Recent Questions - SharePoint Stack Exchange most recent 30 from 2014-12-27T10:10:35Z 1 People Picker Port Tester Failed to DNS Test Adnan 2014-12-27T06:31:33Z 2014-12-27T06:31:33Z <p>I have a Problem with People Picker in Sharepoint 2013,</p> <p>I have One Domain Server with windows server 2008 and one Server for MSSQL 2012 and Sharepoint 2013. "we have a small network with 14 users at max". Also we Have Kerio in network for Control internet sharing.</p> <p>My Problem is i can't find any user with People Picker but i can select "Everyone" | "Domain Admin" and etc. </p> <p>I test my Ports and DNS With People Picker Port Tester: <a href="" rel="nofollow"></a></p> <p>And unfortunately the DNS Test section returns "no dns found" but all my ports can get connected. "I Allowed Ports in Firewall in both Servers"</p> <p>I also find this error log when i trying to find users in AD with PP:</p> <pre><code>12/17/2014 00:37:20.23 w3wp.exe (0x1728) 0x1A88 SharePoint Foundation General 72e7 Medium Error in searching user 'Some-User' : System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x80072020): An operations error occurred. at System.DirectoryServices.SearchResultCollection.ResultsEnumerator.MoveNext() at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.PeopleEditor.SearchFromGC(SPActiveDirectoryDomain domain, String strFilter, String[] rgstrProp, Int32 nTimeout, Int32 nSizeLimit, SPUserCollection spUsers, ArrayList&amp; rgResults) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUserUtility.SearchAgainstAD(String input, Boolean useUpnInResolve, SPActiveDirectoryDomain domainController, SPPrincipalType scopes, SPUserCollection usersContainer, Int32 maxCount, String customQuery, String customFilter, TimeSpan searchTimeout, Boolean&amp; reachMaxCount) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPActiveDirectoryPrincipalResolver.SearchPrincipals(String input, SPPrincipalType scopes, SPPrincipalSource sources, SPUserCollection usersContainer, Int32 maxCount, Boolean&amp; reachMaxCount) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.SearchPrincipalFromResolvers(List`1 resolvers, String input, SPPrincipalType scopes, SPPrincipalSource sources, SPUserCollection usersContainer, Int32 maxCount, Boolean&amp; reachMaxCount, Dictionary`2 usersDict). 1c99d69c-fd6c-d086-2e71-662fc7a6ad20 </code></pre> <p>Thanks for Help.</p> 2 sharepoint 2013 storing data user1816979 2014-12-27T02:14:02Z 2014-12-27T07:32:07Z <p>In my company, we are just starting to use sharepoint 2013. I have been assigned a 'protype' project that will be used by other workflow projects that will be setup in the future.</p> <p>My question is about how the data is stored accessed and updated. I know that you can store the data in a sql server database and there is a service that can be setup for security purposes in Sharepoint 2013. My problem is the database and security have not been setup right now. I need to have this prototype setup before the DBA and sharepoint admin can setup the configurations for me.</p> <p>Thus can you tell me and/or point me to a url that will tell me how to setup the storage for the lists I want to setup in sharepoint designer 2013?</p> 0 Workflow not behaving correctly PT_C 2014-12-26T20:07:49Z 2014-12-27T08:11:27Z <p>I have a work flow that fires off email notifications at specific dates, based on the number of days between the <code>Expiration</code> date and <code>Today</code>. It works up until a user goes to change the date of the list item, and then nothing happens. Here's what I have so far. Any help is appreciated.</p> <p><img src="" alt="enter image description here"></p> 1 clear sharepoint property bag cache without apppool cycle MikeBaz 2014-12-26T20:05:10Z 2014-12-26T20:05:10Z <p>I've inherited code that uses the P&amp;P code for accessing a farm-level property bag property on SharePoint 2013 SP1. The code has an application page to manipulate the property bag, and another application page that uses the values in the property bag.</p> <p>It appears that SharePoint caches the property bag values - when I change the values in the maintenance page, they are not reflected in the consumer page, until I recycle the application pool.</p> <p>I've looked a lot and I see people talking about how those values are cached, and some people e.g. <a href="">Caching mechanism for parameters stored in a web application&#39;s property bag</a> talking about doing their own caching, but I don't see any way exposed to flush the cache or the like. The values are changed infrequently enough that a cache flush isn't a problem - but any time we can avoid cycling a SharePoint app pool is a good thing, so we'd like to just force the cache to invalidate.</p> <p>How do I do that?