String resource bug in the colleagues web part?

November 27, 2007   11:58

In one of my projects there is an issue with the colleagues web part. For one of our Dutch customers we are using the Dutch language pack. In combination with the out of the box colleagues web part, the rendering of the Add and Remove colleague links go wrong.

Google does not return any meaningful result for this issue. The language resource file: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\CONFIG\Resources\sps.nl-NL.resx shows the text as:

<div class=”code”>
<data name=”QuickLinks_AddColleague_pagetitle”>
 <value>Collega’s toevoegen</value>
</data>

I thought the ‘ character should be encoded as ' inside a XML file… ???? But any alterations in these files do not reflect back to the current SharePoint environment.

To me it seems that there is an error in the code to render the url. The & character is encoded while it shouldn’t be, also the title of the web part is encoded correctly:

Correct title VS wrong url:
Collega&#39;s VS Collega&amp;#39;s

Does anyone know if this is a known SharePoint bug and if there is a way to fix it?

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InfoPath publishing: The following URL is not valid

November 14, 2007   10:05

After publishing a lot of InfoPath forms, suddenly InfoPath 2007 started to present me with an error:
The following URL is not valid: www.url.com

The error made it completely impossible to publish any document to my SharePoint site. After searching some time on Google I found a few solutions which didn’t work for me:

• Only Office Sharepoint 2007
• Sharepoint Tips and Tricks

But the post from Firedancer worked all right.

The solution is to stop the System Event Notification service. It seems to me that it is more a work around as a solution, so after publishing enable the service again.

[update 15-11-2007]
You’ll only have to stop the System Event Notification service for one time. After you published the form resume the service. All new publications will go allright again. I guess that something that went wrong in the SharePoint database gets fixed after the forced publication.

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