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Maximum number of Web Parts for all zones exceeded

by Andrew Toh on September 3, 2012 in Administration

Problem

A user tries to access / create / modify a personal view and receives the following message:

Cause

The user has created too many personal views. With personal views, SharePoint actually adds each view as a web part on the page. If a user has 10 personal views, there are actually 10 web parts on the page, 9 of which are hidden depending on the personal view selected. When SharePoint reaches the default maximum of 50 web parts on the page, it will throw the above error.

Solution

There is no way for you or the user to delete personal views individually. You can remove the user’s access to the site and re-add them again but this will wipe all their personal views.

The best solution I found was to temporarily bump the MaxZonePart attribute under the web.config file to a higher value, get the user to delete some views and reset it back again.

Here are the steps:

Log in to each WFE and open the IIS Manager.
Locate the site where the user is having the issue -> Explore
Open the web.config file in notepad or other text editor.
Look for the line: <WebPartLimits MaxZoneParts=”50″ PropertySize=”1048576″ />
Change the MaxZoneParts=”50″ limit to a higher value, like MaxzoneParts=”100″.
Save the file
Do an iisreset /noforce on the WFE.
Repeat the above steps for each SharePoint web front end.

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Audience targeted webpart not working for AD Group

by Andrew Toh on February 28, 2012 in Administration

Problem

You configure audience targeting for a webpart using AD groups. A newly added user is unable to see the webpart even though you have confirmed that the account has the correct AD group memberships.

Cause

SharePoint updates AD user group memberships only after the User Profile Synchronisation service is run.

Solution

Open Central Administration -> Manage Service Applications -> User Profile Service Application

Start an Incremental synchronisation.

The user should now be able to see the audience targeted webpart.

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SharePoint 2010 Search Results Customisation

by Andrew Toh on August 24, 2011 in Development

Requirement

I was given the task of creating a simple Staff Directory for the company I work for after trialing some other products that used custom webparts. All of the products we tested did not meet our requirements or were too slow.

After some research, I found a way to customise the people search results webpart to look like a Staff Directory.

Here are the steps.

Solution

Create your search results page and add a People search results webpart.

Modify the People search results webpart

Edit Webpart -> Location Properties -> Display Properties
Use Local Visualization: Unticked
Results per page: 50 (up to you)
Click on XSL editor
Delete the code and paste the following code in:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

<xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″

xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”

xmlns:ddwrt=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime”

xmlns:asp=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20″

xmlns:SEARCHWC=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/searchserver/”>

<xsl:output method=”xml” indent=”no”/>

<xsl:param name=”SortBy” />

<xsl:param name=”DropDownOption” />

<xsl:param name=”RelevanceSortUrl” />

<xsl:param name=”RelevanceSortLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”SocialDistanceSortUrl” />

<xsl:param name=”SocialDistanceSortLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”NameSortUrl” />

<xsl:param name=”NameSortLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”IsNoKeyword” />

<xsl:param name=”IsFixedQuery” />

<xsl:param name=”ShowMoreLink” />

<xsl:param name=”MoreLinkLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”MoreLink” />

<xsl:param name=”AlertMeLink” />

<xsl:param name=”AlertMeText” />

<xsl:param name=”SrchRSSText” />

<xsl:param name=”SrchRSSLink” />

<xsl:param name=”ShowMessage” />

<xsl:param name=”ShowActionLinks” />

<xsl:param name=”SearchProviderText” />

<xsl:param name=”SearchProviderLink” />

<xsl:param name=”IsPeopleCoreResultsWebPart” />

<xsl:param name=”NoFixedQuery” />

<xsl:param name=”NoKeyword” />

<xsl:param name=”NoPeopleResults” />

<xsl:param name=”NoPeopleResults1″ />

<xsl:param name=”NoPeopleResults2″ />

<xsl:param name=”NoPeopleResults3″ />

<xsl:param name=”NoPeopleResults4″ />

<xsl:param name=”ParentOrgsLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”ViewHiearchyLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”RecentContentLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”ResponsibilitiesLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”SkillsLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”InterestsLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”PastProjectsLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”SchoolLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”MembershipLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”AboutMeLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”BaseOfficeLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”SummaryLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”ProfileViewLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”UpdateProfileLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”QueriesFoundYouLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”UpdateProfileKeywordLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”SelfSearchLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”NoKeywordLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”AddToMyColleaguesText” />

<xsl:param name=”PopupFetcingResultLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”IdPrefix” />

