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SharePoint Online: "There was a problem retrieving the latest activity. Please try again later”

Inbar Cizer — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:29:07 GMT

Lately I had a customer that one if his users experience the following error on the first time he have access the Newsfeed page:

"There was a problem retrieving the latest activity. Please try again later.

Technical Details

SharePoint returned the following error: A required SharePoint feature is not enabled. Internal type name: Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.MicrofeedException. Internal error code: 46. Contact your system administrator for help in resolving this problem."

The resolution was as follow:

1. Login to the SharePoint admin center with the Office365 Admin.
2. Click on “User Profiles” form the menu > Manage user profiles
3. Search for user account that experience the issue and then delete it.

4. Ask use to login to the newsfeed - this will recreate his user.
On his first access he should wait a few minutes while he see the following message:

After a few minutes he can refresh the page and should the it without the error.

At this point the name of the user will show his email address (user1@yourtenantname.onmicrosoft.com) and his picture will not be displayed.

You can wait for the next sync or you can update these properties by yourself:

1. Login to the SharePoint admin center > Click on “User Profiles” form the menu > Manage user profiles.

2. Search the user name > Click on the menu > Edit my profile

5. Update the name section:

The user can upload his picture by himself.

You will need to wait for the next crawl to run and pick these updates in order to see this user in the search results as well.

HTH,

Inbar

SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online Share Options

Inbar Cizer — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:37:11 GMT

The Scenario

Lately I have been asked by a customer to enable the “Share” option in the document level but not in the site level. She wanted to allow her users to share only specific documents and not the whole site.

How it works

Researching this issue I have found out that when a user that is part of the “Owners” group use the “Share” option the sharing will be automatically approved.

If the user is member in the the “Members” his request will be submitted to approval list.

Once a request is submitted you will see “Access request and invitations” in the site settings page:

When you click on it you see the pending requests.

When you share a site with a user you actually granting him permissions to the site. In order to grant permissions you need the permission level to manage permissions. So in order to achieve my customer’s request I did the following.

Create new permission level

This is one time action for each site collection.

1. Open your site collection.

2. Site actions > Site Settings > Site permissions > Permissions level

3. Click in “Edit” > Scroll down to the bottom of the page > Click on “Copy Permission Level” > Give the new permission level a name (I used “Edit with Permissions”).

4. Locate the following check box and mark it:

5. Click on “Create” on the bottom of the page.

Grant the new permission level to members on a specific document library

This is one time action for each document library.

1. Go to your document library.

2. Go to the Ribbon > Library tab > Permissions for this document library > Stop Inheriting permissions > OK.

3. Mark the checkbox next to “Members” group > Edit user permissions

4. Remove the checkbox next to “Edit” and mark the checkbox next to “Edit with Permissions” > Click OK.

Test

If you want to check the that it is working as expected do the following:

1. Login to the site collection with user that is member Only in the members group or lower (Visitors).

2. Click on “Share” In the site level and share the site with a user that doesn’t have permissions to the site.
You should see the following message saying that the request was submitted to the approval list.

3. Go to the document library and click on “Share” in the document level.
Share it with the same user that you asked to share in the previews step.

Now you should see the message that the file is shared:

HTH,
Inbar

Israel Daylight Saving Time (DST) settings 2013 – SharePoint

Inbar Cizer — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:19:00 GMT

בהמשך ללהיט שובר הקופות משנה שעברה – DST For SharePoint אני מביאה לכם השנה את המידע המעודכן לשנת 2013, והפעם גם עבור SharePoint 2013.

מיקום הקבצים: הקובץ Timezone.xml נמצא תחת ספריית ה-Config של ה-SharePoint

MOSS 2007 > C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\CONFIG
SharePoint 2010 > C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG
SharePoint 2013 > C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\CONFIG

את הקובץ הזה צריך להחליף אחת לשנה עם ההגדרות שרלוונטיות לאותה שונה. את הקובץ יש לעדכן בכל השרתים בחווה ולאחר מכן לבצע IIS Reset. מומלץ לגבות את הקובץ המקורי לפני השינויים.

