So today the question was posed,

What happens if you stop the Central Administration or Web service in SharePoint in a small farm/single server?

Well maybe you should start them again. How you ask?

Use the stsadm command to do so. Simply run stsadm from the 12 hive (by default C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\bin) with the following options

For the Web Service
stsadm.exe -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService

For central administration
stsadm.exe -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService -servicename WSS_Administration

So today I was trying to work out how to create a web part connection using pictures in one list and linking that to text in another list. Ohh and all this without having to create a custom web part!

First I tried adding a picture column to the first list, and creating the connection on various areas of the picture. No such luck.

Next I decided that I was going to have to write some code, but wanted to be able to get other people to do this as well without having to fire up Visual Studio, so I investigated a Form Web Part.

The way this works is that we upload our pictures into a library. We then need to configure the Form Web Part to use these pictures as Hyperlinks. Some JavaScript is then run to set a hidden text field to a predefined value based on the image clicked on, and finally the connection provides the data from the hidden field to a column in the other list.

Here is the code

<!-- Start JavaScript -->

<script type="text/javascript">

//Function to tell the page to set a hidden textbox (Resource Type) to value 

//"Applications" and then posting it to SharePoint. 

//The value in the textbox will be used to filter the 

//list that the web part is connected to

function application1()

{

document.getElementById("Resource Type").value = "Application";

_SFSUBMIT_;

}

function tool1()

{

document.getElementById("Resource Type").value = "Tools";

_SFSUBMIT_;

}

</script>

<!-- set up a hidden textbox that will be used to hold the --> 

<!-- filter data for the web par connection -->

<p><input name="Resource Type" id="Resource Type" type="hidden" /></p>

<!-- set up a hyperlink of a picture that when clicked on -->

<!-- will run the javascript to set the custom field type -->

<!-- for the web part connection -->

<a href="javascript:application1()">

<img alt="Applications" src="/applications.jpg" /></a><br />

<a href="javascript:tool1()"><img alt="Tools" src="/applications.jpg" /></a>