In SharePoint 2013, there is a new feature called Image Renditions. I think if the content owners use this feature wisely, it will definitely reduce the load on the bandwidth. What does the feature do? Image renditions lets the site owners define what sizes the images can be scaled to when adding an image to […]
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Navigation, Managed Metadata Enhancements in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013, site navigation can be driven by Managed Metadata (Term Sets). This is a fantastic improvement over how navigation was controlled in the previous versions of SharePoint. Here are a few features of Term Set based navigation: 1. SEO optimizations. 2. User Friendly URL’s. 3. Custom Properties for each term & Term-Driven pages. 4. […]
Social Security Trimmer in SharePoint 2010
Social component in SharePoint 2010 is actively used in intranets. Users share thoughts, links and documents with other users using the functionality provided by SharePoint 2010. Users can tag pages which are a part of the intranet site or they can tag links which are external. Anytime any of the above actions occur, an activity […]
Changing look and feel in Office 365 public web site. (Overview)
If you have the P1 plan, you get a public web site that you can customize. This is pretty neat. Office 365 gives you plenty of tools to create your own look and feel. Here is an overview of the basic functionality provided to customize your site. You can set the width of the page […]
Lync and My Sites (Update My Site status with Lync Personal Note)
If you have noticed, Lync’s personal note does not sync with your “My Site” status. It would’ve been great if there was a way to set the My Site link in the Lync client and it would automatically set the status. To accomplish the above we have to use the Lync client SDK which can […]
Quick custom Search Results web part
To create a search results web part that will dynamically create a search query and render the search results is pretty easy. Create a new web part and inherit the CoreResultsWebPart. public class MySearchWebPart: CoreResultsWebPart { public MySearchWebPart(): base() { // Initialize the search results web part here… //e.g this.ResultsPerPage = 10; //Set the Fixed […]
No Chrome for Web Parts outside the zone.
Recently while adding a web part to a page layout, I came across a weird behavior. Whenever I added a web part to a page layout in the web part zone, the chrome showed up fine but when I added the web part outside the zone and published the page layout the chrome would not […]
Ways and Locations to add a custom action to a Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 using Code.
To add a button to the ribbon in SharePoint 2010 we use the SPUserCustomAction class. Get hold of the SPList object whose ribbon you want to customize. Access the UserCustomActions property and create a new instance of the SPUserCustomAction class. Set the appropriate properties of the new instance. Call update on the SPUserCustomAction instance. There […]
Ways and Locations to add a custom action to a Ribbon in SharePoint 2010
There are different ways of adding your own custom actions to the ribbon in SharePoint 2010. The ribbon is made up of tabs and groups. Each tab consists of Groups. So when we want to add a custom action we need to identify the correct tab and group. This is referenced by Tab.Group ID. 1. […]
Enterprise Content Types
Enterprise Content Types and Service Applications are interesting features of SharePoint 2010. Enterprise content types can be used to provide a consistent entity definition to different web applications. Consider an example of a textile company who has implemented an Extranet and an Intranet application. Their clients can log on to their extranet site and order […]
Enterprise Content Types
Enterprise Content Types and Service Applications are interesting features of SharePoint 2010. Enterprise content types can be used to provide a consistent entity definition to different web applications. Consider an example of a textile company who has implemented an Extranet and an Intranet application. Their clients can log on to their extranet site and order […]
Ways and Locations to add a custom action to a Ribbon in SharePoint 2010
There are different ways of adding your own custom actions to the ribbon in SharePoint 2010. The ribbon is made up of tabs and groups. Each tab consists of Groups. So when we want to add a custom action we need to identify the correct tab and group. This is referenced by Tab.Group ID. 1. […]