</p> 0 Creating a lookup field that contains calculation? Matt Ludwig 2014-12-26T18:03:53Z 2014-12-26T19:13:41Z <p>![So I created a lookup table, how would go about truncating via a lookup?</p> <p>For example, </p> <p>Choices 56, 56SW, 56FR are using the same calculation</p> <p>Choices DDS IDSL, ISDN TR, ISDN are using the same calculation</p> <p>choices HDSL, HDSL2, HDSL4 are using the same calculation</p> <p>What would be the best way to go about that....</p> <p>Is there a way to have the user choose a one of those and then perform the calculation?</p> <p>So if user chooses HDSL2 it will do the HDSL calculation, same thing if user chooses HDSL4 instead it will do the HDSL calculation since HDSL, HDSL2, AND HDSL4 are the same calculations...</p> <p>Choices DDS IDSL, ISDN TR, ISDN are using the same calculation</p> <p>choices HDSL, HDSL2, HDSL4 are using the same calculation So if user chooses HDSL2 it will do the HDSL calculation, same thing if user chooses HDSL4 instead it will do the HDSL calculation since HDSL, HDSL2, AND HDSL4 are the same calculations...</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated ]<a href="" rel="nofollow">1</a></p> 0 How can I add a workflow 2010 to an app project in Visual Studio 2013? Murilo Lima 2014-12-26T16:57:38Z 2014-12-26T16:57:38Z <p>I have to develop an app to a Sharepoint 2013 Foundation site. Sharepoint Foundation only accepts workflow that uses the engine 3.5.</p> <p>How can I add this kind of workflow in an app project?</p> 2 After changing AAM SharePoint 2013 Prompting for Credentials James123 2014-12-26T16:03:00Z 2014-12-26T19:57:29Z <p>I have SharePoint 2013 foundation. Till now I am connecting with sharepoint website with server name. Now I added new AAM url to connect different url. But when I am trying to access with new AAM url. it keep asking me credentials</p> <p><img src="" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>What I did from my side</p> <hr> <ol> <li>Added site bindinging in IIS for new url.</li> <li>Also changed <code>DisableLoopbackCheck</code> <a href="" rel="nofollow">link</a> </li> <li>Updated host file also</li> </ol> <p>Still it is asking for credentials. What next to change?</p> 0 best approach to get and display list items in sharepoint branding site g bas 2014-12-25T18:05:42Z 2014-12-27T05:58:55Z <p>I have implemented a branded SharePoint site for a customer .The customer wants to have some "dynamic" custom list views e.g fetch 3 items from a specific list and show them in a custom designed box with borders, paddings colors and background colors etc. He also wants to have the ability to move this view among the webpart zones ,no static content and also have many instances of the same webpart in the same page to show different lists. So after some thorough research I ve decided to implement some visual web parts that contain only front-end code i.e razor and javascript. My implementation was inspired from this example <a href="" rel="nofollow"></a></p> <p>I have added properties to the web part like listName,background-color etc so the customer could fill in the right properties and get the result he wants. The visual web parts were deployed as sandboxed solutions. However I am not sure about my approach. I have noticed that the cpu consumption is very high and the page load time is relatively slow. I changed some webparts from sandboxed solutions to farm solutions and I am considering if I should use app parts . Is there a right approach for this kind of problems? What is the best and most efficient way to implement such a functionality?</p> 1 SharePoint Hosted App Cross Domain Calls to a REST API Mars 2014-09-30T08:48:48Z 2014-12-26T19:03:53Z <p>I have a SharePoint hosted app and I want to use the JIRA REST API with it. Which means I want to make requests and work with the data from the responses. Because it's a SharePoint hosted app I can only use client side code.</p> <p>So far I used the web proxy to achive that, but that means I have to add the remote endpoint to the AppManifest.xml. But I want the user of my app to enter the URL to their JIRA Site, so I don't know the URL from the start. Because it's not possible to add remote endpoints dynamically I can't use the web proxy I suppose.</p> <p>Now my question is, is there a way to make requests to a REST API without the web proxy?</p> 0 Task list does not allow group by people picker column created later Mohit 2014-09-19T07:20:29Z 2014-12-26T18:17:23Z <p>We have a list created using task list template. Later on we added an Item content type to it and created an Action Owner column of type People Picker.</p> <p>But when we tried to create a view group by Action Owner group, Action Owner did not appear in the drop down.</p> <p>I am not able to understand why it is not there.