מבנה הקובץ:

StandardTime - שעון חורף
DaylightTime - שעון קיץ
Month - החודש שבו נערך השינוי
Day - זהו למעשה מספר השבוע בחודש שבו מזיזים את השעון (ולא היום בחודש, כפי שניתן לחשוב). במקרה שלנו, ה-29.3.2013 יוצא בשבוע החמישי של מרץ .
Hour- השעה שבה יבוצע החילוף.
DayOfWeek - היום בשבוע שבו יבוצע החילוף. הפרמטר הזה איננו חובה ותלוי באיזה יום בשבוע יבוצע השינוי. אם השינוי הוא ביום ראשון – אין צורך בפרמטר. את היום בשבוע יש לספור החל מיום שני. במקרה שלנו, שעון הקיץ מתחלף ביום שישי בשעה 2:00– כלומר היום החמישי בשבוע (אם סופרים יום שני); שעון החורף יוחלף בתאריך 6.10.2013, יום ראשון, ולכן הפרמטר אינו מופיע בהגדרות שעון החורף.

המידע שצריך לשנות:

השורות הכתובות מטה מחליפות את המידע הנוכחי, ההיסטוריה של שנה שעברה נכנסת תחת התגית שנקרא Histotry.

MOSS 2007

SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2013

בהצלחה!
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Israel CTS (Commercial Technical Support): New Blog & New Post

Inbar Cizer — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:48:54 GMT

This is a good opportunity to introduced the new blog of my team – Israel CTS. This blog will contain post about our troubleshooting experience and information about interesting problems that we have solved. The blog will be written in Hebrew.

I’m also happy to the first one to publish a post there and I hope that this blog will be useful for the Hebrew readers.

My post is about Hebrew documents that have unrecognized characters (Gibrish) in the search results when using FAST for SharePoint.

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/ilcts/archive/2012/11/27/fast-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Upgrading to SharePoint 2013

Inbar Cizer — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:43:37 GMT

Check-out my post about upgrading to SharePoint 2013 on TechNet blog (Hebrew):

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/technet/archive/2012/11/14/sharepoint-2013.aspx

MOSS 2007: Missing “Select a Language” dropdown when creating new sites after language pack installation

Inbar Cizer — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:42:00 GMT

Yes, I know that MOSS 2007 is quite old but I think it worth mentioning. I had a case today of a customer that installed new environment of MOSS 2007. In MSDN you can download the English installation with SP2. My customer used this installation and then installed Service Pack 3 (WSS+Server).

Then he have installed Hebrew Language Pack Service Pack 3 and tried to create new site collection in Hebrew. However, at that point he has discovered that he was missing the site the “Select a language” drop down. The language pack itself was also missing from the “Add-Remove Programs”.

What he was missing was the language pack installation itself (or lets say the RTM version of the language pack).

Attaching some links for your connivances:
WSS Language Pack (RTM)
i. 32bit - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24040
ii. 64bit - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13770
Server Language Pack (RTM)
i. 32bit - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20198
ii. 64bit - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23927

Unable to Edit Report Viewer Web Part Title

Inbar Cizer — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:20:49 GMT

Consider the following scenario: You are using SharePoint 2010 with Reporting Services 2012 integrated mode. You have installed the Reporting services Add-In for SharePoint.

You are creating report and you would like to display it a SharePoint page using “SQL Server Reporting Report viewer” web part. You would like to change the web part title and you go to the Web Part properties, Expend “Appearance” section and change the web part title from “Report Viewer” to the name you would like to use.

In this scenario the web part you have insert will not be reflected in the web part title on the page and instead it will show Report viewer - %ReportName% (Where %ReportName% show the name of the RDL file).

Resolution: By default title in the “SQL Server Reporting Report Viewer” Web Part is automatically generated according to the report name.

In order to change the web part title you need to go to the web part properties > expend the “View” section > Uncheck “Auto-Generate Web Part Title” > Click OK.

HTH,

Inbar

Off-Topic: This is a good opportunity to thank my colleague Noam Binyamini that was involved the service request behind this post and also have a new blog in this blogging community. Good Luck!

