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Localize (hidden) list templates.

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, Development, SharePoint, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , on October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Introduction When in a (localized) variations site, certain “list templates” do not show when trying to create a new list. The “list template” is only available in the master variation with the locale set to English. Including list templates in your SharePoint (Visual Studio) projects can be straight forward. On a list do a “save [...]

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Custom master page error : “You must specify a value for this required field”

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, Development, SharePoint on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

When using a custom master page and editing a page in SharePoint 2010 I received a dialog box the following error: “You must specify a value for this required field”. This error is caused when you set the contentplaceholder ‘PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea’ to: Visible=”False”. After removing the Visible=False attribute from the contentplaceholder the error disappeared. As a [...]

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Format xslt date

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, Development, SharePoint, Uncategorized on June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

To format data in SharePoint I often use xslt. The default formatting of dates however is pretty useless <xsl:value-of select=”@YourDateParam”/> Results in : 2009-03-23 00:00:00   You can also use a predefined locale like this: <xsl:value-of select=”ddwrt:FormatDate(@YourDateParam, 1033, 15)”/> Results in : Thursay, August 24, 2011 09:00:00 PM   If your required date time format [...]

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Google Maps in SharePoint 2010 using standard functionality.

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, Development, SharePoint, Uncategorized, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Introduction. In SharePoint 2010 you can use Google Maps without having to download extra webparts or third party tools. In this article I will explain how you can insert “Google Maps” maps in your SharePoint 2011 site with only using standard out of the box SharePoint 2010 features. It’s a generic solution which can also [...]

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How to add rounded corners to your SharePoint web parts.

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, jQuery, SharePoint, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 14, 2011 | 13 Comments »

Adding a box or rounded corners around a SharePoint web part can be challenging due to the way that SharePoint renders it’s web parts in a <table> layout. This article explains how to add extra <div> elements around the SharePoint web parts. Then by using the ‘sliding doors’ css technique we can add a flexible [...]

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Fixed ribbon and scroll bar issues.

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, Development, SharePoint, tagged , , , , , , , on January 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The new Ribbon functionality in SharePoint 2010 can cause some frustration when creating custom master pages. The trick is to develop a master page with the ribbon always on top of your page without losing functionality and keep the content scrolling working correctly. Sometimes the scroll bars seems to grow outside the browser window leaving [...]

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File specified in the modules section of this template already exists.

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, Development, SharePoint, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , , , on September 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Ran into a curious issue where I was only able to activate my feature only once after deployment. When I deactivate the feature and then try to activate the feature again, I received the following error :  Error: A file specified in the modules section of this template already exists. Resulting in this screen. Luckily [...]

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Error: this site is not assigned to an indexer

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, Development, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I was writing a new web part to search Taxonomies (Managed metadata) in SharePoint 2010. During testing I got an error when using the class FullTextSqlQuery “Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer. Contact your administrator for more information. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Query.Query.CreateQueryProxy(SPSite site) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Query.Query..ctor(SPSite site)” while debugging [...]

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Removing search from your page (or other delegates).

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, SharePoint, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Removing the default search box doesn’t seem so straight forward. This article explains how to remove (or replace) the search box or any other delegate control by using a feature. Prerequisites: – Know how to create a feature and have one ready. – Know how to create an ascx control. (ASP.NET usercontrol) Locating the searchbox. [...]

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Create web directly from Site Template gallery using C#

Posted in Branding, Layout, look and feel, SharePoint, tagged , , , , on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Lost a few hours today by trying to programmatically create a (sub) web based on a template that you saved in the “Site Template” gallery of your site collection. The solution was so simple I could hit myself for not having tried it in the first place. Using the SharePOint 2007 API you can create [...]

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