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Today I find a strange behaviour, my Office 2010 can not browse to the SharePoint 2010 document library. In short, I can not save my document directly to SharePoint 2010.  Office 2010 provide Save and Send functionality, which should give me functionality to save directly to SharePoint 2010 as what it does in previous version; so what could be the problem?

Saving to SharePoint 2010 document library requires WebDAV functionality via Web Client service. Unfortunatelly the Web Client service is not enabled by default, and it is part of Desktop Experience features.  So, how can we enable it using PowerShell?

# Open PowerShell console and then type

import-module servermanager
Add-WindowsFeature Desktop-Experience

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In the previous version, creating cascading lookup field was becoming a problem. At least 2 or more technique have been proposed for example using Javascript , or custom field. In this video cast, I will continue the InfoPath and SharePoint 2010 productivity series by implementing the cascading lookup field using InfoPath. In this video, I will extend Members list with City – Province – Country , information. Province and Country are cascading lookup field.

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Imagine a business scenario where we have a lookup field in our list. The reference list contains items Title and their status.  Previously it always difficult to create filtered lookup field with minimal development task. But now, we can use InfoPath 2010 to achieve that functionality.

Part III , InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Productivity series webcast shows how to create filtered lookup field.  There are two lists in the scenario “Books” and “Members” list.  The Books list contains list of books Title, Author and Status. There are 2 status of books, “Available” , “In-Used” and “Missing”.

“Members” list has Books  , lookup field – which should show only the “Available” books.

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Imagine that user wants to build Book lending application using SharePoint 2010. Initially they must register the book description , and sub-sequently they will update book lending status.  On the registration, the status should not be available in the form – however on lending event , they have to modify the status of the book.
Following webcast shows how to use InfoPath Designer 2010 to customize New/Edit/View form in SharePoint List to build that application.

Faboulous 40 have become a good showcase for us for SharePoint 2007 implementation.  I personaly deployed it in some of my clients – and it is a good start to play with SharePoint 2007 business implementation.  They are not perfect tough – but they create conversation on the functionalities and enhancements.

So far, Microsoft has not release Fab40 for SharePoint 2010 – but we can find un-official Fab40 by Khalil here : http://techsolutions.net/Blog/tabid/65/EntryId/17/Fab-40-Templates-for-MOSS-2010.aspx

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One of new feature in SharePoint 2010 is Sandboxed Solution. The ideas is to create solution and deploying them in a way that you can trust will not damage or change SharePoint farm. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee335711.aspx)

Sandboxed Solution is aimed for isolation between one solution to another; which implies that you can not include anything inside the hive folder. If you try to include TemplateFile, Layouts or Images in package, VS2010 will raise an error stating “The deployment type …… is not compatible with a Package in a Sandboxed Solution”.  And it means you have to think about the solution architecture again and refine the rules.

For example, you may consider custom document library to store the images for your solution, etc.

However, sometimes we need to get rid from sandboxed solution. Then we need to change the project type into non-sandboxed solution. To change project type to non-sandboxed solution,

1. Click on project property
2. Set Sandboxed Solution = False.

Now continue your work.

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Today, for the first time after installing the latest version of 2010 families, I encounter this error “Cannot start service SPUserCodeV4”. This error message comes when I tried to deploy – sandboxed solution.

Try to Google what would be the issue, I’ve found some blog here:

http://littletalk.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/cannot-start-service-spusercodev4-when-deploy-sharepoint-webpart-in-vs-2010/

http://blog.dennus.net/2009/11/18/sp2010-spusercodev4-your-new-web-part-project-isnt-deploying/

However, in my case it is not “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation User Code Service”. It is “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service” instead.

After starting the “Central Administration” > “Services” > “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service” everything goes to normal.

Now, I can deploy my solution from Visual Studio 2010.

Posted in : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945561/id-id

Skenario percakapan berikut menggambarkan bagaimana menghapus seluruh daftar Recent Documents (Dokumen Terbaru) di Office 2007. Dalam scenario ini, Anda akan menggunakan Word 2007. Anda juga dapat melakukan cara yang sama di Excel 2007 dan PowerPoint 2007.

