Email Notifications and Alerts - Sharepoint Tasks List

A few days ago I had a problem with sending emails when a new task is added to a Sharepoint tasks list. I want to make a brief introduction for you to understand the context before going on with explaining the issue:  we have a workflow that creates tasks in the default task list of [...]

Sharepoint 2007 SP1 - Security Exposure of Form Library

Recently we have launched a SharePoint application based on InfoPath forms. The functionality is very simple: the user creates browser-enabled InfoPath forms and an event receiver of the form library sets specific permissions. The security trimming works as expected so the forms’ owner is able to see only his forms. In production we found out [...]

Deploy Data Connection Files (.udcx) to Sharepoint Data Connection Library

The following xml snippets gives you an example about how to construct a feature that will deploy a data connection file (.udcx) into a pre-created data connection document library in Sharepoint (The current sample is using only one data connection file but feel free to include as many as you need):

Feature.xml:

 <Feature
    Title=”Data Connections Feature”
    Description=” [...]

Deploy Browser-Enabled InfoPath Forms based on Content Types

I want to…

…deploy a few InfoPath forms based on content types. Some of the site columns are used across many content types. I need some level of control on the content type generation and deployment.

How…

The deployment of browser-enabled InfoPath forms using features is described in http://blah.winsmarts.com/2008-8-Deploying_InfoPath_2007_Forms_to_Forms_Server_-and-ndash_Properly.aspx post. However this post is not specific to content [...]

Content Query Webpart - Deploy Custom Style

Problem:

 I want to deploy my custom style for the Content Query Web Part (CQWP).

 The CQWP is using the following files to style its presentation: ContentQueryMain.xsl, Header.xsl and ItemStyle.xsl. The files are located under /Style Library/XSL Style Sheets in the root site.

 The first solution that comes into my mind is to replace the OOTB xslt files [...]