Exception error while activating Sharepoint Publishing feature

Issue

Whenever you try to activate the "Office Sharepoint Server Publishing Infrastructure"  feature from site collection , it throws the following error message

Exception Error 0x80020009

Solution

Try to activate through command line

stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishing\feature.xml -url http://URL -force

stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingresources\feature.xml -url http://URL  -force

stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingSite\feature.xml -url http://URL -force

stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingweb\feature.xml -url http://URL -force

stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishinglayouts\feature.xml -url http://URL -force

stsadm -o activatefeature -filename navigation\feature.xml -url http://URL -force

Add column to folder sharepoint document library

1.Go to Site Actions, Site Settings

2.Click Site Content Types

3.Click Create

4.Give the new content type a name such as "Description"

5.Set the parent content type group as Folder Content Types

6.Set the parent content type to Folder

7.Add the new content type to a Group. I put it back in the "Folder Content Types" group

8.Click OK

9.Scroll down to the columns section and click Add from new site column

10.Name the column and set all the usual column options

11.Repeat for any additional columns

12.Click OK

13.Go to your document library

14.Click Settings and Library Settings, or in 2010 click the Library ribbon tab and then click Library Settings

15.Click Advanced and set Allow management of content types to Yes and click OK (this may already selected)

16.Scroll down to Content Types and click Add from existing site content types and add your new folder content type

17.Go to your document library and click the New dropdown, or the New button in the 2010 Document ribbon, and add your new folder!

18.Go to the View dropdown and click Modify this view and add your new folder meta data columns (you will probably want to move them to just after the Name column)

Create custom Search Result Page using a basic page (No search center required)

I know this is a very basic thing which all SharePoint experts know very well when they started their JOURNEY with SharePoint but there is something very interesting & simple we missed to check or use

Here are few steps with which we can create a custom search result page in very simple way. I use word because SIMPLE because it’s not required to create any search center sites or any search pages. This can be achieved with a simple Blank web part page and with ALL OOTB features.

• First of all create a page, (i.e. Blank web part page). I call it “Simple Search”
• Then click on Add a web part and add following web parts in sequence.

1.      Search box

2.      Search Paging

3.      Search Core Results

• Now click on edit page and select Search Box web part > click “Modify Shared Web part”
• Under Miscellaneous section change – Target search results page URL to the newly created page – i.e. http://sitename/doclib/simplesearch.aspx (i.e. http://sitename/pages/simplesearch.aspx for site with publishing enabled)
• That’s all, now when user lands on Simple Search Page and query for search he / she will get all search results on the same page and it gives the same look and feel which is there on OSSearchResult page as we have added search paging.
• Search paging gives number of pages containing search results.

There are few more customizations which we can do on the same page like creating a custom scope for a search box or by customizing search core results.

Here are some references

Search Core Results XSLT Transformation:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms584121(v=office.12).aspx

Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428855(v=office.12).aspx

Search Core Results Web Part XSLT:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms562390(v=office.12).aspx

Export to spreadsheet error Sharepoint list

Issue

Whenever you try to export the sharepoint list to spreadsheet you get the following error in IE

WEB 1 _https://[Server]/[Site]/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?XMLDATA=1&List={35667866-8224-44B2-8124-06F2254BEBB5}&View={35667866-8224-44B2-8124-06F2254BEBB5}&RowLimit=0&RootFolder=%2fD721%2fLists%2fDCR01 (_https://[Server]/[Site]/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?XMLDATA=1&List={35667866-8224-44B2-8124-06F2254BEBB5}&View={35690566-82E4-44B2-8304-06F2254BEBB5}&RowLimit=0&RootFolder=/[Site]/Lists/DCR01) Selection={35667866-8224-44B2-8124-06F2254BEBB5}-{353450566-82E4-44B2-8304-06F2254BEBB5} EditWebPage= Formatting=None PreFormattedTextToColumns=True ConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne=True SingleBlockTextImport=False DisableDateRecognition=False DisableRedirections=False SharePointApplication=https://[Server]/[Site]/_vti_bin SharePointListView={35667866-8224-44B2-8124-06F2254BEBB5} SharePointListName={70AF7FCA-529D-4DD5-B018-222E1013C042} RootFolder=/[Site]/Lists/TEST

 Solution (2 ways to Solve this)

1.   Repair Office Version from  your machine -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924611

2.   Reset the IE to it original state

From IE - Tools - Internet Options - Advanced Tab - RESET

In the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box, click Reset.

Restart IE and try exporting again.

Let me know if this doesn't help. Thanks

An error occurred while rendering navigation for requested URL:/. Exception message: Invalid field name

CAUSE
This error will occur when the site is migrated with publishing feature (contains the Pages folder) and the publishing feature is not activated in the destination site.

RESOLUTION
Activate the publishing feature in site collection and site features. The feature will not be activated if the “pages” library exists, so rename/delete the pages library, and then activate the publishing feature.
To rename the pages library you will have to open the site with Windows Explorer and rename the "Pages" Folder

Performance issue with Project Task List in SharePoint 2007

Issue:

A Project Task List takes more than 5 minutes to load

Cause & Resolution:

·         User had a project task list

·         Total number of items = 2000+

·         She had created a custom view in which she selected an option Grouped by “Column Name”

·         Created my personal view (of course a standard view, no grouped by, no sort by or no filter)

·         Browsed the list using my personal view and it had hardly taken a minute to open

·         Also found this article - http://kb4sp.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/sharepoint-2007-hard-limitations/ which says – There is not a hard limit, but you might experience list view performance degradation as the number of field types in a list increases to 256 per list.

·         And I also checked when we select Grouped By option in the view Field types in the list increased to more than 300, so removed grouped by option from user’s custom view which loaded the list faster.

Question sequence gets disordered when export a survey with Rating Scale questions to Excel sheet.

Issue:
Question sequence is disordered when we export a survey list to excel
Resolution – Only to get questions in proper sequence in Excel sheet!!

• Checked Survey settings
• Found there were total 50 questions and found almost 30 questions were created using "Rating Scale" category
• Changed question ordering from Survey settings > Change order of questions
• Previously it was from Q-1 > Q-1-a….Q-5 > Q-5-e
• Changed it to reverse order and arranged Q-5-e > Q-5…..Q-1-a > Q-1
• Exported to spreadsheet, and got all the questions in right order.
• Now another issue occurred, Q-6 (Multiple Line of Text) came first in datasheet, so from view removed it to be displayed or to be exported to spreadsheet.
• The other issue noticed was when user clicks on "Respond to this survey", user will get the same reverse orders of questions (i.e. Q-5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 6)
• Though this helps us to get questions in proper sequence only in Spreadsheet but this cannot be implemented as this occurs disordering of questions in survey.

Found 2 alternate workarounds
Workaround 1

• Changed all "Rating Scale" questions to "Choice" category with "Radio button" & fill in "mandatory" option
  
• Order remained same (i.e. Q- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Now it worked proper for both scenarios, user got the right order when open "Respond to this survey" and also got the right order when exported to excel.

Workaround 2

• Created a page and added a Data View Web part using SPD on the page
• Used SharePoint survey as a Data source and added all questions / columns in to the web part
• Then from Data view web part exported data to excel

Feel free to reach me in case of any queries on above steps. Thanks