WSS - Search Indexer

If you get the following error when trying to run a search on a WSS site:

Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer. Contact your administrator for more information.

You'll need to set the indexer on the content database of the site collection. This is done by going to the Central Adminstration > Application Management > Content Databases.

In the Search Server option, choose the Indexer which you want to index your site. Then give it time to index.

Customizing Alert Emails

You need to create a copy of AlertTemplates.xml

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/07/customizing-alert-notifications-and-alert-templates-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

Create a Custom Site Definition - Link Dump

Intro: How to create your own custom site definition (Todd)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2007/08/16/creating-a-custom-site-definition-in-wss-v3-moss.aspx

Creating a Site Definition from an Existing Site Definition (MSDN)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms868598.aspx

and more generically Customizing Templates
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa151982.aspx

Creating a custom site collection that automatically creates subsites
http://suguk.org/blogs/sharepointhack/archive/2007/06/03/3595.aspx

Supported and Unsupported Scenarios:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898631

Basically, creating your own templates is supported, customizing the original templates is NOT supported.

File not found error when creating Site from Template

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2367212&SiteID=1

Filter Views based on Approval / Workflow Status

You need to create the filter based on the integer representation of the status value you are looking for, like this:

Not Started 0

Failed on Start 1

In Progress 2

Error Occurred 3

Canceled 4

Completed 5

Failed on Start (retrying) 6

Error Occurred (retrying) 7

Canceled 15

Approved 16

Rejected 17

More Branding stuff ...

How to remove the SharePoint blue!

Joel once again to the rescue. This is quite a nice solution...

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/04/12/master-page-and-themes-on-wss-sites-in-moss.aspx