Here we are going to do a lab that creates an external content type using SharePoint 2010. Assume your company has a database with product details. You need to retrieve those details from the database and show them in the SharePoint site. Here you need to create, update and delete those records within SharePoint environment. So basically we are talking
Here I got an error when I tried to attach custom InfoPath Initiation and Association forms to display in a SharePoint workflow. Depends on the IE session the error message differ. If you close the browser and reopened 2nd and 3rd error messages will appear. Anyway this error message appear because of the xml statement in the workflow.xml. If you check
When working with PowerShell I got an error. First I thought I am making some kind of a mistake because I am new to this as well So I was struggling to make it happen and finally figured it out. The solution was to have administrator privileges to run PowerShell. So when you want use PowerShell don’t just click on it. Right click and Run
This error message came when I was installing SharePoint Server 2010. You might not get this error all the time so first I’ll explain my environment which I tried to install SharePoint 2010. My OS was Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) and SQL Server 2008 Standard x64. So I started with SQL server which was a smooth installation
Recently I needed to calculate business days for a given start and end days. But I needed to do this using OOTB calculated field. This formula has to remove Saturdays and Sundays (Weekends) from the given start and end dates. Here I check if dates are inserted. If not I return an empty string. I was struggling with functions in calculated fields and
When you create a lookup field to reference data from another list, you will get a dropdown control to select data from that list. If you select “Allow multiple values” you will get a list box control with two buttons which you can select values. But have you ever seen an editable dropdown OOTB in SharePoint? I don’t think so. If you
I was trying to install SharePoint 2010 VM in 32 bit machine last week and couldn’t do it. After hours of searching the web I found a solution for that. This is a very good article that explains how you can install SharePoint 2010 VM in 32 bit host machine. Since SharePoint 2010 only comes in 64x version it’s worth reading. Thanks for perete for publishing
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Few months ago I wanted to create a custom master page for a SharePoint portal and after some research I found a way of customizing master pages on SharePoint. But I couldn’t post a blog about it. Here I am attaching my custom master pages and I will update this as I develop it further in the future. I will explain the ways of customization soon. Intranet