• What is SharePoint?

    by  • April 11, 2012 • 0 Comments

    SharePoint has evolved from 2001 to 2010 and it strongly raised to top by including lot of features over those periods. This is mainly created for managing the Contents and documents effectively. If you want for evolution of SharePoint, I’ll add that in future articles. Now I’ll give you my thoughts on What is SharePoint? [...]

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    Slide Out QuickLaunch – CSS & jQuery

    by  • March 2, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Today I want to show you how to slide-out the QuickLaunch bar using CSS and jQuery. In SharePoint the QuickLaunch bar was visible on left side, now we are going to hide the QuickLaunch on Page Load. The Quick Launch only slide out when the user hovers the area of the Quick Launch. This gives [...]

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    Enumerate SiteCollections

    by  • December 13, 2011 • 0 Comments

    SharePoint is the platform where we can store the set of values as items, files as documents in folder or Library. But how we manage all the data’s, there comes Web sites. The above collection of web sites are managed by Site Collection, which is a placeholder or container for all the web sites. Here [...]

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    MySite Url via UserProfile

    by  • November 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

    UserProfile has the two property members for retrieving the Url for the User. Those propertis returns the MySite Url and Personal Site url for the User. UserProfile.PersonalUrl Here, i am adding some code snippets, which gets these Url values from MySite. Using(SPSite _site = new SPSite(“http://localhost”)) { SPServiceContext context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(_site); UserProfileManager profileManager = new [...]

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    SiteCollection Storage Information

    by  • November 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

    SharePoint has the Usage Analysis Time job, which updates the following information for the sites, Storage, Discussion Storage, Bandwidth, Hits, Visits The SPSite.Usage property gives us the information of site usage, bandwidth, visits. Here I am adding the snippet for getting the Free Space available against Storage Quota and Space used by Site Collection, using [...]

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    Clear SharePoint Lists

    by  • November 27, 2011 • 0 Comments

    My colleague asked me about, is there any tool available for removing the entire list items from multiple list with single Click. I have taken that idea and created a tool for removing the entire items. URL: http://clearspitems.codeplex.com/ The project is in alpha stage, i have planned for adding more functionality to this tool. And [...]

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    Why Workflow not started on Item Creation?

    by  • November 20, 2011 • 0 Comments

    There are some cases, why the workflow was not started during item creation, 1. If you create an item using System Account, the workflow will not funtion properly or that couldn’t start. 2. The workflow start option was not enabled to “Start workflow automatically when an item was created”. Ensure this option was checked. 3. [...]

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    SharePoint Managed Account–Part 1

    by  • August 19, 2011 • 0 Comments

    This is the first of my series about SharePoint Managed Account, this feature is newly introduced in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint Managed Account feature now enable us to easily manage the User accounts by means of  password changing and notification for password change and automatic password reset. And also used for Configuring and mapping different accounts [...]

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    Hide Fields in List Forms

    by  • August 13, 2011 • 0 Comments

    We have three types of List Forms in SharePoint., New Form, Edit Form and Display Form. For some times or in some requirements, we need to hide some of the fields in List Forms. By OOB there is no page or option for hiding fields on separate form, but we can hide the fields in [...]

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    Inherit / Stop Web Site Top-Level Navigation

    by  • August 11, 2011 • 0 Comments

    We have two option on Top Link bar navigation, either we can inherit the Top-Link bar from the parent site or use the own Top-Level navigation. Sharing the Top-link bar can be achieved through browser interface by navigating, 1) Site Actions –> Site Settings 2) On Site Settings page, under Look and Feel section, click [...]

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