SharePoint is commonly we can say it is a framework / platform. Using this we can share and manage lot of contents, documents, users, sites and also we can communicate with other persons with in Groups, Teams, even external Users.

I said SharePoint is a framework : Yes, this is a framework for building the web based collaboration applications, which is extended by including lot of services available from Microsoft. Microsoft has lot of products and they provided API’s for connecting with those Products. For ex, If we want to connect with External Data Source, SharePoint now has a Business Connectivity Services. This service which has inbuilt API’s to manage the connection between the SharePoint and External Source and helps to access the data’s from the External Source.

So, SharePoint is just a framework, which was built on top of Windows Server, IIS, .Net Framework, ASP.Net, SQL Server and extended by lot of services. The Framework has the xml type of definitions for Sites, Lists ( intermediate area for storing and managing the contents, documents in SQL Server Database ), Columns and pages for managing the SharePoint.

This is mainly concentrated on the Intranet based applications for organizations, but we can use this for building public facing websites. Microsoft currently release this a three type of Products.

Microsoft SharePoint foundation 2010
Has a Framework and limited service applications
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Standard
This is built on top of SharePoint Foundation and this is extended by including lot of services.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
This is built on top of both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint 2010 Standard and extended by including some more services with additional features included to existing services.

I will add more points to services available in each addition in future posts.

The outer area of the QuickLaunch element id is “s4-leftpanel”. We are using this id to slide-out the QuickLaunch bar.

Insert the jQuery file to the masterpage or any page you want the effect.
Then add the following style to the same. This will floats and hide the QuickLaunch on the page.


<style type="text/css">
.s4-ca
{
margin-left:0px;
float:left;
}
#s4-leftpanel
{
position:absolute;
float:left;
z-index:1;
margin-left:-145px;
}
</style>

Then insert the following javascript to the page, which makes, when ever the user hovers the left of the page, the QuickLaunch bar which emerges from the Left and visible for the user.


<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('#s4-leftpanel').hover(function()
{
$($(this)).stop().animate({'marginLeft':'0px'},200);
},
function()
{
$($(this)).stop().animate({'marginLeft':'-145px'},200);
});

});
</script>


Here I am enroll the snippet for enumerating the all the site collections from the web application. This Web Application is nothing but a IIS Site and has some specific properties helps to manage the Collection of Site Collections.

            //Retrieving the webapplication based on Url  
            SPWebApplication webapps = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new Uri(“http://localhost”));
            //Gets all the sites under the WebApplication
            SPSiteCollection sites = webapps.Sites;
            //Iterating the site collection and printing
           foreach (SPSite s in sites)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(s.Url);
               //Disposing the SiteCollection object, use to clears the memory obtained for SPSite object 
                s.Dispose();
            }

If I have an item Title named ‘Kumar’ and I am going to create a new item with Title named ‘Kumar. I need to delete the old item.

Note: In following example I have renamed the Title Display Name to ‘Names’

Here I am using SharePoint Designer workflow to achieve this by following way,

• I have to get the old List Item,
• Then compare the current (new item) with the old item
• And the Old Does not have the Current Item Id
• If above two steps are true, then delete the old item.

I have elaborated the above steps with the following activities,

1. Create a List Workflow and associate to a List and Set the Start Option as “Start Workflow automatically when an item is created”
   
   
2. In workflow step, First we have to create a workflow variable to get the item id which matches value entered in Current Item.
   
   
3. Using “Set Workflow Variable” activity we are getting that Item id. Add the parameters as shown below. And name the workflow variable as ‘OldItemId’
   
   
   
   
4. In the above figure I am getting the Item ID from the last item which matches the same vale for the Names field.
   
   
5. For the following 2 steps, we have to If Current Item field equals value condition activity.
   
   
6. Now we have to compare the Current Item value against the item returned by ‘OldItemId’
   
   
   
   
7. Then we have to compare the ‘OldItemId’ not same as Current Item Id.
   
   
   
   
8. The Use the Delete Item activity to delete the item based on ‘OlditemId’
   
   
   
   

Now the duplicate was item added with a same value will delete the old item.

