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HOW TO: Implement a custom iFilter in SharePoint 2013

Posted 11 days ago

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This post is a contribution from Kevin Jacob Kurian, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. In SharePoint 2010, we had an option of implementing custom iFilter for files (like PDFs) so that we can see the search results from these files...
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Migrating SharePoint 2010 workflow custom activity to SharePoint 2013

Posted 14 days ago

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This post is a contribution from Vitaly Lyamin, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. For SharePoint 2010 custom activities to work in SharePoint 2013, the “authorizedType” node needs to be defined in a new sub-section...
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NullReferenceException when adding a custom editor control in a publishing page in SharePoint 2010

Posted 17 days ago

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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,...
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HOW TO: Add properties to SPWeb property bag using JSOM in SharePoint 2013

Posted 17 days ago

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This post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Here’s the sample. Create a simple HTML page and add the below scripts. <html> <head> <title><...
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Can’t access public properties of registered User Controls inside a SharePoint 2013 project

Posted 24 days ago

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This blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. This is not a new issue. Ronald Widha’s blog post addresses this issue for SharePoint 2010. But with SharePoint 2012 and Visual Studio...
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HOW TO: Generate Document IDs for custom content types with Inherits=False

Posted 1 month ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Use REST to POST in Hosted SharePoint Apps

Posted 1 month ago

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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...
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How To: Make SharePoint Calendar events recurring by default

Posted 1 month ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Add a custom field to blog posts in SharePoint 2013

Posted 1 month ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Delete AD group from SharePoint site collection using web services

Posted 1 month ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Programmatically delete a single instance of a recurring event in a SharePoint calendar

Posted 1 month ago

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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...
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SharePoint Workflow Architecture (Case Study) – Part 4

Posted 1 month ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Create UserProfile Synchronization connection to BCS and map User Profile Property to BCS field in SharePoint 2010

Posted 2 months ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Display runtime-generated data in a ListView control in SharePoint web part

Posted 2 months ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Create a Remote Event Receiver for a SharePoint Hosted App

Posted 2 months ago

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This blog post is a contribution from Jaishree Thiyagarajan, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. Let’s first create a SharePoint Hosted App. Choose “SharePoint-Hosted” option for “How do you want to host your app for SharePoint” in...
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Using SPSite and SPWeb objects with RunWithElevatedPrivileges: Don’t cross the borders

Posted 2 months ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Programmatically modify values of people and groups column of type multi-value using Lists.asmx in SharePoint 2010

Posted 2 months ago

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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...
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SharePoint Workflow Architecture – Part 3

Posted 2 months ago

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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...
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SharePoint Workflow Architecture – Part 2

Posted 2 months ago

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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...
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SharePoint Workflow Architecture – Part 1

Posted 2 months ago

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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...
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HOW TO: Get data from large external lists in SharePoint 2010

Posted 2 months ago

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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...
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Register CSR-override on MDS enabled SharePoint 2013 site

Posted 3 months ago

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Both CSR [Client-Side Rendering] and MDS [Minimal Download Strategy] are new concepts in SharePoint 2013. I recently had a chance to work on an issue concerning CSR and MDS, which I thought I’d share through this post so that it is helpful for the...
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HOW TO: Detect an App Part in edit mode in SharePoint 2013

Posted 3 months ago

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This blog post is a contribution from Aaron Miao, an engineer with the SharePoint Developer Support team. This article states, “with app parts, you can show your app user experience (UX) right in the host web. An app part displays your app content...
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Workflow name in workflow history list

Posted 5 months ago

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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...
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Rerouting users to a custom page after multiple page upload

Posted 5 months ago

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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...