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| LeapPDF, super simple, PDF conversions for Office365 | 5/20/2013 7:29:28 AM | | See also: LeapMessages and LeapBackup LeapPDF is a super simple way to convert Office documents that are stored in an Office365 SharePoint Document Library to PDF. We set up a Document Inbox and a PDF Outbox, then, everything you drop into the Inbox is automatically converted to PDF and placed into the Outbox. It’s that easy. We setup everything ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Daniel McPherson | Categories: |
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| SharePoint 2013 : Service Account & Permissions required for Search Service Application | 5/10/2013 10:17:21 AM | | Following Least Privilege Principle, i always wanted to nail down on permissions required to setup, manage and administer SharePoint, recently working quite a lot on ensuring how important it is working with a close environment which mimics Production environment which makes you sleep as you code won’t fail in such environment as you already ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: |
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| Adding Active Directory Domain Service Role | 4/8/2013 12:36:00 PM | | Adding Active Directory Role This has been one of the sub-topic while configuring DS role for SharePoint 2013 Machine. 1. Open Server Manager
2. Click Add Roles and Feature.
3. Click Next
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| SharePoint 2013 Machine Part–1 : Building Base Windows 2012 Machine | 4/8/2013 11:20:00 AM | | This is not a new Topic, but still wanted to keep a note for myself. Objective Build a Base Windows 2012 Server which can be use to build other servers like DC server, Application Server, Web Frontends. (I’ll try to keep screenshot instead of text, but would like to mention some important information as required) Create new Virtual Machine ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: SP2013, Windows Server 2012, Best Practice, Installation & Configuration |
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| Sys-Prep Machine | 4/8/2013 11:12:00 AM | | Ideally when we are preparing base machine, the machine should be patched up to most recent update and should have all the other base configuration done, now this machine should be used as a template to create other machine. To enable this we need to make the base machine as a template machine. Note: This command should only be executed when you ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: Windows Server 2012, Tips & Tricks |
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| Disable Shutdown Event tracker | 4/8/2013 10:49:20 AM | | Often we have seen on development server we need to provide a reason why the Server was restarted, or shutdown. This is a good way to keep track who performed what action. This is handled by the group policy called as Shutdown Event tracker. We don’t need to provide these information when working on Development Box, so we can disable this ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: SP2013, Windows Server 2012, Tips & Tricks |
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| SharePoint Hosted App, App Part, Document Library Upload.aspx / EditForm.aspx and “X-Frame-Options” | 4/1/2013 9:01:44 PM | | Before we drill and talk further would like to take sometime to explain different pieces in the topic. Lets first look at X-Frame-Options. X-Frame-Options : In a simplest way this is a response header which tells browser (client) that the Website doesn’t want its page (which is currently being accessed) to be shown in a IFrame so as to prevent ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: SP2013, APPS |
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| Australian SharePoint Conference - Sydney 10/11 April | 3/12/2013 5:06:44 AM | | I will be presenting on Social Computing (no surprise there) at the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney. Look forward to seeing you there. As always, there is a fantastic line up of speakers, and with the release of SharePoint 2013 this is the right time to accelerate your learning by taking in the broad range of topics offered. So head ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Daniel McPherson | Categories: |
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| PowerShell Script to Free RAM in Just one Click | 3/7/2013 11:00:00 AM | | Is this familiar to you?
Doing SharePoint 2013 Development on Local Box your Dev box should definitely be loaded up with Lots of RAM and SSD.
But what if you still running on a lower configuration where you every now and then need to do IIS reset and restart other service manually to get some RAM,
I'm sick of doing manual ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: SP2013, Tips & Tricks, PowerShell |
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| Announcing LeapMessages, a new SMS Superpower for Office365 | 2/26/2013 12:38:38 PM | | See also: LeapBackup and LeapPDF LeapMessages is a super simple way to send a text messages to mobile phones directly from SharePoint in Office365. It uses standard SharePoint interfaces to turn a SharePoint list into a Text Message outbox, turning a simple list item into Text Messages. We set up everything you need with just a couple of short ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Daniel McPherson | Categories: |
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| Introducing Leap. Superpowers for Office365 | 2/20/2013 10:57:55 AM | | I’m very pleased to be announcing the launch of new set of solutions for Office365. We call it Leap, and it all about bringing superpowers to SharePoint in Office365. Over the next two weeks we will be introducing the first two new powers. LeapBackup:- A one-click, super simple, cloud backup for Office365 (SharePoint). While we know the cloud ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Daniel McPherson | Categories: |
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| LeapBackup, one-click, super simple, cloud backup for Office365 | 2/20/2013 8:37:00 AM | | See also: LeapMessages and LeapPDF LeapBackup is a one-click, super simple, cloud backup for Office365. It uses standard SharePoint interfaces to create a complete backup of your SharePoint site, and then stores it securely on the Microsoft Azure Storage service. Once securely stored, your backup history is available for you to: Download it, ... | | Comments: 3 | Author: Daniel McPherson | Categories: |
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| SP2013 – Creating Custom App Web Template and Applying Custom MaterPage for Our Beautiful Apps | 2/15/2013 8:21:57 AM | |
When creating Apps in SharePoint you would always want to provide your own branding and would like to have some default artefacts as part of your App Template, so what you need
