November 2012 – SleePy Code

I was looking for a way to accomplish the need of making it easier for users to access a SharePoint Document Library, with the plus side of being able to add this into a GPO and letting it be mapped across the domain. Of course you can add a network location to a SharePoint Document Library, but I didn’t know of a way to script that via a GPO logon script. I really didn’t research much into that, I figured mapping drives would be easier to explain to users.

It turns out this is really simple to do. The SharePoint server maps it as a WebDav path on a network share. So by using \\SERVERNAME\DavWWWroot\ I got the root of the SharePoint site. From there, I just filled out the rest. Such as \\SharePoint\DavWWWroot\Shared&20Documents links to the Shared Documents library on the SharePoint site.

From that point on, its as simple as using a GPO to deploy this and map the drive.

So I needed to add a search box to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customer Portal. So into Visual Web Developer 2010 Express I went. I opened the Customer Portal project and then expanded Pages and eService in the tree.

Opening up ViewCases.aspx I located the following

<asp:GridView

1	<asp:GridView

I added this before that:

        <asp:Label ID="Label2" Font-Bold="true" runat="server">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Search: </asp:Label>
        <asp:TextBox ID="CaseSearch" AutoPostBack="true" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

1 2	<asp:Label ID="Label2" Font-Bold="true" runat="server">      Search: </asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="CaseSearch" AutoPostBack="true" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

I then opened the code for the file (right clicked and showed code) and located the following:

if (casesByCustomer.Count() == 0)

1	if (casesByCustomer.Count() == 0)

and added before that:

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(CaseSearch.Text))
            {
                casesByCustomer = casesByStatus.Where(c => c.Title.ToLower().Contains(CaseSearch.Text.ToLower().ToString()));
            }

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(CaseSearch.Text))

{

casesByCustomer = casesByStatus.Where(c => c.Title.ToLower().Contains(CaseSearch.Text.ToLower().ToString()));

}

Saved the files, built the code and tested. Everything worked just fine, except for an error that occurred because the view I had, used follow up by and some of those cases didn’t have them. If a search returned only results with no follow up by set, it would give an error. But I just swapped out the follow up by for modified on.

SleePy Code

Month: November 2012

Mapping a drive letter to a SharePoint Document Library

Adding search to Dynamics CRM Customer Portal