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Use the Title field in a SharePoint List Filter WebPart

SharePoint has a few nice build-in filter WebParts. One of them is the List Filter WebPart where you can show items from a certain view in a list and let the user select one (or more) values. You can use the selected values to filter for example a list WebPart. When you add and configure […]

Invalid postback or callback argument error in SharePoint Visual WebPart

With the introduction of SharePoint Visual WebPart in Visual Studio 2010 it is a lot easier to develop en deploy a custom WebPart. Last I developed a WebPart that uses a custom webusercontrol. That control contains some logic and a linkbutton. In the Visual WebPart the custom webusercontrol is used in a repeater control. So […]

Use SharePoint to manage your bookmarks

I used to be a delicious user but some time ago I discovered how to use SharePoint to manage my bookmarks. You can store internal and external bookmarks together with you profile. You can even share them with you colleagues. It all starts with you own MySite. When you go to you MySite you’ll see […]

How to increase the storage limit for just one MySite?

Today an end user came up with the following error message on his/her MySite: “Your changes could not be saved because this SharePoint Web site has exceeded the storage quota limit.” Now, we think it is not necessary to increase the storage limit for all our employees but only for the persons who make a lot of use […]

Create a quick link to the create-alert-window

Sometimes you want your users provide a link to the “create new alert” page. By default that window is opened in a modal box and the url is hard to find. You can use this url: https://server/sitename/_layouts/SubNew.aspx?List=guid&Source=%2Fsitename The hard part is to find the list guid of your list. You can do this by browsing […]

An educational calculated column–academic year

I work in an educational institute. In most of our lists the users need a column where they can enter the academical year. This is always in a default format. For example: 2011-2012. We could create a site column with all those values but I prefer to use a calculated column. This is the formula […]

Think SharePoint!

Installing a SharePoint infrastructure is one thing. Use SharePoint is another. We often get feedback that it is hard to use SharePoint although the interface (since SP 2010) is pretty easy and looks a lot like other Office applications. So, why is it so hard to start using SharePoint? The users have to start think […]

Working with session variables in SP2010

After our migration we had some issues with a few SP2007 webparts that were using the session state. By default the session state on SP2010 is disabled. You can enable this by modifying the web.config file: Add the SessionStateModule: Enable the sessionstate: Now you have to start the sessionstate service so execute the following […]

Sharepoint 2010: PDF MIME type

If you experience that you can’t open PDF documents in your browser but Sharepoint automatically tries to save te file to your local disc, run the following script in powershell: $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://sharepointsite If ($webApp.AllowedInlineDownloadedMimeTypes -notcontains “application/pdf”) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor White “Adding Pdf MIME Type…” $webApp.AllowedInlineDownloadedMimeTypes.Add(“application/pdf”) $webApp.Update() Write-Host -ForegroundColor White “Added and saved.” } Else { […]

Sharepoint 2010 “group by” problems in views

Since our upgrade to Sharepoint Server 2010 we didn’t experience much problems but some reactions came though from the users about the new UI and views of their data. Here are two problems we had with views: 1) When the users opened a list or library with grouped views and they clicked one of the groups and […]