<xsl:param name=”LangPickerHeading” />

<xsl:param name=”LangPickerNodeSet” />

<xsl:param name=”FilterNodeSet” />

<xsl:param name=”ShowPeopleSortDropdown” />

<xsl:param name=”RecentUpdateTabLabel” />

<!– Custom fields –>

<xsl:param name=”IPPhoneLabel” />

<xsl:param name=”MobileLabel” />

<!– When there is no keywory to issue the search –>

<xsl:template name=”dvt_1.noKeyword”>

<span class=”ms-sbplain”>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test=”$IsFixedQuery”>

<xsl:value-of select=”$NoFixedQuery” />

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

<xsl:value-of select=”$NoKeyword” />

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</span>

</xsl:template>

<!– When empty result set is returned from search –>

<xsl:template name=”dvt_1.empty”>

<div class=”psrch-results”>

<xsl:if test=”$ShowActionLinks”>

<xsl:call-template name=”ActionBarTemplate” />

</xsl:if>

</div>

<span class=”srch-description” id=”CSR_NO_RESULTS”>

<xsl:value-of select=”$NoPeopleResults”/>

<ol>

<li>

<xsl:value-of select=”$NoPeopleResults1″/>

</li>

<li>

<xsl:value-of select=”$NoPeopleResults2″/>

</li>

<li>

<xsl:value-of select=”$NoPeopleResults3″/>

</li>

<li>

<xsl:value-of select=”$NoPeopleResults4″/>

</li>

</ol>

</span>

</xsl:template>

<!– Main body template–>

<xsl:template name=”dvt_1.body”>

<div class=”psrch-results”>

<xsl:if test=”$ShowActionLinks”>

<div class=”srch-sort-right2″>

<xsl:if test=”$LangPickerNodeSet and count($LangPickerNodeSet) > 0″>

<label for=”langpickerdd” id=”langpickerddlabel”>

<xsl:value-of select=”$LangPickerHeading”/>

</label>

<select title=”{$LangPickerHeading}” class=”srch-dropdown” onchange=”window.location.href=this.value” id=”langpickerdd”>

<xsl:for-each select=”$LangPickerNodeSet”>

<xsl:element name=”option”>

<xsl:attribute name=”value”>

<xsl:value-of select=”@url”/>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:if test=”@selected = ‘true'”>

<xsl:attribute name=”selected”>selected</xsl:attribute>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:value-of select=”@title”/>

</xsl:element>

</xsl:for-each>

</select>

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping=”yes”> </xsl:text>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test=”$ShowPeopleSortDropdown”>

<label for=”sortbydd” id=”sortbyddlabel”>

<xsl:value-of select=”$SortBy” />

</label>

<select title=”{$SortBy}” name=”dropdown” onchange=”window.location.href=this.value” class=”srch-dropdown” id=”sortbydd”>

<xsl:element name=”option”>

<xsl:attribute name=”value”>

<xsl:value-of select=”string($RelevanceSortUrl)”/>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:if test=”$DropDownOption = ‘0’”>

<xsl:attribute name=”selected”>selected</xsl:attribute>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:value-of select=”$RelevanceSortLabel”/>

</xsl:element>

<xsl:if test=”string-length($SocialDistanceSortUrl) > 0 and string-length($SocialDistanceSortLabel) > 0″>

<xsl:element name=”option”>

<xsl:attribute name=”value”>

<xsl:value-of select=”string($SocialDistanceSortUrl)”/>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:if test=”$DropDownOption = ‘1’”>

<xsl:attribute name=”selected”>selected</xsl:attribute>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:value-of select=”$SocialDistanceSortLabel”/>

</xsl:element>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:element name=”option”>

<xsl:attribute name=”value”>

<xsl:value-of select=”string($NameSortUrl)”/>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:if test=”$DropDownOption = ‘2’”>

<xsl:attribute name=”selected”>selected</xsl:attribute>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:value-of select=”$NameSortLabel”/>

</xsl:element>

</select>

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping=”yes”> </xsl:text>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:call-template name=”ActionBarTemplate” />

</div>

</xsl:if>

<table width=”100%” class=”ms-listviewtable”>

<thead>

<tr class=”ms-viewheadertr ms-vhltr”>

<td class=”ms-vh2″>Name</td>

<td class=”ms-vh2″>Phone</td>

<td class=”ms-vh2″>Email</td>

<td class=”ms-vh2″>Job title</td>

<td class=”ms-vh2″>Department</td>

<td class=”ms-vh2″>Office</td>

<!– Custom fields –>

<td class=”ms-vh2″>IPPhone</td>

<td class=”ms-vh2″>Mobile</td>

</tr>

</thead>

<xsl:for-each select=”All_Results/Result”>

<xsl:call-template name=”SingleResult”/>

</xsl:for-each>

</table>

<xsl:call-template name=”MoreLinkTemplate” />

</div>

</xsl:template>

<!– This template is called for each result –>

<xsl:template name=”SingleResult”>

<xsl:call-template name=”SingleResultInternal” />

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name=”SingleResultInternal”>

