Monthly Archives: August 2009

Creating pages of custom content types in SharePoint

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Pages as any other content on your SharePoint site is something that although may appear static, is highly dynamic. You may have pages defining certain business object which may need to be aggregated, reported on, filtered, sorted, dashboard-ed etc. In … Continue reading →

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SharePoint content replication and deployment tool

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Few weeks ago I talked about replication and content deployment tool from codeplex that tries to extend sharepoint default out of the box content deployment. Main requests or complaint that I got from clients about out of the box tool … Continue reading →

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Creating sites of custom templates with SharePoint Designer workflow

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In simple situation, when you`re advanced user rather than developer – SharePoint designer can be quite handy; if you find some of it`s capabilities limiting – check out custom SPD activities on codeplex: http://spdactivities.codeplex.com/ Among few there you can find activity … Continue reading →

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Setting automatic page title for SharePoint Default pages

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: I have to create several doesens of subsites under my site collection. Each of the subsites will have their Default.aspx page with predefined set of webparts and other things set up. Among those other things – … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Custom Solution development

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Allright, so you know how to create features, deploy them as solutions; you also know how to deploy solutions; you think that solutions must be used only when you need to customize something outside of the box – like deploy … Continue reading →

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Programmatically hide sharepoint web from default navigation

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you worked with publishing pages before you’re probably are familiar with the functionality to hide sites from navigation menu. Something like this: If you’re building a solution you probably want to script this functionality as a feature so you can … Continue reading →

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Incorporating outside hosted video in your SharePoint site

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

I`m working on an Internet solution utilizing SharePoint and one of the things that will be available in a final release is the ability for content administrators to upload videos to vimeo.com and them being automatically picked by designated section … Continue reading →

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Loading and consuming complex webpart properties

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When you develop your webparts most likely you want to make them configurable through web part properties dialog. In quite few cases I wanted to go a bit further than out of the box text boxes. In my case I … Continue reading →

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Granular SharePoint content deployment

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you worked with SharePoint content deployment you`re probably familiar with some limitations of out of the box tool including the ability to only perform content deployment of entrire web. In some cases you may want to go mre granular … Continue reading →

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