SharePoint User Group UK

I am having a bit of difficulty using the relative URL's within SharPoint. On my masterpage I have added the following link.

<a href="<%$SPUrl:~Site/_layouts/viewlists.aspx %>" runat="server" >View all site content</a>

when I save it I am shown an error in SPD and on the page(page doesn't load) :

An error occurred during the processing of . The expression prefix 'SPUrl' was not recognized.  Please correct the prefix or register the prefix in the <expressionBuilders> section of configuration.

 

Anyone have any ideas? I have seen other people experiencing this however no solutionw as ever given. Is it a case of the site being WSS rather than MOSS?

Have you got the publishing web control prefix registered on the page?

<%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

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Andrew Carter
.Net & SharePoint

hmmm... I added that to the site and still the same issue. I take it this means I am required to use this within MOSS instead of WSS.

is there a valid method for WSS?

Yes, the publishing feature is only for MOSS (with the publishing feature enabled), so there isn't a way to use that method in WSS.

However, if you're just looking to reference the layouts pages, you can simply use a single forward slash, which will always provide access to the site root, such as:

href="/_layouts/blah...."

 

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Paul Leigh

bugger.. seems to be lot of functionality missing from wss.

Will have to make do with absolute urls.

Opps teach me not to read the thread fully, did'nt take in the WSS bit only  =o  , but yes there is a lot of functionality in MOSS that WSS does not have.

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Andrew Carter
.Net & SharePoint