SharePoint Online: Welcome to your new public web site

Inbar Cizer — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:06:00 GMT

A few months ago the public beta Office 2013 was released; the release included the SharePoint online offering, which contains a public website.

In the past I have written about the public web site branding (Warning: Hebrew post), in this post I would like to focus on the new version of the public web site. When checking the new version, it is very interesting to see the progress that was made in the public web site area.

The public web site of office 365 is aim to help small business to publish their own website in a quick and easy way, without any special knowledge as webmasters. If you did click on the link from the previews paragraph it probably remind you how the public website used to look, and it didn’t look very good.

Since the product group did major improvement in this web site I thought this will be a good opportunely to review them:

Look and feel + Editing

The site looks much better! Yes, bribed and yet. The look and feel that is set as default is much more user friendly and finally looks like a modern web site.

Editing: The Ribbon is split to 2 tabs: Site and Page. Site editing looks like the following:

Edit site elements: Editing of repeating elements that appear in all the pages - the footer and the header. These can contain reusable content that we know already from the 2007 and version but was not available on the public website.

Change the look: List of template for the look and feel of your website. These template are up-to-date instead of that aircraft that was on the 2010 version.

As a food lover, I have chosen the Sushi template. In the template itself you can also make some changes as the repeating colors in site, the layouts fonts.

Page Editing: for the text editing we get the WYSIWYG editor. On first look it seem to function much better then remind us in his look and feel the editing Ribbon in Word.

Under “Insert” tab you will find some trivial (yet missing from the current version) functions. These are all well known for the SharePoint content editors but not for the public website users.

The first thing is App Part – I have created a list and added it to the page as a web part. So simple and expected and finial we have it. Think about the small business owner that wants to add a list of his products that he can edit easily. Instead of editing the text of the page he can now edit the list item. And think about document library. I have to work really head to public this page that contains (only) links to documents. And what if the document URL changes?...

The second interesting thing is the Social Plugins that allows the editors to combine 3^rd party application from the SharePoint online marketplace. In the meantime I didn’t see anything in particular for the public web site, but I guess that as the time goes by we will see more public website related apps (RSS Feed anyone?)

Additional Capabilities

Some new capabilities that weren’t there before:

- Search box.

- Versioning and Site Publishing – Preview sly, saving was equal to publishing. Now you can edit your worksite and when you want to go live you will just “turn it on”. On the right side of the site you will find “Website Offline” link. Clicking on it will change the status to Online. Afterwards the pages will be available to anonymous users.

- Search Engine Optimization: you can now define the keywords that will use the search engines for each and every page in your sites.

- Blog: Out-Of-The-Box blog. It was there in the previews version but you need to do a very complicated workaround in order to make it work (The links were redirecting the anonymous uses to the _layouts pages which cases some ‘access denied’ messages).

My summary

To sum up, it definitely looks good and promising. Although some of the above features might look trivial to the people that works as webmasters, in my opinion we did a major progress and our customer received all these feature as part of their Office 365 subscriptions. Coming to think about it, this is public web site that compete with other charge web site, while you can consider that as free when you purches a subscription to SharePoint Online.

And just a few last notes…

- You are welcome to check how it looks on my playground: http://cizer15-public.sharepoint.com

- Notice that the URL is Tenant Name–Public (it was - Tenant Name-Web in the previews version.

- This is BETA and as such everything can be totally change / replaced / removed.

- Office 365 customers receives constant update and as such they will also get the new SharePoint online.

- If you want to test it yourself – try the customer preview.

Enjoy publishing your web site!

HTH,

Inbar

Setting display language for all users under every site

Inbar Cizer — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:50:00 GMT

Lately I have been asked by a customer to set the display language for all his sites and all his users for Hebrew. The customer has multilingual site collection with about 500 sub site in 5 different languages (other than Hebrew). His users were responsible for the content editing in all languages and their demand was to work with the Hebrew menus.

How does display language work?

I did a little research to find out that in order to change the display language you need two steps:

1. Setting Alternate languages – Site Actions > Site Settings > Language settings this need to be done per site.

2. The user need to set his default language – Click on the user name > Select Display language > and chose your language. This action should be done per user per site.

