Friday, January 11, 2008

Latest IFilters released from Microsoft

Its happening yet again...
William Bear has the below report posted on his blog:
"The Microsoft Filter Pack for search has been released enabling critical search scenarios across a variety of Microsoft Search products including SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express Edition, Exchange Server 2005, SQL Server 2005/2008, and Windows Desktop Search 3.1/4.0.
The Microsoft Filter Pack provides iFilters for the following file type extensions:
.docx (Microsoft Office 2007 Word Document)
.docm (Microsoft Office Word Macro-Enabled Document)
.pptx (Microsoft Office 2007 PowerPoint Presentation)
.xlsx (Microsoft Office 2007 Excel Worksheet)
.xlsm (Microsoft Office Excel Macro-Enabled Worksheet)
.xlsb (Microsoft Office Excel Binary Worksheet)
.zip (WinZip File)
.one (Microsoft Office OneNote Section)
.vdx (Microsoft Office Visio Drawing)
.vsd (Microsoft Office Visio Drawing)
.vss (Microsoft Office Visio Stencil)
.vst (Microsoft Office Visio Template)
.vsx (Microsoft Office Visio Stencil)
.vtx (Microsoft Office Visio Template)
NOTE The current release is not localized and available at this time in English only supporting both x86 and x64 architectures. To download the Microsoft Filter Pack or to learn more visit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en."

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Problem with the Cascading Dropdown Lists

I was hitting my head hard when I tried to link two dropdowns linked to each other.
The selection on the first Dropdown filtered the contents of the second Dropdown.
Then I need to select an item from the second Dropdown.
All worked good, except that after the process completes, the second Dropdown is left with just the selected item. All the filtered items are gone . This sucks!!!
After much googling, I found this blog which refers it to be a bug in the InfoPath Form Services and has a workaround for it.
Great !!! however things work, you are good to go.
Here is the link to the blog:
http://www.mcse.ms/archive/index.php/t-2304207.html

Hope it saves your time !