Custom App Template
Custom App Master Page
I've looked around and didn't find any article and post around how you start with it, so thought it should spend some time ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: SP2013, APPS, Branding |
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| SharePoint 2013 Configure Non-Farm User Account for App Development | 2/11/2013 1:47:37 PM | | To get started with SP2013 App Development on local box, there are lots of guideline which talks about how you setup you environment, but when following the best practice for development, I was stumbled upon how do you do App Development with Least Privilege, so you don't want to do development with SharePoint Farm Administrator account, as you may ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: SP2013, Apps, Best Practice |
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| SharePoint 2013: Working with User Profiles & JavaScript CSOM | 2/3/2013 6:03:00 PM | | SharePoint 2013 has added a variety of functionality to the Client API. One of them is the ability to fetch User Profile data. Now you can directly query the user profiles and get the required data from the client site. This can be really useful if you are building apps.Before we get started with the code, lets make couple of things sure. First, ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: SharePoint 2013, JavaScript, Performance, Office 365, User Profile |
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| SharePoint 2013: Elevate User Access with App Only Policy | 1/29/2013 2:35:00 PM | | In SharePoint 2013 Apps, the authorization is handled by a 2 part mechanism. Along with the current user's permissions, the app permissions are also taken into account. User permissions and app permissions are two separate entities which dictate whether an app is allowed to perform a certain action.When you build an app, you can specify that what ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: SharePoint 2013 |
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| SharePoint 2013 and Maximum Degree of Parallelism | 1/27/2013 5:54:00 PM | | Yesterday while installing SharePoint 2013 on production environment I encountered an issue stating that
"This SQL Server instance does not have the required "max degree of parallelism" setting of 1. Database provisioning operations will continue to fail if "max degree of parallelism" is not set 1 or the current account does not have permissions ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: SharePoint 2013 |
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| Configuring Anonymous Access for SharePoint 2013 site and Javascript Client Object Model | 1/20/2013 4:29:00 PM | | Recently I came across a requirement to enable anonymous access for SharePoint 2013 site. Now, this seems to be a very simple requirement but the twist here was that anonymous access should work with ECMASCRIPT. Had it been server side code, we could have simply executed our code within run with elevated privilleges and thats it. But with ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: SharePoint 2013, Sandbox Solution, ECMASCRIPT Client Object Model |
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| Configuring Navigation Settings in Sandbox Solution | 1/5/2013 4:17:00 PM | | Hello Kind Readers,
Recently I came across with a scenario where I had the requirement to configure the Navigation Settings (available in the Look And Feel section) so as to have different quick launch or current navigation for different subsites. It seemed to be a quite simple task where you can make use of the PublishingWeb class and set the ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: Sandbox Solution |
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| Configuring Failover Database in SharePoint 2010 | 12/25/2012 6:29:00 PM | | Amongst the various new features introduced in SharePoint 2010, Fail over database is a one. SharePoint 2010 is mirroring aware. This means that their is high availability of database if you have done the database mirroring at SQL level and have set the failover instance for your database at SharePoint level.
In simple terms, it means that if the ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Working with Taxonomy and JavaScript in SharePoint 2013 | 12/19/2012 12:06:00 PM | | SharePoint 2013 has introduced some nice new features, one of which is the ability to manipulate managed metadata with the JavaScript Object Model. Unlike SharePoint 2010, we can now do a variety of operations with the Taxonomy Items in SharePoint 2013. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, there is not a lot of documentation available on ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: SharePoint 2013, JavaScript, ECMA Script Client Object Model, Managed Metadata |
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| Light on Quality (L.O.Q) | 12/19/2012 11:16:00 AM | | "Quality" is great word and is an integral part our daily routine life. Before writing this blog post, After Googling the term I found Wikipedia's most appropriate from rest.
"Quality is Non-inferiority or superiority of something. It's Fitness for purpose."
Simple and importance of "Quality". Sounds good...but how it's integral part our Daily ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Anurag Mala | Categories: Test Principles |
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| Welcome to Testing Blog | 12/4/2012 11:39:00 AM | | Hi everyone out there, cheers from the only tester in Zevenseas family. I have been always passionate about sharing my experiences with testing so far and here I'm. When ever I encounter with quality enthusiasts around here it inspires me to travel the extra mile to learn the innovations happening around to keep myself/colleagues updated. ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Anurag Mala | Categories: Test Principles |
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| Side by Side – Virtual Box + Hyper-V (Windows 8 Pro) – Solve with Different Boot Configuration | 11/21/2012 1:32:53 PM | | As excited as you, I recently started working on Windows 8, wanted to run my old Virtual Box VMs instead of converting/importing them in Hyper-V. Without a hitch I installed Virtual Box on my fresh Windows 8 Pro, being very curious and greedy I also wanted to use Hyper-V, but due to project work couldn't really get all my VM's completely imported ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: Workarounds, Virtual Box, Windows8, Hyper-V, Tips & Tricks |
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| Windows 8 – Metro Apps – Reporting – No Internet connection Available | 11/8/2012 1:41:28 PM | | It's been only a week I installed Windows 8 – Pro on my PC, fresh install. I must say Windows 8 is incredible with a very fresh look and feel, it sleek, smooth and very much performance optimized.
