Showing posts with label SharePoint 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint 2010. Show all posts

Dec 14, 2011

MediaWebPart in SharePoint 2010

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In this article, we will discuss how to use the out of box webpart named "Media WebPart" in SharePoint 2010.
Note : This webpart is prsent only in the SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint foundation.
Steps:
1. Go to the sharepoint where you want to add the media webpart.
2. Go to Edit Page -> Insert -> WebPart (from the ribbon) -> Categories (Media and Content) -> Select Media webpart and insert as shown below


3. Now click on Edit the webpart to configure the media.
4. Once clicked Edit you could see various options such as Media, properties, Styles, Play Styles and Size.
 
5. Go to Change Media option and there ae three options here. you link a media from the SharePoint Library or from your local computer or from any web address.

6. Here I will insert from the local computer and click save the web part, the web part is ready to use.You will see the media web part as shown below.

I gave the option as Start Media Automatically in the Media Properties so that, it starts when the page loads.

Dec 12, 2011

SlideShow with Thumbnails using Silverlight for SharePoint

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I would like to share a link which shows how to create a Slide Show for SharePoint using Silverlight in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.


Embedding YouTube Videos to the SharePoint Site

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Steps
1.  Go to the YouTube site and navigate to the video which you like to embed in the SharePoint Application.
2.  Click on Share button below the video as shown below


3. On clicking Share you will find two options as Mail or Embed as shown below
 


4.  Copy the code from the Embed option as show above and save it in a notepad. I named it as youtubetest.txt
Code example in my case
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6986O9VA6LU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
5. Upload the text file to SharePoint Document Library and right click on the file and
copy the shortcut from it.
6.  Now go to the SharePoint page where you like to add the YouTube video and edit 
the page.
7. Click insert a web part -> add a Content Editor web part 
8. Edit the web part and now add the shortcut of the youtubetest.txt path in the Content Link property of the web part or you can directly add the code which is copied from the YouTube site in the Source Editor property of the web part and save it.
You will get the following result.


You can place this web part in the Home Page of your SharePoint site.
Enjoy!

Dec 11, 2011

Twitter WebPart for SharePoint

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I have already posted a link which will guide you in creating the twitter and Face book web parts for SharePoint in this article. Twitter and FaceBook for SharePoint. Have a look at this.
Yet another easiest way for twitter is as follows:
Steps:
1. Open the site page where you want to add the twitter widgets.
2. Add a Content Editor Web part.
3. Now open this URL in your browser
4. You will find 4 widgets (in the Widgets for my site option) which is provided by default in the Twitter Official Site
·                      Profile Widget
·                     Search Widget
·                     Faves Widget
·                     List Widget
5. All the information about the widgets will be given the site.
6. Now for example I will add the SEARCH WIDGET to our site. I click on Search Widget which will navigate to this link
7. You have 4 options such as Settings, Preferences, Appearance and Dimensions.
8. Here you can customize everything and my sample is shown code grabbed from the site is shown below.
<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js">
</script>
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: 'search',
  search: 'SharePoint',
  interval: 30000,
  title: 'What people are saying about',
  subject: 'SharePoint',
  width: 250,
  height: 300,
  theme: {
    shell: {
      background: '#8ec1da',
      color: '#ffffff'
    },
    tweets: {
      background: '#ffffff',
      color: '#444444',
      links: '#1985b5'
    }
  },
  features: {
    scrollbar: false,
    loop: true,
    live: true,
    hashtags: true,
    timestamp: true,
    avatars: true,
    toptweets: true,
    behavior: 'default'
  }
}).render().start();
</script>

9. That’s it!! Add this code in the Source Editor of the Content Editor Web Part.
10. This will display all the tweets with respect to the Query you gave in the Search. The webpart will look like this.


11. Save it!! Enjoy the Twitter integration in your SharePoint Site.

RSS Feeds WebPart

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In this post we will see how to create RSS feeds web part for SharePoint. it is very easy and we will learn it in the following steps.
1. Add a XML web part to a share point page where you want to add the RSS Feeds web part.
2. Edit the properties of the web part.
3. In the XSL editor place the code (given below).
4. In the XML link give the proper RSS feeds URL.
5. Click Save.
6. This will display the RSS feeds from the URL linked in the web part.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<div>
<xsl:apply-templates select="rss/channel"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="rss/channel">
<xsl:variable name="link" select="link"/>
<xsl:variable name="description" select="description"/>
<ul><xsl:apply-templates select="item"/></ul>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
<xsl:variable name="item_link" select="link"/>
<xsl:variable name="item_title" select="description"/>
<xsl:if test="position() &lt; 6">
<li>
 <a href="{$item_link}" title="{$item_title}"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>
 </li>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Dec 9, 2011

