SharePoint Diary

Cannot open log for source ‘Custom_Web_Part’. You may not have write access

December 29, 2010 Known Issues, SharePoint, Troubleshooting

In a SharePoint site, When I logged in as an administrator, all pages accessed successfully. But as a regular user it scolded me with Access denied Error :-) Enabled the stack trace and Turned off custom error message page to get the actual error. Error detail: System.ComponentModel.Win3…

How to Add Banner image in SharePoint - Simple way

December 27, 2010 Branding, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

Banners are the great way to add branding to SharePoint site. There are lot of ways to add banner in SharePoint, Here I'm going to illustrate a easy way to add Top banner in SharePoint. In SharePoint 2010: In SharePoint 2010, CSS class you have to pick and modify is: .s4-title .s4-title {…

You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page.

December 26, 2010 Known Issues, SharePoint, Troubleshooting

Internet explorer displays the message at top "You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page."? Fix is: This is because Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration. So simply disable IE ESC to fix this i…

Exclude SharePoint Folders from Antivirus

December 23, 2010 Administration, Best Practices, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint servers, some of the SharePoint, IIS, SQL Server folders should be excluded from anti-virus protection in order to avoid performance hits! such as: (C:\ may be other drive as well) C :\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Logs C :\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\…

Log Errors to Windows Event Log or SharePoint Log Programmatically

December 22, 2010 Errors, Event Log, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, Troubleshooting

Using Windows Event - Logs During development its worth to log errors either in Windows Event log or in SharePoint log files for further troubleshooting. try { //Do something } catch (Exception ex) { SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate { System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("M…

All People Link in SharePoint 2010

December 19, 2010 SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks

"All People" is really helpful if you want to see who are all the people have access to site and if you want to delete the user from site completely in SharePoint 2007, as shown below. But in SharePoint 2010 All People Link is missing!!! Don't panic. We can get it back by a si…

Extract line by Line in Nintex workflow

December 18, 2010 Nintex, SharePoint

Through lazy approval in Nintex workflow, I had to extract the approver's comment line by line. Using Regular expressions in Nintex workflow we can accomplish that. Regular expressions: Here the "ApproverComments" is a collection variable. You can extract from the collecti…

Fix for SharePoint Datasheet Error: The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one ore more of the following reasons

December 16, 2010 Known Issues, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, Troubleshooting

When I try to open a SharePoint 2010 list in Datasheet View, It scolded me by throwing below error: The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one ore more of the following reasons: - A datasheet component compatible with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not installed. - Your …

Stsadm -o activatefeature gives Access to the Path Denied Error

November 14, 2010 Features, Known Issues, SharePoint, Solutions and Features, Troubleshooting

When trying to activate a feature using stsadm -o activatefeature , It gave me: Access to the Path <feature path> is denied." Error Then I used -name switch instead of -filename and it worked!

How to Enable Anonymous Access in SharePoint 2010

November 10, 2010 Anonymous Access, Configuration, Permission, Security, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

How to enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2010? To Enable Anonymous access in SharePoint 2010, We need to do the change in Central admin & Site collection: Central Administration Change: Go to: Central Administration > Application Management > Manage Web Applications , and Selec…

Page Redirect using CEWP JavaScript in SharePoint

November 05, 2010 Administration, Content Editor Web Part, Javascript, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, Tips and Tricks

There are some situations, where we need to place re-directs in SharePoint pages. OK.. How to do that? Simple! We can redirect using content editor web part in SharePoint. Just add a content editor web part, and place the below JavaScript code: <script type="text/javascript"> …

Trick to Edit SharePoint List Forms to Add webpart (NewForm.Aspx, EditForm.aspx, AllItems.aspx, etc) in browser

November 01, 2010 List Forms, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks

By default, SharePoint doesn't allow us to edit the List forms in browser. See the Edit Page from Site action is greyed out! However, Its possible to edit SharePoint list form pages! Here is the trick to edit SharePoint List Forms (like DispForm.aspx, NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx) in brow…

Extract Assembly DLLs from GAC

October 23, 2010 SharePoint, Tips and Tricks

Want to access GAC assembly folder's file system (say for Copying a DLL). Here is the shortcut to copy/extract GAC assemblies: Go to Start >> Run >> type "c:\windows\assembly\gac_msil" Now, You can get the GAC Files in File system. You can Extract the DLLs from here…

Creating Custom Menu with Sub-Menus under Site Actions in SharePoint

October 13, 2010 Object Model, SharePoint, SharePoint Development

We can add custom menu in site actions with our most accessed URL's like "Quota Increase", "Owner change", etc. like the below screen. But, Why we need to do this? Well, It's a good user friendly addition, they don't need to search for a link to raise a quota i…

Manage Blocked File Types in SharePoint

October 10, 2010 C#, Reference, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

Recently another user came to me saying, He got the below error while he tried uploading a file to SharePoint: "The following file(s) have been blocked by the administrator" This is because: The user tried uploading .OCX files, which were in the blocked file type. Here is what I did…

List Aggregation-Rollup across site collections (Even across Farms) using Dataview, Web Services in SharePoint

October 05, 2010 Dataview Webpart, SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Web Services

With SharePoint web services and dataview web part, You can aggregate the lists/document libraries/etc between sub-sites/site collections/web applications/even across forms. So, Here I'm going to walk through how to achieve this using a simple example. Lets say I've two sites namely: S…

Add Favicon for SharePoint sites

October 02, 2010 Branding, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

What is FavIcon? Favicon appears next to the URL in the address bar and in bookmarks menu next to the site name will show with the icon. In SharePoint Favicons are good way to add some additional branding to SharePoint sites. How to create a FavIcon ? Simple. Take your company logo or image,…

How to find the SharePoint Site Template being Used

September 25, 2010 Reference, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, Site Template

How to find the site template of an existing SharePoint site? There are many ways to find the site definition being used for a site, Here are some: 1. Use SharePoint Manager to find the SharePoint site template. Navigate thru the site, and look for "Web Template" as in the below pic…

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