Steven Van de Craen's Blog

Hi there, could it be that this one only works with english SharePoint installations? Because I don't get it work here on a german one. Regards, Kristof

No it shouldn't be language specific. Perhaps the browser file isn't picked up. Make sure you have it in the correct location (the web app you're targeting + any extended web apps you want it to appear on).

Hello Steven, Looks like a great little add-on (it really gets me that MS didn't include these sort of things by default). Anywho... I followed the Installation instructions, did an IISRESET and I still can't see this working in either existing lists or new ones. Any other conditions or instuctions to get this working?

Hi Alex Clear your .NET FW temporary folder. Works for me. Hi Steven Great post!

Hi, I'm also having problems with this one. It's a shame as it's such a nice concept. I'm running SharePoint SP1, browser is IE7. I've copied the browser file to the App_Browsers folder of my webApp. The only other file in that folder is compat.browser. I've also dragged the assembly to the GAC folder and that looked like it worked fine. I have the Office Server Publishing feature enabled. I've tried iisreset and recreated a Link column to no avail. I've never cleared the .Net Temp folder before, so I don't know what to do there. Just delete the files within "Temporary ASP.NET Files\root" folder? I'm sure I must be missing some other dependency somewhere.. If anyone else had to do some other trick to get this going, please post...

Hi Again, Not to detract from Steven's effort, but Microsoft also has a technet article where they describe the process for creating a control like this. It might be useful for those that can't get Steven's solution to work. link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc337907.aspx

I have been tracking this issue and it seems to be related to compat.browser in the App_Browsers folder and caching. Just open this file in Notepad and save it (no need to change anything). Now the other browser files will be 'read' and my modification will be visible.

Steven, Is there anyway to modify this browse button to allow you to browse to the file system? I have a business requirement that users need to be able to LINK to documents stored in a network share.

Hi Josh, the Allitems view is not really the place to do it. Since you're modifying the item it is better do to than when the item is edited. What you're asking can be acomplished with a custom field type that stores the link, and a 'network document picker' control that allows you to select one. It would work using ActiveX and thus only in Internet Explorer.

hi, very useful post. but is there any solution for WSS3.0???

4000, WSS does not have the Asset Selector so you would need to build or buy.

Hi, Great solution! But is there a way to allow brosing outside MOSS (e.g. file share, etc)?

Nikolay, You can manually specify a link (file://share or \\share) but there's no Asset selector for that.

Thanks, Steven. This is a great trick. Robin Meure found out a way to deploy this: http://community.zevenseas.com/Blogs/Robin/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=67