This means a lot of repeating actions and I was looking for a quicker way to achieve that…

How language is chosen?

According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff800886.aspx: “In SharePoint Foundation 2010, when someone navigates to a multilingual website, the website uses the Accept-Language header that the client browser sends with the HTTP request to determine the language in which to render the user interface. If the website does not support any of the languages specified by the browser, the default language is used as the display language”.

Which mean that when the user first accesses the site - his default language in the browser settings is taken under considerations (assuming that the browser language is part of the site languages).

In addition – “A multilingual website also displays a drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the page, next to the user's name, where users can select a display language. When someone selects a language that is different from the current display language, the website switches to the new language. The user's preference is persisted in a cookie that is dropped on the client computer. The website gets the user's language preference from the cookie on subsequent visits to the site”

Which mean that if the user chose another language – it will be save as a cookie on the client computer.

And how to make it shorter?

As mention above we have 2 steps in order to change the display language:

1. Setting the alternate language – This can be execute with PowerShell – need to run that for every language you want to activate as alternate language.

http://www.lamber.info/post/2011/10/03/How-do-I-update-automatically-the-alternate-site-languages-via-PowerShell.aspx

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue

$siteUrl = "http://foundation"

$uiCulture = 1040;

$rootSite = Get-SPSite $siteUrl

$allWebs = $rootSite.AllWebs

foreach ($web in $allWebs) {

Write-Host "Updating " + $web.Title + " " + $web.Url

if ($web.IsMultilingual -eq $false) {

$web.IsMultilingual = $true;

}

$web.AddSupportedUICulture($uiCulture);

$web.Update()

}

Please note that in the above example the language LCID is 1040 (Italian) for Hebrew you will need 1037 and for other languages please check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.splanguage.lcid.aspx

2. The second step is to set the user default language on the browser: Tools > Internet Options > Languages > Set your preferred language on top

Make sure you clear the cache and then restart IE.

Once you will navigate to you site – it will be display with the menus in your preferred language.

Enjoy editing your SharePoint site :-)

Inbar

Access is denied? After I have created the item?!?

Inbar Cizer — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:22:00 GMT

Lately I had an interesting case – my customer have complained that users with contribute permissions are getting “Access Denied” after they are creating new item. And of course – the customer says that nobody changed anything lately…

My first thought was that they are probably redirected to a page for which they don’t have permissions to, otherwise they wouldn’t have seen the “New” button on the list (http:///Servername/Lists/List/NewForm.aspx?Source=http://URLWithNoPermissions).

My Second thought was that they probably messed up the permission, and to be more specific – the permission level (Site Actions > Site Settings > Site permission > Permission Level).

My third thought was “OK, something here is strange” (@#$$#%#!!).

I have asked the customer to create new list and add new item using a user with contribute permissions – there was no problem. Then, I have asked him to save the list as a template and create a new one – this time the issue was reproduced – access is denied after they click on “OK”.

I have asked him to send me the template – and when I was able to reproduce it – it was stranger – as I used the default permissions.

So I looked at the logs (General category on verbose):

06/27/2012 15:34:58.78 w3wp.exe (0x16158) 0x16534 Windows SharePoint Services General 8xfr Verbose PermissionMask check failed. asking for 0x00000800, have 0x3C4312EF

06/27/2012 15:34:58.78 w3wp.exe (0x16158) 0x16534 Windows SharePoint Services General 8e2s Medium Unknown SPRequest error occurred. More information: 0x80070005

