I'm creating a PerformancePoint (henceforth PP) Dashboard that contains a web report to be deployed to the a SharePoint web application that I had created. I followed the instruction in the link below.
Deploy a PerformancePoint dashboard to a SharePoint site
In summary, following the instructions in the link, I published the Dashboard to the PP site. Then, I added my account in PP as Creator in the Application level, Editor in both the Dashboard and the Web Report. In the SharePoint site, I added my account under Contributor. I even added the PerformancePointDefault.master just to be sure.
Now, when I deploy my Dashboard to a Report Library, I was able deploy the folder for the Dashboard, but not the Dashboard Page file.
I googled for this, but I could not find any article helpful.
UPDATE 2009-09-30:
I was able to resolve the issue by creating another site collection. Maybe the first site collection is messed up.
I had the EXACT same problem. I was about to take the best advice I could find and delete my site collection and create a new one from scratch, but by the grace of God, I had one final thought.
In our case, the site created was originally http://ServerName but we later added a host header (i.e. http://BiSite). I had been deploying the dashboard using the host header the entire time, so I decided to try using the original name of the site using the server name and viola, the dashboard finally deployed correctly, pages and all.
When you publish a dashboard in MOSS, you have to make sure that you select Publish a Major Version in the dashboard page's drop-down in the report library.
Why is this a community wiki? Seems like there should be a right answer to this question...
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I have tried to save the SharePoint communication site as a template that contains apps. I have faced the below error.
Sorry, this site can't be saved as a template. It contains apps that don't work in templates.
Please check social.technet.microsoft.com link for the same issue.
The above link suggests removing apps and saving the template of the site. But I will need a site template with apps. Can anyone suggest how to save SharePoint communication site as a template with apps?
Refer to this official article:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint/troubleshoot/sites/fails-saving-site-as-template
If the site contains apps that can't be saved as part of the template, it's necessary to remove any affected apps that are listed in the error message, and then save the site as a template.
If you want to use the app after you save the site as a template, you'll have to add it to the site again.
If you want to use the app in a new site based on template, you need to manually add it in the new site.
I have created SharePoint Site, from which I created a site template, now I need to create similar sites under same site collection using the Site Template. In order to automate this functionality I created the Site Template and try to create new sites from this template using SharePoint Designer Workflow using web services. But while performing this am getting below error.
"The site template requires that the Feature {bf8b58f5-ebae-4a70-9848-622beaaf2043} be installed in the farm or site collection"
To troubleshoot this issue I tried to create the site using the same site template manually, which am able to perform successfully.
I found that above GUID {bf8b58f5-ebae-4a70-9848-622beaaf2043} refers to Power View feature, which I found activated in my site collection, But am not using any power view related functionality in my application.
I would be grateful, if anyone let me know how to resolve this issue.
It seems like the issue is with the template. That error is saying before you create the site template, enable that feature at the site level on the template site before saving the site as a template. I had a similar use case about a year ago to automate all our private team site creation. I found this article very useful.
https://sharepointryan.com/2013/09/10/create-a-sharepoint-site-spweb-using-rest-in-spd-2013-workflow/
In the dictionary for the json request, set WebTemplate to the template / solution ID from your site collection.
Hope it helps.
I've recently create a site template on our SharePoint online environment which did originally have site publishing features enabled. This was done by setting the appropriate flag to enable saving as a template and then using the url /_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx to save it.
When creating a site from this template i get intermittent errors indicating something went wrong but with no further detail other than a correlation ID. It's not every time and it happens occasionally when using the site.
A couple of questions on this.
a) What with the publishing infrastructure is not supported within Site Templates.
b) What is the best approach to create a custom site template where i can have a custom front page containing web parts and content, based on the publishing page layouts. I've searched through a significant number of posts online and cannot find a definitive answer to this.
Any help is much appreciate. Thanks in advance.
Grant
Please follow the below steps to create Site using custom template :
1.Firstly create site using custom template and select "upload site template later" or "upload solution later".
2.Then go to your created site and firstly enable publishing feature before uploading your site template to the solution gallery.
3.After that just go to the "Solutions" under "Web Designer Galleries" and upload your "Site template".
4.Now go to Site settings and select "Sites and workspaces" under "Site Administration".
5.And you can create your Custom site. you can see your uploaded Site template in Custom tab
Feel free to ask question if you have any doubt.
I have a custom webpart for Sharepoint 2007. I am trying to deploy it to a new Sharepoint web application. I am using WSPBuilder with VS2010 to do the deploy. When I examine the wss\VirtualDirectories\ folder for the web app, the wpcatalog folder does not exist there. When I go to the Web Part Gallery and click "New" button, the web part is no there either. What could be causing this behavior? Are there any other ways to troubleshoot it?
Thanks.
the wpcatalog is actually a document library containing the .webpart definition files. It is stored in the content database, not the file system.
You need to verify the solution is in fact deployed to your web application, and then activate any features if necessary. You can verify the solution deployment under central administration\operations\solution management.
I have created a Team Project in TFS 2010 and the Project Portal in SharePoint 2010.
Now I need to create a WebPart to deploy in the SharePoint Site (Project portal) that connects to the TFS to get some information.
Where I can get the TFS Url that is associated with the Project Portal in SharePoint?
Any clues?
Thanks in advance.
The url of TFS is not stored in the Project Portal. It is the other way round. In TFS the WSS url is stored.
TfsRedirect can be used to determine the TFS Web Access URL from within SharePoint. Although it's not exactly what you want, and it's a little hacky - you can pass the parameter tf:Test=1 to get the TFS team project that is associated with the site that your web part is being displayed on.
See John Socha-Leialoha's blog post on Using TfsRedirect to Display Reports in TFS 2010 Dashboards
What is TfsRedirect?
Here’s the scenario. You had TFS create a dashboard site in SharePoint
when you created your team project (or you added it later as described
here). There are several items on this dashboard that point to other
locations that are potentially on other servers:
Team Web Access
Process Guidance
Reports shown on the dashboard pages
TFS itself know where to find these assets. And the locations can
change if, for example, the TFS administrator moves the reports to a
different server.
Rather than hard-code the locations of these assets into the
dashboard, the TFS team created a web page called TfsRedirect.aspx
that knows where these different assets are located, and will redirect
to that page.
Shouldn't you be able to go in to TFS2010 -> Team Explorer -> Right-Click on your Team Project -> Portal Settings?