I just want to know what is the basic structure of Sharepoint Sites?
1) What is Top level site?
2)What is Site collection?
3)What is the site Definition?
4)What is the Site Template?
5)Difference between Site Definition and Site Template.
6)What is Content Database?
7)What is the Search and indexing in the SharePoint?
8)What are Main features of sharepoint ?
Please answer one by one. I search on net lot of but, not found about proper answers of these questions.Please guide me.
I would also like to add my own post - SharePoint Terminology – Farms, Web Front Ends, Web Application and Sites - also covedrs terms like Farm, NLB, WFE, Authorization / Authentication.
(source: pentalogic.net)
(source: pentalogic.net)
Here goes:
A top level site is the rootweb of any site collection. It is generally what we think of when we create a site collection.
A site collection is, well, a container for sites. It always contains at least one site which can, in turn, contain zero or more sites which can, in turn, contain....
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/27673
http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-7-All_you_ever_wanted_to_know_about_SharePoint_2007_Site_Templates.aspx
After reviewing 3 and 4, you'll know.
A content database holds all (or, at least, nearly all) the content for one or more site collections.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/data-access/making-sense-of-sharepoint-search.aspx
This could be tricky, since "feature" has special meaning in SharePoint, but if you're looking for business-decision-maker-level feature discussions, check out Microsoft's site: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx, or this good article from Joel O.: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=267
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I'm attempting (futilely) to create a custom advanced search page for my department's SharePoint site. I've been using this article as a guide,
http://tqclarkson.com/2007/10/26/creating-a-custom-advanced-search-box-in-moss-2007/
I've had some success copying the code of the advanced search web part and modifying it to my needs. However, I'm having some struggles with scopes.
Some background...
We are currently running MOSS 2007
Our company houses all its intranet sites under one GIGANTIC site collection
I am a site owner, but not the site collection administrator (that is controlled by IT corporate). Therefore I don't have access to central administration which houses most of the search settings.
IT has not set up any custom scopes (and just trust me when I say asking them to do so would be completely impractical).
I need to scope the advanced search web part's queries to just our site or its libraries. In a perfect world, I would just create custom scopes for this purpose, but as I mentioned that's not an option here.
I've tried using the URL property to restrict the results. Problem is the search has to be executed on EVERY RECORD in the database (which I'm sure is unfathomably huge). I did a test query which took over 5 minutes to result! Definitely not a practical solution.
So that's where I'm stuck. I need to scope the queries but can't figure out how else to do it. Any advice is welcome. Thanks as always!
We use SharePoint 2007 and have set up a web application with several site collections. One for each of our clients. We'd like to synchronize content in all of the site collections. Maybe having a central repository, then all other site collections get content from here.
I was looking at Lightning Tools Conductor web part and seems a pretty good solution. However, I'm wondering if this can also be possible using the Content Deployment feature to copy a site from the central repository to all other site collections.
I do not advice you to copy and thus duplicate the information from your central repository to the other site collections. You'll lose precious disk space, performance and scalability.
If you have content that is created in a common site collection, you should either use the built-in web services or create dedicated ones to retrieve the content within the targeted site collections.
I usually create cross site collection look-up fields that allows a contributor to pick an entity from my central repository in a visual way and apply the rendering of the content once the page is in view mode.
That might not suit every need but I don't think content duplication is a wiser choice.
Edit : re-reading your question, is there a specific reason why you want to copy a complete site (spweb I guess) rather than specific content inside ?
I am new to Sharepoint (WSS 3.0) and have the task of creating a company intranet. This site will have a number of sub-sites - each owned by a different department. Each of the sub-sites will have an 'Announcements' webpart on their top-level page.
What I want to do is to take the most recent announcement from each of those sub-sites and display them on the main top-level site - the idea being that anyone in the company can see at the top level what is coming up in each of the departments.
My question is, what is the best way to do this? and does any one have any links that can point me in the right direction.
Many thanks.
In case you have MOSS, you should use Content Query Web Part here is the way to do it.
You can achieve the same by using Data View Web Part.
The third option is to create a custom code to do that, but since you mentioned that you are new to SharePoint I would advise against since that might be a bit complicated and it cannot be compared to the strength of built-in web parts.
The thing you should consider here is security. If a UserA from DeptA does not have permission to read Announcements from SiteB then the thing you are building does not make much sense because information from SiteB will not be visible to this user.
Along with the Toni answer you can try the SPDataSource & SPGridView if custom code is okay.
I'm trying to create/add a Sharepoint subsite on an existing site collection through the web service api (as oppposed to the object model or RPC), but I see no clear way on any of the Admin.asmx, Webs.asmx, Site.asmx, or Sites.asmx services to do so.
I can see ways to create a full site collection, lists, and list items, but not to create a subsite on an existing site collection.
Can someone please confirm whether or not there is a way on the out-of-the-box sharepoint web services to do this?
It's exceedingly (well, maybe not exceedingly) easy to create your own SharePoint-aware web service. If the existing API isn't sufficient to meet your needs, then you might consider rolling your own to give you more domain-specific functionality. I found this MSDN article to be pretty helpful, and I rolled up the WSDL modifications into a post-build event to simplify the edit-build-deploy process.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms464040.aspx
I have googled around and found these 2 references
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/47d63dbf-3740-4e97-bc5c-17c39ef7b174/
http://community.officesharepointpro.com/forums/post/16971.aspx
Which web part and how to configure it to view a list from a different site collection?
Please note that I do not want to view a page but a list. For example view Announcements from a different team site under a seperate site collection.
Thank you in advance for your help.
The Data Form web part available through SharePoint designer can do this.
The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) which is part of the publishing infrastructure (requires MOSS) does not go across site collections.
Re http://www.spelements.com/spanylistview/
The problem with this one is you have to be able to INSTALL it on the server.
If you do not have those permissions, it cannot be used.
Don't bother asking if they can be obtained. They can't.