Year: 2012

n nFirst of all let me declare , this is not one of the latest thing you can do with SharePoint but I thought this might be helpful (at least to me)nIf you have developed any list workflow using SharePoint designer , you probably have noticed that there is no way to work with list … Read more

nThis is a quick overview about Migrating SharePoint 2010 site to SharePoint 2013 environment.nThere is nothing special about this particular migration , everything remains the same as we moved sites from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010, however in my case I faced few issues after migrating to SP2013 because default is claims in SharePoint 2013 … Read more

nAfter long chase behind this issue finally I figured out the solution.nnIssuen : You create a new workflow using SharePoint designer and publish it. nbut suddenly notice that the workflow status says – Failed to start. nafter further research on buddy Google you know that there are some nfiles which are not checked in which … Read more

nThis time post is about exciting taxonomy navigation feature in SharePoint2013. by now we all know that Managed Metadata / Taxonomy is feature introduced with SharePoint 2010 and got huge fan base. however there was always need to have the terms used in the site navigation and for that nothing was given by SharePoint as … Read more

n..continuing with the Office365 preview and development one of the most anticipated and my favorite feature is given by Visual Studio 2012, what is that? lets seennlooking back at SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 days – we were able to create the SharePoint projects using built in project templates given by VS for SP … Read more

nAfter release of consumer preview of SharePoint 2013, some of us were quick enough to get on installing bits , however as a quick process to see the feature set included in latest version of SharePoint some folks went directly to the Office365 preview which has SharePoint2013 and Office2013 services.nnAs everybody seems to take more … Read more

nn nI was exploring the Lync APIs after installing LyncnSDK on my machine and as a curiosity tried to display the users communicator /nLync Image in custom control. n n n nTo get the following example working – you will neednto install the Lync SDK or add the references of Lync APIs to your project.nLync … Read more

nProblem:nnGenerally we initialize the client context straightnaway by creating new object of class ClientContext and by providing the url ofnthe site as well as needed credentials, but for sites using claims basednauthentication (let it be Office 365 site or On Premise site) this logic won’t,nso what’s the solution?n n n nSolution:n n nUser must be … Read more

nProblem:nn nWhile working with SharePoint Online – sometimes it isnrequired to take the backup of the site or to export the site to some othernenvironment, but due to no access to SharePoint server, we end up with writingnhuge code to migrate the site contents to another site using any client objectnmodel. n nIf server side … Read more

nAfter long research on this – came up with something like this , however there are lots of approaches already available on net which shows you to do the same using SharePoint designer or by creating new column.nThanks to improved SharePoint 2010 APIs which gives the SPField.ListItemMenu property , but one thing to note here … Read more