in

SharePoint Blogs

The Best Place for SharePoint-related Blogs

MOSS 2007 and Software Product Lines

Hi. My name is Alfred de Weerd. In this blog I will deal with MOSS 2007 and development professionalisation in general. I'm planning to write about subjects like a MOSS product line in general, reusable assets, software factories, processes and the like.

MOSS Feature Generator 0.7 released

Today, the MFG, version 0.7 has been released. It allows you to generate MOSS 2007 Features quickly and accurately, according to the functionality you created by using the MOSS Gui. It generates XML files by reading the properties for the Site Columns, Content Types and List from the object model.

New features include the creation of MOSS Features with drag & drop from your original MOSS 2007 Site, a better separation between Feature (feature.xml) and functionality (elements.xml, schema.xml, AllItems.aspx, other forms and views), and more control on the properties of features and functionality.

You can find the MFG at http://www.codeplex.com/mossfeaturegenerator

 

 

 

Above some figures, to give you an impression. I'll update you soon with a more elaborate description.

 Alfred 

 

 

Comments

 

Dagur said:

Looks excellent, but when I try to use it I always get an ACCESS DENIED error. I'm in the site owner group so what else might I need?

April 14, 2008 5:56 AM
 

weerda said:

Hi Dagur,

I can think of a few reasons:

- your account doesn't have enough rights on the MOSS content database. Since youre not running the code from a MOSS site itself, the database might not know you. Either run the code as a local admin, or make yourself a db_owner in the content database.

- In your web application policy, rights for the site owner have been overruled. See Central Administration > Application Management > Policy for Web Application

But without further details, this is a guess. Are you working on an environment were you are the administrator, and what does the log say? Do you have the

same problem if you run other external code?

The problem might also be solved if the code is run with elevated privileges (SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges). I do not wish to create a security hazard, however.

Alfred

April 14, 2008 7:45 AM
 

Dagur said:

Giving myself full rights under  

Central Administration > Application Management > Policy for Web Application    

 worked for me. Thanks!

April 16, 2008 10:46 AM

Leave a Comment

(required )  
(optional )
(required )  
Add

Need SharePoint Training? Attend a SharePoint Bootcamp!

Posts (c) their respective authors. Everything else (c) 2007 SharePoint Experts