The SharePoint API lacks methods to check for the security group existence. Here is utilities that do the job: public static bool GroupExists(SPGroupCollection groups, string name) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(name) || (name.Length > 255) || (groups == null) || (groups.Count == 0)) return false; else return (groups.GetCollection(new…
Year: 2009
How to be in sync with Lookup when it changes
One of the biggest puzles of inconsistency is keeping a page that using Lookup column uptodate to all the changes that happened to underlying list. Image you have a web page in a Documents library. That page has a column say Type which is a lookup to a list Types below. ID Type 1 Document…
Faceted Search 3.0 – implementation of Search Suggestions
Background MOSS Faceted Search provides search refinement to the SharePoint search. In September 2007 I’ve published 1.0 release as an open source on CodePlex. Since then the solution was successfully implemented by small businesses and Fortune 100 corporations in the US and by many companies around the globe. The latest release of the Faceted Search…
Making Rich TextBoxes work in web enabled InfoPath forms
Technorati Tags: InfoPath 2007,rich text box,web enabled forms,InfoPath SharePoint,InfoPath WCF Introduction The rich-text boxes provide InfoPath forms with functionality that sometimes is crucial to the end users. However, there is not much information on the web with the tips on implementation. In this post I will skip reference to the RTB performance, which is known…