I ran into a situation with some custom InfoPath Document Information Panels where I was getting schema validation errors like this one because of a Business Data Column I added to a document library: “…{guid}ColumnName is unexpected according to content model of parent element ‘documentManagement’.” You might run into this in the following situation: You…

I had the need to set Business Data and other column values in the ItemAdding event handler. I had to use ItemAdding, because I needed the changes committed so that the values I set would be visible on the Edit Properties screen immediately after uploading a document. Using the synchronous handler guaranteed that the values…

I recently had the need to create a custom SharePoint application page (living in_layouts directory) that needed to display the BDC entity picker control, so that a user filling out this form could select a BDC entity instance, exactly like a user would in a business data column defined on a list. It took a…

We’ve implemented Ontolica search (for MOSS 2007) for several of our customers. The product fits our service offerings very well, and provides a great value add for minimal cost and effort (compared with other search replacement products). The sales team has been very helpful and responsive. They’ve provided trial licenses quickly and without hassle, have…

I noticed that the RSS feed for this blog had a screwed up blog title because of the apostrophe in it. It seems that community server is htmlencoding the blog title, and that is getting passed through to the RSS feed as “& # 3 9 ;”. This was supposed to be fixed in a…