SharePoint 2010 CMS Setup

Report · Jul 24, 2012

I'm trying to configure FrameMaker 10 to use SharePoint 2010 as a CMS. I have the URL and Port number, and I'm the owner of the site collection that I want to use (the one pointed to from the URL). When I log in from the Repository Manager, I can see the libraries I've set up there, but if I click a plus sign to browse any of the libraries, I get an eror message: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I'm afraid that is not a very useful error message.

A couple more clues: I can command FrameMaker to upload a file or an active file, and I do get a progress bar that eventually disappears. But the file does not actually upload. Same thing for creating a folder - it appears that it is going to work, but when I check SharePoint, no folder was actually created. In fact, if I search the library there is no sign of the file or folder that FrameMaker attempted to upload. Nor do I get any error message.

From the context of the messages here relating to SharePoint, it seems many do have it working, however I'm at a loss as to see how this was achieved. Ideas?

Steve

Report · Jul 24, 2012

I am not sure if you have connected the SP server from Framemaker properly,by using the server name,user name ,password and repository.

Try deleting and create the server again.

Harpreet

Report · Jul 24, 2012

OK, I deleted the connection and re-created it using a different name. Same result.

Steve

Report · Jul 24, 2012

try this is SP

Expand “Sites”

Expand “SharePoint Web Services” and select “SecurityTokenServiceApplication”

Double click on “Authentication”(under IIS)

Disable “Forms Authentication” and ASP.NET impersonation

Confirm that only Windows and Anonymous Authentication are enabled

IISRESET

Report · Jul 24, 2012

I'll have to get some local help. I'm the owner of the site, but I'm not the SharePoint Admin for the enterprise. I'll report after I forward this info to them.

Steve

Report · Jul 31, 2012

OK I finally got an answer from our SharePoint folks. They say that all of the suggested settings above are already applied. Any other ideas?

Report · Aug 02, 2012

A final update here - I got this working correctly today. It seems the library types I had chosen, or their configuration caused the problem. I happened to be looking at the repository manager and noticed that the Shared Documents library was also visible. When I clicked on that, it opened just fine. That was the clue I needed to get the whole library working. I killed the document libraries I had created and set up the structure in the one that worked.

I just uploaded all of my books and the related files. I turned on versioning, and tested a checkout / edit / check in cycle and it all seems to play fine.

Thanks for the help guys!

Steve