The Item form pages (New, Disp and Edit) for mobile views are physically available under the Layouts/Mobile folder. I have been seeing that lot of people are trying to customize the item form pages of Mobile view to include more links to the item form...

One of my customer came up with a requirement that he would like to add the “Thumbnail” computed field to other lists as well, where it is by default only available with picture library. Customer checked the site column gallery for “Thumbnail” field but...

Many of you might have programmatically created the fields in the list or Site (Site Columns) using the SharePoint object model. As long as you are creating the field based on the OOB field types then it’s just a cake walk like follows : (The code snippet...

The "Site Action" menu items in the SharePoint are rendered by the "CustomAction" feature framework. The story remains same untill the "Publishing Infrastructure Feature" is activated... When the publishing feature is activated...

SharePoint Rendering Templates All the rendering Templates for the List are defined in the defaulttemplates.ascx in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES folder. This defaulttemplates.ascx...

Hey I knew how to create custom site definition and created custom site definitions for a top level team site and a custom site definitions for Custom Serach Centre and the documents centre. Hurray !!! But how can i integrate all these three definitions...

In SharePoint custom web application development sometimes we required to fetch the "CreatedBy" and "ModifiedBy" information and show it in the custom page we develops. Instead of writing a SharePoint object model code to fetch the...

Recently I worked with a customer in which we have worked with them on a 1:MANY mapping for a BDC profile to map the columns from data base to a Multi value BDC profile property. I have given them a brief explanation about BDC profile import and their...

The view pages for the list are created based on the “ViewPage.aspx” in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\Pages. The ViewPage.aspx inserts the DataFormWebpart to display the items in the View. Now What...

I have came across an interesting integration of Smart Documents with the SharePoint Document libraries through the custom template. I thought of sharing this with you guys. As long as you are using the OOB template.docx then we never worried about the...

I have came across another interesting issue with the custom calendar list definition last week. As the SharePoint doesn’t consider your custom list definition as the “Events” type it doesn’t give you the option to create “Standard View, with Expanded...

Last week I came across a very weird issue that the client application for Search using the SPSearch.asmx web service is not returning any result in WSS 3.0 environment. I investigated the client application and the Query Packet built within it and for...

One of our customer came with a requirement of hiding the new menu folder option from the document library instances by default.   This can be done through UI as well but customer don't want to do this manually through UI. By default folder creation...

I went through an interesting case last week. One of my customer is trying to create a Custom publishing Definition and wants to integrate the definition with his custom Master page. He has created the custom master page by copying the blueband.master...

Creating custom document library definition has been a common task in SharePoint 2007 development to implement the custom requirement with the definition. I came up with an interesting issue with the custom document library definition last week with one...

In the absence of valid cookie the users are redirected to the Login page in the FBA site. If you want to bypass the login page and want to validate the user before the successful login then we need to validate the user in the OnLoad event of login page...

Few weeks back worked on an interesting case on which the customer is trying to Deploy an InfoPath form template to the SharePoint form library through feature and encounters an issue that he was unable to open the template in the Browser even after making...

Have you ever wondered that why only the “Publishing Site with workflow” definition is available to create a sub site under the publishing portal site collection. In nutshell we know that the site definition which has the “VisibiltyfeatureDependency”...

Recently I worked on a issue where our customer wants to create a list item from the client machine and wants to populate the BDC column of the List item. I believe we encounter this requirement very rarely and I have come up with some findings and as...

Recently during a troubleshooting of a WSS 3.0 Search issue I came to know some interesting things about WSS 3.0 windows SharePoint search service and thought of sharing the same with you. When we start the Windows SharePoint Search service in WSS...

I have came across an interesting customization requirement for bending the behavior of OOB calendar. When you select the Month View for the calendar then you can see only maximum 3 events per day and the remaining events (items) will be collapsed and...

Lots of thing can be done by playing around the Welcome.ascx user control. I have came across one of the interesting thing on hiding the “Sign In” link for anonymous access users in the public facing internet site and thought of sharing with you. ...

The "Audience targeting settings" is enabled in the “Listenabletargeting.aspx” application page. In the code behind of this page the method "btnsave_click" is called to set the Audience targeting. This method is available in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal...

All the OOB SiteMapProvider in MOSS are rendered through the delegate control through the control assembly. The OOB SiteMapProvider which are used in various site ranges in the MOSS are as follows : All the providers are self explanatory from their type...

Creating a custom list definition is not always a cake walk especially when it comes to Calendar. When you are creating a custom calendar definition based on the OOB “EventsList” you will end up in changing the “TemplateType” from “106” to your custom...