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Break Outlook with SharePoint - Part 2

In my last post, Break Outlook with SharePoint - Part 1 , I showed how Outlook crashes when you create a SharePoint Meeting Workspace from the Scheduling view of your Outlook Calendar. Part 2 shows a problem we are having with Outlook 2007 and SharePoint Task Lists. I have reproduced this problem on a few systems here on our network, with both our development and production MOSS servers. I'm not 100% convinced that it's a real bug in Outlook 2007 because I have not done more extensive trials outside of our network. If anyone out there tries this and reproduces the same behavior, I would like to hear about it. This is fairly simple to reproduce here. 1) In SharePoint, go to some site with a Tasks list on it, where the Tasks list is configured to send e-mail when someone is assigned a task (found under Advanced Settings on the list). Also, this Tasks list should not be connected to Outlook (that is, you should not have used the Connect to Outlook option on the list's Action menu.) 2) Create a task and assign it to yourself. 3) Wait for the e-mail to arrive from SharePoint. If you are using Outlook 2007, the e-mail will have two buttons at the top of the e-mail window (or preview pane): Connect to this Task List and Preview this Task List (You don't get these with Outlook 2003.) 4) These buttons are very useful. This allows the recipient to easily connect Outlook to the Task List so it shows on Outlook's Tasks view. However.... when we click on the Connect to...

Word 2007 Mail Merges with SharePoint Lists

Here's an interesting tip that I was able to contribute to EndUserSharePoint.com. This might be a good tip for developers as well as end users. The post describes how to make use of a SharePoint list in Word by connecting to an Access 2007 database Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Presence Indicator not working on client

If the Online Presence Indicator is not working properly on some clients it could be that the IE plugin is corrupted. Client has Office 2003 Try reinstalling the Office Web Components . Client has Office 2007 Try the following: Close all IE windows Rename Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Inspecting Logic and Checking Design of InfoPath Form

Inspecting Logic and Checking Design of InfoPath Form It is easier to inspect the logic manually in simple forms but companies use InfoPath not to create simple forms but to create forms in an easy and simple way. These forms can get quite complex and large. Once developed and deployed, there are different techniques that developers can use to track down errors but even at design time inspecting and fixing errors in the form can be a tedious job. Forms can have hundreds of nodes or may be 20-30 fields...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Unable to setup Outlook 2003 after using 2007

After removing Outlook 2007 from all of the computers in our office, I ran into a few problems putting 2003 back on. When loading outlook, the error that the .ost file is not a valid folders file came up. So I decided to go into control panel, and head into the mail section to remove some profiles and re-add them. Upon trying to add an exchange server account the following message appeared: “There was an error locating one of the items needed to complete this operation. It might have been deleted...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Outlook 2007 on Windows Vista 64-bit

Office 2007 on Windows Vista 64-bit does not shut down when told it stays in memory and then wont reopen or launch. Posted on SharePoint Blogs Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

A deployment or retraction is already under way for the solution ... Publishing InfoPath form

You get this error when you try to publish an already published InfoPath form in SharePoint: "A deployment or retraction is already under way for the solution ..." If you go into the event log, you will notice different error messages related to this event. For example, one message will be as following: EventType ulsexception12, P1 w3wp.exe, P2 6.0.3790.1830, P3 42435be1, P4 microsoft.office.infopath.server, P5 12.0.4518.0, P6 4541816a, P7 12961, P8 161, P9 nullreferenceexception, P10 8gec...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Null is null or not an object

Have you seen this error before? Did you find a solution? I was getting this javascript error on the click of a button that had a simple rule attached to it. Everytime I clicked the button, it produced this javascript error: Null is null or not an object. After some debugging, I noticed that the error was occuring in the "owsbrows.js". This file contained a line that was trying to load a value from the control that was clicked in the form. The control returned "null" and hence...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

InfoPath button with simple rule attached doesn't work!

I had a button in my form and there was a simple rule attached to this button. Rule was that If someone clicked the button, a (hidden) textbox would appear in the form, a very simple rule! Problem?? The button was not working. Somehow the event was not firing. I had this problem even before but simply changing the ID of the button resolved my problem but this time, changing the ID didn't work. I spent a couple of hours trying to find the cause but in the end, I needed a quick solution as I was...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Outlook 2007 custom forms - a black hole to avoid.

Microsoft changed a few things in Outlook 2007, including aesthetic features, rendering of emails, custom form creation, and other bits and pieces. Firstly, aesthetically there are some menu changes, mainly in composing emails, Outlook is probably the worst example of the ribbon implementation in the whole of office, with it only partially implemented. It seemed somewhat unnecessary given that only email composition is affected by it, and that the cluttered menu of the main Outlook window remains...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Populating multiselect list box in InfoPath 2007 web forms programmatically

Multi select list box that comes with InfoPath 2007 does not work in web forms so you have to create your own control for usage in web forms. The following article shows you how to create a multiselect list box for web forms: http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2004/04/01/106039.aspx Ok, you have created a multiselect list box and now you can add static values but what if you want to populate this list box programmatically. How will you do that? The following tip shows you how you can populate...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Adding content to Word "content control" programmatically

Category: Word programming Level: Advance Here is a small tip on how to add data to Word content control programmatically. If you don't know what are content controls, you can read about them at the following sites: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2006/10/23/control-yourself.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/modonovan/archive/2006/05/23/604704.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2006/08/11/word2007DataDocumentGenerationPart1.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Importing MS Access data in InfoPath

Category: Administration Level: Beginner Data from MS Access can not be imported directly in to the InfoPath form. I have seen this question a couple of times in newsgroups, people asking about how to import Access data in InfoPath. There are two ways to accomplish this. One is to import data programmatically and the other is to use rules. Using rules is an indirect method because as I said there is no way one can import data directly from MS Access. It’s a two step process. 1) Export data from Access...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Office 2007 Customization Tool: APPEXTENSIONWARNINGS setting error

In my efforts to deploy office 2007 to my workplace, I used the Office 2007 Customization tool, which is available by running Setup.Exe (on the disk) with /admin switch applied. I went through and spent alot of time considering each and every setting and selecting what I thought was best, then went to save my hard work and received this error: I had no idea where this error came from, and a google search returned nothing. So I experimented saving at regular intervals, and found that the error seems...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Getting used to Office 2007 menus

The new Office 2007 interface is a major overhaul over previous versions, and in my opinion, it's great. It's designed to maximize productivity, and to reflect the changes in todays hardware, particularly that of the rise in popularity of widescreen monitors. It's designed to have the things related to what you are doing right NOW to be in front of you, just one click away, rather than having to go through the same 3 click process multiple times. Still, the biggest criticism I hear of...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks