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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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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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Dispose SPWeb objects while iterating to parent

Posted in Development, SharePoint, Uncategorized, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , , , on March 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

While programming in SharePoint, did you ever needed to work your way back to the parent website? Probably the easiest, but not the recommended, way to do this is: The problem with this approach is that you are not disposing your SPWeb and SPSite objects. You should correctly dispose you SharePoint objects to avoid memory [...]

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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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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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IIS Access denied during deploy of solution

Posted in Development, IIS, SharePoint, Tools, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , , on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

When trying to deploy my SharePoint 2010 solution via Visual Studio 2010 I got the following error. Error occurred in deployment step ‘Recycle IIS Application Pool’: <nativehr>0×80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> Turned out that I forgot to add my user to the “Site Collection Administrators”. Go to “Site Actions” of the root site , add your user to the [...]

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List view web part in Site Definition results in error.

Posted in SharePoint, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , , , on July 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

When adding a List View web part in a custom Site Definition  be careful to define the url correctly. If not, SharePoint returns the following error when creating a site based upon the Site Definition. Cannot complete this action. Please try again.   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.ApplyWebTemplate(String bstrUrl, String& bstrWebTemplate, Int32& plWebTemplateId) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.ApplyWebTemplate(String bstrUrl, String& bstrWebTemplate, Int32& [...]

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SharePoint, jQuery and conflicting JavaScript frameworks.

Posted in jQuery, SharePoint, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , , , , , on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I recently ran into a problem where my web part, that uses jQuery, didn’t work anymore on the SharePoint production server. After some investigation it became clear that it was caused by another  SharePoint feature that was enabled on the site. This SharePoint feature used it’s own JavaScript framework that conflicted with jQuery. jQuery uses [...]

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Coveo search breaks jQuery?

Posted in jQuery, SharePoint, Web parts and solutions, tagged , , , , , , on April 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Update 2009-04-23 : Thanks to Coveo support. I was able so resolve this issue. See below for details. While I was creating a custom web part using the jQuery treeview plugin,  I ran into an issue with Coveo Search.  The click events ( to expand / collapse the treeview nodes) didn’t work anymore. The web part [...]

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