06/27/2012 15:34:58.78 w3wp.exe (0x16158) 0x16534 Windows SharePoint Services General 8gs1 Verbose Access Denied for /SiteName/Lists/ /List/NewForm.aspx?RootFolder=/SiteName/Lists/List&Source=http://ServerName/SiteName/Lists/List/view2.aspx. StackTrace: Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility:Void HandleAccessDenied(System.Exception), Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal:Void HandleUnauthorizedAccessException(System.UnauthorizedAccessException), Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest:Void AddOrUpdateItem(System.String, System.String, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Int32 ByRef, System.String ByRef, System.Guid, Boolean, System.String, System.Object ByRef, System.Object ByRef, System.Object ByRef, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean), Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem:Void AddOrUpdateItem(Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, System.Guid, Int32 ByRef, System.Object ByRef, System.Object ByRef, Boolean), Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem:Void UpdateInternal(Boolean, Boolean, System.Guid, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean), Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem:Void Update(), Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SaveButton:Boolean SaveItem(Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContext, Boolean, System.String), Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SaveButton:Boolean SaveItem(), Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SaveButton:Boolean OnBubbleEvent(System.Object, System.EventArgs), System.Web.UI.Control:Void RaiseBubbleEvent(System.Object, System.EventArgs), System.Web.UI.Page:Void RaisePostBackEvent(System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler, System.String), System.Web.UI.Page:Void ProcessRequestMain(Boolean, Boolean), System.Web.UI.Page:Void ProcessRequest(Boolean, Boolean), System.Web.UI.Page:Void ProcessRequest(), System.Web.UI.Page:Void ProcessRequest(System.Web.HttpContext), ASP.FORM_ASPX__1773449651:Void ProcessRequest(System.Web.HttpContext), System.Web.HttpApplication+CallHandlerExecutionStep:Void System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute(), System.Web.HttpApplication:System.Exception ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep, Boolean ByRef), System.Web.HttpApplication+ApplicationStepManager:Void ResumeSteps(System.Exception), System.Web.HttpApplication:System.IAsyncResult System.Web.IHttpAsyncHandler.BeginProcessRequest(System.Web.HttpContext, System.AsyncCallback, System.Object), System.Web.HttpRuntime:Void ProcessRequestInternal(System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest), System.Web.HttpRuntime:Void ProcessRequestNoDemand(System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest), System.Web.Hosting.ISAPIRuntime:Int32 ProcessRequest(IntPtr, Int32),

Using internal tools I realized that they are missing ManageList permission level. When I have added this level to my OOTB “Contribute” permission – I was able to create a new item.

Yet, this is a not a very good solution because it means the customer will have to give higher permissions to his contribute users (or create special permission level only for this list). So I have created new custom list and copied the schema XML of both lists (using SharePoint Manager) and compared it.

The difference just prompted in front of my eyes – The WriteSecurity attribute.
Quick search on MSDN lead me to the following page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.splist.writesecurity(v=office.12).aspx

While on my OOTB list the value was set to 1 (All users can modify all items) at the customer’s list it was set to 4 (Users cannot modify any list item). Using SharePoint manager again – I have changed the setting for this value on my list to 4 (after removing the special permission level) – and reproduced the issue.

Apparently the customer had some custom list form he developed and on his code he also changed the security level to 4.

HTH,

Inbar

Israel Daylight Saving Time (DST) settings - SharePoint

Inbar Cizer — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:40:00 GMT

שעון קיץ וחורף ב-SharePoint

ביום שישי הקרוב יגיע סוף סוף הקיץ (או לפחות שעון הקיץ). עבור ה-Administrator-ים שבינכם זה אומר שצריך לדאוג גם למערכות השונות שיהיו מעודכנות (ראו מסמכים של צחי קולבר בנושא). אני כאן בשביל לדאוג ל-SharePoint Admin ולוודא שתוכלו לצאת בשעות האור מהעבודה ולא לחפור בהגדרות ה-Timezone של SharePoint לתוך הלילה.

ב-SharePoint קיים XML שאחראי להגדרות הזמן ושמו Timezone.xml הוא נמצא ב-
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\CONFIG (עבור MOSS 2007)
וב- C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG (עבור SharePoint 2010).

את הקובץ הזה צריך להחליף אחת לשנה עם ההגדרות שרלוונטיות לאותה שונה. את הקובץ יש לעדכן בכל השרתים בחווה ולאחר מכן לבצע IIS Reset.

כמה הערות חשובות:

1. מי שרוצה, יכול להתקין את ה-Cumulative Update האחרון שכולל את העדכונים הללו עבור 2007 ו-2010.

2. מומלץ לגבות את ה-XML המקורי טרם ביצוע פעולות השינוי.