I'm running Windows 8 Pro on Dell – XPS 15Z – Core I7 (3rd Generation), 1TB HDD (5200 RPM), 8 GM RAM. My installation experience was really great it took ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: Workarounds, Windows8, Apps |
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| Querying List Items from Large Number of Sites in SharePoint | 11/3/2012 9:39:00 PM | |
When scouting the web for working with SharePoint Large Lists, you can find many articles which deal with fetching a huge number of items from one particular list. But very little data when you want to fetch items from a large number of sub sites. So after a little bit of poking around, I decided to blog about some of my findings ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: Performance, SharePoint 2010 |
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| SharePoint List Indexes : Under the Hood | 11/3/2012 8:41:00 PM | |
You already must be knowing that SharePoint provides the functionality to index columns so querying on them will be faster and that Throttling will not occur. Let us look at how SharePoint maintains this index and how exactly is it stored in the Content Database.
SharePoint maintains multiple tables in the content database with names ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: Performance, SharePoint 2010 |
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| The SPWebCollection.WebsInfo property | 10/22/2012 7:22:00 PM | | Recently, while browsing some MSDN docs, I came across the WebsInfo property of the SPWebCollection class. This property is a collection of the SPWebInfo class which contains metadata about each web in the given web collection.Methods and properties such as SPWeb.GetSubWebsForCurrentUser, SPSite.AllWebs and SPWeb.Webs, all return an object of ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: Performance, SharePoint 2010 |
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| PowerShell scripts for SharePoint 2010 | 10/16/2012 7:54:00 PM | | I was working with Large Lists recently and needed to create huge amount of test data. I had to work with about 2,000 Sub Sites, 2,000 Lists, 6,000 documents and about 20,000 list items. So naturally the all so powerful PowerShell was the only answer for creating such an amount of test data with so much flexibility and ease of use. So I thought to ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: SharePoint 2010, Powershell |
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| Standalone SharePoint 2010 Foundation/Server Farm Installation – With Best Practice for developing Sandbox Solution | 10/16/2012 1:26:27 PM | | Back, after long time but was really keen on sharing my experience on Standalone SharePoint 2010 Installation – with best practice (least privilege access) for Sandbox Solution development. I've looked around and haven't found any post which talks about it. Well I'm *not* going to cover in detail about the steps with snapshot, otherwise this post ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: Installation, SP2010, Sandbox, Best Practice |
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| Caching Options in SharePoint 2010 | 10/15/2012 7:21:00 PM | |
So recently we had to look up options for caching data in our project and I took the responsibility of doing some research on the various options available for caching in SharePoint 2010. The basic motive behind implementing caching was to reduce the calls to the database and hence improve the performance.
Here are some of my findings:
1) ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: Performance, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Export List Data to Excel in SharePoint | 10/11/2012 6:34:00 PM | | Recently I came across a requirement where I had to export data of a list from inside a custom webpart to excel. After some research I came across many articles stating creating SPGridView and then using HTTPcontext Response object to write the response into an excel file.But out of curiosity I thought of diving into the OOB export functionality ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: WebParts |
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| Modifying the list view using ECMASCRIPT | 9/23/2012 6:32:00 AM | | Lately I came across a requirement where I was supposed to modify the list view using javascript client object model. The requirement was that I had to fetch a view of a list from sharepoint which had certain fields in it which were not there in the existing view of the list. Now the problem was that how much hard I tried to update the view and ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: ECMASCRIPT Client Object Model |
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| Firing events inside a modal dialog in SharePoint 2010 | 9/21/2012 11:35:00 AM | | Lately I came across a requirement where I had to fetch user input and based on that perform some validations on the click event. All of this was supposed to happen inside a modal dialog inside SharePoint 2010. Initially it seemed quite simple but when I started to do it I really had to struggle to get the click event functional inside the modal ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: ECMASCRIPT Client Object Model |
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| Fetching the list view using ECMASCRIPT | 9/19/2012 12:44:00 PM | | Hi Kind Readers,
This is the first blog from me on OFFICE 365. So maybe what I am trying to tell here is quite simple who everybody working on sandbox solutions know but since I am new to this domain everything seems to me worth sharing. :)
Lately I had a requirement where I had to create a custom webpart which will show the data from the list ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: ECMASCRIPT Client Object Model |
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| Xbox Kinect comes to SharePoint | 9/7/2012 2:31:13 AM | | This blog post is well overdue, but I’m very excited to announce our release of “Xbox Kinect for SharePoint”. Some of you may have seen it demonstrated at both the SharePoint Evolution conference (Don’t miss it next year) in the UK, or the SharePoint Australia/New Zealand conferences (don’t miss ‘em!). The basic idea was to have a bit of a play ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Daniel McPherson | Categories: |
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| Show Special Characters in XSLT WebParts. | 8/28/2012 10:54:00 AM | | Are you are working with XSLT WebParts (eg: People Search Core Results WebPart) and the special characters like ä, ë, é, ö, etc are getting replaced with a question mark (?) or a Square Box ?. Let's change that then:So basically the encoding of the XSLT is set to iso-8859-1 by default and we will have to change it to utf-8. Here is how to change ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: Encoding, XSLT |
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| Paging in SharePoint JavaScript Client Object Model | 8/27/2012 9:22:00 AM | | Paging can be of great help when you want to improve the performance of your code especially when you are working on front-end development and want to reduce the page response time. Let us see how can be implement paging when working with the JavaScript Client Object Model.