	Proyek saya sudah selesai dan saya ingin menghapus daftar file didalam “Recent Document” (Dokumen Terbaru) di Word 2007 dan Excel 2007 supaya kosong seperti sediakala. Bagaimana saya bisa melakukannya?
	Sangat mudah. Saya akan menerangkan caranya dengan menggunakan Word 2007, tetapi kamu juga dapat melakukan hal yang sama di Excel 2007 atau PowerPoint 2007. Pertama, klik tombol Office dan klik Word Options.
	Kotak dialog Word Options akan muncul.
	Sekarang klik Advanced didalam menu dan ketik “0” di isian “Show this number of Recent Documents” (Tampilkan Dokumen Terbaru sebanyak angka ini). Jika kamu klik OK, maka daftar Recent Documents (Dokumen Terbaru) akan terhapus.
	Oh, cuma itu saja?
	Klik tombol Office untuk konfirmasi.
	Oh, ternyata kamu benar. Sekarang tidak ada lagi isi Recent Documents (Dokumen Terbaru). Selanjutnya, apa yang harus saya lakukan jika saya ingin menggunakan daftar Recent Documents (Dokumen Terbaru) lagi?
	Kamu dapat mengganti angka “Show this number of Recent Documents” (Tampilkan Dokumen Terbaru sebanyak angka ini) yang baru saja kamu ubah menjadi “0” menjadi angka berapa saja sesuai dengan jumlah dokumen yang ingin kamu tampilkan di daftar itu. Tetapi ingat, bahwa kamu tidak bisa mengembalikan daftar yang sudah terhapus sebelumnya.
	Jadi jika saya ingin menghapus daftarnya, saya dapat melakukan dengan mengubah angkanya menjadi “0”.

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You may encounter “Access denied by Business Data Connectivity” error when trying to access External List. The reason is because External List requires External Content type ; and External Content type is using Business Data Connectivity services proxy to access external Data Source. With the same principle of BDC in MOSS 2007 – users are required to have BDC Object permission before they can use it.  There are several set of permission available for the BDC object:

- Edit                                  
- Execute                            
- Selectable in Clients
- Set Permissions

How to configure the BDC access rights?

1. Open Central Administration page, and click on Manage service application.

2. Click on Business Data Connectivity Service

3. Open the context menu of the External Content type (ie. External CT in this example). Click on Set permissions.

4. Add account (Group, or User) and assign the permissions.

5. Set appropriate permission to the BDC object. Remember that BDC object permission rules the interaction between user and external data source through BDC object. It doesn’t rules his/her permission accessing Forms in the list (New / Edit / Delete  form).

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External Content type allows you to make seamless interface between SharePoint 2010 and external data storage (ie. SQL server). Using External Content type, you can create an External List which stores the data to predefined storage. You can imagine of having a table with SharePoint list interface.

To create an External Content type, you need SharePoint Designer 2010. If you curious enough, the External Content type is enhancement of Business Data Connector (BDC) in previous version. It will now depend on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) – which more or less same as BDC.

Imagine that you have a table in SQL Database and you want to create SharePoint list which directly stores the data in that table.

1. Open SharePoint Designer and click on External Content Types

2. Define the new External Content Type name. Then click on “External System” to start to connect to external Data Storage.

3. Define connection to external data storage. (ie. DB name,  and security)

In my case, I use SQL server as my data storage.

There are 3 security connection options in SQL Server Data Source:
– Connect with User’s Identity   => it will use running user’s credential to access to DB server. This implies that you need to manage user’s access rights in DB server.
– Connect with Impersonated Windows Identity => it will use impersonated Windows Identity ; usually the Application Pool identity.
– Connect with Impersonated Custom Identity => it will use specified user/password combination ; you need to define the Custom Identity separately.

Now, we already have the External List with the tables and views.

4. Select any table for the External Content types. In this scenario, I select RequestTbl for my data storage. Right click on the selected table, and SPD2010 will show you the available operations.
The External Content Types requires at least “Read Item” and “Read List” operation.  In every operation you will need at least 1 identifier.

Follow the wizard to create an operation.

Don’t forget that every operation requires at least 1 identifier. You can choose ID field from the table.

You can also define the default view filter, for example, by default this external content type will show only the first 100 items.

5. Publish the new content type by click “Save” button.

Now you already have new External Content Type. You can also create external content type to call .NET CLR and WCF Service. Next , how to use the external content type in a list.