כיצד לבצע את השינוי? להלן ההסברים

למתעניינים – להלן מבנה הקובץ:

שעון חורף	StandardTime
שעון קיץ	DaylightTime
החודש שבו נערך השינוי	Month
זהו למעשה מספר השבוע בחודש שבו מזיזים את השעון (ולא היום בחודש, כפי שניתן לחשוב). במקרה שלנו, ה-30.3.2012 יוצא בשבוע החמישי של מרץ	Day
השעה שבה יבוצע החילוף	Hour
היום בשבוע שבו יבוצע החילוף. הפרמטר הזה איננו חובה ותלוי באיזה יום בשבוע יבוצע השינוי. אם השינוי הוא ביום ראשון – אין צורך בפרמטר. את היום בשבוע יש לספור החל מיום שני. במקרה שלנו, שעון הקיץ מתחלף בלילה שבין חמישי לשישי – כלומר היום החמישי; שעון החורף יוחלף בתאריך 23.9.2012, יום ראשון, ולכן הפרמטר אינו מופיע בהגדרות שעון החורף	DayOfWeek

כל שנה צריך לעדכן בקובץ את המידע הרלוונטי לשנה הנוכחית ולהעביר לתגית ה-History את המידע של השנה שעברה.

למתעניינים יותר: יש גם KB עבורכם - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888253

לעצלנים: להלן המידע שצריך להכניס לתוך הקובץ (יש לדרוס את החלק הנוכחי עם ההגדרות של 2011). שימו לב שההבדל בין 2007 ל-2010 בא לידי ביטוי בשימוש ב-UTC במקום GMT.

עבור MOSS 2007

עבור SharePoint 2010

מקווה שזה יעזור לכם לעדכן את המידע ואם עזרתי לכם לצאת בשעות האור מהעבודה – עשיתי את עבודתי

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How Does SharePoint Online Effect Our Branding?

Inbar Cizer — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:12:00 GMT

בעוד שבועיים יערך ה-SharePoint Extreme, ה-אירוע לכל מי שרוצה להרחיב את הידע שלו ב-SharePoint. אני מנהלת את אחד הימים למיישמים מתקדמים (היום השני, 14.3). ביום הזה נדבר בעיקר על עיצוב של SharePoint: החל מ-Master Pages & Layouts אתרים פנימיים, אתרים חיצוניים דרך עריכת XSLT מתקדמת, עיצוב ה-My Site ונושא הפוסט שלפניכם: עיצוב SharePoint בענן.

כמו שאתם וודאי יודעים (ושומעים או רואים בפרסומות), מיקרוסופט מציעה שירותי ענן הנקראים Office 365. החבילה כולל Exchange Online, Lync Online והכי חשוב לנושא זה - SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online בהחלט דומה למה שאנחנו מכירים היום אך גם מכיל יכולת חדשה שאנחנו לא מכירים עד היום והיא ה-Pubic Website.

Public Website

כך למשל נראה האתר החיצוני כפי שהוא מגיע מ”הקופסא” (Out of the box). האתר החיצוני אומנם מבוסס על SharePoint אך העיצוב שלו שונה ממה שאנחנו מכירים היום מגרסת ה-On Premise. חייבים להודות שהוא לא בדיוק מושך את העניין ובעיקר לקוחות.

הבשורה הטובה היא שזאת רק ההתחלה ויש הרבה לאן להתקדם. בין אם אתם אינכם בעלי יכולות טכניות גבוהות – יש לכם את הכלים לעצב את האתר כך שיראה הרבה יותר "אתם".

ה-Ribbon נותן לנו לעצב את ה-Style – איך למעשה יראה החלק העליון של האתר; באמצעות ה-Theme אפשר להוסיף תמונות ממאגר התמונות הקיים או להוסיף תמונה שמתאימה לך. באמצעות ה-Color תוכלו לבחור את פלטת הצבעים שהכי מתאימה לכם.
היכולות האלו לא מספקות אותכם? גם במקרה כזה יש מה לעשות. תוכלו לדרוס את ה-Class-ים הקיימים של ה-CSS ולהפוך את האתר הזה לאתר שנראה ב-Look and Feel של החברה שלכם.

ומה לגבי האתר הפנימי?

