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Retrieve Managed Metadata using JavaScript and SPServices

Published at: 03:12 am - Sunday December 11 2011

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 Service is required. The simple answer on this is: Not enough. Due the strict project plan we decided to use a Silverlight web part, which is capable to access the taxonomy store. This solution worked well but I wasn’t pleased by that.

Time passed by and the question left unanswered to me. At the SharePoint Conference I meet Mark D. Anderson the founder of SPServices. He told me that this Jquery library should be capable of accessing the Taxonomy Client Web Service. This was the last missing information that I needed to access the Taxonomy Store and this is my solution. (more…)

Posted in: SharePoint 2010 by Stefan Bauer 2 Comments , , , ,

Boxes and positioning – Enhance rich text editor – Part 2

Published at: 12:11 am - Friday November 18 2011

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 markup styles drop down called callouts but they have a fixed position defined. I also will show enhancements for positioning any kind of element. (more…)

Posted in: SharePoint 2010 by Stefan Bauer 2 Comments , , ,

Enhance rich text editor using CSS – Part 1

Published at: 02:11 am - Saturday November 05 2011

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 content. It also shows how effects like hover can be handled in the rich text editor. No JavaScript is involved only pure Css.  (more…)

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Cleanup item and file versions in SharePoint using PowerShell

Published at: 07:10 am - Tuesday October 18 2011

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 old versions is to loop through all the site collections, webs, lists and items. From each item check the versions and delete them. In SharePoint 2010 Server there is a much smarter way to do this by using a helper that exists in SharePoint Server. The class I’m talking about is called ContentIterator and can be found in Microsoft.SharePoint.Server.Utilities namespace.

The smart thing about the ContentIterator it prevents SharePoint from blocking the database with requests. The only side effect of this is that items in the meantime can be modified because this method is not thread safe. (more…)

Posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint 2010 by Stefan Bauer 3 Comments , , ,

Make custom list forms centralized manageable

Published at: 12:08 am - Thursday August 25 2011

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. The fastest way to get there is to create a custom list form is in SharePoint Designer. A tutorial for this can be found at Microsoft Create a custom list form using SharePoint Designer – SharePoint ….

Customising form works great as long as you have a single list and a single form in your portal. If someone saved the list as template and created new instance, the problem start to begin when something needs to be changed in the form. (more…)

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