</p> <p>Please suggest how this could be resolved. My list is already live and do not want to create a new list. All i need to do is to create a list view grouped by Action Owner.</p> 2 Getting List with REST Service to HTML page on different domain jenslisn 2014-07-23T22:42:55Z 2014-12-27T09:04:25Z <p>I am trying to get data from SharePoint and display it in an HTML page on a separate domain using SharePoint 2013's API. The SP instance sits on-prem and the other domain is also within our firewall (on a different server). Here are some of the resources I used to put this together: <a href="" rel="nofollow"></a> </p> <p><a href="" rel="nofollow"></a></p> <pre><code>&lt;script src=""&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script&gt; var executor; var appWebUrl = "http://mysharepointdomain"; var hostWebUrl = "http://theotherdomain"; // Initialize the RequestExecutor with the app web URL. executor = new SP.RequestExecutor(appWebUrl); function successHandler(data) { console.log(data); } function errorHandler(data) { console.log(data); } //Get all the available task lists from the host web function getData() { executor.executeAsync({ //url:appWebUrl + "/_api/SP.AppContextSite(@target)/web/lists/?$filter=BaseTemplate eq 171&amp;$select=ID,Title,ImageUrl,ItemCount,ListItemEntityTypeFullName&amp;@target='" + hostWebUrl + "'", url:appWebUrl + "/_api/SP.AppContextSite(@target)/web?@target='" + hostWebUrl + "'", method: "GET", headers: { "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose" }, success: successHandler, error: errorHandler }); } getData(); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>This is what I get back from the call in the browsers; which is essentially nothing...</p> <pre><code>SP.ResponseInfo {responseAvailable: false, body: "", statusCode: undefined, statusText: undefined, contentType: undefined…} allResponseHeaders: undefined binaryStringResponseBody: undefined body: "" contentType: undefined headers: null responseAvailable: false state: undefined statusCode: undefined statusText: undefined </code></pre> <p>And this is the XML I get if I enter the app web url into the browser. </p> <pre><code>Example URL: &lt;mysharepointdomain&gt;/_api/SP.AppContextSite%28@target%29/web?@target=%27theotherdomain%27 XML Returned in the browser: &lt;m:error&gt; &lt;m:code&gt;-1, Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException&lt;/m:code&gt; &lt;m:message xml:lang="en-US"&gt;There is no app context to execute this request.&lt;/m:message&gt; &lt;/m:error&gt; </code></pre> <p>If anyone has any insight on why this is not working, it would be much appreciated. The other domain site is not a Sharepoint app or page. It is a non Sharepoint application sitting on a Linux server. The site is not passing any user credentials to sp right now which may be part of the issue? </p> 2 SharePoint Online REST API Image upload AJAX Mark 2014-06-25T14:51:26Z 2014-12-26T21:03:53Z <p>I'm trying to upload an image to SharePoint using native JavaScript/jQuery - NOT SP.RequestExecutor.</p> <p>I've cracked the authentication issue, nice and easy, so now it's just a case of working out how to upload binary files. If I put plain text in the file, it uploads fine, it's just binary data I'm having trouble with.</p> <p>My code so far is included below. <code>getToken()</code> does it's thing and leaves me with a valid digest object to use. Also note I've blanked out the document library name with <code>*</code>'s.</p> <pre><code>function PerformUpload(fileName, fileData) { getToken(); $.ajax({ url: siteFullUrl + "/_api/web/GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl('/*****/')/Files" + "/Add(url='" + fileName + "', overwrite=true)", type: "POST", async: false, data: fileData, processData: false, contentType: "application/json;odata=verbose", headers: { "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose", "X-RequestDigest": digest }, success: function (data) { alert("Success"); }, error: function (err) { alert("Error: \r\n" + JSON.stringify(err)); } }); } </code></pre> <p>I've tried many combinations of different values for <code>contentType</code>, setting <code>binaryStringRequestBody: true</code> but the image is still corrupt when it comes into SharePoint.</p> <p>My code at the moment to parse the file into binary is</p> <pre><code>var reader = new FileReader(); reader.onload = function (result) { var fileName = '', libraryName = '', fileData = ''; var byteArray = new Uint8Array( for (var i = 0; i &lt; byteArray.byteLength; i++) { fileData += String.fromCharCode(byteArray[i]) } PerformUpload("image.jpg", fileData); }; reader.readAsArrayBuffer(fileInput); </code></pre> <p>A file is being uploaded to SharePoint but if I try and view or download it it's corrupt.