I stumbled across this article that talks about different site provisioning techniques available in SharePoint 2013. It is good to understand the differences and pick the best solution for your needs. You can read the full article here. The article explains the…
What is a delayed site collection?
Ever been asked to create a delayed site collection? When asked, I thought, what the heck is a delayed site collection? I never heard of such a thing. Turns out, when you create a site collection (or a site) and don't…
SharePoint list and library event properties
Every time I work with event receivers in SharePoint, I keep going back to these two tables as a reference. So I thought I would post it here to make it easier for me (and you) to find.
When trying to retrieve values from a list item in an event receiver, you sometimes need to get the values from the ListItem, sometimes the AfterProperties, sometimes the BeforeProperties. These tables show what each property should return for each type of event.
Office 365 customers can more easily switch plans
You can now easily change your Office 365 plan through your administration page.
Now you can switch to another plan by going to the licensing page of the Office 365 admin center and clicking on the Switch plans link. Once you select and purchase a new plan, your users will be automatically reassigned to the plans new subscription. You also will receive a credit for the unused portion of the previous subscription.
Reorder SharePoint list columns to match it’s parent content type
I ran into an issue today. I have a site Content Type that defines several list fields and I have a specific order for those fields to be displayed. Today I added a new site column to this content type and I updated the order of my fields in the content type as usual. However, the lists that use this content type became all out of whack in regards to the order of the fields. I tried to update the order in the Content Type again and push down the changes, but never had any luck.
So, being a developer, I wrote up a simple console app that will iterate through my sites (about 40 webs) and find my particular list and content type and reset the order of the fields to match the parent content type.
OneNote update for IOS and Android
Microsoft has released a major update for the iOS and Android versions of OneNote today. The previous version of OneNote on these devices only allowed 500 notes before charging a fee for the privilege to add more. This is no…
Programmatically retrieve all lookup field values
If you are using a lookup field in code and need to retrieve the values available through that lookup, you can do so by writing a generic method to return all possible values in a collection for you to use as needed. Here is an example:
Evernote adds “Reminders” to help you remember
Evernote, the service that helps you "Remember Everything", has added Reminder functionality to its service. Currently only available in IOS and the web version of Evernote, the this functionality allows you to tag notes with a reminder. You can set…
Download the standalone SkyDrive Pro client
You can download the standalone SkyDrive Pro client for Windows. It will allow you to sync both SharePoint 2013 as well as SharePoint 2010 document libraries to your local machine.http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39050
SharePoint Event Receivers
SharePoint contains list and libraries which allows you to store and organize your content. At first glance, this content seems fairly static, it just sits there until someone makes changes to it. What if you want your content to trigger actions that take place in your system? Here are a few examples:
