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Another odd jQuery issue to report (though not really jQuery's fault). We just launched a new site with a Google suggest-esk drop down. The suggest list is populated via an XML feed from our CRM. After much pre-launch testing, we got a couple post-launch bug reports of a javascript error and the drop down not working. Using the un-minified version of jQuery I was able to track it down to an error being returned from the isXML function it uses.
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Relevant Tags: AJAX | JavaScript
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Today I ran into a problem where jQuery's wrap function wasn't working. It took me a while to figure out there even was a problem as it turns out it's browser specific. One guess, which browser had the problem. IE 7. I'd already upgraded to IE 8 which apparently fixed the appendChild bug.
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Relevant Tags: AJAX | Browsers | JavaScript
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If you have worked with SharePoint, you are probably aware of the fine grained permissions that can be set anywhere from the site level down to the individual document level. You have probably run into the usual problems associated with assigning permissions, inheritance and problems with breaking inheritance. But occassionally even when the permissions are set correctly for a given user, they will still get a permission denied error when trying to access a document or form.
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Relevant Tags: InfoPath | SharePoint
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With MOSS 2007 User Profile Properties, in most cases you're allowed to set Policy Settings as to whether the property is required, who can see it and whether or not the user can change this policy. However there are apparently some of these properties that are considered reserved by SharePoint and the options to change the policy settings are grayed out. But where there's a will (and a lack of fear from poking at sharepoint databases), there's a way to adjust these settings.
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Relevant Tags: SharePoint
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If you've used MOSS 2007 MySite's, then you're likely familiar with the Organization Hierarchy web part on the main profile page that displays your peers and manager. Don't know if anyone else would ever need/want to do this, but in our organization we were in need of not displaying the organization hierarchy of a particular department.
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Relevant Tags: SharePoint
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I was just trying to add presence awareness links to a custom people search result page using these excellent instructions on how to create an employee directory web part. My only problem was that the presence icon was only showing up for the first result on the page.
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Relevant Tags: SharePoint
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I found this elsewhere in various forums and comments but not very concisely. Basically it comes down to, you can't nest block elements in a P tag. If you do, you can't edit the innerHTML of that block element.
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Relevant Tags: AJAX | JavaScript
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Error: The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK__aspnet_Me__UserI__15502E78". The conflict occurred in database "YourDBName", table "dbo.aspnet_Membership", column 'UserId'.
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Relevant Tags: .NET | MS SQL
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If you create a basic web page in WSS 3.0, the page title in the browser title bar just shows up as "Basic Page". You can change this on a per file basis using SharePoint Designer, but you can also make a change system-wide.
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Relevant Tags: SharePoint
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In some cases of users trying to open Word or other documents from a secured external SharePoint site, they are prompted for authentication to the site again as Word doesn't know they're already authenticated. If using Forms Authentication, this doesn't really work. There's an easy IE setting you can change that will have the document open in the browser, maintaining the authentication and not prompting the user again.
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Relevant Tags: Browsers | SharePoint
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This is not my usual kind of post, but still a technical issue I recently delt with. iTunes kept notifying me of a new update (ver. 1.2.3) for my iPod. Whenever I'd try and download and/or update it, iTunes would crash with an error in a DLL, RICHED20.DLL.
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At some point our install of MOSS 2007 (SharePoint) started causing problems on the server it was installed on. If you opened the IIS MMC, it was unable to connect to the local server and display any web sites on the server. Makes making changes and adding new sites a little difficult.
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Relevant Tags: IIS | SharePoint
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Apparently the default for allowed upload size in IIS is around 200k. In many cases, this is not enough. Upload scripts in asp/vbscript will report "Operation not allowed", which is oh so descriptive. Found a quick and easy post on how to fix this.
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Relevant Tags: IIS
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I've seen this a couple time and have found help elsewhere, but thought I should add it here too. If you're messing with the header on an InfoPath form and end up not being able to open it due to an error with a header tag in your .xsf file, it's fairly easy to fix. Kinda.
