Archive for the ‘SharePoint’ Category
If you’re having trouble with editing Office documents from SharePoint in Windows 7 or Vista, here’s one reason and fix: Reasons (besides Windows7 and Vista): WebClient service not started SharePoint domain has dots (.) in the name Your IE is trying to resolve LAN/Proxy settings Solution Important! Part of solution is also modifying your registry. [...]
After a while I’ve prepared the third (or second if you count first two as one) article in Power of Content Editor WebPart series. In this article we do something that was already done using JavaScript – we hide SharePoint’s Quick Launch bar. But we do this to learn how this can be achieved. In [...]
After I installed SP2 for Office 2007, an annoying issue occurred. All the code started over indenting – meaning that a sub-node was indented 4 tabs into instead of 4 spaces or 1 tab. There is a setting in SPD to fix that. In Tools menu select Page editor options And under Code Formatting decrease [...]
If you’re trying to export data from a SharePoint list to Excel you might get this error message. Possible causes / solutions: 1. Change all Date and Time columns to single line of text and then back to Date and Time. Don’t worry, the data in these columns will be preserved. 2. There is a [...]
If you need to add custom JavaScript to SharePoint 2010 list form just like in 2007 (for example the SharePoint Cascaded Lookup), you’d need to insert the Content Editor WebPart to the same form. There are couple of ways to do it. Here’s one: 1. In a SharePoint List View select the "List" tab in [...]
When dealing with quite some scripts for this blog or at work, I always come across couple of supporting JavaScripts that I constantly reuse. That’s why I’ve created an extra page to publish those scripts and have them available at one place. And if you find some use for them, so much the better. Those [...]
When creating a document in Office, you can store it directly to SharePoint by typing your SharePoint site’s URL in the "File Name" field. This will open the SharePoint site where you can select the document library you wish to store your document to. But if you need to create a folder in the target [...]
The second article from the series Power of Content Editor WebPart is published. It’s titled Getting to the object. It’s a sequel from the first article and in this part we learn how to use some of JavaScript’s native functions to select the element we wish to modify in SharePoint. We also make a simple demo [...]
I’ve added a new section on my page dedicated to JavaScript solutions that I’ve published. The latest one is intended for creating a Cascaded Lookup Dropdown fields in a SharePoint New or Edit Form. What is a Cascaded dropdown? It’s a combination of two dropdown lists. By selecting an option in the first dropdown (parent) [...]
If you need to know the internal name of a SharePoint column (which can be pretty different from actual if you’re using spaces and latin characters, you can discover this very simple: Go to list’s settings and edit the properties of the field (on a sample below we’ll get to know the internal name of [...]
