Disha Shah's Blog

How to get currency field formatting which includes comma and $ sign in SharePoint Designer Workflow Email Activity

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:16:29 PDT

Problem:

I ran into one issue that by using SharePoint Designer Workflow, when it send email which contains “Currency” field in Email Activity it is not formatting which shows commas and $ sign. It was irritating.

Solution:

After working on couple of hours, I found out solution (Such a simple) create one calculated column and make that column of String type and put the formula as “=DOLLAR(Amount,2)” and now include that field in Email Activity.

Whoooo!!!!!It is working like charm!!!!

Disha Shah

Customize the Homepage of SharePoint Blog Sites for Blog Posts Webpart

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:23:33 PDT

Hello Friends

The purpose of today Blog is how we can customize view of Posts for Blog Site.

Actually I want to add the new fields on the homepage of the blog site template’s summary view web part for each of the posts.

Let us see how can we do this. Here is step by step process to do this

1. I assume that You have already created your blog site, Add custom column inside the Posts List , in my case it is DelegatedBy which is Person or Group field type.

2. I have downloaded this custom blog.xsl file and upload it to a Site Assets or any other Document Library of your choice. Search for “DelegatedBy” where we added this field to the output which is the only customization that was

performed on the original XSL.

3. Open the blog site homepage and edit it in SharePoint Designer. Here, you’ll want to click on the Posts web part and add the DelegatedBy column for the field to be displayed in the view.

4. We need to include a link reference to the custom XSL that you had uploaded in Step 2.

5. Save changes that you’ve made in SharePoint Designer and browse to your blog site , magic will happen .

Enjoy Blog Site!!!

Thanks

Disha Shah

Apply CSS for SPGridView Programatically in Webpart

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:31:16 PDT

Hello Friends

I have been working on webpart in which I was using SPGridView. Now I want to apply fore-color to one column inside the SPGridView. When I tried with everything and none of them was working , every time it gets color from CSS file then I tried below line it works like magic!!!

oGridColCourse.ItemStyle.CssClass = "color: #0000F5 !important;";

Happy Coding!!!

Disha Shah

Move/Migrate SharePoint List Attachments to Document Library with Created and Modified Date

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:35:32 PST

Hello

We have faced one problem about SharePoint Search . We have SharePoint list in which we have items and it has attachments, but SharePoint Search could not look inside Documents which are stored as Attachments in List. So to make it work we have to move all attachments inside the document library so SharePoint Search can crawl and return the results :).

So to provide Keyword Search we need to Move the SharePoint Attachments to Document Library so that we can search in SharePoint Search.

Here is code which will move SharePoint List Attachments to Document Library.

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
           {
               using (SPSite site = new SPSite("SiteURL"))
               {
                   SPList docDestination = site.RootWeb.Lists["DocName"];
                   SPFolder fldRoot = site.RootWeb.Folders[docDestination.Title];
                   SPFileCollection flColl = null;
                   SPList lstAttachment = site.RootWeb.Lists["ListName"];
                   foreach (SPListItem lstItem in lstAttachment.Items)
                   {
                       if (lstItem.Attachments != null && lstItem.Attachments.Count > 0)
                       {
                           foreach (String strName in lstItem.Attachments)
                           {
                               flColl = fldRoot.Files;
                               SPListItem listtem = docDestination.Items.Add();
                               SPFile FileCopy = lstItem.ParentList.ParentWeb.GetFile(lstItem.Attachments.UrlPrefix + strName);

                               string destFile = flColl.Folder.Url + "/" + FileCopy.Name;
                               byte[] fileData = FileCopy.OpenBinary();

