An Inquisitive Mind https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/sanjaya/feed.xml Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:41:36 GMT en-US hourly 1 Maintenance Mode - User Friendly Message https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/sanjaya/maintenance-mode-user-friendly-message Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:58:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sanjaya/2009/04/28/maintenance-mode-user-friendly-message/ I know this is not something desired (not really a HA scenario), but if you have to bring down your site, how do you communicate it to users in a user friendly way?

Well, as we all understand SharePoint is ASP.NET at the end, so app_offline.htm should still work? Now, what is app_offline.htm? It was a new feature included in ASP.NET 2.0. This basically lets ASP.NET 2.0 to shut-down the application, unload the application domain from the server, and stop processing any new incoming requests for that application, sending back all requests for dynamic pages in the application to the app_offline.htm page.

]]> Ramp up in SharePoint https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/sanjaya/ramp-up-in-sharepoint Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:43:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sanjaya/2009/03/03/ramp-up-in-sharepoint/ Here is the MSDN link, which would help you to do so..]]> DebugView and SharePoint.. https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/sanjaya/debugview-and-sharepoint Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:12:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sanjaya/2009/02/27/debugview-and-sharepoint/ The other day my colleague Yasin and myself found out something interesting if you are connected to sharepoint WFE remotely, which we mostly do, to capture debug traces you need to ensure you have "Capture Global Win32" option on.

Yasin has an interesting blog entry about asp.net debugging using debugView in his blog.

]]> How to execute a JavaScript onLoad function in SharePoint? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/sanjaya/how-to-execute-a-javascript-onload-function-in-sharepoint Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:31:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sanjaya/2008/10/22/how-to-execute-a-javascript-onload-function-in-sharepoint/ SharePoint provides a JavaScript array “_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames”, any function to be executed onLoad needs to be added to this array e.g.

_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("ExecuteMyFunctionOnLoad");

Now, why does your JavaScript function doesn’t execute if you just register it with ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript?

Actually, content pages can’t execute JavaScript function on body load, reason; content pages can’t directly add a function to the body’s OnLoad event if master page contains the <body> element (which is mostly true).

This array is basically a part of init.js located in “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\”. If you open the javascript file, you will notice the page onLoad event is handled by function _spBodyOnLoadWrapper, which further calls ProcessDefaultOnLoad, and this function executes all the function names added in array "_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames".

]]> Error while deploying Infopath form in workflow https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/sanjaya/error-while-deploying-infopath-form-in-workflow Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:11:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sanjaya/2008/09/28/error-while-deploying-infopath-form-in-workflow/ When you deploy workflow as a feature and try to attach it to a document library you get this error “The Form has been closed” or a detailed error like “Value cannot be null. Parameter name: g   at System.Guid..ctor(String g)”, the probable reasons could be

1.       Workflow is unable to find Workflow enabled InfoPath form template.

2.       The InfoPath form should be browser compatible.

3.       Issue with details of receiver assembly as specified in feature.xml.

How do you troubleshoot?

Verify relative path of InfoPath form template as specified in Feature.xml for value attribute of XML tag  <Property Key="RegisterForms" Value="*.xsn" />, if in case InfoPath form template is not in same folder as feature, and is in a subfolder then it should be <Property Key="RegisterForms" Value="<SUBFOLDERNAME>\*.xsn" />,

Go to Central AdminàApplication Management àManage Form Templates. Verify status of your InfoPath form template, if it is not “Ready” there is a probability that InfoPath form template is not properly deployed or there is an issue with the template. If status is “Ready” but Workflow enabled is “No”, that again indicated issue with InfoPath form. Now, how do we verify if there is an issue with form template? 

Execute following command

stsadm –o verifyformtemplate – filename <FullPathOfXSN>

In case you get the message “There were 0 errors”, the above mentioned issue does not apply to you.  Otherwise, Open the form in design mode and republish the form, this time please ensure that in the publishing wizard do not enter any alternate publish location, with that there should be no value against “Access path” in the last step of publishing wizard .

If after redeploying the feature you still see the same issue, verify form URN as specified in workflow.xml.  The URN of an InfoPath form can be accessed in design mode through menu option FileàProperties; Id is the URN of the form.

It is important to note, unless feature is reinstalled the changed InfoPath form would not be registered. 

 

]]> My First Blog Entry.. https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/sanjaya/my-first-blog-entry Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:10:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sanjaya/2008/09/27/my-first-blog-entry/ Let me introduce myself, I am a consultant with MS Global Services and had been sporting blue badge since last 2.5 years. Although I had been a long time avid reader, now would like to contribute to community by sharing my thoughts and experiences on SharePoint.

Life has been really hectic of late since I had been travelling, but would try my best to be consistent in sharing my experiences.

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