var listItems; // The list of retrieved ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: JavaScript, ECMA Script Client Object Model, Performance, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Try catch blocks in JSOM for server error in SharePoint 2010 | 8/21/2012 12:31:00 PM | | Hello kind readers…
JSOM… or the JavaScript client object model that is one of the major features of SharePoint 2010 is really a great API for doing loads of functionality without owning a Visual studio :)
I really love the JSOM and use it very often and with time I always learn something new about it… the one thing I wanted to share with ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: Client Object Model (ECMAScript), SharePoint 2010 |
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| RegisterClientScriptBlock for SharePoint Sandbox Solutions | 8/21/2012 12:08:00 PM | | So we had this requirement where we had to check if a script was already loaded on the page before we push it. So my natural choice was to use the RegisterClientScriptBlock method. But this being a Sandbox solution, like always, things were much more difficult than they initially appeared.The code executed without throwing any error so I thought I ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: JavaScript, Sandboxed Solutions, Office 365, SharePoint 2010 |
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| XSL configurable webpart in Sandbox | 8/10/2012 3:44:00 AM | | Hello kind readers…
Nowadays one of the major challenges are to have webparts that can be easily configured and branded in terms of look &feel and structure. Mostly we try to create webparts that are easily configurable using web part properties that link to XSLT to HTML views.
While HTML views are just providing the structure and logic ... | | Comments: 3 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Adding Lists Programmatically based on a custom ListTemplate | 6/20/2012 1:53:32 PM | | When adding Lists programmatically, it's most likely we use the Lists.Add() Methods. These Methods are giving us choice on how to create the list. In my case I wanted to use a custom ListTemplate which is inside a custom Feature.
Feature Activation First I chose to get my custom SPListTemplate from the Web and use the Add(String, String, ... | | Comments: 7 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Taxonomy service on Office 365 and sandbox solutions | 6/18/2012 6:21:00 AM | | Hello kind readers….
Some time back I had a requirement to use Taxonomy column values in a custom web part in my Office 365 solution, basically the requirement was to fill a drop down control with all the values of a particular term of a TermSet .
Now with the limitations in office 365 or sandbox solution is with the taxonomy DLL, you cannot ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: Client Object Model (ECMAScript) |
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| Use pure html pages (instead of .aspx) in SharePoint 2010 | 6/13/2012 10:54:00 AM | | So I was working on one of my unit testing projects which displayed the results in a plain old .html page. When integrating it with SharePoint 2010, I realized that I could not navigate to .html pages. When I entered the URL of a html page, the browser asked me whether I wanted to download the html file instead of displaying it in the ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: ASPX, Browser, SharePoint 2010, HTML |
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| SharePoint 2010 Search capabilities | 6/12/2012 1:08:00 PM | | Hello Kind readers…
This gives you a quick overview of how search is provided and works in SharePoint 2010, this post does not take you in-depth of custom development but hopefully should enable you to answer a question like "So what is search in SharePoint 2010 all about"
1. Microsoft offers five different types of search ... | | Comments: 1 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Missing Site Pages in Personal Site | 5/27/2012 1:32:00 PM | | Lately I faced and issue while working with Personal Sites. My requirement
was to deploy a page in personal sites everytime a personal site gets created.
So, the quick solution that came to my mind was to deploy it using feature
stapling, and everytime the personal site gets provisioned for somebody, the
feature will get activated and my ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: User Profiles |
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| Multi-tenancy in SharePoint | 5/27/2012 12:48:00 PM | | SharePoint 2010 provides some new features to support Hosting Environment, in simple terms Multi-
tenant support. Multi-tenancy is all about of isolation of data , services, administration etc. It involves a
unique deployment for a customer/tenant on a shared set of resources. In multi-tenancy, we have
multiple customers/tenants who share the ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: Multi-Tenancy in SharePoint 2010 |
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| Creating Custom Activity Type - Part 3 | 5/21/2012 7:30:00 PM | | Hello Readers,
Welcome back to the Part 3 of this series on creating custom activity type.
Just to recap in Part 1 you read about how to get the custom activity type available in your settings page
in addition to OOB SharePoint types.
In Part 2 you read about how to get feed related to your custom feed type in your colleagues feed as well
as ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: User Profiles |
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| Creating Custom Activity Type - Part 2 | 5/20/2012 9:52:00 AM | | In the previous blog on creating custom activity type Part 1 , I have shown how to add a
custom activity type to appear in the Newsfeed Settings page. In this part I will show how to
create activity events so that it starts to appear in your activity feed. The most important
object that you require in order to create an Activity Event is ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: User Profiles |
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| SharePoint JavaScript Unit Testing with Jasmine | 5/17/2012 1:11:00 PM | | So recently while working on some code, I realized that I have not yet ventured into the field of Unit Tests and TDD. I had read about it plenty but never had got an opportunity to work on it. Test Driven Development (TDD) consists of writing the test cases before you write your code. It mainly consist of 3 factors: Red, Green and Refactor. Red ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: JavaScript, TDD, Unit Testing, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Creating Custom Activity Type - Part 1 | 5/6/2012 7:39:00 AM | | SharePoint 2010 provides us with an excellent feature in the Mysites where we can see our most recent activities using the Recent Activities webpart and the activities of our colleagues by using the NewsFeed webpart.
