I was trying to save a site as a template today including the content, and I got the error ‘Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file’. I found a workaround on Ragav Jagannathan’s site: http://ragavj.blogspot.com/2008/02/failure-decompressing-data-from-cabinet.html …This error "Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file" can be avoided by using the stsadm command line tool of…
If you’re like me, you’re constantly finding new useful things in SharePoint that have been sitting right in front of you all along. I’m working with a smart guy named Bob Nash from CSC at a client right now, and he just showed me a cool thing you can do with a list column. …
I was having a problem with Meeting Workspaces today. The links to each meeting instance on the left Quick Launch were not working, and every time we clicked on one of them, we would get a JavaScript error: ‘g_InstanceID’ is undefined. At first, I assumed that my CSS must be hiding a control that was required…
I’ve been caught by this one more times than I’d like to count, so I wanted to post about it. If you copy code (or any text for that matter) from the Web, it often may contain a double quote character. There are actually two double quote characters, ” and ”. See the difference? (No, it’s…
I got another comment to my previous post about Web Parts falling off the page this morning that I can’t respond to due to the sender’s communication preferences, so I’ll answer it here. Hi Marc, With reference to your blog entry have you found any solutions to this weird problem. I am having the same…
I’m often asked about the differences in Office 2003 and 2007 compatibility with SharePoint. There’s an extremely detailed document on Microsoft’s site that explains it in ‘Good, Better, Best’ terms. You can find the article entitled Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Microsoft Office Programs and SharePoint Products and Technologies Integration – Fair, Good, Better,…
I got a comment on one of my earlier posts about SharePoint branding (the look and feel of sites, including colors, fonts, page layouts, etc.). I couldn’t respond directly due to the person’s communication settings on their Live Space, so I thought I’d answer it here: Marc, Great blog, but I was wondering if you…
Every time I get to the point that I think I’ve got a reasonable handle on what is available within SharePoint, someone points out something I didn’t know. SharePoint (whether you are referring to WSS or MOSS) is just a really large beastie, and there’s a lot to it. The other day, a new…
Even when you have workflows that work fine when they are fired due to an event (a new item or a change to an existing item), you may receive the error "The data source control failed to execute the insert command" when you start them manually. Usually you start workflows in a SharePoint site manually…
When you try to create a Document Workspace for a document in a Document Library in SharePoint, you may see the error: "This document is already stored in a Document Workspace. A new Document Workspace cannot be created for this document." The error can be a little misleading. It can occur when you try to create a Document…