SharePoint Branding: Best tools and links to start with

January 18, 2010    , ,
So, Decided to brand your SharePoint site? Here are the nifty tools to help you out. SharePoint Designer :-) SharePoint Skinner- Theme Generator: http://www.elumenotion.com/Downloads/SkinnerSetup.zip CSS Vista - Edit CSS inline:  http://www.brothersoft.com/cssvista-88119.html SharePoint Branding Tool - Modify Master page, Logo, etc for Multiple sites once: http://brandingtool.codeplex.com/ Use Developer Tools for FireFox(previously known as: Firebug) or IE Developer tool bar for IE http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en Here are the best resources: http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/  (Her SharePoint CSS Chart is simply wonderful : http://www.heathersolomon.com/content/sp07cssreference.htm ) http://philwicklund.com/blog/Pages/Best-Practices-for-Branding-SharePoint-2007-%28Part-1-of-10%29.aspx Last but not least: http://spc.codeplex.com/  
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SharePoint Branding: Best tools and links to start with SharePoint Branding: Best tools and links to start with Reviewed by Unknown on January 18, 2010 Rating: 5

My Favorite SharePoint Tools & Utilities - Top 50 List

January 13, 2010    , , , , ,
Here is the list of Top 30 Best Free SharePoint Tools for SharePoint Development / Administration / Monitoring / Troubleshooting Tools and utilities to make our SharePoint work easier, faster and efficient. 1 . SharePoint Manager 2007 / 2010 / 2013 The SharePoint Manager is a SharePoint object model explorer to give quick and easy overview of the structure and data hidden behind your SharePoint Farm. It enables you to browse every site on your local farms and all of the properties of objects. You can also change the values ​​of some properties.   You'll have to run this application from your SharePoint Server as administrator. Download URL: http://spm.codeplex.com/  . We've SharePoint Client Browser to explore Server objects from client side: https://spcb.codeplex.com/ 2. WSP Builder A SharePoint Solution Package (WSP) creation tool for SharePoint 2007/2010 which includes templates for web parts, Event Receivers, Feature,etc. Download URL: http://wspbuilder.codepl
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My Favorite SharePoint Tools & Utilities - Top 50 List My Favorite SharePoint Tools & Utilities - Top 50 List Reviewed by Unknown on January 13, 2010 Rating: 5

Trigger Javascript Function on SharePoint Page Load

January 12, 2010    , ,
Want to trigger a Javascript function on SharePoint page load? All you have to do is push your function's name to this array and it will trigger in the OnLoad event of the window. Example: Place this code in CEWP _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("MyFunction"); function MyFunction() {     alert('it works'); } In custom SharePoint pages, this chunk needs to be added just below: PlaceHolderMain or PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead
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Trigger Javascript Function on SharePoint Page Load Trigger Javascript Function on SharePoint Page Load Reviewed by Unknown on January 12, 2010 Rating: 5

Register Managed Account: Access Denied - SharePoint 2010

January 12, 2010    , , , , ,
To Register a Managed account, went to: Central Administration >> Security >> Configure Managed Account >> Register Managed Account Central admin returned the error: An error occurred while getting information about the user at server : Access is denied To solve this issue, you need to add the account using PowerShell: Log onto you server using an account from your internal domain (you need to do this so it can retrieve the info it needs from this domain) Execute the below commands in PowerShell: $credentials = Get-Credential Now in the login prompt, enter the managed account details Now, Enter: New-SPManagedAccount –Credential $credentials That's it . Now the new Managed account has been added
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Register Managed Account: Access Denied - SharePoint 2010 Register Managed Account: Access Denied - SharePoint 2010 Reviewed by Unknown on January 12, 2010 Rating: 5

Disable Friedly Error Page and Reveal Actual Error in SharePoint

January 11, 2010    , , , , ,
SharePoint provides the default friendly error message page, from which I could not understand what went wrong really! How to disable the default custom error page and display actual error in SharePoint? Here is how to disable SharePoint's friendly error message and show the actual error message: In the web server, Open the Web.Config file from web site's  directory through IIS. (eg. C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 )                 Search for the safemode node with the word " CallStack "  and change the CallStack status to true <SafeMode MaxControls="100"  CallStack="true"    DirectFileDependencies="10" TotalFileDependencies="50"  AllowPageLevelTrace="false">   Search for the CustomErrors node and set the mode to off  < customErrors mode="Off"     />                 That's All!, You'll get the detailed error page now!! Update : In SharePoint 2010, addition t
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Disable Friedly Error Page and Reveal Actual Error in SharePoint Disable Friedly Error Page and Reveal Actual Error in SharePoint Reviewed by Unknown on January 11, 2010 Rating: 5
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