Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
The requirement is to Set Item Level Permission on Document Library Items based on the field in the document library “Visible to Visitors”. The field “Visible to Visitors” is a Checkbox. Technically, When this column set to True, We’ll have to do nothing. When this column set to False, we’ll have to…
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Generally, we use STSADM command line to install features by “STSADM -o installfeature -name FeatureName” or Install-SPFeature PowerShell Cmdlet. At times, we may have to execute stsadm programmatically to install a Feature. Say for e.g. from console applications or from another feature activation code. Here is how it can be achieved.
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Requirement: Add Site columns to the SharePoint site programmatically as part of a site provisioning code. Add a New Site column to SharePoint Site Programmatically: Create SharePoint site column programmatically with C# Object Model code: Alternate Approach:
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Requirement is to add OOTB and Custom web parts to a web part page programmatically via features. I’m sharing the code snippets: To Add Out Of The Box Web Parts: (E.g. Content Query Web Part, Content Editor, Page Viewer Web Part, etc): Add Page Viewer web part: Programmatically add ListView webpart from:…
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Often in development we may have to deal with SharePoint Views programmatically. Here I’m sharing the code snippets from my recent project to handle views programmatically. Creating a New View Programmatically: Add/Remove fields to an existing View Programmatically: Get the Fields from View Programmatically: Delete Existing View Programmatically: PowerShell Script to Create…
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Requirement: Had to customize the Top navigation with bunch of provided internal/external links as part of a branding project. Solution: Designed a feature to programmatically add links to top navigation bar. when activated, feature will add bunch of links to the top navigation bar. Customize navigation programmatically in SharePoint: In another SharePoint…
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At times, We may have to create List or Document Libraries programmatically. These code snippets will help to get it done. Create a Document Library in SharePoint Using .Net Object Model (C#) For all available List template types, Refer: SPListTemplateType Create a SharePoint List using PowerShell:
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At times, We may have to activate/deactivate features programmatically. Here is the code snippet: PowerShell way to Activate-Deactivate Features: To activate a feature in PowerShell: Enable-SPFeature -identity <Feature-Folder-Name/GUID> -URL <URL-of-Web-app/Site coll/Site> To deactivate a feature: Disable-SPFeature -identity <Feature-Folder-Name/GUID> -URL <URL-of-Web-app/Site coll/Site>
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SharePoint List views uses CAML internally to Filter, Sort list items. In a Recent project, we had to programmatically set the Filter and Sort order of default views. How to Get the CAML? Simple! use U2U CAML Query builder, one of my favorite SharePoint tool. C# code to set the View Filter,…
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While adding a ListViewWebPart to web part page programmatically, had to set the List View’s tool bar to “Summary View”. After trying for hours found this code: Call the above method wherever required:
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