like my last post about programmatically adding history to an issue in an issue list also this is not described clearly in the documentation of SharePoint. The following code is used:

SPListItem newItem = discussionList.Items.Add();
newItem["Title"] = "Title of item";
newItem["Body"] = "Body Text";
newItem["ThreadID"] = [ThreadID of original thread];
newItem["Ordering"] = [Ordering of original thread] + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddhhmmss");
newItem.Update();

Mart's article:

http://blogs.tamtam.nl/mart/SharePointTipAdding
ADiscussionReplyItemInAThreadProgramatically.aspx

Article about adding history to an issue in an issue list:

http://net.bloggix.com/PermaLink,guid,aa4c6b98-2039-432b-af80-b8baf901fdf2.aspx

For one of our Tam Tam projects we needed a history. Users can alter some topic text through the use of the r.a.d.editor control in a WebPart. After every change the new version of the text is stored into a history . These versions are shown in another WebPart containing for each version a link. By pressing such a link the user can see that version back into the first WebPart.

We decided to use an issue list in the background. The following code examples will show you how to add a new item, and changes on that item into the issue list.

If you create a WebPart containing a multiline TextBox, the TextBox does not size automatically with the width of the WebPart. Requesting the Width of the WebPart is not an option because its not yet in the clients browser. So the following example shows a way of sizing the TextBox to 100% in the WebPart. tbRemark is a TextBox with the TextMode set to TextBoxMode.MultiLine.

protected override void RenderWebPart(HtmlTextWriter output)
{
   output.WriteLine("<style>.StyleRemark { width:100%;height:100; }</style>");

   output.WriteLine("<TABLE id=\"Table1\" cellSpacing=\"1\" cellPadding=\"1\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">");
   output.WriteLine("<TR><TD>");

   tbRemark.Text = Remark;
   tbRemark.CssClass = "StyleRemark";
   tbRemark.RenderControl(output);

   output.WriteLine("</TD></TR>");
   output.WriteLine("</TABLE>");
}

CaveDigital has published a very cool WebPart which makes it possible to preview your published InfoPath forms. After installation of the WebPart you have to add it to a Form Library. Each published InfoPath Form gets an menu option "Preview XML Form" which shows a preview in the CaveDigital WebPart.

Way to go CaveDigital :)

Be sure to visit all the options undfer "Configuration" in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 16 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

 

Today i had a head breaking issue. I needed two discussion boards placed on a WSS site using the ONET.XML template. Whatever i tried it resulted into another view of the same discussion board instead of a seperate discussion board. Then i saw it (together with a collegea)...

Paul Brenk has posted some usefull code which shows us how to deserialize a string containing XML to an object using a StringReader and a XmlTextReader object. It also shows us how it handles a XML-array using serialization attributes.

http://blogs.tamtam.nl/paulb/DeserializingAnXmlstringAndXmlArrays.aspx

Mark Harrison did a post containing some usefull links to documentation for the new Business Scorecard Manager 2005. It seems that this tool is not gonna be a free tool like the previous version and that the licenses are not that cheap. :( We have to see...

Business Scorecard Manager 2005 documentation includes the following:

Scorecard Manager Server Planning and Administration Guide
The Planning and Administration Guide contains information that system administrators use to install, configure and manage a Business Scorecard Manager server deployment.

Business Scorecard Builder Help Documentation
The Business Scorecard Builder Help includes conceptual and procedural information that users need to build scorecards using the Scorecard Builder application.

SharePoint Web Part Help
The SharePoint Web Part Help is written for end users who use Business Scorecard Manager scorecards and reports in SharePoint.

Business Scorecard Manager API Reference
The Application Programming Interface (API) reference provides developers with the complete reference for the Business Scorecard Manager 2005 Beta 2 API

Article by Mark Harrison:
http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2005/07/documentation-for-business-scorecard.htm