November | 2012 | SleePy Code

Mapping a drive letter to a SharePoint Document Library

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.

Adding search to Dynamics CRM Customer Portal

By JeremyNov 20, 2012CRM Customer Portal, Dynamics CRM, Microsoft CRM, Visual Basic, Visual Web Developer

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.

Monthly Archives: November 2012

Mapping a drive letter to a SharePoint Document Library

Adding search to Dynamics CRM Customer Portal