                               SPFile flAdded = flColl.Add(destFile, fileData, site.RootWeb.CurrentUser, site.RootWeb.CurrentUser, Convert.ToDateTime(lstItem[SPBuiltInFieldId.Created]), Convert.ToDateTime(lstItem[SPBuiltInFieldId.Modified]));
                               SPListItem item = flAdded.Item;
                               item[SPBuiltInFieldId.Created] = Convert.ToDateTime(lstItem[SPBuiltInFieldId.Created]);
                               item[SPBuiltInFieldId.Modified] = Convert.ToDateTime(lstItem[SPBuiltInFieldId.Modified]);
                               flAdded.Item.Update();
                           }

                       }
                   }
               }
           });

Disha Shah

How to Copy ListItem from One List to Another List

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:44:13 PST

Hello

Here is code how to copy ListItem from one list to another list from eventhandler.
Make sure both list has same List Field Structure.

Here is Code

public override void ItemAdded(SPItemEventProperties properties)
       {

           if (properties.List.Title.Equals("ListA"))
           {
               SPListItem CopyItem = properties.Web.Lists["ListB"].Items.Add();

               foreach (SPField f in properties.ListItem.Fields)
               {
                   //Copy all except attachments.
                   if (!f.ReadOnlyField && f.InternalName != "Attachments"
                       && null != properties.ListItem[f.InternalName])
                   {
                       CopyItem[f.InternalName] = properties.ListItem[f.InternalName];
                   }
               }

               foreach (string fileName in properties.ListItem.Attachments)
               {
                   SPFile file = properties.ListItem.ParentList.ParentWeb.GetFile(properties.ListItem.Attachments.UrlPrefix + fileName);
                   byte[] imageData = file.OpenBinary();
                   CopyItem.Attachments.Add(fileName, imageData);
               }
               CopyItem.Update();

           }
       }

Hope it helps!!!

Disha Shah

How to get username from JQuery

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:40:28 PST

Hello Friends

Use below Jquery to get the Current User name

var thisUserAccount = $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser({

fieldName: "Title",

debug: false

});

Use below code to get the ID for Current User

var thisUserAccount = $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser({

fieldName: "ID",

debug: false

});

Use below code to get the LoginName for Current User

var thisUserAccount = $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser({

fieldName: "Name",

debug: false

});

Disha Shah

jQuery is undefined in IE / spservices is null or not an object in IE

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:17:14 PST

I just hated this error when I was working with JQuery. It is working perfectly OK with other browsers but in IE it just makes me crazy.

Then I figured out problem and that was the referencing of files.

I was using jquery-1.6.1.min.js file from Internet and this file jquery.SPServices-0.6.2.min.js from document library.

Actually the problem with those files were I was referring jquery-1.6.1.min.js from Web and jquery.SPServices-0.6.2.min.js from document Library and then I downloaded the jquery-1.6.1.min.js file and uploaded to document library where I have put the other file. Then it works like charm.

Disha Shah

Rendering HTML and Multiple HyperLink inside SPGridView

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:33:24 PST

Sometimes we need to include HTML formatted data within some fields of SPGridView. I have worked on one requirement in which I have to include multiple Hyperlinks into one field of HTML in which I have written like “<a>” , and when SPGridView renders it shows entire HTML Code, not hyperlinks.

An easy way around this is to set the HTMLEncode property to false. By default this property is set to true, which will encode your HTML so that it will show up as code, changing <’s and >’s into < and >, and so on.

Sample Code:

#region Create Child Controls

protected override void CreateChildControls()

{

try

{

grdData = new SPGridView();

grdData.AutoGenerateColumns = false;

BoundField colTitle = new BoundField();

colTitle.HeaderText = "Title";

colTitle.HtmlEncode = false; //This is the line

colTitle.DataField = "Title";

this.grdData.Columns.Add(colTitle);

…

this.Controls.Add(this.grdData);

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

}

#endregion

Enjoy!!!

Get Value of QueryString from SharePoint Event Receiver

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:38:33 PST

Hello Friends

From SharePoint Event Receivers how could we get the value which has been passed from querystring?

