Darya Orlova

Yammer on Tour was in Chicago yesterday and I diligently took notes to share with you. Most of the event was, frankly, dedicated to why social is great, rather than what makes Yammer stand out. Value of social collaboration is a very interesting topic, but when you attend a Yammer event you want to learn […]

I don’t like to see this error. Symptoms: You can see the Page Layout menu in the edit page ribbon, but when you click it, nothing happens. Your browser tells you, “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method ‘parentElement’ of null .” If you’re debugging in your browser, you’re probably thinking, I’ll just go to the line […]

I had a couple of people ask me recently what’s up with Twitter. And it’s actually hard to explain. It’s a thing where you can essentially text millions of people, but why? who cares? why would you want to? It seems that there are people who “get it” and people who don’t “get it.” I […]

Do you have something going on in SharePoint that you want to tie into NewsGator activity feed? In some cases an event receiver is what you want. See my blog on custom NG activities if you want to use an event receiver. But there are cases where SharePoint shamelessly writes things to its databases and […]

As of version 2.6 you get an option in NewsGator to supply a custom style sheet. There’s one provided for a narrow activity feed (370px wide, to be precise).  However, that isn’t the narrowest it can be and if you want a really slim newsfeed, check this out… My approach is to reuse the narrow […]

MSDN has a neat web part you can use for polls – Quick Surveys. Unfortunately the link to read more leads to an error. Since I had to figure out what might have been at that mysterious location, I figured I’d document the findings. I made some minor updates to the code to work a […]

Let’s say you want to create a SharePoint lookup field where the dropdown options display something other than title of the lookup item… If the field you want to show is a single line of text type, then you’re in luck! Here’s an example of how straighforward it is. However, if you want to be able to […]

Don’t worry, no blood was spilled and no activity feed was harmed in the making of this blog post. The diagrams below apply to NewsGator activity feeds from Versions 2.6 and 3.1. The classes labeled in orange were added in v3.1. The Share box was re-done in 3.1, so the 1st one is v2.6 and […]

This post is sort of part 2 of my other post on migration using Metalogix.  I was working with the Migration Manager to move data out of the Vignette Collaboration platform, but the steps I describe below can actually be used with any other source platform (or no source platform at all!). If you are building […]

Some time ago I one of my projects involved migration from the Vignette Collaboration platform to SharePoint 2010. Vignette Collab was no longer going to be supported by the vendor and my client wanted to move to a new platform. They were already using SharePoint elsewhere, so SharePoint was chosen as the destination platform. The goal was to keep […]

In the few weeks that I’ve been working on NewsGator customizations, this question has come up several times: Can you make everyone in an Active Directory group automatically follow a NewsGator community? What it comes down to is that the administrator wants to manage groups in Active Directory and not have to duplicate that effort […]

If you have NewsGator on your SharePoint site and want to refine the look or functionality of some items in the newsfeed, there is a good chance that you will be building a custom activity type. Here are a few examples of where custom activity types can help: ·items from a non-community list trigger posts […]