Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
You can create a Custom link in Site Action Menu using the CustomAction feature code. My Requirement is to add a new link “Support Center” in the Site actions Menu So that all site owners can easily access the SharePoint Support Center site. Create a folder in 12/14 hive’s features folder, say…
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Requirement: Adding a custom group of actions in SharePoint site settings page. Solution: We can create a feature to achieve this. Here is what I’ve done: Create a folder “MyCustomAction” under: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES Create these two files in MyCustomAction folder: Feature.xml Elements.xml Place the below content in the…
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During a development project, calling SPQuery returned all items from list! Looks like it just ignored the filters we applied. Fix: This above code returns all items in the list, but if you remove the <Query> tag all works fine: “<Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name=”Title” /><Value Type=”Text”>Test</Value></Eq></Where></Query>“;Â Remember, Query XML is case sensitive! So <Where>…
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By default, SharePoint does not include PDF document file type icon. So we need to do the below changes to display the PDF icon for PDF files in our SharePoint environment. Here is how we can add PDF icon in SharePoint 2010: Download an appropriate icon for the PDF document type. You…
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Sometimes, when working with the Multiline fields, they may occupy the whole page :-). We can solve this issue by introducing Expand-Collapse Trick with jQuery. On clicking on the little Arrow that row will be expanded, then again clicking will collapse. Here is How: Add the CEWP webpart and place the below…
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The main objective of the feature stapling concept is: Pre-activate desired features automatically on creating SharePoint sites based on site definitions like Team Sites (not site template .stp). say for e.g. you want to apply branding on creating a team sites, You can use feature stapling. So, In your feature, you have…
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We can generate the KPI list using simple SharePoint list with computed columns! Here is how we can get SharePoint list based status indicator. Create a SharePoint list with desired fields, then create a field with choices, Let’s say, Field name Cost_Input: with values Red, Green, Blue. Then let’s create another computed…
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Conditional Formatting? Sure, but the problem is: If some rows are hidden, then conditional formatting will lose its formatting. So, using JavaScript and CSS we can apply alternate styles to SharePoint List items. Sample screen: Just add a content editor web part, and place the below code.
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We can generate the simple Bar chart based on SharePoint list data. Here is how: Just create a list with desired fields, then drop a dataview webpart with the list. Here is the code to generate bar charts. Place them inside the Dataview webpart in appropriate place.
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