<xsl:variable name=”id” select=”id”/>

<xsl:variable name=”currentId” select=”concat($IdPrefix,$id)”/>

<xsl:variable name=”url” select=”url”/>

<xsl:variable name=”email” select=”workemail”/>

<xsl:variable name=”sip” select=”sipaddress”/>

<xsl:variable name=”prefix”>IMNRC(‘</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name=”suffix”>’)</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name=”hassip” select=”string-length($sip) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasemail” select=”string-length($email) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”haspn” select=”string-length(preferredname) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasydn” select=”string-length(yomidisplayname) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasjt” select=”string-length(jobtitle) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasdp” select=”string-length(department) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasorg” select=”string-length(orgnames) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”haswph” select=”string-length(workphone) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasonum” select=”string-length(officenumber) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hascol” select=”string-length(colleaguecategory) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasacu” select=”string-length(addtomycolleaguesurl) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hashier” select=”string-length(hierarchyurl) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasabme” select=”string-length(aboutme) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasresp” select=”string-length(responsibility) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hassk” select=”($FilterNodeSet and $FilterNodeSet/@title=’SPShSkills’) or hithighlightedproperties/skills/@hashh > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasint” select=”($FilterNodeSet and $FilterNodeSet/@title=’SPShInterests’) or hithighlightedproperties/interests/@hashh > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasorgparent” select=”($FilterNodeSet and $FilterNodeSet/@title=’OrgParentNames’) or hithighlightedproperties/orgparentnames/@hashh > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasmem” select=”($FilterNodeSet and $FilterNodeSet/@title=’Memberships’) or hithighlightedproperties/memberships/@hashh > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”haspp” select=”($FilterNodeSet and $FilterNodeSet/@title=’SPShPastProjects’) or hithighlightedproperties/pastprojects/@hashh > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasbol” select=”($FilterNodeSet and $FilterNodeSet/@title=’SPShLocation’) or hithighlightedproperties/baseofficelocation/@hashh > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hassch” select=”($FilterNodeSet and $FilterNodeSet/@title=’SPShSchool’) or hithighlightedproperties/schools/@hashh > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hassum” select=”count(hithighlightedsummary/c0) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasvlm” select=”string-length(profileviewlastmonth) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasvlw” select=”string-length(profileviewlastweek) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasquery” select=”string-length(queriesfoundyou) > 0″/>

<!– Custom fields –>

<xsl:variable name=”hasipphone” select=”string-length(ipphone) > 0″/>

<xsl:variable name=”hasmobile” select=”string-length(mobile) > 0″/>

<tr>

<td class=”ms-vb2″>

<xsl:if test=”$haspn”>

<a href=”{string($url)}” id=”{concat($currentId, ‘_CSR’)}”>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/preferredname” />

</a>

</xsl:if>

</td>

<td class=”ms-vb2″>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/workphone” />

</td>

<td class=”ms-vb2″>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test=”$hassip”>

<a id=”{concat($currentId, ‘_EmailLink’)}” href=”{concat(‘mailto:’, $sip)}”>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/sipaddress” />

</a>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

<a id=”{concat($currentId, ‘_EmailLink’)}” href=”{concat(‘mailto:’, $email)}”>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/workemail” />

</a>

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</td>

<td class=”ms-vb2″>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/jobtitle” />

</td>

<td class=”ms-vb2″>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/department” />

</td>

<td class=”ms-vb2″>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/officenumber” />

</td>

<!– Custom fields –>

<td class=”ms-vb2″>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/ipphone” />

</td>

<td class=”ms-vb2″>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”hithighlightedproperties/mobile” />

</td>

</tr>

</xsl:template>

<!– XSL transformation starts here –>

<xsl:template match=”/”>

<xsl:if test=”$AlertMeLink and $ShowActionLinks”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”P_Query” />

<input type=”hidden” name=”P_LastNotificationTime” />

</xsl:if>

<div class=”psrch-Main”>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test=”$IsNoKeyword = ‘True'” >

<xsl:call-template name=”dvt_1.noKeyword” />

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test=”$ShowMessage = ‘True'”>

<xsl:call-template name=”dvt_1.empty” />

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

<xsl:call-template name=”dvt_1.body”/>

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

<xsl:if test=”$IsPeopleCoreResultsWebPart and (count(All_Results/Result) > 0 or count(All_Results/FakeResult) > 0)”>

<asp:Panel ID=”PopupPanelPeopleCore” runat=”server” CssClass=”psrch-PopupPanel”>

<div id=”PopupContainer” class=”psrch-PopupContainer”>

<asp:UpdatePanel runat=”server” ID=”UpdatePanelPeopleCore” UpdateMode=”Conditional” ChildrenAsTriggers=”true”>

