One of my users has a SharePoint site with a list called Admin Tips, currently with 45 tips (list items). She has a List View Web Part (LVWP) on the main site page to render this list, choosing a particular view to render for the web part. The specific View she has chosen has the Item Limit […]
One of my users came to me today frustrated that he cannot find any information from Google about migrating a list from our Test environment to our Prod environment. He says that most of the content is for 3rd party products. He certainly doesn’t want to move it by hand. Good news: the solution is […]
In SharePoint 2010, when you create a new site, you provide both the Site Name and the Site URL. If at any point you want to change either, it’s simple. Just go to Site Actions >> Site Settings >> Look and Feel [section] >> Title, description, and icon. However, when you create a new List […]
Some of our users are prompted for their username and password every time they visit sites in SharePoint. It’s especially annoying if they’re logged in and attempt to navigate to another site, where they are prompted again and again. The question has come up: “Why can’t SharePoint remember my username and password from one minute […]
There is a very common business requirement where you need to send an email alert to customers after a particular number of days but only on business days. Business days means only Monday through Friday in most countries. It’s a bit tricky but can be accomplished with ease by following the example given below. Requirements: The […]
If you have encountered an Access Denied message in SharePoint although you have proper permissions to the site, page, list, or library, then it could be one of several reasons. Hopefully one of these several fixes will work for you. Fix #1: For the site or sub-site with the Publishing feature enabled, ensure all users […]
Sometimes we are tasked with weird requirements and we go halfway around the world to get them done. Remember one thing: there is quite often a simple shortcut available. I have realized that JavaScript and JQuery are so powerful that they can make these shortcuts achievable for us in an amazingly small amount of time. Our requirements were […]
On list forms, SharePoint offers a lot of fields Out-of-the-Box plus you are free to create your own custom fields to accommodate requirements and customer data types. Among the OOTB fields is the hyperlink field which requires either http or https. Sometimes you want a link to a file somewhere (such as a shared drive) […]
A user posted a List View Web Part on their intranet site alongside their Announcements (also a List View Web Part). For a cleaner look, I was asked if we could get rid of the column headers for all of the web parts on the page. They aren’t really useful, they state the obvious, and […]
If you have seen either of the above messages while trying to open a document in SharePoint, you are probably as confused as we were. My user was getting this even though the file was not checked out. Worse still, the message said that the file was locked out… by him. He didn’t have it open and there were […]
