Monthly Archives: January 2010

Using SharePoint 2010 External Lists Programmatically

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

External list is a cool feature that has way simplified interface on accessing external SQL and Web Service data through familiar SharePoint list UI. My colleague Larry wrote an excellent post on creating SharePoint 2010 external list programatically using c# … Continue reading →

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Customizing field rendering in your SharePoint 2010 XSL

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

So you already know how to create custom XSL driven item View form for your list items, check out this article if not. In this article I will demonstrate how you can style fields that are rendered in the display … Continue reading →

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Using custom XSL list rendering templatest in SharePoint 2010

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When working with SharePoint 2010 solution you have to take a look at the Blog site template (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\Blog), it’s site template that gives you set of cool new features, such as ability to present your … Continue reading →

Posted in sharepoint, sharepoint 2010 | Tagged BaseViewID, sharepoint 2010, TemplateType, xsl, XslLink, XsltListViewWebPart | Comments Off

Troubleshooting issues when using SocialDataService web service with javascript

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Last week or so my colegue Adam Crandall was working on the custom SharePoint Rating control – you can check out his detailed post on the topic. He was using methods of SocialDataService through his custom JQuery module. When we … Continue reading →

Posted in sharepoint, sharepoint 2010 | Tagged AddTagByKeyword, CountCommentsOfUser, CountCommentsOfUserOnUrl, CountCommentsOnUrl, CountRatingsOnUrl, CountTagsOfUser, DeleteComment, DeleteRating, DeleteTag, DeleteTagByKeyword, DeleteTags, GetAllTagTerms, GetAllTagTermsForUrlFolder, GetAllTagUrls, GetAllTagUrlsByKeyword, GetCommentsOfUser, GetCommentsOfUserOnUrl, GetCommentsOnUrl, GetRatingAverageOnUrl, GetRatingOfUserOnUrl, GetRatingOnUrl, GetRatingsOfUser, GetRatingsOnUrl, GetSocialDataForFullReplication, GetSocialDataForIncrementalReplication, GetTags, GetTagsOfUser, GetTagTerms, GetTagTermsOfUser, GetTagTermsOnUrl, GetTagUrls, GetTagUrlsByKeyword, GetTagUrlsOfUser, GetTagUrlsOfUserByKeyword, GetTagUrlsOfUsers, GetTagUrlsOfUsersByKeyword, PropagateRating, ReplicateFullSocialData, ReplicateIncrementalSocialData, SetRating, sharepoint 2010, socialdataservice, UpdateComment | Comments Off

Troubleshooting SharePoint 2010 User Profile related issues

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is a real scenario from one of the blog readers: When I log into SharePoint as system account, I can rate documents. When I log on using another account, who is a member of contribute group, when I try to rate document, … Continue reading →

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Displaying SharePoint 2010 “Processing” page during your long running custom operations

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Way since MOSS you have seen similar page to below, this is SharePoint 2010 abviously: Usually when you create a site collection or apply changes or anything else that takes time for that matter. Now, did you know that it’s … Continue reading →

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Creating site level ribbon tabs in SharePoint 2010, hiding ribbon on demand

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Continued on Ribbon customizations (also extensively covered in my new SharePoint 2010 book) … in this article I will assume you already read and understand how to provision ribbon on the page, if not – check this article. Here we’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in sharepoint, sharepoint 2010 | Tagged create ribbon tab, custom ribbon tab, hide sharepoint ribbon, ribbon, sharepoint 2010, spribon | Comments Off

Extending & troubleshooting SharePoint 2010 rating related features

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Last few weeks I have been crazy busy extending SharePoint 2010 rating control. As you know default SharePoiunt 2010 rating control is 5-star scale. One of the tasks I had to do is to perform my own calculations based on … Continue reading →

Posted in sharepoint, sharepoint 2010 | Tagged AverageRating, event receiver, rating control, sharepoint 2010, sharepoint rating, sharepoint rating update | Comments Off

Exclude list from crawl, disable attachments, disable folder creation – SharePoint 2010

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my last article you’ve seen how to set item level permissions on a list items for both read and write access. In this article I wanted to dive into 2 few more functions that you see on Advanced Settings … Continue reading →

Posted in sharepoint, sharepoint 2010 | Tagged disable attachments, disable folder creation, EnableAttachments, NoCrawl, sharepoint 2010, splist | Comments Off

Programmatically managing Item-level Permissions in SharePoint 2010

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In SharePoint 2010 you get an ability to set item level permissions on items in a list or library, here is how UI in Advanced Settings of the list looks like: If you’re defining your site through a schema or … Continue reading →

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