</p> <p>Can anyone provide any guidance as to the correct way to upload a binary file to SharePoint? I should mention that if I replace (on the ajax call) <code>data: fileData,</code> with <code>data: "A simple string",</code> the file uploads and when I download it the contents of the file are <code>A simple string</code>.</p> 2 OnPremise: Sharepoint Hosted App gives 401 unauthorized error while accessing UserProfile Rest Service Azam Khan 2014-05-01T08:02:29Z 2014-12-27T00:03:59Z <p>We have an OnPremise Environment for SharePoint 2013. where we have created SharePoint hosted app which calls "<code>http://&lt;appweburl&gt;/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties</code>" to get current user's data but this gives me 401 unauthorized error. Notes:</p> <ol> <li>I had given read permission to user profile and full control to sitecollection in appmanifest. If I run this app on Office 365 developer site it works fine, but on premise environment it give 401 error.</li> <li>On premise environment when I deploy this app 3 times it prompt for credential and finally gives the following error</li> </ol> <blockquote> <p>Message from webpage</p> </blockquote> <pre><code>{"error":{"code":"-2147024891, System.UnauthorizedAccessException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource."}}} </code></pre> <p>Any help will be appreciated.</p> 1 Show row number of list item Tiac 2014-04-09T11:44:22Z 2014-12-26T22:03:54Z <p>We have a list which should be display the row number of the item. A calculated column doesn't work. </p> <p>So I worked with the SharePoint designer. I added different "code" to my column but number 1 returns on all the list items.</p> <p>Here is the "code":</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:value-of select="count($Rows) - position() +1"/&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="position()" /&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="count($Rows)"/&gt; </code></pre> <p>Is it possible to get the row number of my list items? </p> 2 2013 App View List of Host Web with ListViewWebPart Loki 2014-01-30T07:34:37Z 2014-12-27T10:05:06Z <p>Is it somehow possible to use the XsltListViewWebPart in the SharePoint-Hosted App to view and manipulate a List of the Hostweb?</p> <pre><code> &lt;WebPartPages:WebPartZone runat="server" FrameType="TitleBarOnly" ID="full" Title="loc:full"&gt; &lt;WebPartPages:XsltListViewWebPart runat="server" ListUrl="Lists/Listname" &lt;--- Relative URL! Only AppWeb? Or also HostWeb? IsIncluded="True" JsLink="clientTemplate.js" NoDefaultStyle="TRUE" PageType="PAGE_NORMALVIEW" Default="False" ViewContentTypeId="0x"&gt; &lt;/WebPartPages:XsltListViewWebPart&gt; &lt;/WebPartPages:WebPartZone&gt; </code></pre> 1 Move item to folder when added/edited (SP2013 or O365) thomius 2013-12-31T08:36:19Z 2014-12-26T23:03:54Z <p>How to move item to folder automatically when it has been added or edited in a library? The folder is in the same library. The correct folder will be defined by metadata. This should happen automatically when the item has been added or edited. The listitem Id should be preserved. No server-side code should be deployed.</p> <p>Can this be done using workflows (SP2010/SP2013)? If not then what would be the other options?</p> 2 Assign tasks to Document Library Items Poagman 2013-11-07T18:29:47Z 2014-12-26T20:03:53Z <p>I started a task list to track ACTIVE document expiration dates - Doc Name - Doc Type - Expiration Date - Review Date - Assigned To</p> <p>I wanted to create a sub-folder for the obsolete stuff, but that would take too much time to post 1x1 with all of the details.</p> <p>A doc library lets be dump the old stuff, but bossman wants it one place (folder>sub-folder)</p> <p>A library lets me dump files and I can add the needed columns above, but how to have the columns link to a task list?</p> <p>Flexibility/Speed of a library with the details/columns of a list and function of a task.</p> 1 Limit a user group to a specific view created via InfoPath 2010 Muhammedh 2013-09-10T08:07:51Z 2014-12-26T17:03:53Z <p>I have created a new view called '<em>RequesterView</em>' (via InfoPath 2010) to add items to a issue tracking list. The purpose of this is to limit the visibility of certain fields such as '<em>Assigned To</em>', '<em>Due Date</em>' to the requesters. </p> <p>How can I limit a certain user group to use only the <em>RequesterView</em> to add and edit items? </p> <p>Right now the requester can change the view via the add/edit page's ribbon menu to get to the all columns view (See Screenshot below)</p> <p><img src="" alt="See Screenshot"></p> <p>PS: Im new to dev work with MS InfoPath.