Category Archives: MOSS
Building custom SharePoint site navigation
Recently I had to create a mobile version of my SharePoint site with it’s own custom landing page that had custom main navigation. I created my hierarchy of sites and pages and one of the few things I needed to … Continue reading
Have SharePoint public site – here is how to make it mobile friendly
SharePoint, especially 2010 release, is becoming more popular as a public site platform – and with an increased number of mobile devices – mobile site experience is expected. Both SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 have mobile support. When user with a … Continue reading
Demystifying: SharePoint site collection specific timer jobs
If you worked with timer jobs in SharePoint (both MOSS and 2010) – you know that those execute on Web Application level. There in Central Administration you can see all of the definitions and statuses of running job. In SharePoint … Continue reading
Programmatically accessing SharePoint 2010 Visual Upgrade options
One of the cool features in SharePoint 2010 is it’s ability to easily upgrade the site from MOSS. Just recently I have been upgrading a heavily customized site that had custom branding (and I’m talking custom-custom), JQuery calls to web … Continue reading
Creating custom list alert templates in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 allows you to create custom alert templates per list, meaning you can customize what’s going to show up in your SPList alert body. In this example I won’t focus how you can actually edit the alert CAML – … Continue reading
Programatically creating SharePoint site collection relative search scope
Let’s say you have few site collections each representing separate department within organization; you want to enable your users to be able to search each department site separately to narrow down their results. In another scenario – you may have … Continue reading
Bulk removal of SharePoint timer job definitions
The other day my colleague David Webb, created a nice and easy way to remove bunch of time jobs from your SharePoint central administration. As you know MOSS doesn`t let you to just delete time job definitions from the central … Continue reading
Automatically provisioning default webparts on a page with a new site template
When provisioning your SharePoint site automatically with a script – you often create site templates for your sites and sub sites to bundle up pieces of functionality such as page layouts and other features to be created and instantiated when … Continue reading
Enhancing SharePoint lists and libraries with image picker
If you worked with SharePoint lists and libraries you probably noticed that you have an ability to add an Image type field or a hyperlink. When you add one using SharePoint UI …. you end up with somehting that looks … Continue reading