Update: If you want a quicker solution, please check out my new CAML Viewer Web Part for SharePoint 2010. While working with caml query there may be cases where we may need to refer internal name of a sharepoint list and in some of the cases the display name and internal name may be different. [...]
Read more →In this tutorial we will see how we can list out all the Lists in a SharePoint site using Windows PowerShell. Open Powershell and Enter the following cmdlets one by one. In the first line we load the Microsoft.SharePoint assembly. In the second line we create a new SPSite object for our SharePoint site. In [...]
Read more →How about a Silverlight control which shows the time line of a project? Check out the blog post to know more. The other day I wanted to have a timeline control in Sharepoint so that I could easily know where each project is in its lifecycle. Yeah, you could easily use Visio or some other [...]
Read more →In this post we will see how to convert a site to site collection. Save the existing site to site template (site actions-> site settings -> save site as template) Download the created stp file from site template gallery of site collection and copy it to SharePoint server and we can delete it from site template [...]
Read more →In this post we will see how to force user to enter credentials while browsing SharePoint site. By default (based on the browser settings) the SharePoint site automatically logs on using current username and password of the user who logged into the system. We can force to user to enter user name and password by [...]
Read more →We know that web page design using Dreamweaver is very easy, but design customization of SharePoint is really hectic. so how about creating SharePoint pages using Dreamweaver? Here is how you can do it 1. Upload your dwt files,css and images in a document library. 2. Open your site in SharePoint Designer. 3. If you [...]
Read more →In this article we will see how to implement client side validation in SharePoint list with out using SharePoint designer. For this follow the below steps Navigate to the newform.aspx or editform.aspx page and open it in edit mode Note: you can append the following query string &pageview=shared&toolpaneview=2 to the URL (http://mysite/ Lists/job/NewForm.aspx?pageview=shared&toolpaneview=2) to open [...]
Read more →If you want to hide SharePoint Controls (eg.Site Actions menu ) based on the user’s permission level or assign specific access to a user then you can use the SharePoint’s builtin control SPSecurityTrimmedControl. Below code will allow the user to view site usage report. Some permission string attributs are ManageLists CancelCheckout AddListItems EditListItems DeleteListItems ViewListItems ApproveItems [...]
Read more →In recent blog posts we learnt webPart development, deployment and adding controls etc.. In this blog post we will see how to add custom properties for SharePoint web part. There are several properties available in SharePoint web part for setting its look and feel like Title, Height and Width etc.. In this example we will see how to [...]
Read more →SharePoint MVP Sharad Kumar has released a tool which helps you create host-header based site collections via central admin. You can read about it in his blog post or download it from codeplex.
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