Ideas that work
This is the title of a question posted at SharePoint Overflow and got my attention. I checked out the issue and I had a suspicion it had to do with the user not being a farm administrator. But before answering … Read More »
It is not always appropriate to enable custom buttons on the ribbon all the time. Sometimes one or multiple conditions have to be met to enable the button. As showed in one of my previous posts ‘A better user experience … Read More »
In SharePoint 2010 features can be upgraded, awesome! I was just testing this when I discovered something curious when updating a property. Suppose the following feature definition file: The property value of the MyProp key is “initialValue”. After adjusting the … Read More »
Recently I asked a question on Twitter on how to suppress a false positive with the SPDispose check tool and Wictor Wilén pointed me to the right direction. Several times I’m asked about the solution so I’m sharing it with you now. First … Read More »
The use of jQuery templates is very neat. It easily displays content in a structured way according to a defined template. Microsoft created the jQuery template plugin (https://github.com/nje/jquery-tmpl) which can be used by referencing the template script file. In this … Read More »
When a SharePoint 2010 site is opened in SharePoint Designer 2010 the user logged in to the site is usually the user logged in to the machine you are working on. Sometimes you aren’t automatically logged in and you have … Read More »
Recently I wrote a plugin which provided cascading dropdowns with jQuery and SPServices, which you can find here. To be more flexible about how to display this to the user I extended the plugin. With the extended plugin it is … Read More »
SharePoint 2010 has a lot of nice features. One of them are search refiners. The search results can be narrowed down by Result Type, Site, Author, Modified Date, etc. When knowing and seen that feature I’m really disappointed SharePoint 2007 … Read More »
The SPServices library on Codeplex (http://spservices.codeplex.com) provides a lot of useful functionality to access SharePoint data. One of the functions is the SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns function. Here is a link to the documentation of this function: http://spservices.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=$().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns&referringTitle=Documentation As explained on the site … Read More »
To monitor additional items not by default set up in SharePoint, custom health analyzer rules can be defined. For example the sandboxed solutions can be monitored a little bit better than SharePoint default provides. When the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed … Read More »