This blog post is a contribution from Deepak Kumar, an Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. The “Inherits” attribute of the custom content type when set to “False” indicates that the custom content type will only inherit Fields that were in the parent content...

This blog post is a contribution from Mustaq Patel, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. This blog post demonstrates the use of SharePoint 2013 REST from AppWeb to issue HTTP POST on HostWeb. This does not require cross domain calls or the use of SP.RequestExecutor.js. Cross-site...

This blog post is a contribution from David Wilborn, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. I recently worked a project where we needed to add a custom field to blog posts and use the new Client Side Rendering in SharePoint 2013 to display the field. My first thought was to create...

This blog post is a contribution from Bharat Rathod, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. I recently worked on a project where we had to delete an AD group which has permissions on a specific site collection.  Since we had a limitation to not use server object model, I used web...

This blog post is a contribution from Kevin Jacob Kurian, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. When we edit a single instance of a recurring event, it actually creates a new instance of the event and deletes the old one.  The old instance is deleted by setting certain attributes...

This blog post is a contribution from Mustaq Patel, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. The end goal is to populate User Profile Property values from an external database.  From SharePoint 2010 UI, this requires the following three steps: 1. Create BCS Model.  Have Finder...

This blog post is a contribution from Bharat Rathod, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. We often find that ListView control is used to display data which is fetched from a database directly.  After reading a lot of articles where I could not find the specific article that talks...

This blog post is a contribution from David Wilborn, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Although it’s mentioned in the SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges documentation , I find that there is still often a lack of clarity for developers when using SPSite and SPWeb objects in conjunction...

This blog post is a contribution from Bharat Rathod, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. In this post, I’ll show you how to use UpdateListItems method of the Lists.asmx web service to modify a ListItem which has multi-value people and group column.  Most of us tend to fall into...

This blog post is a contribution from Mustaq Patel, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer support team. SharePoint Apps provides a great deal of flexibility and how much we can do with it. Using WebTemplate we can direct AppWeb (the SPWeb under which the App is hosted) to use any other Site Template...

This post is a contribution from Himani Sharma, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Requirement You want to use custom Association and Initiation forms with your Visual Studio workflows. InfoPath forms do not fulfill your requirement due to the limitation they pose in terms of controls...

This post is a contribution from Himani Sharma, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Scenario: You have a workflow custom action that you’d like to be used in SharePoint 2010 workflow.  This activity uses Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.WorkflowContext to obtain WorkflowContext...

This post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Note: The below walk-through is based off of a publishing site. We can include symbols in rich text editor in MOSS 2007 in just 3 easy steps. Step1 Copy the image (symbol.jpg) to C:\Program...

This post is a contribution from Bharat Rathod, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. By default, SharePoint 2010 allows you to add multiple items in the calendar for the same date and time.  Below screenshot shows that Meeting1 and Meeting2 occur at the same date and time for...

Recently, I had a case where customer was creating SPAlert object using SharePoint object model code and things were not working out well. What seem to happen was that whenever the condition that warrants alert trigger is met (e.g., an item is changed in a list), the alert email that was sent out was...

This post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Let’s first talk about some basic facts about discussion board and alert terminologies. Discussion Board We all know about discussion board. Discussion board is where we can add “posts” and...