Now the point of interest here is that OOB we can only see feeds for the activity types that SharePoint provides us.
The activity ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: User Profiles |
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| SharePoint 2010 Image library with size options | 5/4/2012 12:40:00 PM | | Hello Kind readers…
Recently I came
across an interesting finding that helped me realize how Publishing image
libraries can help in taking care of performance when lots of LARGE size images
are been used in a portal (which could be a very common scenario )
May be this is
something commonly known already but I stumbled upon this ... | | Comments: 19 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Loading JS files in a SharePoint Online Environment | 4/12/2012 12:40:54 PM | | For any of you that don't follow Wouter van Vugt, he had a great session at the Dutch SPC a while ago about loading JavaScript files in an On Premise SharePoint 2010 Environment. Very cool solutions were discussed however none of them are applicable when having a SharePoint Online environment. It's true the possibilities are very limited but still ... | | Comments: 5 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: JavaScript, Office 365, jQuery, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Get User Information from Client OM (JS) | 3/28/2012 7:34:49 AM | | When I was exploring the possibilities to read from a User Profile in a SharePoint Online environment I realized there are lots of properties that are being synced back to the UserInfoList, but only when they are filled in the User Profile. User Info List We know by now it's impossible from a Sandboxed Solution (or Client Side OM Solution) to ... | | Comments: 4 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: Office 365, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Inconvenient (Sandboxed) Custom ListDefinitions | 3/7/2012 11:10:51 AM | | Building custom SharePoint Online solution a List Definition is likely to be a SPI you would like to use. Sandboxed Solution look like a good way of deploying these definitions to your SharePoint Online environment, but are they?
… Read the full post on http://www.casvaniersel.com/?p=39 ... | | Comments: 8 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: Office 365, SharePoint 2010 |
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| KnockoutJS and Sharepoint integration | 2/1/2012 1:04:00 PM | | THis post was written by Omkar Khair.
In this post, we’ll be creating an ECMA Client Object Model, better known as Javascript Object Model (JSOM) based webpage in Sharepoint to access and manipulate a list. To spice up the UI, we will be integrating knockout in the JSOM for a more responsive UI.
(Knockout is a Javascript library with a clean ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Serge Salomons | Categories: Ecma, Office 365, Jquery |
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| Working with CoffeeScript on SharePoint : Interacting through jQuery | 1/31/2012 6:21:00 PM | | Now in this next part, lets see how CoffeeScript can be used with jQuery on SharePoint:
Lets start with the most nifty feature first:
$(document).ready(function () {
//Code here.
});
is now:
$ ->
//Code here.
CoffeeScript makes it extremely easy to iterate over jQuery collections using the for loop: #All the hrefs are extracted ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Working with CoffeeScript on SharePoint : ECMAScript Client Object Model | 1/31/2012 6:18:00 PM | | Now, the most interesting part of the series. We will be working with the ECMAScript Client Object Model through CoffeeScript. The basic Create, Read, Update and Delete operations are done by using the ECOM with CoffeeScript:
Load the Client Object Model:
#Check if the current page is the Home.aspx page. ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: JavaScript, ECMA Script Client Object Model, CoffeeScript, Sandboxed Solutions, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Working with CoffeeScript on SharePoint : Setup and Basics | 1/31/2012 6:17:00 PM | | So this new language called CoffeeScript was released recently and the only thing I could read everywhere was how its just JavaScript but only cleaner and more developer friendly. After digging a bit into it, I discovered that indeed the syntax is more friendlier and could boost productivity among JavaScript developers.
Also, being a ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SharePoint 2010 |
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| That was easy…. | 1/28/2012 2:13:00 PM | |
It has been almost a year in Zevenseas family, some call it office too but that’s coz they are not yet a part of it :)…. Something I wana share about my work place...
A thirst to learn and a will to earn… I guess the DirectX in that proportionality is what it takes one to the level that they envision. To learn, not only do you need a good ... | | Comments: 5 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Reference CSS files in Sandbox Solution for SharePoint Foundation 2010 | 1/21/2012 9:07:00 AM | | Recently I had a requirement where I had to push
some custom css files to the page when my SharePoint solution package
was deployed. This being a sandbox solution, I could not simply put the
files in the /_layouts/ folder and reference it from there.