Recommendations for maintaining Infopath performance

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I'm creating an InfoPath form that is a bit large and starting to lag so I decided to look up better practices for developing InfoPath forms to maintain performance. Here is what I found online:
- Keep views from being too large or complex. Split large views into several smaller ones with buttons to switch between them.
- Avoid lots of tables (data or layout) in any single view.
- Use Master/Detail to reduce the number of controls in one page, whenever possible.
- Try to use filter to filter the table rows (instead of conditional
formatting).
- Avoid large repeating data structures that can grow to many pages.
-Avoid complex nesting of optional and repeatable sections. These are quite complicated to layout and also can quickly cause a single view to become very large.
- Avoid using Percentage width for your controls if your view contains lots of nested controls. We have seen over 50% improvements by using Fixed Width. You can apply specify a fixed width in the control's properties dialog.
- Be aware of exactly what your business logic does. For example, onAfterChange can fire multiple times for a single edit.
- Rather than querying for all the data then having InfoPath just show a small amount, refine your query and only bring the data you plan on displaying into InfoPath.
- Only get the data you need to load the form. Don't pre-populate data sources that aren't necessary on load.
- Merge static xml data sources into one if you have multiple xml data connections.
- Use Expression Box to display calculated value if you don't need to store the value. If you have business logic to trigger all the calculation, only trigger necessary calculation. Triggering large amount of calculations is costly.
- When using digital signatures, only digitally sign the information you need to. Signing takes a screenshot of the data signed and encodes it in the form. The larger the screenshot, the larger the xml will become with the encoded image.
- Avoid attaching large files to the form. These files are encoded in the xml and can cause issues if they become too large. Provide links over embedding large files if possible.
- Avoid embedding images in a form. For the same reasons as above.

SharePoint Designer opens in contributor mode

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We may face some situation, while editing the site using Sharepoint Designer, it will get open in Contributor mode and we will not be able to edit the site, eventhough we have the Site Collection Administrator(SCA) permission.
 By default, Contribute permissions are assigned to the Site Collection Members  group. Even though, we are part of SCA group, if we are member of Site Collection members the Designer will open in Contributor mode.
To overcome this just disable the contributor settings in SharePoint designer by using the below steps:
1. Open the site in SharePoint Designer.
2. Select the Site Tab -> Contributor Settings.
3. Click on Disable Contributor settings button.
Now we will be able to edit the site.

Nov 24, 2011

List of SharePoint 2010 Web Parts

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Authoring
 Content Editor 
 Image Viewer
 Media Web Part
 Page Viewer 
 Silverlight Web Part
Business Data
 Business Data Actions
 Business Data Catalog Filter
 Business Data Item
 Business Data Item Builder
 Business Data List
 Business Data Related List
 Key Performance Indicators
 KPI Details
 Visio Graphics Service 
Content Rollup
 Chart Viewer
 Content Query
 HTML Form Web Part - Foundation
 Picture Library Slideshow Web Part
 RSS Viewer
 XML Viewer
 What’s Popular
Documents
 Document ID Lookup
 Document Set Contents
 Document Set Properties
 Relevant Documents
Filters
 Choice Filter
 Current User Filter
 Date Filter
 Filter Actions
 Page Field Filter
 Query String URL) Filter
 SharePoint List Filter
 SQL Server Analysis Services Filter
 Text Filter
My Information My Calendar
 My Contacts
 My Inbox
 My Mail Folder
 My Tasks
Navigation
 Categories
 Site Aggregator
 Sites in Category
 Summary Links
 Table of Contents
 Tag Cloud
Office Client Applications Excel Web Access
 InfoPath Form Web Part
 WSRP Viewer
People
 Contact Details
 Profile Browser
 Site Users - Foundation
 User Tasks - Foundation
PerformancePoint
 PerformancePoint Filter
 PerformancePoint Report
 PerformancePoint Scorecard
 PerformancePoint Stack Selector
Search Advanced Search Box
 Dual Chinese Search
 Featured Content
 Federated Results
 People Refinement Panel
 People Search Box
 People Search Core Results
 Refinement Panel
 Related Queries
 Search Action Links
 Search Best Bets
 Search Box
 Search Core Results
 Search Paging
 Search Statistics
 Search Summary
 Top Federated Results

Deafult.aspx is not opening in the SharePoint Designer

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PROBLEM: Deafult.aspx is not opening in the SharePoint Designer


Error Details   

     Soap: Server was unable to process request. A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Web Part Page cannot be displayed or imported because it is not registered as safe on this site. You may not be able to open this page in an HTML editor that is compatible with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. To fix this page, contact the site administrator to have the Web Part or Web Form Control configured as safe. You can also remove the Web Part or Web Form Control from the page by using the Web Parts Maintenance Page. If you have the necessary permissions, you can use this page to disable Web Parts temporarily or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator.


Solution       

The problem is that the default.aspx page may contain some error web parts which can be removed by hitting the following url


This will open the web part maintenance page. So, here you can delete the error web part.