Let’s jump right into the topic how it is possible to pass data to a modal dialog. On first sight it looks like a complex task but after you read this article you will get an overview how it works. In this simple scenario I use a HTML Form web part with a text box [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Sometimes the content query doesn’t return a result event when the content query web part is configured correct. There are some limitations in this powerful tool and maybe an architectural problem with list types.
From an end user perspective it looks like there is only one field type that creates only a single taxonomy field in sharepoint; but this is not the whole story behind managed metadata fields. If a managed metadata field will be created SharePoint creates two fields instead. For this post I create a field called [...]
In SharePoint 2010 the users now can switch the user interface between different languages if several language packs are installed. How to enable and how this works can be found on Becky Bertram’s Blog. She did a really good job on describing how you are able to enable and translate the user interface to different [...]
Sometimes the “tagging” and “like” control in SharePoint need to be added in different ways to meet the Design requirement.
The navigation in SharePoint 2010 has slightly changed and will now be rendered a new way as a list. To use list elements instead of tables is a common practice in web development. The structure of the navigation and therefore the top navigation has some important elements and style sheet classes that allow you to [...]
Since SharePoint 2010 was introduced there are much more ways to customize forms for list and document libraries. In most cases there is only the simple requirement to hide fields or have better control over them on lists and content types. SharePoint 2010 is the same way limited for hiding fields like it was in [...]