Also, since the solutions was targeted at a SharePoint 2010 Foundation environment, that ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: SharePoint Foundation, Office 365, CSS |
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| Inconvenient Recurrence Data from a SharePoint Calendar using Client OM (JS) | 12/19/2011 7:56:18 PM | | The CAML to get SharePoint items from lists has a nice feature when it comes to Calendar data. Using the it is possible to check if a given date is within a range of dates and when passing the ExpandRecurrence property it even takes the Recurrence Data into account. Using Sandboxed Solutions to do so we can easily set this property ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: |
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| Handling DateTime in Office 365 Sandboxed Solutions | 12/16/2011 12:39:45 PM | | When developing custom solutions on the SharePoint platform we don't really think about using DateTime objects anymore. We just build solutions using server-side DateTime.Now or DateTime.Today to check Date and Time and to check that with the values we get back from SharePoint. Because we have full control over our On-Premise environment we can be ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: Office 365, SharePoint 2010 |
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| This content type is already in use" error while deleting content type | 10/27/2011 4:19:00 PM | | If you have been working on SharePoint and playing with content types and lists (which I am very sure you all must have) then "This content type is already in use" is a nightmare that you can think of when trying to delete a content type.
As the name suggests, this error indicates that the content type is in use somewhere and you cannot delete it. ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: Content Types |
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| I'm a Speaker at SharePoint Connections Amsterdam 2011 | 10/26/2011 9:57:00 AM | | Just received the speaker contract! Come see me and Mark van Lunenburg talking about Socializing SharePoint!
Wednesday 23rd of November 2011, 09:30 - 11:15 hours, Room 2
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| Check if page is in Edit Mode on Client Side in SharePoint 2010 | 9/28/2011 7:17:00 PM | | Hello kind readers…
Lately we had a requirement where we wanted to do some JavaScript and CSS tricks when the page was in edit mode…. Now for this we needed to check if currently the page was in Edit Mode… now there are couple of ways of doing this using the object model or Client object model … but adding extra code processing just for a ... | | Comments: 9 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Create a sub site based on a custom (Sandboxed) Web Template using Powershell | 9/26/2011 11:41:14 AM | | One quick tip when using Powershell to create a SharePoint sitestructure combined with custom Web Templates (In my case Sandboxed). The correct syntax for creating Webs based on your custom (sandboxed) Web Template is: $site = Get-SPSite http://myserver/sites/mysite
$web = New-SPWeb http://myserver/sites/mysite/subsite ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: SharePoint 2010, Powershell |
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| Change Feature Image in Sandbox Solutions. | 9/26/2011 9:27:00 AM | | So recently, I had created a sandbox solution which deployed a Web Part when the feature associated with my solution was activated. So I thought when the user navigated to the Manage Features page, it should be easier for him/her to recognize which feature has to be activated and decided to assign an custom image to it.
Now my first thought was ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: JavaScript, Sandboxed Solutions |
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| View & Edit InfoPath Forms in the SharePoint 2010 Modal Dialog | 9/25/2011 8:19:00 PM | | Recently, there was a requirement in my project that, an InfoPath form (which was stored in a Forms Library on SharePoint) had to be displayed as a pop-up when the user clicked on a particular HTML page element. The user also had to have the functionality to save the changes he/she made to the displyed form.
So naturally, my first thought was to ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: JavaScript, SharePoint 2010 |
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| SharePoint Conference 2011–We will be there! | 9/23/2011 1:27:53 AM | | Next week I will be heading along to the SharePoint Conference, and I can’t wait. As usual there is a fantastic line-up of speakers, and I’m looking forward to catching up with old friends. I just heard that Robin will be there, while not in a Zevenseas shirt this year, we still talk. Andrew Fix (time to blog mate) will be there from Zevenseas ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Daniel McPherson | Categories: |
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| Listing all the webparts in a particular group | 9/5/2011 11:50:00 AM | | Dear Readers,
Lately I have seen couple of posts in the forum where people have been looking for various solutions as to how to find which all webparts belong to a custom group, how to add a webpart programmatically on a page, how to avoid duplication of webparts etc. etc..
So I was wondering why not to get up early in the beautiful sunny ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Geetanjali Arora | Categories: WebParts |
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| Conflicts of a C# developer and PowerShell | 8/30/2011 11:33:00 AM | | Hello kind readers…
So recently I was working on power shell script to automate the task of deployment.. More specifically adding webparts on pages in all the site collection conditionally and dynamically to set up the complete environment for testing.
Now I have never worked with Power shell before and was really confused with all the ... | | Comments: 3 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Creating publishing pages with powershell in SharePoint2010 | 8/29/2011 6:17:00 PM | | For a client we created an extended powershell script to do an One-Click deployment of their intranet. This was awesome to create because it really saved huge amounts of time creating sites & site collections, adding and activating solutions and setting permissions, navigation and master pages.
But we still had to add a piece of code to create ... | | Comments: 7 | Author: Mark Overdijk | Categories: SharePoint, Powershell |
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| JavaScript "L_Menu_BaseUrl" variable for SharePoint | 8/26/2011 8:38:00 PM | | When
working with Sandbox Solutions, there are a lot of times when you have
to determine the URL or the serverRelativeUrl of the current site. This
is especially needed on Office 365.
