How We Can Create Search Provider in Internet Explorer 8 Beta

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Search Provider New to Internet Explorer 8 is the concept of Accelerators. Accelerators enable you to access service providers anywhere on the page Search Provider Categories – Web Search – Topic search The following sample OpenSearch Description file contains the search provider’s name, URL, and icon.  <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <OpenSearchDescription xmlns=”http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/“>  <ShortName>My Custom Search</ShortName>  <Url type=”text/html” template=”http://example.com/?q={searchTerms}&amp;source=IE”/>    […]

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Solving ActiveX Problem in SharePoint

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Did you get the following message will be a turn-on when loading public Sharepoint sites, The Web site wants to run the following add-on: ‘Name ActiveX Control’ from ‘Microsoft Corporation’. If you trust the Web site and the add-on and want to allow it to run, click here… To fix this problem, just create a […]

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Alert Notification Tips

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Are you getting the e-mail alerts, Body links refers to local machine URL http://machine instead of? This is because; there are many zones for a particular Web Application. We can see that using Alternate Access Mappings in Central administration. Central Administration > Operations > Alternate Access Mappings (under Global Configuration ) The SharePoint takes the Default zone link in Alternate Access Mappings for all […]

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Custom Master Page Error

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If you are applying custom Master page using the custom feature, you may get the following error when viewing or creating a new site, Cannot convert type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.ScriptLink’ to ‘System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor’ This is because; you are exporting the master page using SharePoint Designer. The master page adds the additional codes; you will be seeing that by […]

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Live Cricket Scores in SharePoint Site

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Cricinfo.com site provides RSS feeds of live cricket scores. This can be accessed from the URL http://www.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml. Using this feed and Sharepoint designer live cricket scores can be displayed in Sharepoint sites within a jiffy. For using the RSS feed we will have to create a data source. Following are the steps to create a data […]

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Add Flash File to SharePoint Rich Text Field Editor

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SharePoint Rich-Text filed editor allows us to write the HTML code, but it doesn’t allow us to embed Flash files. So, I have searched on this issue and come with a solution.  For that, I’m using swfobject.js file and adding some script lines to the page where we want to embed this flash file. Following […]

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