SharePoint of the Day » Sites and webs http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd Your daily dose of SharePoint - From Spot D Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:21:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 SharePoint of the Day #58 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-58 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-58#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-58 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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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-58/feed 1 SharePoint of the Day #57 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-57 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-57#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-57 You can check the SPWeb.LastItemModifiedDate property to see when something was last changed in a site.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-57/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #55 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-55 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-55#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-55 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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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-55/feed 2 SharePoint of the Day #16 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-16 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-16#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-16 If you want to keep your designers on a leech you can set the DisableWebDesignFeatures in your site definition’s onet.xml file. Set the attribute in the Project element to one or more values from the following list:

wdfbackup Disable Web site backup.
wdfrestore Disable Web site restore.
wdfpackageimport Disable Web site package import.
wdfpackageexport Disable Web site package export.
wdfthemeweb Disable theme support for the Web site.
wdfthemepage Disable theme support for individual pages.
wdfnavigationbars Disable support for navigation bars.
wdfnavigationview Disable the Navigation view for the Web site.
wdfpublishview Disable the Remote Web site view for the Web site.
wdfpublishselectedfile Do not allow the selected file to be published.
wdfopensite Disable access to the entire Web site.
wdfnewsubsite Do not allow the creation of a new subsite.

(source: MSDN)

If you want to set more values, use a semicolon to separate the values.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-16/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #13 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-13 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-13#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-13 When you modify any fle or page in SharePoint, for example using SharePoint Designer, that file becomes Customized. In practice, this creates a copy of the original file and stores the copy in the database along with your changes. Changes to the original source file will no longer affect your customized file.

You can revert your customized files and pages, either through the Site Settings page (Look and Feel->Reset to site definition) or using a tool such as SharePoint Designer.

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