How can we achieve this? Here is the sample of code.

public class AddData: SPItemEventReceiver

{

System.Web.HttpContext httpContext = null;

/// <summary>

/// An item was added.

/// </summary>

public AddData ():base()

{

//get the httpContext in contsructor, we won't get

//this outside of this constructor

try

{

httpContext = System.Web.HttpContext.Current;

}

catch (Exception Ex)

{

}

public override void ItemAdding(SPItemEventProperties properties)

{

if (httpContext != null)

{

if (httpContext.Request.QueryString["Data"] != null)

{

String strData= httpContext.Request.QueryString["Data "].ToString();

}

Enjoy coding!!!

Disha Shah

“Access Denied” : Add an assembly to the Global Assembly Cache on Windows Server 2008 R2

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:19:58 PST

Hello friends

I encountered one error when I was trying to deploy DLL to GAC, it always throws error “Access Denied” , it was really frustrating. The problem was UAC(User Account Control) which does not allow to deploy to GAC.

I tried below things to solve problem, BUT all failed

1> Start a cmd prompt with “Run as administrator” and they typing the “explorer” GAC window and from where DLL we need to deploy and tried to deploy there still same error.

2> “Disable” UAC. FAIL

I have checked about the Local Polices related GAC.

Here is an entire list of local policies related to UAC.

User Account Control:

Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode. It was Enabled on their server. It means that any action that should only be achievable by an administrator must go through UAC’s “Admin Approval”.

Now we need to “disabled” this means that Admin Approval Mode is no longer required for members of the local Administrators group… effectively disabling UAC entirely for those users.

Then I Rebooted (required changes to the local security policy).

Now it works…Hip Hip Hurray.

IMPORTANT: Disabling this can make it easier for malware to compromise your system. I encourage this to be disabled only temporarily so that the specific actions required may be taken, then re-enabled (along with the associated reboot) immediately at completion.

Thanks

Disha Shah

Document Library ItemUpdated event occurring twice

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:14:34 PST

Hello

I have been working on Document Library ItemUpdated EventHandler and getting very frustration result, each time it runs twice, this is bad, as it calls back database requests and makes slow system.

Now what to do? Well, we do have one workaround; write this one in the ItemUpdated event of documentlibrary.

if (properties.AfterProperties["vti_sourcecontrolcheckedoutby"] == null &&

properties.BeforeProperties["vti_sourcecontrolcheckedoutby"] != null)

Enjoy this Workaround!!!

Thanks

Disha Shah

How to get the SPUser Object from SPfield(Person or Group)

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:19:20 PST

Hello Friends

Here is the code how to get the SPUser Object from SPfield(Person or Group) from a sharepoint list and get the email address, login name of that user.

Here is a snippest of code.

SPFieldUser userField = (SPFieldUser)SPContext.Current.Web.Lists["SiteName"].Fields.GetField("AdminName");
SPFieldUserValue fieldValue = (SPFieldUserValue)userField.GetFieldValue(myitem["AdminName"].ToString());
SPUser user = fieldValue.User;
//user.LoginName;

Happy Coding
Disha Shah!!!

How to create Custom 404 Error Page in SharePoint 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:22:06 PST

Hello Readers

It is very good practice to create Custom 404 Page for SharePoint Web Application because users always love some custom and meaningful text on pages rather than “this resource can not find please go back to site”.

So Let us see how to create custom 404 Page in SharePoint 2010.

Let us see step by step process for that

Copy the original sps404.html located at Local Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033 and rename that file and give some useful and meaningful name like spsCustom404.html in the same directory.

2. Write this code in spsCustom404.html file

<html>

<head>

</noscript>

var requestedUrl = escapeProperly(window.location.href);

STSNavigate("/_layouts/CustomError.aspx");

</script>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

3 3. Create an aspx file named as customerror.aspx under Local Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\

4. Write the content you want to write for users in the aspx page.

5. Now It is time for deployment so easy in SharePoint 2010. Write these command lines in Poweshell Script

$webapp =Get-SPWebApplication http://www.webapplicaion.url

$webapp.FileNotFoundPage = "spsCustom404.html"

$webapp.update()

Enjoy!!!

