Category Archives: SharePoint

This view cannot be displayed because the number of lookup and workflow status columns it contains exceeds the threshold enforced by the administrator

Posted on March 5, 2012 by MJ

I have seen the following error a number of times now and it can cause all sorts of problems with lists and libraries, especially with custom code that calls the SharePoint web services. This view cannot be displayed because the … Continue reading →

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Failed to initialize session with document engine: Unable to resolve Contentdistributor

Posted on February 29, 2012 by MJ

I recently experienced a problem with SharePoint 2010 and FAST content sources which turned out to be a quick fix – once I had spent over an hour tying to figure out what was causing the issue. FAST and SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Unexpected error when creating Fast Search Center

Posted on July 26, 2011 by MJ

I was having a frustrating problem recently with a brand new site collection in SharePoint 2010.  Each time I attempted to create a new FAST Search Centre site an unexpected error would quickly occur with a different correlation ID each … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 – Enable refiner web part counts

Posted on February 23, 2011 by MJ

There is a useful attribute which can be added the the SharePoint 2010 Refiner web part XML to display the document counts. The typical XML for a refiner category looks something like this: <Category Title=”Managed Metadata Columns” Description=”Managed metadata of … Continue reading →

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SharePoint object model updates not triggering workflow

Posted on February 3, 2011 by MJ

A situation I have observed a number of times while working with the SharePoint object model is that workflows don’t appear to be triggered on update calls. In the past I have worked around this issue by simply adding some … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, C#, MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Workflow, Workflow | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Search Core Results Web Part – How to view raw XML

Posted on January 31, 2011 by MJ

Sometimes when working with the Search Core Results web part within SharePoint it may be useful to see all of the XML that is being returned to the XSL stylesheet. It is possible to see the raw XML by replacing … Continue reading →

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Access denied – Microsoft loopback security check

Posted on November 17, 2010 by MJ

I recently experienced an issue with a server which had me scratching my head for a couple of hours.  Fortunately my colleague had previously experienced this issue and promptly directed me to a Microsoft KB which allowed me to resolve … Continue reading →

Posted in IIS, IIS 7, Registry, Search, Security, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Windows | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The crawl rules may have to be modified to include this address. (0x80040d07)

Posted on November 17, 2010 by MJ

I was recently reminded of a problem I had previously experienced but subsequently forgotten with regard to MOSS content crawling. In this particular instance I was using a custom protocol handler but I believe this issue will apply to the … Continue reading →

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The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service

Posted on November 4, 2010 by MJ

I had an issue on a SharePoint 2007 server recently that wasn’t immediately obvious to me (it may well have been obvious to you however). Whenever searching using the Microsoft Search product the following error would be returned immediately: The … Continue reading →

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Creating new CustomActionGroups for CustomAction items

Posted on November 3, 2010 by MJ

I recently wanted to add some links to the Site Settings page of a SharePoint 2010 server when installing a custom feature.  By default there were seven groups available to choose from where I could place my feature related links, … Continue reading →

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