SharePoint - Design and Customization

• Daylight Savings, TimeZones and XML: update of my JavaScript code (used to extend the Rooms and Equipment Reservation application template) so it takes into account the time zone.

SharePoint – Search

• Some interesting facts about SharePoint 2007 Search

SharePoint - Setup, Upgrade, Administration and Operation

• Unwanted Authentication Prompts: Post outlining the causes of authentication prompts when using SharePoint.
• Alert: Stopping Windows SharePoint Services Web Application discards customizations of SharePoint Web Applications!: This post describes what happens if you stop the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application in SharePoint Central Administration and makes clear why this should be considered very well before doing so, as you’ll loose probably some customizations.
• CKS Forms Based Authentication Solution: SharePoint solution to manage forms based authenticated users (a newer, more complete version of the tool described in my post Installing the IEE Forms Based Authentication Solution).

Solution: Create SharePoint alerts while logged in on the correct Web Application

The cause of this problem was because I created SharePoint alerts for some users entering the Forms Based authentication Web Application. I created these SharePoint alerts as farm administrator while being logged in to the first Web Application configured with Windows authentication (http://intranet).

Apparently, the url of the Web Application is stored based on the url of the moment of creation of the SharePoint alert. It ignores the fact which authentication provider will be used by the SharePoint user for whom the alert is created.

Creating the SharePoint alerts for other users while being logged in to the second Web Application fixed my problem.

Problem description: No active bill of materials version exists

Upon opening the BOM Designer (Inventory Management>Item Details>select an item of Item type BOM>BOM>Designer), no graphic display of the BOM tree structure is shown. Instead an error is shown: No active bill of materials version exists.

However, if we take a loot at the BOM version for the item (Inventory Management>Item Details>BOM>Lines), it is Active and Approved.

Solution: Set the default order settings for the BOM item

This problem occurs if no Default order settings are defined for the BOM item. To fix the error, specify the Default order settings (Inventory Management>Item Details>Setup>Default order settings). Specify the default Purchase, Inventory and Sales site.

Re-open the BOM Designer for your BOM item: the graphic display of the BOM tree structure is shown now. The previous mentioned error is just a bit confusing, because it mentions you don’t have an active BOM version, while you have one. In fact, the error shown has nothing to do an active BOM version, which may mislead you and lead to a lot of searching to fix this error…