</p> 0 Can I insert multiple People Search Core Result Web Parts on the same page? Luke T 2013-06-05T10:44:25Z 2014-12-27T04:04:20Z <p>I have created a department page displaying a gallery of staff along with a few select fields from their user profile. I successfully used a People Search Core Results web part with a Fixed Keyword Query <strong>(Department:"Engineering")</strong> to generate this gallery on the page.</p> <p>Some of the departments break down into several teams, so I added a new custom <strong>Team</strong> property onto the user profiles and I am now using multiple People Search Core Results with a slightly more precise Fixed Keyword Query <strong>(Department:"Engineering" AND Team:"Management")</strong> to call up individual teams with each web part.</p> <p>The problem is that the result of the second web part is duplicating itself over the results of the first web part (which normally displays fine on it's own) so they are identical, so I would like to know if there is any problem with using multiple People Search Core Results web parts on a page?</p> <p>Also, if I use the following query: </p> <p><strong>(Department:"Engineering" AND Team:"Management")</strong></p> <p>Will there be an overlap of results if I use the following query for another team on a different web part on the same page because they both contain the word "Management"? I thought using the speech marks would require the query string to be an EXACT match.</p> <p><strong>(Department:"Engineering" AND Team:"Project Management")</strong></p> <p>I'll be very grateful for any insight as to why this is happening!</p> 1 How do I get the highest value from a SharePoint list in SharePoint designer? Daan 2013-05-28T15:50:19Z 2014-12-26T18:03:54Z <p>I have a list of numbers in SharePoint, each number being a separate item. Eg.</p> <p>1 5 3 2 7</p> <p>I am running a SharePoint Designer workflow on a document set library, and in that workflow I need to pull up the highest value from this list of numbers (7 in this case). How do I pull the highest value from this list?</p> <p>Thanks.</p> 2 Usage Reports empty e.ozmen 2013-04-29T13:09:45Z 2014-12-27T06:04:20Z <p>I want to see the usage reports but the graphics shows noone view sites.(In site settings > Popularity Trends ) In crawling I make it continuously. How can I make it work? </p> 2 Why does my Default page's title not display on breadcrumb? slashoofpez 2013-04-24T22:04:08Z 2014-12-27T01:04:20Z <p>I'm using SharePoint 2010 and all I am trying to do is be able to display my default page's title in the breadcrumb. All other pages work except the default page. Could there be any reason for this?</p> <p>Here is the line of code I am using in my master page:</p> <pre><code>&lt;asp:SiteMapPath ID="siteMapPath" Runat="server" SiteMapProvider="CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode" RenderCurrentNodeAsLink="false" SkipLinkText="" NodeStyle-CssClass="ms-sitemapdirectional"/&gt; </code></pre> 3 Disabling the Dialog pop-up for Calendar views bkwdesign 2013-04-03T13:51:40Z 2014-12-26T19:16:41Z <p>It seems from my trivial Google searches, that some users find, for certain list types - an inconsistent experience related to modal dialogs.</p> <p>In my scenario, we have a plain old SharePoint Foundation server, and on our particular sub site's Calendar, we have gone into 'List Settings' > 'Advanced Settings' and have turned off the 'Launch forms in a dialog' setting.</p> <p>It seems to have no effect except for certain views of the calendar (we have a plain list view of the calendar -not by week/month/day or anything.. just a straight list rendering- where it does seem to work)</p> <p>I'm wondering what's up with this? </p> <p><em>EDIT</em></p> <p>For the meantime, I'm can use jQuery to deactivate the dialog functionality. But, it gets ignored if users click the left-hand calendar widget to jump to various dates (the ajax refresh kills off the DOM that was affected by my jQuery) </p> <pre><code>jQuery('div#WebPartWPQ1 a').removeAttr('onclick'); </code></pre> 2 "Group by" with XSLT in Search Core Results web part Shkipper 2013-03-05T10:14:17Z 2014-12-27T07:04:20Z <p>I have a bit of difficulty making it possible to group by the results in search core results webpart.</p> <p>I have a default xslt of that webpart and from there i would like to group the results by the sitename (managed property) could anyone give me a hint or provide me some useful xslt?