Category Archives: sharepoint

How To: Working SharePoint 2010 modals

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When working with custom SharePoint modals, you’ve got to be able to collect the user data and then allow them to close the modal. In my last post, we looked at how you can create a new modal rendering your … Continue reading →

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Adding custom actions in your SharePoint 2010 list item context menus

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When extending SharePoint for ECM and WCM, you often need to assign custom actions to files and attach custom functionality to them, often presented in a modal. You’ve seen this done in SharePoint OOTB million times, let’s take a look … Continue reading →

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Getting an SPUser out of Created By field in SharePoint

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When you work with SharePoint list fields, it’s often that you need to work with the user Id (the Created By) field. You can certainly get that field value, but how do you translate it into the actual user object … Continue reading →

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Things to know about working with SharePoint SPQuery on a List

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Every once in a while you will hit that roadblock where you can’t use out of the box Content Query WebPart and you got to write your own webpart to render result you’re after. One of the most common methods … Continue reading →

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Setting SharePoint 2010 default page for publishing and collaboration sites

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In SharePoint 2010, whether you’re using Publishing or collaboration site template – you can choose which page will be your home page and load by default when the site is accessed. Depending on whether you’re using collaboration or publishing site … Continue reading →

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Mobile site redirect for SharePoint 2010 public site

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When building a public site on SharePoint 2010 you have to consider users accessing it from mobile device even if you’re not planning to implement a specific mobile version of the site. Consider you have a SharePoint 2010 public site, … Continue reading →

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How To: select SharePoint 2010 external data model picker display field

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my last article on creating SharePoint 2010 referenced external lists you’ve seen how you can create an external list which was connecting to 2 related tables in SQL and display the related field as a picker UI where users … Continue reading →

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Creating related external BCS lists in SharePoint 2010

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint 2010 allows you to create external BCS lists which can surface the data from external data source. As it often happens, external data sources may have various inter-related entities where foreign keys represent relationship between those entities. In this … Continue reading →

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Upgrading publishing masterpages in SharePoint 2010

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you worked on the SharePoint 2010 site sustainment project, you know that in SharePoint Publishing, when provisioning a file in a module and existing file already exists in the underlying library, you will receive an error. In my case, … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 mysite customizations demystified

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Yesterdays Vancouver SharePoint Usergroup meeting brought up some interesting points about how SharePoint 2010 my sites can be customized. I’d like to share some of my findings when working with mysites, many more details you can find in my book … Continue reading →

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