Close SharePoint Modal Dialogs with “Esc”-Key press

Whenever a list items will be checked or reviewed in SharePoint a modal dialog come up. This feature of SharePoint 2010 is really helpful from a usability point of view, because the user is able to return to the list where the interaction with the list item has been started by closing the modal dialog. When Read more

Deploy Content Type and Document Templates to Office 365 and SharePoint 2010

One of the best concepts in SharePoint are them hierarchical definition of content types that has been first introduces in SharePoint 2007. New content types could be defined by small variations made easily by developer or end users. All document based templates could be assigned with a specific document template that would be used in libraries. If Read more

Enhance Wiki Page Layout by adding a navgational Table of Contents

The content of wiki pages can get sometimes longer than it should be. The normal content length of publishing page or wiki pages should have a length that shouldn’t be longer than one or two screen. In this case a table of content can be useful to enhance the navigation on a single wiki page and give a brief overview about the content.

Dynamically display department information for a user in a list

Over the last couple of years a couple of times I heard a request by my customer. Is it possible to show the department information of a user who created an item in lists in a dynamic way? My answer to this was always, that it is not supported and cannot be done. The first Read more

Centered fixed width design in SharePoint 2010 – The fast way

There are a lot of fixed width master page solutions available on the internet and I read a lot of those solutions. Some of those require JavaScript or don’t respect the ribbon, which means that the ribbon will placed inside the fixed width design. SharePoint is smart enough to handle small screen resolutions by compacting and rearrange the icons in the ribbon, but if a normal user larger screen it gets really hard to administer SharePoint and breaks the usability completely. There is a much quicker and saver ways to create a flexible master page where only certain CSS properties needs to be changed to get any fixed width design as well as centered design with border to the left and right.

Retrieve Managed Metadata using JavaScript and SPServices

In one of my last projects I ran into an interesting question regarding the taxonomy store. Will it be possible to get all taxonomy data by using pure JavaScript? SharePoint has a great JavaScript object model for different purposes but how deep is this integration when an access to service applications like the Managed Metadata Read more

Boxes and positioning – Enhance rich text editor – Part 2

Part one was all about the basics of customizing the rich text editor. This part will show some advanced CSS styling definitions. For a nice looking text layout are boxes handy to position side notes, images, videos or any kind of elements beside the content. The rich text editor has already defined boxes in the Read more

Enhance rich text editor using CSS – Part 1

This is the first post in a series about enhancing the rich text editor. The rich text editor in SharePoint 2010 has changed a lot and with some creativity it can be changed and enhanced for a lot of use cases. This first article provides information of a simple addition of a link to the Read more

Cleanup item and file versions in SharePoint using PowerShell

At the SharePoint Conference 2011 I had a discussion with Christian Ståhl and Laura Curtis if it will be possible to cleanup old versions in SharePoint using a script or command line application. I thought to myself that this should be a big task to accomplish but a useful. The slow way to clean up Read more

Make custom list forms centralized manageable

SharePoint Designer is a great tool for prototyping but it can really mess up your installation. I want to show a new way / old way how customized form could be make centralised manageable. For example if you want to create a list form that has certain columns visible to users with a special permission. Read more