With
the ECMAScript Client Object Model, there are multiple ways to access
the current site URL or the serverRelativeUrl like the SP.Site.get_url()
for ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: Client Object Model, JavaScript, ECMA Script Client Object Model, Sandboxed Solutions, Office 365, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Asset Picker with dynamically created HTML with JQuery in Sandbox solution | 8/26/2011 8:23:00 AM | |
Hello kind readers…
So at times Sandbox solutions translates to some frustrating hours do usually leave you with some learning's… and I have one to share, pardon me if you already know about this,
Recently we had a requirement that when we have a URL column in the list and if the user is trying create an item in that list then instead ... | | Comments: 16 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: Client Object Model (ECMAScript), SharePoint 2010 |
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| List view Lookup threshold in Office365 | 8/25/2011 5:49:00 AM | | I created a list which uses 12 Person or Group fields. So I changed the resource throttling in Manage Web Applications > General Settings in Central Admin. Customer happy, so I'm happy too.
Now we have to the move this list to Office365 because their intranet is moving to the cloud. But changing the resource throttling settingis not possible in ... | | Comments: 7 | Author: Mark Overdijk | Categories: Office365, SharePoint |
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| Hiding “Title” field using Client Object Model | 8/25/2011 4:54:30 AM | | This could come handy when you are required to hide the "Title" column in a List using CSOM
Ideal my approach would be to plan and configure your list content type to hide required columns in content type and list definition. You can also use CSOM to achieve similar using CSOM.
using (ClientContext l_clientContext = ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Akhilesh | Categories: Tips & Tricks |
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| Adding CUSTOM webparts on publishing pages Sandbox solution through modules | 8/24/2011 8:20:00 AM | |
Hello kind readers…
Sandbox solutions… funny, challenging.. Pathetic… painful.. Wonderful.. Everything a developer wants to feel energized :)
So recently we were building one of such sandbox solution which required a lot of default web parts on different pages in a larger hierarchy of sites and writing code to do(sandbox does not have ... | | Comments: 16 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity test results and recommendations | 8/22/2011 6:00:00 PM | | Quick post about a selection of white papers I came across. It's a complete of white papers and articles focussed on performance and capacity test results for SharePoint Server 2010;
Subject
Description
Access Services
Provides guidance on how using Access Services impacts topologies running SharePoint Server 2010. View the article ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Mark Overdijk | Categories: SharePoint |
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| ECMA script client object model and SQM collection in SP2010 | 8/21/2011 11:44:00 AM | | Hello kind readers….
The client object model has some great features one of which is the ability to collect SQM data points. If you look at the MSDN documentation the SP namespace has the BwsaClient classes to give you ability for using this feature from client end code. Now if you think that these classes are defined in the SP.Js, at least I ... | | Comments: 1 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: Client Object Model (ECMAScript), SharePoint 2010 |
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| Restricting web part adding on page for specific zones with wonderful SharePoint JavaScripting | 8/20/2011 10:55:00 PM | |
Hello kind readers…
At times comes situation when you are building a large scale application (often it comes right :P) and there are a lot of pages based on layouts and requirements and what not and on top of that there could be a LARGE number of end users involved in adding web parts on the pages with some specific layouts… now of course ... | | Comments: 6 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Sorting Filtering client side .. Rich user experience with JQUERY and ECMA script client object model | 8/19/2011 12:51:00 PM | | Hello kind readers…
So I am back.. With some more stuff to share and not to bore you… so please pardon me if this is something you already knew about… I mostly write the things I do based on a sandbox solution application
Hmm so where to begin from … after the party last night ...errrrr no lets begin with SharePoint straight away ... | | Comments: 3 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: Client Object Model (ECMAScript), SharePoint 2010 |
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| Sandbox solution and Taxonomy or Managed metadata field names (Follow up on earlier post) | 8/18/2011 12:59:00 PM | | Hello kind readers…
Sometime back I posted (Post here) about the Taxonomy fields (Managed metadata columns) and the SPSiteDataQuery in Sandbox solution. Today while working more on that I came across an interesting thing and wanted to share the same with you all so everyone is updated.
Well the thing is that in my previous post I talked ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Deploying Sandboxed Solutions | 8/18/2011 7:55:41 AM | | Lately I’ve been working on some Sandboxed solution for Office 365. We all know that they differ on lots of points from Farm Solutions. On the coding end by now we know all the limitations and best practices but how about deployment of these solutions. Some experiences from my end in this post. Dependencies Maybe a no-brainer but dependencies ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: |
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| Customize default links to List Forms | 8/15/2011 9:37:09 AM | | So we all know that for lots of reasons we want to modify OOB stuff in SharePoint. However when you’re developing for SharePoint Online not everything can simply be customized or extended. For instance lots of OOB links in SharePoint point to _layouts/ListForm.aspx (with some QueryString parameters). We can easily get control over these links using ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Cas Van Iersel | Categories: jQuery, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Overcoming the sandbox limitation…Client object model (ECMA script) volunteers adding web parts on page | 8/13/2011 6:51:00 PM | | Hello kind readers…
A good friend of mine, Vardhaman wrote a post about adding web part through COM some time back, here. I would like to take it a step further on how it be a wonderful thing in making your sandboxed solutions more fun and limit free :). To understand what I am talking about, let's look at a scenario,
Scenario:
You have a ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: Client Object Model (ECMAScript), SharePoint 2010 |
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| Feature activation with Client object model (ECMA script) and sandboxed solution | 8/13/2011 6:40:00 AM | |
Hello kind readers…
With SharePoint 2010 the client object model specially the ECMA script model is something I just adore… it just makes life so easy. There are countless great features but one of the good one's that I recently liked it the feature activation functionality. To understand what I am talking about lets look at a ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: Client Object Model (ECMAScript), SharePoint 2010 |
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| SPSiteDataQuery in Sandboxed solution with multivalued metadata column | 8/10/2011 5:38:00 PM | |
Sandboxed solutions are no strangers to me when it comes to finding alternatives to painful work :). Recently I was working on a requirement where we needed to created a taxonomy based hierarchy in a web part in sandboxed solution. Now the taxonomy fields cannot be used directly in code as they are not available in the sandbox solution but you ... | | Comments: 2 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Getting Site usage info in SP2010 using Client Object model | 8/7/2011 3:40:00 PM | | Hey kind readers... whats up :)
There are times when we want to track the usage info report on our SharePoint site… now this can also be done using the new super wonder the client object model is making this task very much client side and efficient.