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Relevant Tags: SharePoint | InfoPath
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I noticed recently that in IE a fieldset on one of my sites was showing these odd extra "goal post" kinda lines at the top on the left and right. Basically like the left and right border were extending to the top of the block. At first I thought it was due to the background image and/or position of the fieldset, as removing the image fixed the problem. Turns out it was the padding on the fieldset.
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Relevant Tags: CSS
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I was trying to use javascript to do some trimming of content coming in on an RSS feed in SharePoint. I created a function to do this which worked fine but I found that running it via window.onload was running before the RSS feed could load. I needed a way to watch the div it loads in for a change of content. Using the javascript watch function seemed like a reasonable solution but after much playing with it I realized IE doesn't appear to support it.
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Relevant Tags: AJAX | JavaScript | SharePoint
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I've started using the RSS Viewer web part but it wasn't obvious how often it would update the feed. There's a cache setting in the web part settings but that didn't seem to control when it updated.
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Relevant Tags: SharePoint
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I had been feeling the need to try and make "stories" out of the various items I've been posting but that seems to be keeping me from actually posting. From now on I'll just be posting the nitty-gritty and save us all some bandwidth.
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The other day I started having a strange problem with a DetailsView control inside of an AJAX Tab Panel. When the control would load, the paging links looked normal, but when I'd click on one they would all become disabled. In actuality, they were only being disabled in appearance since the paging function is associated with an onclick event rather than the actual href of the link. So why would these all become disabled?
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Relevant Tags: AJAX | ASP.NET | JavaScript
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As part of a recent request to customize the header of a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) site, I ran into a little problem when trying to dynamically replace a stylesheet using Javascript. The page had two stylesheets loading, one core stylesheet and one theme stylesheet, in that order. I was trying to replace the core stylesheet with an altered version for certain parts of the site, however when I did it was as if the theme stylesheet was being overwritten too. The problem was in how IE handles the DOM and Stylesheets (this was not a problem in Firefox).
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Relevant Tags: CSS | JavaScript | SharePoint
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I was just trying to get a multi select list set up so that when I mouse over one of the options in said list, it would show information in an adjacent div. In FireFox this worked just fine by adding an onmouseover to the option tags and have it update the div's innerHTML. But for IE, there was no happiness. IE apparently won't handle onmouseover or onclick for an option tag. Cause who cares about option tags. Well I finally came up with a solution, at least for my case.
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Relevant Tags: Browsers | JavaScript
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Don't bite off more than you can chew.
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Having made the switch from Perl to VBScript to PHP to .NET, I sometimes get confused on what functions and syntax to use where. These are just some random things to remember to use when using VB.NET vs something else.
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Relevant Tags: VB.NET
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With many web forms, it's nice to be able to fill out some quick info and hit Enter to submit the form. With .NET where the whole page is a form this can become troublesome when there's multiple submit options on the page. Take this site for instance. When I enter my login info and hit enter I don't want to search the site, so I might want to specify my Login button as the default. In .NET 2.0, along comes the defaultbutton form attribute. Just specify which button you want to be the default (eg. defaultbutton="btnLogin") and you're good to go.
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Relevant Tags: ASP.NET
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Here's a great little article from Smashing Magazine on some very nice options for Data Grids. Some are more attractive than others, but all seem to offer some great time saving functionality.
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Relevant Tags: AJAX | ASP.NET | JavaScript
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The Problem
Being the security experts that they are, Microsoft is attempting to save you from yourself by providing some built in request validation in .NET. What this means is that if you have a form that has user input fields and someone types in something evil like HTML 3.0 code into it, you'll get an exciting error message telling you this isn't allowed. The idea here is of course to try and keep people from doing things like cross site scripting (XSS) on your poorly designed web site.
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Relevant Tags: .NET | ASP.NET | Security
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