July 2004 - Posts

• Customize Category navigation bar on the SPS home page

  I just discovered this post from Daniel McPherson. It's very useful to know how to change the Category navigation bar on the home page of an SPS portal. I advice you to read his post, event if I give you the tip here : he explains why NOT delete the native topics area. Open :\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\\SPS\default.aspx Search for the following string:   <SPSWC:CategoryNavigationWebPart runat="server" id="VerticalNavBar" DisplayStyle="VerticalOneLayer" />  Replace it with the following string:   <SPSWC:CategoryNavigationWebPart runat="server" id="NewVerticalNavBar" DisplayStyle="VerticalOneLayer" CurrentCategoryID="<INSERT CAT ID HERE>"/> Where is equal to the Category ID of the area whose children you wish to display as navigation. To get the Cat ID: Browse to an area, then click on "Change Settings" and copy the string that appears after "CatID=" in the URL. " Posted Jul 15 2004, 04:17 PM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments

• Customizing templates

  If you don't know it, you can waste a lot ! When registering new templates in WEBTEMP.XML and WEBTEMPSPS.XML, you have to set an ID greater than 10000 (maybe Microsoft hopes to release a lot of new templates in the SP). And IDs must be different in the two files. For example, you can't have a template id of 10001 in the WSS definitions (WEBTEMP.XML) and another with id 10001 in the SPS areas definitions (WEBTEMPSPS.XML). Have a good templating time ! :-) Posted Jul 14 2004, 08:49 PM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments

• XML Manifest file format for Migrations

  Well, I'm not currently working on SharePoint, that's why my posts are so rare ... But I have a look at what's happening. And there it is ! The SPout/SPin manifest file is decribed in this document from Microsoft. What to do with it ? Create your own "Exporter" (from any technology) and use SPin to import into SharePoint 2003. Custom the SPout-generated xml file and use SPin to import into SharePoint 2003. An alternative (with best and worse points) to the Extractors/Importers. Enjoy ! Posted Jul 13 2004, 01:56 PM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments

• Extractor/Importer : migrate content to SharePoint Technologies 2003

  Relaying this post of Renaud Comte. Or directly to : GotDotNet Posted Jul 02 2004, 01:55 PM by Unclaimed Blog with no comments