<ContentTemplate>

<SEARCHWC:PeopleCoreResultPopupControl

id=”PopupControl51A944753DF0430C8FE1EBAA70F3E945″

runat=”server”/>

<div id=”PopupFooter”>

<asp:UpdateProgress ID=”UpdateProgress” DisplayAfter=”0″ AssociatedUpdatePanelID=”UpdatePanelPeopleCore” runat=”server”>

<ProgressTemplate>

<span id=”Progress”>

<img class=”psrch-UpdateGraphics” src=”/_layouts/images/hig_progcircle_loading24.gif”/>

<xsl:value-of select=”$PopupFetcingResultLabel” />

</span>

</ProgressTemplate>

</asp:UpdateProgress>

</div>

</ContentTemplate>

</asp:UpdatePanel>

</div>

</asp:Panel>

</xsl:if>

</div>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name=”ActionBarTemplate”>

<xsl:if test=”string-length($AlertMeLink) > 0″>

<a href=”{$AlertMeLink}” id=”CSR_AM” title=”{$AlertMeText}”>

<img src=”/_layouts/images/bell.gif” alt=”{$AlertMeText}” border=”0″/>

</a>

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping=”yes”> </xsl:text>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test=”string-length($SrchRSSLink) > 0″>

<a type=”application/rss+xml” href=”{string($SrchRSSLink)}” title=”{$SrchRSSText}” id=”SRCHRSSL”>

<img border=”0″ src=”/_layouts/images/rss.gif” alt=”{$SrchRSSText}”/>

</a>

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping=”yes”> </xsl:text>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test=”string-length($SearchProviderLink) > 0″>

<a href=”{string($SearchProviderLink)}” title=”{$SearchProviderText}” >

<img border=”0″ src=”/_layouts/images/searchfolder.png” alt=”{$SearchProviderText}”/>

</a>

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping=”yes”> </xsl:text>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name=”GetPicUrl”>

<xsl:param name=”PicUrl”/>

<xsl:param name=”PlaceHolderUrl”/>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test=”string-length($PicUrl) < 1 or starts-with($PicUrl, ‘file:’) or starts-with($PicUrl, ‘\\’) or starts-with($PicUrl, ‘//’)”>

<xsl:value-of select=”$PlaceHolderUrl”/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

<xsl:value-of select=”$PicUrl”/>

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name=”MoreLinkTemplate”>

<xsl:if test=”$ShowMoreLink = true() and string-length($MoreLink) > 0″>

<div id=”MoreLink”>

<a href=”{string($MoreLink)}”>

<xsl:value-of select=”$MoreLinkLabel”/>

</a>

</div>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name=”RenderNameUrlMultivalue”>

<xsl:param name=”names”/>

<xsl:param name=”urls”/>

<xsl:param name=”currentId”/>

<xsl:for-each select=”$names”>

<xsl:variable name=”p” select=”position()”/>

<xsl:if test=”string-length(.) > 0″>

<xsl:if test=”$p > 1″>

<span class=”psrch-TextSeparator”> :: </span>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test=”string-length($urls[$p]) > 0″>

<a id=”{concat($currentId, ‘_MultivalueUrl’)}” href=”{string($urls[$p])}”>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”.” />

</a>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”.” />

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name=”RenderSimpleMultivalue”>

<xsl:param name=”multivalue”/>

<xsl:param name=”cutoff”/>

<xsl:for-each select=”$multivalue”>

<xsl:sort data-type=”number” order=”descending” select=”@hashh”/>

<xsl:variable name=”p” select=”position()”/>

<xsl:if test=”string-length(.) > 0″>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test=”$p = 1″>

<span id=”Multivalue”>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”.” />

</span>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test=”$p > 1 and $p <= $cutoff”>

<span class=”psrch-TextSeparator”> :: </span>

<span id=”Multivalue”>

<xsl:apply-templates select=”.” />

</span>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test=”$p = $cutoff + 1″>

…

</xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name=”HitHighlighting”>

<xsl:param name=”hh” />

<xsl:apply-templates select=”$hh”/>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”ddd”>

…

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c0″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c1″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c2″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c3″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c4″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c5″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c6″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c7″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c8″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=”c9″>

<b>

<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>

</b>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Save your changes.
Go to Location Properties -> Results Query Options
Fixed Keyword Query: ContentClass:SPSPeople
Save webpart changes
Save your page and refresh

The people search results webpart should now look something like this:

Note that we added two custom fields: IP Phone and Mobile. You can remove this or add your own custom fields by modifying the sections with <!– Custom fields –> in the above XSLT.

Other things you might want to do is change the default sorting of results to Name.

You can do this easily by modifying the Search Action Links webpart properties: