SharePoint Life Lessons #001
Posted by Steve Pietrek on February 26, 2008
Ran into a few anomalies I wanted to get down.
1. I was attempting to create a site using the stsadm command “createsite”. I was receiving the error:
The URL '/sites/intranet/' is invalid. It may contain illegal characters, or be too long
My script was defined below:
"%SPDIR%binstsadm.exe" -o createsite -url http://localhost:22000/sites/intranet/ -ownerlogin localhostadministrator -owneremail administrator@sharepoint.net
The issue is with the trailing slash in the URL. It needs to be removed.
"%SPDIR%binstsadm.exe" -o createsite -url http://localhost:22000/sites/intranet/-ownerlogin localhostadministrator -owneremail administrator@sharepoint.net
The trailing slash did not cause issues with deletesite or installing/activating features.
2. When accessing fields in a Sharepoint list, I would receive the error:
Object set to null reference
I was using the code to access the field:
item["URL"].ToString();
The problem is the column was not required so there may not be any data in the column. To resolve, use the following code when accessing the field:
Convert.ToString(item["URL"]);