So if you want to build a simple client side interface to get the site usage report on a ... | | Comments: 3 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: Client Object Model (ECMAScript), SharePoint 2010 |
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| Some useful information in variables a SharePoint 2010 page has … | 8/6/2011 11:18:00 PM | | Not documented … or at least I found none for the variables that a SharePoint 2010 page has by default is a very useful source of handy information. We mostly read about the _spUserId JavaScript variable that is rendered on the page which gives you the ID of the current logged in user (helping to lookup the user in user information list), there are ... | | Comments: 1 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| People picker control in SP2010 and custom JavaScript functions | 8/6/2011 10:52:00 PM | |
People picker control is an interesting control in SharePoint and can have a lot of wonderful uses when comes to user friendly solutions. One such requirement is to have a new form auto populated based on the users profile information whenever a user is selected in people control and entity is resolved in the control.
To hook up the custom ... | | Comments: 3 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Trigger custom function on what's on your mind box with SP2010 my profile page | 8/6/2011 10:34:00 PM | | If you looking for some kind of functionality to hook up to your profile page in SharePoint 2010 there is not much option available OOB. The "What's on your mind" control on your profile page is basically an AJAX control which has code behind to handle the status update, now if you want to hook in some custom functionality then you need to have ... | | Comments: 4 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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| Bing Maps Silverlight Control in Office 365 | 7/19/2011 5:21:00 PM | | Recently, I was working on Geocoding with the Bing Maps Silverlight Control for a SharePoint 2010 Sandbox application. Everything was going awesome on my on-premise SharePoint 2010 environment but when I uploaded the application in Office 365, every time the application would load I would get a pop-up in IE asking whether to "Display Mixed ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Zshosted\Vardhaman | Categories: Sandboxed Solutions, Office 365, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Chronicles of the Content Query Webpart Part 3 | 7/18/2011 9:53:00 PM | | Hello kind readers ;)...
In the last post I was talking about finding the current web URL where the CQWP is put up but after looking around on the internet I dint find any specific way so I started digging inside the ContentQueryMain.xsl and surprisingly found all the information I needed right there and funny thing is its very clear but I ... | | Comments: 1 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: CQWP, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Chronicles of the Content Query Webpart Part 2 | 7/17/2011 10:13:00 PM | |
In the last post we were talking about pagination and how we can modify the ContentQueryMain xsl OuterTemplate.Body template to modify the HTML structure for our custom Jquery plugins. Now lets see how the HTML is build by the WP to understand how and when we can pitch in to make changes as per our needs…. Lets make it a little ... | | Comments: 1 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: CQWP, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Chronicles of the Content Query Webpart Part 1 | 7/17/2011 10:11:00 PM | |
No its not a tale from the land of Narnia but yes this web part is magical for sure, though it can't take out flowers from its sleeves but you know what you can even achieve that with a little bit help from the swiss knife they often call as "Jquery". I would address the web part with its nick name CQWP coz it cool easy :). So the we are going ... | | Comments: 1 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: CQWP, SharePoint 2010 |
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| SharePoint webservices overview | 7/7/2011 2:15:00 PM | | I was going through the different webservices that are available for SharePoint at the MSDN site, just to get an overview of the possibilities. And the overview wasn't there. If you want to see the different classes for a service, you need to click through and when you need more info on that class, you would need another mouse click. It got a bit ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Mark Overdijk | Categories: Office365, SharePoint |
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| Sharevolution : World's first AppStore for SharePoint | 6/26/2011 11:45:00 AM | | Sharevolution is world’s first appstore for SharePoint and you can yourself experience it at www.sharevolutionhq.com
Sharevolution is a whole new business for SharePoint developers, Partners and above all a Huge Value for SharePoint Users. SharePoint has seen a strong momentum in last decade of its existence. More than 78% of Fortune 500 ... | | Comments: 0 | Author: Amitesh | Categories: Ideas, Zevenseas, General |
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| Dive in the hidden world of SharePoint 2010 - Part 1 | 6/15/2011 1:05:00 AM | | Its so very easy to be impressed by the fancy appearance that SharePoint has redefined since the last product and the effort are so very visible. The UI not only attracts the users but also curious TOM cats like me (besides running after Jerry m curious about SharePoint). One day I started building a simple sticky notes application for SharePoint ... | | Comments: 5 | Author: Tanmay Shahane | Categories: SharePoint 2010 |
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