Creating MOSS 2007 Theme

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1. On the SharePoint server go to the Themes folder e.g. c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\Themes
2. Make a copy one of the existing theme folders and its contents rename it e.g. MyTheme.
3. Rename the .INF file within the MyTheme folder to MyTheme.INF
4. Edit MyTheme.INF.
   1. At the info section, Change the title, to MyTheme. Change codepage, e.g 22200, replacing the code page will fixing error “A theme with the name “MyTheme 1011″ and version already exists on the server.”
   2. In the titles section, rename the names to your new name. this section is to present the name in the different language.
5. Provide an image to give a preview of your theme. This image should be placed in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES. E.g. tmbMyTheme.gif
6. Modify the c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\Layouts\1033\SPTHEMES.xml to include a reference to the new MyTheme theme
   

   <Templates>
   <TemplateID>MyTheme</TemplateID>
   <DisplayName> MyTheme </DisplayName>
   <Description> MyTheme has a white background with blue control areas and orange highlights.</Description>
   <Thumbnail>images/tmbMyTheme.gif</Thumbnail>
   <Preview>images/ tmbMyTheme.gif</Preview>
   </Templates>

7. Modify the CSS within MyTheme folder to personalize your theme.
8. Run iisreset from the command prompt
9. Apply the new theme to a “test site”,.

Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint

Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint site: http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/ !

 You can read more details on Patrick’s blog and Karine’s blog (she posted some screenshots). The Blueprint will also be announced by Bill Gates during the SharePoint Conference keynote later today, the SharePoint team blogged about the other announcements as well (SharePoint Online and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Epxress).

Steps to add properties to advanced search

1. Make sure you are on the Advanced Search page. Now, from the Site Actions, select Edit Page.

2. Click the edit link and select Modify Shared Web Part.

3. In the Advanced Search Box,

Click the Scopes and tick the show the scope picker box

expand Properties by clicking the + sign.

4. Click anywhere in the Properties box, a blue shaded “square” button (ellipsis) will appear. Click this button to view the content of the Properties box in an editor. You will see that the editor contains lot of text and there are quite a few sections in the code. We need to add the “Keywords” property to some of these sections in order to make it appear in the advanced search box properties.

5. Locate the <PropertyDefs> tag in the text and add the following property definition tag inside <PropertyDefs> and </PropertyDefs> tags.

<PropertyDef Name=”Tags” DataType=”text” DisplayName=”Tags”/>

6. Locate the tag <ResultTypes>. There is another tag inside this tag:

<ResultType DisplayName=”All Results” Name=”default”>

Add the following property reference tag just before the </ResultType> tag:

<PropertyRef Name=”Tags” />

7. Click OK to close the editor.

8. Click Apply and then OK to save the web part changes.

9. Click the Publish button to save your changes.

10. Now, go to the Advanced Search Page and search your documents using the keywords. 

You need to add knowledge scope into advanced search group by:

1.    In your browser, navigate to your site’s home page.

2.    Click the Site Actions link, and then in Site Settings, click Modify All Site Settings.

3.    In Site Collection Administration, click Search scopes.

4.    Click Advanced Search to open the Edit Display Group page.

5.    In the Scopes section, select Display for Knowledge.

6.    Click OK to save your changes. 

Display a Search Scope in the Search Box and Advanced Search Web Parts

To add the Products search scope to the scopes drop-down list for the Search Box Web Part

1. In your browser, navigate to your site’s home page.
2. Click the Site Actions link, and then in Site Settings, click Modify All Site Settings.
3. In Site Collection Administration, click Search scopes.
4. Click Search Dropdown to open the Edit Display Group page.
5. In the Scopes section, for Products, select Display.
6. Click OK to save your changes.

To add the Products search scope to the displayed scopes for the Advanced Search Web Part

1. In your browser, navigate to your site’s home page.
2. Click the Site Actions link, and then in Site Settings, click Modify All Site Settings.
3. In Site Collection Administration, click Search scopes.
4. Click Advanced Search to open the Edit Display Group page.
5. In the Scopes section, select Display for Products.
6. Click OK to save your changes.