So I tried to use LINQ to query the SharePoint Items. It works perfectly well for me. Here I provided my code to get the SharePoint Unique ListItems based on latest Items.

In the following example, I am first sorting the Items based on Modified field and then getting the unique item based on Title field by grouping.


using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
SPList list = web.Lists.TryGetList("MyList");
string Modi = "Modified";
List lstitems =
(from l in list.Items.OfType<SPListItem>() orderby l[Modi] descending select l).ToList<SPListItem>();

var listitemDistinct = lstitems.GroupBy(item1 => item1.Title, (key, group) => group.First()).ToList();

foreach (SPListItem i in listitemDistinct)
{
Console.WriteLine("Title: " +i.Title +"Modified: " + i[Modi].ToString());
}
}
}


If the ListItems has the following items,

Result:
Title: Sample 2 Modified: 11/19/2011
Title: Sample 1 Modified: 11/18/2011

• UserProfile.PublicUrl
• 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 UserProfileManager(context);
string UAccount = "DomainName\\spuser";
//Getting the UserProfile based on the User's Login Name
UserProfile u = profileManager.GetUserProfile(UAccount);
//Getting the User's Personal Site(Site Collection created for User's MySite) Url
Console.WriteLine("My Content Url: " + u.PersonalUrl.ToString());
//Getting the User's MySite Url
Console.WriteLine("My Site Url: " +u.PublicUrl.ToString());
}

RESULT:
My Content Url: http://localhost/my/personal/spuser/
My Site Url: http://localhost/my/Person.aspx?accountname=DomainName\spuser

• 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 (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost"))
{
SPSite.UsageInfo susg = site.Usage;
long spaceused = (((susg.Storage + 0x80000L) / 0x100000L));
if (site.Quota.StorageMaximumLevel == 0L)
{
Console.WriteLine("Storage Quota: Not applicable");
Console.WriteLine("Free Space Available: Unlimited");
}
else
{
long sitequota = (site.Quota.StorageMaximumLevel / 0x100000L);
long freespace = sitequota - spaceused;
Console.WriteLine("Storage Quota: " + sitequota.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("Free Space Available: " + freespace.ToString() + " MB");
}
Console.WriteLine("Storage Used: " + spaceused + " MB");
}

URL: http://clearspitems.codeplex.com/

The project is in alpha stage, i have planned for adding more functionality to this tool. And I will also publish this in the format of stsadm, powershell and in Ribbon mode.

I am expecting those things to be happen within next week..

So stay tuned … :)

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. If you create and publish a workflow without enabling the Start option(Start workflow automatically when an item was created). And after some time you came and enable that start option & saves without Publishing also cause a problem.
4. Or remove the “Allow this workflow to be manually started” start option and Initiation workflow. Enable “Start workflow automatically when an item was created” option and Publish the workflow.

check the following link has the soltuoions for SharePoint Designer workflows, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/troubleshoot-workflow-errors-HA010237912.aspx#BM2
If the above solutions couldn’t solve the problem, the you have to create new workflow.

And also used for Configuring and mapping different accounts with different services and Web Applications. Without registering the account, we can’t create a Service application and Web Applications.

In this post I am giving the snippet for retrieving the list of registered managed account users from the Farm.

SPFarm farm = SPFarm.Local;
SPFarmManagedAccountCollection accounts = new SPFarmManagedAccountCollection(farm);
foreach (SPManagedAccount account in accounts)
{
    Console.Write(account.Username);
}

SPFarmManagedAccountCollection returns the available managed accounts from the given farm.

SPManagedAccount has the list of properties of the registered account. By using those properties we can set the password reset schedule, etc..

Here I am just displaying only Username property of the Registered Account.

Coming posts I’ll come up with an interesting stuff with Managed Accounts, Stay tune my blog…