Hmm. Interesting problem – I had a Content Query Web Part (CQWP) that was displaying the Title for Discussions. Unfortunately when you clicked on them, they took you to the display form for the start of the thread, not the entire thing:
Okay, but could I get it to link to a view of the discussion thread itself?
An interesting question came up on StackOverflow – how do you get the web application level policies for a Web app? In other words, the rights that you can grant to an entire web application (via central administration) – how do you get those in code?
Continue reading “Programmatically evaluate SPWebApplication Policies”
One of our customers had a penetration test performed on their SharePoint system. I think it’s fairly standard, but it could have a custom login form. In fact, given some of the errors, I think it must have been – but I had little involvement, so I’m not sure. Heck, it could even have been a SharePoint 2007 system, or a new login form that we didn’t write.
Either way, I thought it would be interesting (and a good reminder) to look at some of the issues it threw up… Continue reading “Results of Penetration Test on SharePoint system”
Following on from yesterday’s post about the difference between Check-Out and Locking in SharePoint, I found myself wondering what happens if you violate a lock? Or a Check Out? Let’s look at locks first… Continue reading “Check-Out, Locking and Document Co-authoring”
I had been asked to look at a SharePoint event receiver that wasn’t behaving as it should. After a document had been checked in, it would set a property and update the item. However, we were getting an error:
SPException: The file “[File Name]” is locked for exclusive use by [User]
This was unfortunate – the user was the user who’d just been making changes, and the code was running after the document had been checked in – so what gives? Well, it turns out that the message is right – the file is locked, not checked out, and a lock is not the same as a check-out.
Continue reading “SharePoint: Check-Out vs Lock”
In SharePoint there are “property bags” on many elements of the system. For example, SPWebs and SPFolders have them, and methods like GetProperty() and SetProperty() to set them.
These methods accept and return objects. However, it’s nice to get values back in the same form as they were set. Continue reading “Getting and Setting Properties in SharePoint”
Yes, believe it or not, we still use WSPBuilder for a number of our older projects.I recently came across a bit of an oddity, though, regarding the ‘Buildmode‘ parameter. Continue reading “WSPBuilder – Buildmode oddity”
In Part 1 we looked at the problem of the query throttle in SharePoint 2010, and in Part 2 we looked at some of the ways of getting around that. In this part, though, we’ll look at what I think is the best way – the ContentIterator control. Continue reading “Dealing with Large Lists Part 3 – The ContentIterator”
In Part 1 we looked at what throttling was, why queries could be throttled, the settings that control throttling, and some of the references to other useful information. In this post we’ll look at ways of trying to get your query to run anyway, depsite the throttle. “Writing Efficient Code In SharePoint Server” is a good introduction to the general principles. Continue reading “Dealing with Large Lists Part 2 – Coping with large queries”
‘Large’ lists – lists with over a few thousand items – can cause problems when you’re developing for SharePoint, and the whole topic is kind of complicated. So what’s the problem?
Well, fundamentally the issue is inefficient queries being run against SharePoint lists. An inefficient query against a list with a small number of items isn’t a big deal, but with larger lists (over 5000 items) SQL server has to escalate from a row-level lock to a table-level lock. This can hold up other users while the table is locked.
So, what are the limits, what options are there with throttling, and what strategies are there for mitigating the effects of query throttling? Continue reading “Dealing with Large Lists Part 1 – What is throttling and how it causes difficulty”
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