Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Requirement: In a request tracking system, wanted to auto-populate people picker value from currently logged-in User. Solution: How to set the People Picker field value to the current user? Let’s use jQuery and SPServices to fetch the logged-in user name and fill the SharePoint list form’s people picker field value. In short,…
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Today, created a Nintex workflow to send out E-mail notification to SharePoint groups. Start-up option for the workflow was: “Start when Items are created”, but in SharePoint 2007 incoming email didn’t trigger the workflow on new item creation. Root cause: Incoming E-mail attachments areuploaded to SharePoint libraries using “System Account” (If E-mail…
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I got few corrupted lists when a custom code, which provisions lists got stuck in middle! I couldn’t delete the corrupted list neither from SharePoint web interface nor using SharePoint Designer! When I tried to access the corrupted SharePoint list from browser, received this error message: “List does not exist. The page…
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Requirement: Delete user from site collection in SharePoint 2013 How to delete a user from site collection? So you don’t want a particular user to have access to SharePoint 2010 site anymore! Want to delete users from SharePoint 2010 site collection, isn’t it? Well, How to delete users from site collection? To…
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Some time back, I wrote C# code for SharePoint Administration Governance purpose: Find Large Lists & Generate Report in SharePoint , which actually scans all lists in all sites and creates a report in CSV format. I feel PowerShell is more convenient than C# for couple of reasons: Because, PowerShell is quite…
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Problem: Membership Web part on SharePoint My Sites is not Updated! still displays old data. Solution: Trigger a user profile full import! That will update membership web part on SharePoint My sites! Here is how: Go to Central Administration >> Pick the relevant Shared Service Provider Click on “User profiles and properties”…
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Problem: A particular SharePoint site’s Home page URL leads to 404 page not found error. While all other pages were working without any issues, On hitting the Home page URL, observed it is redirecting to some other URL that doesn’t exist! Root cause: Usually, these kinds of redirects are placed in CEWP…
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There was a requirement to get list owners info who created the lists, we developed a custom application page in SharePoint 2010: How to Create Custom Application Page in SharePoint 2010 to get List Owners But the link to the application page to be placed somewhere on the site for easy access…
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