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Ok, well after getting my custom site columns, lists, referenced list columns for the site columns and all that created. I now have the problem of actually accessing my data.  I need to read all the list items (including my new columns) into an application and into a windows service on different machines, therefore since they are not on the ...

Recently I have been creating site columns, content types and lists via CAML and web solution packages using VseWss 1.1 CTP. If at list creation time you ever receive the following error in your sharepoint logs Failed to do column assignments for list then you should ensure that within your list schema.xml that you are not trying to set the ...

I am currently trying to modify a computed column to display only the date part of a datetime field.  After much fiddling with CAML I have decided that the only way forward is to write a display pattern that creates dynamic Javascript that rewrites a div tag on the page with the correct value. Code as follows ...

Just been trying to find a good way of deploying these to different MOSS instances... e.g. Development, Test, QA & Live and also for giving to others for pre-sales demos. Thanks to Chris O'Brien for the very helpful pointers and code on this, check out his blog series at :  MOSS Artifacts Series These are implemented using Web Solution ...

If you have any lookup columns defined which will not appear in the site columns, it may be because the ReadOnly attribute is set to TRUE, try changing it to FALSE and re-installing and re-activating the feature and it should then display in the site columns list. At least this is what happened for me after much frustrated beating of my ...