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

Nov 16, 2017

Migrating InfoPath forms from SharePoint 2010 to Online

Introduction InfoPath was never built for SharePoint to begin with - that's the fact that many people miss. It was retrofitted to support SharePoint so that forms solutions could be used on SharePoint There are limitations inside InfoPath that could not have grown with the SharePoint trajectory. Because of that, Microsoft turned to researching a Web-based solution for the design and creation of forms...

May 5, 2017

Slide Library in SharePoint Online

When you try to migrate from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online (Office 365), Slide Library template is not listed as app in the Create App section. You can still get it with a direct URL. I would not depend on it being there forever as the Slide Library is officially not in SharePoint 2013, but...

Feb 28, 2017

Challenges to be considered before migrating from SharePoint 2010 to 2016

Identifying the business owners for each site / site collection Data Cleansing - identifying the old contents/obsolete data for archiving Identifying the intranet links embedded inside the documents (while migrating to SharePoint Online)  Optimize and define databases - Perform re-organization...

Apr 23, 2015

External List in SharePoint Limitations

When I tried to connect the external DB to the SharePoint using external content types, I found lot of issues or limitations for the end users. This is same in external lists as well. I am using SharePoint 2010. No look up: Unfortunately the only thing that you can do a look up on in an external list is on the ID column, anything else and you are out of luck. No Attachments: Attachments options...

Aug 17, 2013

Migrate SharePoint 2010 to 2013

In this article, we will learn how to migrate SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. This migration is applicable for OOTB features migration not for Custom Solution migration to SharePoint 2013. Steps:       1. Change the Authentication mode of SharePoint 2010 application...

Mar 19, 2013

Unexpected error occurred while communicating with Administration Service

Scenario: I ran into the following issue when attempting to access  Fast search features such as: 1. FAST Search keywords 2. Fast Search site promotion and demotion 3. Fast search user context Solution: I checked my Administrators group in the SP server. Fast Search ADMIN account...

Jan 7, 2013

The feature being activated is a Site scoped feature which has a dependency on a Site Collection scoped feature which has not been activated. Please activate the following feature before trying again: SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa

Some times while activating the Publishing feature in SharePoint through the options in Site Settings we will get this error: The feature being activated is a Site scoped feature which has a dependency on a Site Collection scoped feature which has not been activated. Please activate the following feature before trying again: SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa Reason: The...

Dec 12, 2012

Web Part with Custom Tool Part in SharePoint

To know about Basics of Creating a Custom Web Part with Validations and Deploying it in the SharePoint, read this article. In this article, we will know how to create a custom web part in SharePoint with Custom Tool Part (Custom Properties).Before creating a custom web part with custom tool part,...

How does Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 works?

A file called CMDUI.XML stays at the web front end which contains the Out-of-Box site wide Ribbon implementation i.e. all the Ribbon UI for the entire site. In addition to this you have a CustomAction for each ribbon component. These CustomActions have CommandUIExtentions block which has CommandUIDefinitions and CommandUIHandlers which make up the activity of the ribbon component. So, when...

Apr 16, 2012

Workflows in SharePoint

What is a Workflow in SharePoint? Ø  In simple words, we can say workflow is a serious of activities occurs in steps which will produce an output at the final step. Ø  In SharePoint, workflow is an automated movement of documents or items through a sequence of actions or tasks that are related...

Mar 19, 2012

Configuring Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010

Hi All, Read the useful arcticle which explains about Configuring the Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010. A step by step explanation with screens is explained in this artcile. Configuring Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010&nbs...

Mar 18, 2012

Inserting a web part into SharePoint page without designer

In the article “Inserting a web part into SharePoint Page without designer”, we have discussed about inserting a web part in New/Edit/Display from.aspx in without using designer the lower versions of SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007). Now, in this article we will discuss about inserting a web part...

Feb 13, 2012

Cascading dropdown (or) Filtered Values in Lookup Columns in SharePoint

Update: 27/06/2017 To know about implementing Cascading drop down or filtered lookup in SharePoint 2013 or SP Online using REST API, read this article: Cascading drop down in SharePoint using REST APIUpdate: 06/07/2017 To know about implementing multi-value lookup column and filtering values,...