Category Archives: SharePoint 2007

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Publishing Page Image disappears when the page is published

Posted on 7 June, 2013 by frogman

I recently created a feature for a publishing site. The deployment included a custom master page, layout and new home page. The feature activated and the home page was editable, allowing me to add a publishing image to the content. … Continue reading →

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Using log4net to log workflows

Posted on 21 February, 2013 by frogman

Log4net is very good at logging events to local log files. However, if you are looking for centralized logging, take great care. If you want – 1. to remove the need of having to add log4net configuration to every web.config. … Continue reading →

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Maintain SPFile version comment and last modified date when moving documents

Posted on 14 May, 2012 by frogman

In overview the strategy is one of replaying history. Each version of the file is reposted to the document library. The comment and last modified date is handled with a combination of SPFile.Checkin() and SPListItem.Update(). Intrigued? Then read on….

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SharePoint dates

Posted on 4 April, 2012 by frogman

You would like to think that SharePoint records the Creation and Modification dates for each item once only. Wrong! Take a document in a document library. The item is seen as both an SPListItem and an SPFile. The created and … Continue reading →

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Redirect relative to the SharePoint LAYOUTS directory

Posted on 8 February, 2012 by ceej

If you ever need to redirect to a page that resides in the /_layouts/ virtual directory, i.e. the physical directory found in the SharePoint root in {SharePoint Root}\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS it is possible to do so without hard coding the URL. Use … Continue reading →

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