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It is time to take a break from these daily tips for the summer. So far, you’ve gotten 62 tips every weekday, so I will leave you with the best tip so far:

SharePoint of the Day #63: Take a break. Enjoy summer. Come back in August, I know I will.

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You can modify the top navigation bar from the Site Settings page. For example, you can modify the order in which tabs appear, or create new tabs, linking to any page within the SharePoint site.

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If you iterate through the AllWebs collection of a site collection you must remember to call Dispose() on the SPWeb objects you retrieve. Otherwise you will have a memory leak.

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A lot of SharePoint object has a property bag, in which you can store custom properties in the form of a hashtable.

For example, you can store custom site settings for custom applications in the SPWeb.Properties bag.

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You can enable Access Requests for a site to allow users to request access when they are not part of a group. To do so, go the the Perople and Groups link, and the to the Site Permissions link below the site groups. You will find the Access Requests link on the Settings menu. You need to set up an email address to receive the access requests.

If you allow user access requests, users will be given a new “Request access” link on the Access Denied page, leading to a form where they can send the access request along with a message to the email address you set up.

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When creating your own site definitions you can set the ProvisionAssembly and ProvisionClass to have .NET code fired when a new site is created. your class should inherit from the SPWebProvisioningProvider class.

This is useful for example if you want to create a site hierarchy as part of the site creation. In MOSS, the Publishing portal is set up using the ProvisionAssembly and ProvisionClass.

You can also optionally set the ProvisionData, which will be passed to the ProvisionClass. Here is some example code:

public class MySiteSetup : SPWebProvisioningProvider
{
public override void Provision(SPWebProvisioningProperties props)
{
string data = props.Data;
}
}

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You can check the SPWeb.LastItemModifiedDate property to see when something was last changed in a site.

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To install new solution files, use the “STSADM -o addsolution” command. After you have installed the solution you need to deploy it to web applications for the content to be available. To do so, use the “STSADM -o deploysolution” command.

Type any of these commands in a command console to see other parameters.

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When you are creating a custom site definition you can set the ExecuteUrl of the onet.xml Project element to a site-relative URL. When users create new sites from the definition they will be sent to the ExecuteUrl instead of the home page when the site is first created.

You can use this to send your users to a custom page to setup more advanced features of your site.

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