Frequently Asked Questions

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  Content -SLAM! (SharePoint List Association Manager) is our open-source platform on codeplex that allows developers to describe complex relationships between lists and content types in an entirely new way

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• Can SLAM be setup / used by non-developers

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• Is it possible to use slam to setup master/child lists in SharePoint and then query those from an external app? Basically I want to use SP + SLAM as a front-end for 2 SQL tables (query/edit/insert/delete).

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• Can SLAM be set up to work across multiple sites / subsites?

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• I'm having trouble setting up my slam.config. Do you have any resources available to help?

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• Does SLAM work in languages other than English?

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• Does SLAM work in a 64-bit version of SharePoint?

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• What server setups are supported by SLAM?

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• What is SLAM?

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• How does SLAM work with SharePoint 2010?

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• Which SharePoint types match up to which SQL types in the SLAM config?

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• Do I need to create database tables manually?

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• Do I need to create a database?

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• Is the SLAM config case sensitive?

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• Does the database stay up to date as data in SharePoint changes, or do I need to manully re-synch?

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• How does SLAM keep track of associations?

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• How does SLAM work?

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• Where can I get SLAM?

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• I'd really like to do xyz, but SLAM doesn't seem to do it out of the box. What can I do?

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• How can I contribute to SLAM?

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• Does SLAM work on Windows Server 2008?

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• Does SLAM work on Windows Vista / 7?

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• It looks like the SLAM deployment package has a .reg file. What does this do?

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• What's the difference between SLAMing a list versus a content type?

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• Does SLAM enforce referential integrity in the database?

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• I'm getting an "Unkown Error". What should I do?

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• How do I configure SLAM to associate lists?

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• What does Synchronize do?

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• What happens when I Activate SLAM?

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• What happens when I deactivate SLAM?

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• How can I use SLAM to create a simple report?

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• I'm interested in the hierarchy addon to SLAM. How can I set it up?

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• Does SLAM integrate with workflows?

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• When SLAMing People, it adds numbers and the # in front of their name. Why does this happen?

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• Can SLAM be used to sync document / picture libraries?

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• What's a Type Profile?

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• How can I create my own Type Profile?

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• Can I SLAM a list with a space in its name?

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• Does SLAM look at the Internal or Displayed name when matching fields in SharePoint?

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• Can SLAM be set up without installing any server-side code?

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• SLAM doesn't appear to be updating the database. What should I do?

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• What authentication should be used for SLAM?

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• SLAM Control panel says that it cannot locate the slam.config, but it's in the correct directory. What should I do?

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