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I’ve had yet another fun week up here in Canada. I gave a brand new talk about the new ways to query search in SharePoint 2013. I had a room full of developers that asked a lot of great questions. As promised, my slide deck is below...
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Body: On June 8, 2013, SharePoint Saturday will be held in Atlanta at Georgia State University. I’m really looking forward to it! My session will be: InfoPath and SharePoint Designer Workflows Together In your organization, forms are everywhere. InfoPath...
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You may encounter an exception when running certain SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. The exception message will generally say something along the lines of Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. You may encounter this...
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When working with SharePoint’s UI, it is often difficult to work out where in the URL structure you are. You may for instance be working at the root of a site collection, but that itself may be several layers deep. Take the following example. You...
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Body: Do you want people to be able to quickly fill in a form on your site, over and over again? One option for this has always been datasheet view, but sometimes you have a more complex form. In this post, I’ll show how you can create a button that will...
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I wanted to create an autocomplete textbox in a SharePoint app recently by using terms from the term store. Since retrieving items from the term store can be a bit involved I wanted to show you the steps involved. This solution make use of...
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I recently ran into the following error when working with a SharePoint 2013 Client Web Part (App Part) while accessing the term store using SP.Taxonomy.js . JavaScript runtime error: 'NotifyScriptLoadedAndExecuteWaitingJobs' is undefined...
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One of the many pieces of functionality added in SharePoint 2010 was the dialog window, this is a nice little control implemented in JavaScript that allows us to display a “lightbox” style dialog, containing either another page within our...
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In my current client project I had to design a Sharepoint portal with many lists and libraries that will eventually be re-usable across the organisation (ie the same lists structure will be used by several sites, sub-sites under several site collections...
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The excellent Knockout.js library is an MVVM (Model, View, ViewModel) library. Using it you can completely abstract the logic from the presentation in your web applications, allowing dynamic and responsive UIs to be created without having to manage all...
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Today I had a requirement to alter the title in the left hand side of the Suite bar in SharePoint 2013. This is the bar appearing at the very top of the page, by default containing the word SharePoint on the left and links to things like SkyDrive, the...
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As a developer, if you have ever looked for information on how to query search in SharePoint, there is a good chance that you have ran into one of my articles. I’ve been writing about how to query search in a variety of different ways since 2007...
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So today was the last of the 3 day Evolution conference that has been running at the QEII centre in Westminster. http://www.sharepointevolutionconference.com/ The whole conference has been fantastic with a very good selection of speakers...
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The User Profile Service is an incredibly powerful part of SharePoint. When used correctly it vastly improves the experience of your users by adding a real sense of personal ownership of your sites and their content. Unfortunately like any complex system...
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Quite often when working with data within a SharePoint environment, we wish to link the data to images hosted within a third party system. This is often seen in the form of staff pictures that are hosted on a third party HR platform rather than within...