I am about to create a custom sharepoint layout for a client, to make it look like their company page.
I don't have any experience in sharepoint whatsoever, so this is going to be a challenge, but that's how you learn.
A question on this; Can the client copy their entire sharepoint site, send it to me and then I can use it on my local sharepoint installation, create the new layout and send the new layout back to them?
Backup/Restore a site collection is your answer.
See this link for reference:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gayanpeiris/archive/2008/03/16/back-up-and-restore-by-using-stsadm.aspx
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I'm trying to create an auto login for Umbraco cms.
Meaning, I have a website which wraps the cms, and i want users to be able to use it,
Without entering their login details when entering the umbraco cms.
I want to be able to this without sending back the umbraco auth cookie to the user.
Is there anyway I can achieve this?
Thanks.
Logically if you create your own maintenance pages and then use Umbraco's Content Servcie you could maintain an Umbraco website from an alternative maintenance system without ever bothering with the Umbraco pipeline. So you can remove login or the use of cookies as you see fit. You could use something like Microsoft Dynamic Data to help build the maintenance engine.
If you want to use the Umbraco back-office I believe you are committed to using the Umbraco workflow, which includes login & cookies.
Database of the website was created in WAMP (phpMyAdmin) and I need the database and the webpage in Webmatrix. Is there a possible solution or I need to re-write the webpage all over again?
I wouldn't do this, but I have to do it for my school project, because the teacher won't accept the web site in Dreamweaver.
Unless you are using DW templates then your teacher wouldn't know if you used DW or a text editor to create your site.
If you are using templates then these can be removed before submitting your work. From the menu select Modify -> templates -> Remove template markup
You might want to backup your files before doing this.
I am responsible for a few web sites of my organization.
I use Joomla! 2.5.9 for those web sites. They all are running at the same server.
I use K2 component for content managing.
I have a general website in which shows all the staff information at the 'Staff' page. Also some of those people and their contents are shown in another department's website. So, there are databases for each web site.
For example:
In the general website (let's say general.org), when I click on the 'Staff' menu item, page shows all of the people work at my organization. Also they work at different departments.
In another web site (eg: education.general.org) when I click on the 'Staff' menu item, It shows the people work at education department.
But for each web site, I have different user accounts which means a modification in one of them does not affect the other one. If the one of the education staff tries to change his profile picture on the education web site, he also has to do it on the general web site.
And sometimes one person might be working at two departments. Thus he has to edit three times of his data.
Is it possible to merge the records for all websites? In other words, I want everyone to insert/update their data on the general web site, and the other web sites will be updated automatically.
You would have to have one Joomla site to do this. The subdomains would have its own template/style or whatever, but would run on the same Joomla installation. The subdomains then just map to a specific menu item on the general page. That would be one way to do it.
Another way would involve coding a custom user plugin which updates the tables from the other Joomla installations after a profile was edited. If you're familiar with PHP you could probably do this yourself, otherwise you need someone with coding knowledge to do it for you.
Or you could set up Joomla to use authentification based on a LDAP database (http://docs.joomla.org/LDAP). However I'm not sure how well it works with password and profile changes.
That's about the solutions I would see.
I am trying to find a way for a user to come to my site and fill in a form and when they submit the form a new webpage is made. I want to make it create a new webpage in an admin area so I can view what they have submitted without having to troll my databases. I am assuming this is possible because the concept is hardly new, but hours of scanning google has left me empty handed on any remotely close tutorial or anything of that nature. Perhaps I simply do not know how to word it, I am very new at forms but I am assuming this has something to do with the form action. Are there tutorials for this that someone can link me to or can someone give me a quick explanation? I can figure out the work for myself, I just need a point in the right direction. Thank you.
You're going to need to learn about 1) persistant storage (a database), 2) a server side programming language (HTML is purely for creating the structure of a web page), and ... I dunno, a lot more. I would suggest you actually look at a CMS (content management system) and see if that gets you where you want to go.
Databases don't interact with HTML in that way without some sort of application sitting between the site and the database. It doesn't have to be a PHP application, but something is going to have to store and get data from the db, and something is going to have to dynamically create these pages you want. And that's going to be some sort of programming language -- or a content management system like Drupal.
(Also, don't forget about security, support, etc. You write the app, you have to support it. =)
Our customers have asked for Sharepoint and, of course, we are having to implement features for which Sharepoint wasn't really designed. We are first trying to stretch the in-house webparts as far as we can, so we are doing a lot of the work in stored procedures, user defined functions, and custom views in the MSSQL DB.
I am generating html links from fields in the database and wish to display them in something like a Data View web part. Of course, all of the data being displayed is being filtered so that it shows up as unrendered HTML. Is there a way around this?
Alternatively, is there any type of web part that can connect to another webpart or Data source and display unfiltered text/html from that source?
You need to use the XSLT in the dataview webpart to control the rendering.
You have full control over what html is created. disable-output-escaping if necessary.
I get a feeling you’re customizing SharePoint the wrong way. Either that your I don’t really understand the description of your question. I would appreciate a more detailed description of exactly what you are trying to accomplish.
As far as I know you should NEVER touch the SharePoint database directly. I think you should focus on creating lists, field types, WebParts and whatever SharePoint components you might need; instead of messing around in the content database.
SharePoint got a decent development API. It takes some time to learn, but in the end it’s probably worth it.
You can connect your custom made WebParts in SharePoint, here is a sample.