I am confused about what I can use to edit my office live sites with. I was using FrontPage 2003 before the upgrade, but I now have Expression Web and SharePoint Designer 2007 as well. I intend to use SharePoint Designer 2007 to develop some workflow enhanced projects, but what do I use to develop the Website side of my Office Live Accounts?
Peace be with You
Mark Sanford
Hi Mark,
For your business applications and workspaces, you are correct that SharePoint Designer 2007 is the right tool to do workflow enhanced projects or other rich apps with business logic.
For the public facing web site, you can use either the Office Live Web Site Designer (the Web UI for editing pages) or you can choose to activate your own design tool. Once you have made that choice, if you have not already, you may use any website design tool you choose including Expression Web, FrontPage 2003, Notepad, etc. To activate your own design tool, just go to "Website" in the navigation and on Page manager, select the site actions dropdown in the upper right corner to see the option to activate your own design tool.
Thanks!
Hi Chris
I am having a probnlem with editing my office live account...
I tried to do the activating thing that you said... but when i went to "Site Actions" dropdown, it only said Site Administration and Restore Site...
And then I went to my home page and in the "standard Buttons" toolbar, in internet explorer, I clicked the edit with Microsoft Expression Web button...
and expression web opened and an error message popped up saying "Server Error: The version of Windows Sharepoint Services running on this server is more recent than the version of Sharepoint Designer you are using. You need a more recent version of sharpoint designer."
Please reply soon, thanks
Greetings,
If thats the case I think you have Microsoft Office Live Basics Subscription which doesn't have the option to activate own design tool.
Chris,
I've been using Designer to modify the Title and description sections of one of our Office Live Premium sites as I've done with several standard SharePoint sites. This worked fine until I suddenly began to get the following error:
Once this error appears, it aborts fully opening Designer. As far as I've been able to determine, there is no more recent version of Designer than the one I am using and it has all updates installed. [SharePoint Designer 2007 (12.0.4518.1014) MSO (12.0.6017.5000)]
I reset our Office Live site back to the original site definition to eliminate any problems caused by changes I'd made and this had no effect. However, this has begun happening even on Office Live sites that have never been modified. This has also now begun to happen randomly with other Designer users and on other Office Live sites. It also happen whether we open Designer from within IE or if we open Designer and then load the site.
Any idea why this is happening or what we can do to fix it.
Thanks,
Doug
Yes, I have seen something like this message before. Are you running SharePoint Designer 2007 on XP or Server 2003? If so, what you may need to do is clear out the LiveID/Passport accounts that XP has cached for you.
There is a situations such as yours where you work on multiple Office Live sites that the credentials you entered for one site get cached by XP. Then when you attempt to edit a different site that needs a different set of credentials, it automatically attempts to use those from the first site and does not offer you an opportunity to change users.
See this thread for more information and exact steps on how to clear out these accounts. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=994806&SiteID=1
Please let us know if this helps!
Thanks
I also am using expression web for website development. however, that is not the issue. I cannot access the link on my office live (I have the full subscription) website link. Thus, there is apparently no other way to get a web site out there via office live. Has anyone run into this and, found a workaround?
Hi Todd,
You have already raised this same issue on several threads. For the sake of keeping this forum managable, let us try to use the thread about the Vista web folders problem to track the issue, since this discussion has the most complete information.
Thanks,
Chris
