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Blog Post:
NullReferenceException when adding a custom editor control in a publishing page in SharePoint 2010
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This post is a contribution from Deepak Kumar, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. With “Page” content type, we can create “Edit” fields for the custom fields and display them when the page gets into “Edit” mode. To do this, we need to create a custom site column and associate...
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6 May 2013
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HOW TO: Generate Document IDs for custom content types with Inherits=False
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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...
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17 Apr 2013
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How To: Make SharePoint Calendar events recurring by default
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This blog post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. By default, new events added to SharePoint calendar list are not set to be recurring. If all the events users create are going to be recurring, it would be convenient to have this checkbox...
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11 Apr 2013
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Delete AD group from SharePoint site collection using web services
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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...
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25 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Programmatically delete a single instance of a recurring event in a SharePoint calendar
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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...
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25 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
SharePoint Workflow Architecture (Case Study) – Part 4
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This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. This first case that I am going to talk about is a real customer’s issue. The symptom is very typical and it’s just that the workflow is not creating the next task when the previous...
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25 Mar 2013
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HOW TO: Create UserProfile Synchronization connection to BCS and map User Profile Property to BCS field in SharePoint 2010
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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...
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18 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Display runtime-generated data in a ListView control in SharePoint web part
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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...
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15 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
Using SPSite and SPWeb objects with RunWithElevatedPrivileges: Don’t cross the borders
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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...
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13 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Programmatically modify values of people and groups column of type multi-value using Lists.asmx in SharePoint 2010
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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...
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13 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
SharePoint Workflow Architecture – Part 3
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This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution for the community to better understand the internals...
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12 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
SharePoint Workflow Architecture – Part 2
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This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution for the community to better understand the internals...
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12 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
SharePoint Workflow Architecture – Part 1
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This blog post is a contribution from Andy Li, an Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Andy is one of the Escalation Engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. The series of posts on Workflows are his contribution for the community to better understand the internals...
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11 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Get data from large external lists in SharePoint 2010
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This blog post is a contribution from Chanchal Jain, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Recently, I was working on a requirement on how to find items using an identifier in external lists which are very large in terms of the number of items they display. It’s similar to selecting...
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5 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
Workflow name in workflow history list
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This blog post is a contribution from Balaji Sadasivan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Issue In order to audit workflows, we require to see the name of the workflow in the history list. Cause Currently the workflow history has no provision to show the workflow name. Workaround...
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17 Dec 2012
Blog Post:
Rerouting users to a custom page after multiple page upload
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This blog post is a contribution from Balaji Sadasivan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Puzzle In MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 you can reroute the user to a custom page after they complete uploading documents to a document library to by changing the source parameter in the query...
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17 Dec 2012
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Retrieve Active Directory custom attributes in another domain using LDAP query
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This blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. When developing a custom claims provider, you may need to retrieve user information from Active Directory (AD) with LDAP query programmatically. You can add custom attributes by extending the AD...
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17 Dec 2012
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Prevent users from pressing back button after signing out from a SharePoint site
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This blog post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Scenario: In SharePoint, the sign out is complete only when you actually close the browser window. As shown below, SharePoint asks you to close the browser after sign out: “You must close...
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26 Nov 2012
Blog Post:
RunWithElevatedPrivileges does not work with UserProfile API
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This blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. RunWithElevatedPrivileges executes the specified method with Full Control rights even if the user does not otherwise have Full Control. This is not true for User Profile API. To reproduce, with code...
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2 Nov 2012
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Retrieve Web Analytics report data using API
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This blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. In a scenario that you want to render Web Analytics report data to your favorite format, you need to retrieve the report data. There’s no document on how to retrieve SharePoint built-in report data...
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4 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Create a custom ASPX association and initiation forms for Visual Studio Workflow
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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...
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25 Sep 2012
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Programmatically set/pass WorkflowContext from a Visual Studio workflow to a custom workflow action in SharePoint 2010
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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...
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25 Sep 2012
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Prevent site deletion with a custom event receiver
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This post is a contribution from Charls Tom Jacob, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. In this blog I will describe how to develop a custom site event receiver to prevent users from deleting a SharePoint site. By default, any user with the sufficient permission can delete a site....
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7 Sep 2012
Blog Post:
SharePoint 2010 Environment can get corrupt when deploying and retracting a WSP solution that was created using “Save site as template” option
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This post is a contribution from Amy Luu, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Steps to repro this problem: 1. Create a new team site in SharePoint 2010 and save this site as template (ts.wsp). Download the WSP to your local drive. 2. Launch VS 2010 professional. 3. In Visual...
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7 Sep 2012
Blog Post:
HOW TO: Not allow a user to add multiple items of a meeting at the same time & date in a Calendar list for a user in SharePoint 2010
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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...
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1 Aug 2012
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