כאן יש לנו שתי אפשרויות - עבור ארגונים קטנים ובנינוניים מיקרוסופט מציעה את ה-P Plan – בחבילה זו מקבל הארגון אוסף אתרים אחד שכולל אתר אינטראנט (Team Site) ואת האתר החיצוני עליו דיברתי קודם. עבור ארגונים גדולים מוצע ה-E Plan, שמבחינת ה-SharePoint כולל ניהול אוספי האתרים, כאשר בין האפשרויות הקיימות ניתן גם לייצר אתר חיצוני.

איך התוכניות האלו משפיעות גם על העיצוב? טוב, צריך להשאיר משהו להרצאה, לא?
במהלך ההרצאה נסביר איזה כלים קיימים לנו לעיצוב בענן ואיך אנחנו יכולים להפוך אותו לממותג, מושך ומכיל מידע שרלוונטי ללקוחות שלנו. הרבה דמואים שמסבירים את האפשרויות הקיימות בהתאם לתוכניות (לאתרים הפנימיים) ולאתרים החיצוניים - הדגמה של לאן אפשר לקחת את האתר ה-Public שראיתם למעלה ולהפוך אותו למעוצב ומתאים לכם.

מחכה לראות אותכם באירוע!
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Editing Page in SharePoint Designer 2010 with Yellow Marked Code (Advance Mode)

Inbar Cizer — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:09:00 GMT

I have tried to edit a page after I have detach it from the page layout and got a code that was marked in yellow. In addition, the Ribbon was missing some of the tabs. I was unable to edit the code on the page.

My colleague Armine, have solved the problem: Click on “Advance Mode” button that is located on the Ribbon.

Once you have clicked it, you’ll see the other tabs and you will be able to edit the page.

Connect to another library in SharePoint Designer 2010

Inbar Cizer — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:07:00 GMT

Remember this?

“Connect to another library” from SharePoint Designer 2007 allows you to display data from another sites. It seems to disappear from SharePoint Designer 2010. The only workaround I found is detailed here.

Here are quick steps according to this source, to show data from another sub site on your SharePoint site:

Open SPD 2010 in the site you would like to display the data view in.

Click on “Data Sources” (1) then click “SOAP Service Connection” (2).

In the Data source properties window insert the URL address of the site, in which your target list / library is located (3).

In the end of the web address add “_vti_bin/Lists.asmx” (for example – http://server/site/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx).

Click “Connect Now”. Under operation chose “GetListItems”.

Now, we need listName & viewName - Go to the view you would like to display – there you can determine which fileds you will see in your data view. Click “modify this view”.

Drill down to the bottom of the page, where you will find the list ID and the view ID.

Now, you need to decode the URL, you can do it with the help of this site.

Back to the data source properties window, fill the fields listName &viewName according to the URL address you decoded above.

Click OK.

Insert the data into your page: detach your page from its layout.

Click “Insert” tab > Data View > choose your web service data source:

now you can edit your data view as usual.

See it in the browser:

SharePoint Designer 2010 Empty Data view (AKA Editable data views)

Inbar Cizer — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:05:44 GMT

I didn't wrote here for a long while, but now as I started implementing SharePoint 2010 at one of our customers I have a lot to say, so let's start.

I needed to create a data view like in the old days of SharePoint 2007. I wanted to give it my look & feel, according to the customer's graphic design. In the previous version I had no problem doing it with the SPD 2007, but now when I inserted a Data view I got a new kind of data view that was not easy to customize (and it came with a Checkbox).

Finally, I have found the way to create my beloved data views, as I know them from 2007.

1. Right click on your page name, and click "Detach from page layout".

2. In the page, click on the web part zone. Then click on the Insert tab (from the Ribbon) > Data View > Empty Data view.

3. Click on "Click to select data source" that was added to your web part zone.

4. Chose you list or library and you are ready to go as we used to do it in 2007.

I found an explanation about it in the Office web site "Insert a Data View using the Data Source Details pane".

Off topic

Something that I find very comfortable in 2010 is the "Zoom to content" option which allows you to edit only the current content (data view) without switching to other data in mistake.