SharePoint Brain

The next version of SharePoint introduces new ways to share your work and work with others, organize your projects and teams and discover people and information. So many organisations moving to SharePoint 2013. For detail hardware & software requirement please refer to this  Microsoft site Software Download SharePoint 2013 setup Please note that there are two versions to download(180 days free trail): SharePoint Server 2013 SharePoint Foundation 2013 with SP1 All Cumulative upgrades can be found below June 2014 update SharePoint Foundation 2013 KB 2881063 SharePoint Server 2013 KB 2881061 May 2014 update SharePoint Foundation 2013 KB 2863892 SharePoint Server 2013 KB 2878240 April 2014 update (Includes Service Pack 1) SharePoint Foundation 2013 KB 2880551 (SP1) SharePoint Server 2013 KB 2880552 (SP1) December 2013 update SharePoint Foundation 2013 KB 2849961 SharePoint S...

If you want to use JavaScript to refresh the page, you can use Post request, same as click the refresh button on the browser. I f there is any control in the form then after the form was submitted for the first time, if you click this, it will be a post method coming with the IE alert. Use  location.reload(); Get request: I f there is any control in the form then after the form was submitted for the first time, if you click this, it will still be a get method which means the form will not be submitted again. Use  window.location=window.location; Also you can use  self.location=self.location; If you want to use JavaScript to redirect to another page, you can use location.replace('webform.aspx'); => get request, does not create a history entry so browser back button disabled if no history before location.href='webform.aspx'; => get request, create a history entry so browser back button works window.location='webform.aspx'; => get requ...

1.        Create an External Content Type Based on a SQL Server Table http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557243.aspx 2.        Create External Lists in SharePoint http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee558778.aspx 3.        After that you will couple of issues such as 3.1    Access denied by business data connectivity. Correlation id. Follow steps from here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericwhite/archive/2010/06/11/access-denied-by-business-data-connectivity.aspx 3.2    BCS External List Error: Unable to display this webpart. Solution is easy, Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products -> SharePoint 2010 Management Shell Then adjust your throttling Default and Maximum parameters, here is an example : PS Y:\> $proxy=Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | where {$_ -match "Business data Connectivity Service"} PS Y:\> Get-SP...

Auto-Generating Filenames for InfoPath Forms – I see this topic come up a LOT on forums all over the place, so instead of continuing to answer the question time and time again, I am going to post a quick blog entry showing the steps.  I think this stuff is fairly simple, but it just doesn’t pop into your head initially.  Once you see it and understand it, you’ll think it’s simple, too.  Keep in mind that I focus entirely on SharePoint-based InfoPath forms and for the most part BROWSER-ENABLED forms.  So, it’s possible and likely that all concepts explained here will work for non-browser forms and non-SharePoint forms, but just remember that my perspective is mostly browser-enabled.  The basis for this topic is that the standard method for submitting InfoPath browser-enabled forms is for the user to click Save at which point the user is prompted to give a filename along with choosing to allow overwrite.  I really dislike this feature, because users have no ...

In SharePoint 2010 there we have more option to customize list form. For instance, you can use SharePoint Designer 2010 or InfoPath Designer 2010. Since modifying list form using SPD is already exist in previous version. I will just show you how to customize list form using InfoPath Designer 2010. When customizing list form using InfoPath Designer 2010, you will get all form designer benefit. For example, you can define the field validation rules, parent-child relation etc. And bet what, the process is straight forward. In this very basic how-to, I will demonstrate how to start customize list form using InfoPath Designer 2010. I will create an Book List with “Title” – “Author” – “Status” column. In the New form, I will only show “Title” and “Author” – while in Edit form, “Title” and “Author” will be readonly, but “Status” is editable. How to customize list form using InfoPath Designer 2010. Prepare the custom list. Prepare custom “Book List” with 3 columns: “Title” – “Author” – “St...

The SharePoint team is in the process of deploying some new features to the SharePoint Online service.  The rollout of these new SharePoint Online features across the data centers is expected to be completed by end of November.  Most notable from a Microsoft Dynamics CRM perspective, is that Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers can now take advantage of the rich SharePoint Online document management functionality directly within the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application .  This provides users the ability to create SharePoint Online Document Libraries dynamically within CRM – when and where they are needed.  Companies can add Document Management capabilities to entities such as Accounts, Opportunities, Cases or even custom entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. To take advantage of this functionality follow these easy steps: Your Microsoft Dynamics CRM System Administrator must install the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 List Component Once enabled, the Micros...