Ideas that work
Some webparts can’t be exported by the UI to get the XML representation of it. Listview webparts are one of them. To get the XML anyway there are three options to do so: Use javascript from the Export option Use the … Read More »
When a required managed metadata (taxonomy) field is located on a pagelayout and this field is not filled with a value when publishing the page SharePoint will throw an error message in a popup with the text ‘You must fill … Read More »
In one of my posts I wrote a solution for the nasty popup error message: This post provides some background information about this issue. The ootb ribbon with its functionality is built out of the ribbon definition xml from the … Read More »
For each webapplication in a farm the account used as System Account can be set . When a user is logged in with this account ‘System Account’ is shown in the welcome menu: And when the user adds or modifies … Read More »
Recently I was fixing a bug which occurred at a custom webpart derived from the Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ContentByQueryWebPart. The custom webpart has an EditorPart where the user is able to set some properties and after configuration the webpart shows an item from … Read More »
At a client I worked on migrating content from Tridion to SharePoint 2010. Data included links that had to be migrated to links in a SummaryLinks webpart. For another feature of the project the outgoing links of a page were … Read More »
When digging around in the SharePoint WebControls on showing some field properties on a pagelayout I found some interesting stuff. FieldDescription First of all I thought the SharePoint webcontrol ‘FieldDescription’ would show the description of the field. At MSDN the … Read More »
Fixing bugs is the nicest thing to do! The javascript exception was thrown by a page: The value of the property ‘SearchEnsureSOD’ is null or undefined, not a Function object by just clicking in the page… Hmm, according to the … Read More »
Once in a while some annoying exceptions occur… The exception And the inner exception stack trace gave me more info: Investigation So the exception occurred in the SearchBoxEx control, method CreateChildControls. Since this is a stack trace of standard SharePoint … Read More »
Sometimes when hovering over a fieldvalue in the refinementpanel the tooltip displays only ‘Refine By:’ without displaying any value. While another displays an actual value: Actual term in a tree or just a ‘parent’ term Why? When the fieldvalue is … Read More »