Customize SharePoint list form rendering in new, edit and display mode

patrikluca.blogspot.com — Business requirement: Hide list fields upon creation / modification of a SharePoint list item with the SharePoint GUI In a previous blogpost Hide list fields upon creation of a SharePoint list item, I talked about how to hide a SharePoint list field upon creation of a list item and to show it upon modification of that same list item. Unfortunately, this is something which cannot be achieved by using merely the out-of-the-box administration tools of SharePoint, but the SharePoint Tips Utility Pack could help you out. This great tool has some disadvantages: You can only run it on the SharePoint server itself. If you are a SharePoint implementator, you can set the properties of each field with this tool. Unfortunately, if power users of the SharePoint environment afterwards want to change anything to a field, they are not able to do this anymore (whereas they are able to change views,add content types or add columns on a SharePoint list you have set up for them by going to the appropriate settings forms). read more...

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How to trigger a workflow based on a non-empty Comments field?

patrikluca.blogspot.com — At an installation where I created a helpdesk functionality based on the Help Desk template, one of the Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, I was asked to create a workflow which sends out an email automatically when a comments is added to a service request. The email may not be sent out if the comments added was empty. read more...

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Getting rid of logon prompts when opening Office documents

patrikluca.blogspot.com — Problem description: You are prompted to enter your credentials each time you open a Microsoft Office document stored in a SharePoint document library Each time you open a Microsoft Office document, you are prompted to enter your credentials again, even if you check the box remember my password. For non Microsoft Office documents, such as PDF files, you are not prompted to enter your credentials. The credentials prompt is not taken into account apparently: if you choose Cancel in the prompted window without entering your credentials, the Microsoft Office document is still opened. read more...

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Bulk update of a field for existing SharePoint list items

patrikluca.blogspot.com — Suppose you have created a SharePoint list or document library with some metadata columns. End-users start adding list items to this SharePoint list. After a while, they want to change the value for a particular column of already created list items. They could do this manually through the Edit in Datasheet mode, but suppose they have already created hundreds of list items in the SharePoint list... It would save a lot of time if an option would exist to bulk update a SharePoint field from one value to another in all list items for a particular SharePoint list. An ideal scenario is off course a SharePoint column created with as type of information Lookup. Changing the value of the item where the Lookup column is getting its information from would update in mass all already existing SharePoint list items. But if this isn't the case, there is no real out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality to bulk update a field (except the Edit in Datasheet mode). read more...

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Add a SharePoint Web Part to multiple sites at once

patrikluca.blogspot.com — Business requirement: Add a SharePoint Web Part to multiple sites at once You might have created a set of similar SharePoint sites, all based upon the same site template, just like me. After some time, business requirements change, and the end-users want to have a new Web Part on all the home pages of each of these SharePoint sites. If there are a multiple SharePoint sites, you might want to avoid, just like me, to edit each of the home pages of those SharePoint sites one-by-one. read more...

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Hide the View All Site Content Link

patrikluca.blogspot.com — Problem description: How to hide the View All Site Content Link In some cases, you want to hide the View All Site Content link in the Quick Launch: this to less confuse SharePoint end-users. The less links an end-user has to click on, the less the end-user will be confused. However, hiding this View All Site Content link is not possible with out-of-the-box functionality for SharePoint. read more...

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Getting started with custom SharePoint Event Receivers

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saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de — In this post I describe how to create a custom SharePoint Event Receiver using the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services. read more...

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SilverPart Beta 2.0 released on Codeplex - supports Silverlight 2 B2

rialight.net — Just released a new version of the SilverPart webpart on CodePlex. This new release supports Silverlight 2 Beta 2. read more...

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