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2/7/2020

Item Level Audience targeting in XSLTListViewWebPart

You can enable “Audience Targeting” in list level in SharePoint 2010, When you enable the...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 07/31/2012

SharePoint 2013 Preview : Stand alone server set up : Facts and Fallacies

There have been so many Myths around “SharePoint 2013 Preview Stand alone installation” and...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 07/26/2012

Crawl time Item level security trimming for External System in SharePoint 2010

Unlike MOSS 2007 where you can only do the Query time security trimming on BDC Entities...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 07/18/2012

The Item form pages (New, Disp and Edit) for mobile views are physically available under the...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 03/12/2010

Need a Thumbnail Field in the Document library for the uploaded picture… Then read this post.

One of my customer came up with a requirement that he would like to add the “Thumbnail” computed...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 03/05/2010

Programmatically creating a field (column) from the Custom field type in WSS 3.0 – MOSS

Many of you might have programmatically created the fields in the list or Site (Site Columns) using...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 12/04/2009

The "Site Action" menu items in the SharePoint are rendered by the...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 12/04/2009

SharePoint Rendering Templates All the rendering Templates for the List are defined in the...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 12/04/2009

Custom Site Definition for collaboration portal template SharePoint 2007 !! Wow MOSS !!

Hey I knew how to create custom site definition and created custom site definitions for a top level...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 12/04/2009

About “CreatedModifiedInfo” web control in SharePoint

In SharePoint custom web application development sometimes we required to fetch the...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 11/25/2009

BDC Connection and Mappings for Profile Import

Recently I worked with a customer in which we have worked with them on a 1:MANY mapping for a BDC...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 11/19/2009

How to create a custom view page with custom web part in the list definition , Bend it !!

The view pages for the list are created based on the “ViewPage.aspx” in the C:\Program Files\Common...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 09/25/2009

Word macros in the custom template for the document library disappears once document saved - SPS 2003 / MOSS

I have came across an interesting integration of Smart Documents with the SharePoint Document...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 09/25/2009

I have came across another interesting issue with the custom calendar list definition last week. As...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 09/25/2009

SPSearch.asmx doesn’t return results when integrated with Search server 2008

Last week I came across a very weird issue that the client application for Search using the...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 09/25/2009

One of our customer came with a requirement of hiding the new menu folder option from the document...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 09/25/2009

Cannot Convert Type Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.CSSRegistration to System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor – Beware of this in custom master page for custom publishing site definition

I went through an interesting case last week. One of my customer is trying to create a Custom...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 06/19/2009

Cannot Store the WebPart Pages in the document libraries created from the custom document library definition in WSS 3.0. Now Bend It !!

Creating custom document library definition has been a common task in SharePoint 2007 development to...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 06/19/2009

How to By-pass the OOB Login.aspx page of a FBA site when logging in from External Site with right Credentials

In the absence of valid cookie the users are redirected to the Login page in the FBA site. If you...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 06/05/2009

Deploying the Browser enabled InfoPath Form template through feature

Few weeks back worked on an interesting case on which the customer is trying to Deploy an InfoPath...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 06/05/2009

Custom Publishing Site definition is unavailable to create sub sites under publishing portal site collection

Have you ever wondered that why only the “Publishing Site with workflow” definition is available to...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 05/27/2009

Populating the BDC Field of a SPListItem from client application

Recently I worked on a issue where our customer wants to create a list item from the client machine...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 05/27/2009

Some Facts and Fallacies about Windows SharePoint Search Service - WSS 3.0

Recently during a troubleshooting of a WSS 3.0 Search issue I came to know some interesting things...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 05/27/2009

How to customize a calendar to show more events in a monthly chrome view in WSS 3.0 , MOSS (SharePoint 2007)

I have came across an interesting customization requirement for bending the behavior of OOB...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 11/13/2008

Lots of thing can be done by playing around the Welcome.ascx user control. I have came across one of...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 10/01/2008

Enabling the Audience Targeting through Object Model - MOSS SharePoint 2007

The "Audience targeting settings" is enabled in the “Listenabletargeting.aspx” application page. In...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 09/11/2008

How to Create custom XMLSiteMapProvider and render it in SharePoint 2007 MOSS

All the OOB SiteMapProvider in MOSS are rendered through the delegate control through the control...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 09/03/2008

"Connect to Outlook" feature is missing in the Calendar of Custom Calendar list Definition

Creating a custom list definition is not always a cake walk especially when it comes to Calendar....

Author: Syed PFE Date: 08/29/2008

You just dont want to use the OOB upload.aspx in the "Layouts" to upload the documents in to the...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 07/18/2008

Why should 'one' always save publishing pages in "Pages" list in MOSS !!! Bend It !!!!

The Approval Workflows, Content Management, Authoring all are fair enough for the publishing pages...

Author: Syed PFE Date: 07/17/2008