• Enable Acer Aspire One to run Windows 8 display and applications

    A registry needs to be added to enable the higher resolution (1024 x 768) for Windows 8 applications.

    1. Run REGEDIT
    2. Backup the registry to a file for recovery if required
    3. Next, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video
    4. Find the folder with 0000 and 0001
    5. In the 0000 folder, add a new DWORD "Display1_DownScalingSupported"
    6. Set the value to 1
    7. Quit REGEDIT and reboot the laptop
    8. After the laptop is boot up, change the display resolution to 1024 x 768
  • Exporting and Importing SharePoint Designer 2010 List Workflow

    Exporting and importing of the List Workflow to and from another list or site is actually a non-supported feature.

    However, there is a "workaround" to achieve this.

     

    1. In SharePoint Designer 2010, click on your completed List Workflow.
    2. Click on "Save" and "Publish" for the completed List Workflow.
    3. Next, click on "Export to Visio". Save the file as CompletedWorkflow.vwi or any preferred name.
    4. Then create a new "similar" list on the current site or on a new site collection. There is no way to import the exported visio into this new list.
    5. In SharePoint Designer 2010, click on this new list and then click on "List Workflow" to create a new workflow for this new list.
    6. Please make sure that you do not add any workflow steps!
    7. Click on "Save" and "Publish" for this empty List Workflow.
    8. Then, click on "Export to Visio" and save this as EmptyWorkflow.vwi or any preferred name.
    9. Rename both the vwi files by adding ".zip" extension. The files should be CompletedWorkflow.vwi.zip and EmptyWorkflow.vwi.zip.
    10. The objective is to replace the "workflow.xoml.wfconfig.xml" file from the EmptyWorkflow.vwi.zip into the CompletedWorkflow.vwi.zip.
    11. It is likely that you cannot replace it directly. Copy the file out to the desktop and then copy the file into the other zipped folder.
    12. Remove the ".zip" extension from the CompletedWorkflow.vwi.
    13. With this, we have a working importable visio List Workflow.
    14. Back in the SharePoint Designer 2010, close all the workflow tabs.
    15. Click on the "Import from Visio" and select the CompletedWorkflow.vwi.
    16. You have successfully export and import the List Workflow!
  • Temporary fixing "This content cannot be displayed in a frame" in Office365 with Internet Explorer

    When I was branding an Office365 SharePoint 2013 site, I'm getting an error when viewing apps that use Web Parts.
    The error message is "This content cannot be displayed in a frame" and is described similarly to this forum thread.

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/appsforsharepoint/thread/fa6abb31-7251-4744-ab14-634cde38a42d

    The "temporary fix", is to add “https://login.microsoftonline.com” to the Trusted Sites list in Internet Explorer.

     

  • SharePoint Server 2013: Drag and drop contents to Library

    To have the drag and drop feature to SharePoint Server 2013, here are the scenario or requirements of Web browsers.

    • Internet Explorer 10
    • Internet Explorer 9 with Office 2013 Installed
    • Internet Explorer 8 with Office 2013 Installed
    • FireFox latest version
    • Chrome latest version

    Hence, for IE 8 and IE 9, it must have Office 2013 installed on the machines, else the drag and drop feature will not be available.

     

  • InfoPath: Converting data to Upper Case or Lower Case

    Here's the formulas to convert the data of the current textbox to UPPER case or lower case.

    Convert To UPPER case
    translate(., "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz", "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXZ")

    Convert to lower case
    translate(., "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXZ", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz")

    Convert first letter to UPPER case:
    concat(substring(translate(., "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"), 1, 1), substring(., 2, string-length(.) - 1))