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...
Showing posts with label SharePoint 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint 2010. Show all posts
Nov 16, 2017
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?
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In
simple words, we can say workflow is a serious
of activities occurs in steps which will produce an output at the final step.
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In
SharePoint, workflow is an automated movement of
documents or items through a sequence of actions or tasks that are
related...
Mar 19, 2012
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,...