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Insert Picture From SharePoint Button Disabled /Greyed Out – SharePoint 2010

Code-Journey — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:22:56 +0000

I recently did a small post on how to troubleshoot when the Multiple Items upload button was disabled / greyed out. Today I got a question about why the Insert Picture From SharePoint button was disabled. Turns out this is a much simpler task to fix. Basically the Insert Picture button is only active when [...] Related posts:

3 Ways To Reorder Views in SharePoint 2010

Code-Journey — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:33:50 +0000

A customer had created a huge amount of list views for a large custom list. That’s a good thing. It means they didn’t just created folders . They created the views in a random order, but prefixed a number to the view in order for the views to control the order the views are shown [...] Related posts:

SharePoint 2010: How To Move All Web Parts Out Of The Page Contents Zone

Code-Journey — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:27:50 +0000

I am migrating a lot of sites using the Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010 and there’s always something to clean up after a migration. Some of the issues are due to the code that provisions the empty sites on SharePoint 2010, and some of it is the migration tool. One of the issues I [...] Related posts:

How to redirect lists and other content using a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP)

Code-Journey — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:11:46 +0000

I was asked to make a quick and dirty redirect from a list in SharePoint 2007 to the lists new place in SharePoint 2010. Redirecting to another page can be easily achieved by using a content editor web part, and a little snippet of html and perhaps a bit of javascript. Our redirects are normally [...] Related posts:

Can’t Change Page Layout: This Control Is Currently Disabled

Code-Journey — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:14:35 +0000

A couple of days ago a colleague had trouble changing Page Layout on some newly migrated pages for some reason. The control was disabled and had the awfully familiar error message as seen in the title. This usually happens if the user does not have enough permissions to change the Page Layout, but it only [...] Related posts:

How to enable paging on the User Information List views

Code-Journey — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:59:50 +0000

I have been on a large migration project for the last few months, and the way it is done is a little bit complex at times. Several companies have contributed to the process. I mainly do migration with Metalogix Migration Manager, bug fixes and whatever else is needed. The migration is done by having a [...] Related posts:

Hide List Column Headers / Titles In List View Web Parts

Code-Journey — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:07:26 +0000

Often times clients ask how to remove the column headers of lists. I will show how to do this using CSS, Javascript, JQuery and SharePoint Designer 2010. Do however keep in mind that the different aproaches will affect the result somewhat. If you add CSS, Javascript or JQuery to the page with the list view, [...] Related posts:

Upload Multiple items disabled – SharePoint 2007 and 2010

Code-Journey — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:38:39 +0000

I have had quite a few customers with this pesky Multi file upload button being deactivated, so there should be a lot of SharePointers out there scratching their heads. I will explain a few of the common reasons. Basically the only thing that is wrong is that an ActiveX component is missing or prevented from [...] Related posts:

Open links in a new window – Sharepoint 2007 and 2010

Code-Journey — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:02:10 +0000

Today I was asked how come you can’t just decide which links open in a new window. In their company someone has made some calculated columns to overcome it. It turned out it wasn’t easy to use in normal web parts since it just spat out the html to the screen instead. It’s by design [...] Related posts:

Add a linebreak in a web part page – SharePoint 2010

Code-Journey — Mon, 16 May 2011 09:23:34 +0000

Short post. In SharePoint 2010 you could add a content editor web part that only contained a tag and it would insert a linebreak. The Content editor web part has changed a bit in SharePoint 2010. If you insert only an empty tag, it will be disregarded as empty content. Instead insert a div and [...] Related posts: