Posts Tagged ‘ Features ’

Custom 404 handling in SharePoint

rIf you have ever put together a WCM/Publishign site in MOSS, chances are someone at some point has asked you the question “Can we put in a custom page instead of the default file not  found one?”. In ASP.NET this is easy enough to do, you just update the CustomErrors section of your web.config file [ READ MORE ]

Issue with required fields in content type features

I came across this issue today when working through creating some content types for a new deployment. Basically the issue is to do with when you need to make a field required in a content type. Here is a rough example of what I was deploying: <ContentType ID="0x010066A56ACAD18524448240E9D259F872AB" Name="My Content Type" Group="My Custom Content Types"> [ READ MORE ]

Presentation Video: User-Proofing SharePoint

First of all thanks to those who made it to my presentation last night, it was a good crowd and I think everyone there got a lot out of it. Also a quick Congrats to Rick on winning the Microsoft Mouse door prize as well. As promised, here is the video of the presentation (it [ READ MORE ]

Creating search scopes through code

Came up with this one today, basically I needed to create a search scope at the site collection level in code so that I could bundle it up as a feature and include in my site definition. Lucky for me though Rich Finn already put together a good code sample of how to do this [ READ MORE ]

Using the delegate control to deploy a web part through features

This is something I had no idea about until a friend of mine, Zak Azeez (don’t say I didn’t give you credit for this one mate!) pointed it out to me when we were discussing how I could best put a predefined web part into the master page of a SharePoint site. He suggested that [ READ MORE ]

Customising SharePoint navigation using OOTB features

If you have ever written a custom site definition, then chances are you have also probably wanted to control the site navigation settings for your new site def as part of the definition (rather than something that must be changed after the site is created, or something that you have to write your own feature [ READ MORE ]

How to deploy a page layout with all the bells and whistles

If you have ever had anything to do with a MOSS publishing site then you are familiar with page layouts. Basically the usual way to deploy these to a site collection is through a feature that will put your ASP files into the master page gallery. One thing I have noticed is that when this [ READ MORE ]

Deploying and applying a master page as a feature

Keeping on with my run of posts about stuff that can be done with features, here is the latest thing I have done. The scenario this time is that we want to have a feature that will not only deploy a masterpage when it is activated, but we want to set it as the current [ READ MORE ]

Feature Stapling – Why you should love it

Now, as I’m sure you all know by now modifying the files in the 12 hive of a MOSS isntallation is not supported by Microsoft, as when they release updates or service packs any of your changes can and will be lost, and may even prevent an update from happening etc. etc. So what do [ READ MORE ]

Adding a link to the Shared Services Provider home page

This is an interesting one that I came across at work today. The requirement is to be able to add a custom link to the MOSS SSP home page without modifying any of the files in the 12 hive (as we all know that modifying those files isn’t supported anyway, so changing those files shouldn’t [ READ MORE ]

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