</p> 0 enable ajax on listview web part added in feature upgrade Ivan 2013-03-05T06:31:06Z 2014-12-27T03:04:20Z <p>is there an option how to enable ajax functionality in listview web part type added by code? Iam facing problem where we added 2 list view web parts on the page and they behave really strange. I read article where enabling ajax should fix this behavior however i dont know how to enable the ajax. In public members of list view web part there is not such properties for ajax enabled. </p> <p>Can you help me please? </p> <p>Thanks</p> 0 Spell checker not detecting spelling errors Tom 2013-02-06T12:42:15Z 2014-12-27T05:04:20Z <p>The spell checker on my companies SharePoint site seems to not be working correctly. When we type a spelling error, i.e. customre, then click the Spell checker it says no spelling errors are found, but if you keep clicking it after 5+ times it seems to find the error.</p> <p>Is there a way to make this work on the first click as it's causing a lot of our business areas to add incorrect content?</p> 3 How to update metadata? Joe Yee 2012-09-07T17:13:17Z 2014-12-27T02:04:20Z <p>I have following code (didn't list the whole code) behind a button on a InfoPath Managed Form. and it works meaning I can submit data to a list. Now I have 2 controls on the form that is Multiple-Selection List Box (Data source is a sharepoint list). The Target column (Lookup type with Allow Multiple values) in the target list is "Counties". Both Infopath and target sharepoint list gets information from a list called "City". How would I code </p> <pre><code>item["Counties"] = need help here; SPListItem item = list.Items.Add(); item["Title"] = MainDataSource.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode("//my:fldTitle", NamespaceManager).Value; </code></pre> <p>Updated: Found this piece. I guess I will still need to find out the XML way to extract id and it's value from xml tree of Multiple selection List.</p> <pre><code>SPListItem item = SPContext.Current.List.GetItemById(1); SPFieldLookupValueCollection values = new SPFieldLookupValueCollection(); values.Add(new SPFieldLookupValue(1,string.Empty)); values.Add(new SPFieldLookupValue(3,string.Empty)); item["LookupField"] = values; item.Update(); </code></pre> <p>I found another cool link. I think I am good now. <a href="" rel="nofollow"></a></p> 2 How to download a SharePoint directory with wget? shengy 2012-07-19T10:25:09Z 2014-12-26T16:03:51Z <p>I'm using wget 1.10.2 which doesn't have the auth problem, what I'm getting is when I run:</p> <pre><code>wget --user=myname --password=pwd </code></pre> <p>it only downloads an aspx file which is the page's content.</p> <p>How could I download the exact files?</p> 2 SharePoint 2010 solution not deploying correctly (features not available) Zak 2012-07-06T17:23:04Z 2014-12-27T08:04:23Z <p>I have been working on a SharePoint 2010 solution on a server using Visual Studio. Unfortunately the server decided to die on me. Fortunately I have the solution backed up using source control and had another server ready to go. After changing the necessary site url property on the project in visual studio, I used the deploy option in the build menu and it seemed everything was successful.</p> <p>However, none of the features show in the site collection features, site features or farm features. The folders and files exist in the features under the 14 hive and the assembly is in the gac.</p> <p>Having no luck with this I tried packaging the wsp, uploading and activating it manually (something ive not done before). This throws up an immediate error with a correlation id allowing me to find something in the logs.</p> <p>Some of the logs seemed to be complaining because of farm-scoped features. As I have never done a manual deploy before I dont know if I have to do the differently scoped features separately (visual studio used to do it all at the same time for me).</p> <p>The only other error I can see is "Missing one or more of the following attributes from the root node in solution Bistech___Provision_Sites.wsp: assembly '', type ''"</p> <p>The solution is not a sandboxed solution and I have all the permissions etc i need (farm admin, site collection admin...)</p> <p>I hope someone can help because I am out of my depth on this one!!</p> <p>Thanks in advance for any response</p> <p>Zak</p> 1 Active linking of document libraries Andy R 2012-05-15T08:39:03Z 2014-12-26T15:03:53Z <p>We are attempting to create a functional area for a time limited project which brings together documents from multiple SCs’ libraries. At the end of the project, all documents would be returned to the original SCs so the authors can maintain ownership and manage. However, I am looking for a more elegant solution than having to pick around various SCs for the docs and then move them backwards and forwards.</p> <p>On a practical level I would like to have an active link library that allows the users to see and edit documents from a single SC, while keeping the original documents in their originating SCs. Is there a way of being able to check out and edit documents through their links in different SCs?</p>