Disha Shah

System.ServiceModel.FaultException: The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error.

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:42:55 PST

Hello
Friends

One of
SharePoint WebApplication uses claims based web application. This web
application has a custom membership provider that is registered at the web
application, central administration and security token service level.

I try
to login with valid credentials I found an error below.

Server
Error in '/' Application. 

Runtime
Error Description: An application error occurred on the server.
The current custom error 

The
server was unable to process the request due to an internal error.  For
more information about the error, either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults
(either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the <serviceDebug>
configuration behavior) on the server in order to send the exception
information back to the client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET
Framework 3.0 SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs. 

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current
web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error
and where it originated in the code. 

Exception Details:
System.ServiceModel.FaultException: The server was unable to process the
request due to an internal error.  For more information about the error,
either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from
ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the <serviceDebug> configuration
behavior) on the server in order to send the exception information back to the
client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SDK
documentation and inspect the server trace logs.

Source
Error: 

An
unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web
request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be
identified using the exception stack trace below.  



Stack Trace:

[FaultException: The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error.  For more information about the error, either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the <serviceDebug> configuration behavior) on the server in order to send the exception information back to the client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs.]
   Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.ReadResponse(Message response) +1161205
   Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.Issue(RequestSecurityToken rst, RequestSecurityTokenResponse& rstr) +73
   Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.Issue(RequestSecurityToken rst) +36
   Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurityContext.SecurityTokenForContext(Uri context, Boolean bearerToken, SecurityToken onBehalfOf, SecurityToken actAs, SecurityToken delegateTo) +26405809
   Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurityContext.SecurityTokenForFormsAuthentication(Uri context, String membershipProviderName, String roleProviderName, String username, String password) +26406316
   Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.Pages.FormsSignInPage.GetSecurityToken(Login formsSignInControl) +188
   Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.Pages.FormsSignInPage.AuthenticateEventHandler(Object sender, AuthenticateEventArgs formAuthenticateEvent) +123
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Login.AttemptLogin() +152
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Login.OnBubbleEvent(Object source, EventArgs e) +124
   System.Web.UI.Control.RaiseBubbleEvent(Object source, EventArgs args) +70
   System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +29
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +2981

This is very annoying error because we do not have exact what is going wrong. To receive that error message that is occurring do the following:

1>    
Open IIS (Internet Information Server) and navigate to
“SharePoint Web Services”  subsection under
“Sites” Section. Click the node open and select “SecurityTokenServiceApplication”
, right click and click on “Explore”

2>   
You can see web.config file in the windows. Open this file and
look for the following section:

<behaviors>

  <serviceBehaviors>

    <behavior
name="SecurityTokenServiceBehavior">

      <!-- The
serviceMetadata behavior allows one to enable metadata (endpoints, bindings,
services) publishing.

           This
configuration enables publishing of such data over HTTP GET.

           This does not
include metadata about the STS itself such as Claim Types, Keys and other
elements to establish a trust.

-->

      <serviceMetadata
httpGetEnabled="true" />

      <!-- Default WCF
throttling limits are too low -->

     
<serviceThrottling maxConcurrentCalls="65536"
maxConcurrentSessions="65536" maxConcurrentInstances="65536"
/>         

    </behavior>

 
</serviceBehaviors>

</behaviors>

Add an
extra debug tag in this section. The tag looks like this:

<serviceDebug httpHelpPageEnabled="true" includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"
/>

This
tag needs to be placed in the behavior tag. After you place the tag in the
section it will look like this:

<behaviors>

  <serviceBehaviors>

    <behavior
name="SecurityTokenServiceBehavior">

      <!-- The serviceMetadata
behavior allows one to enable metadata (endpoints, bindings, services)
publishing.

           This
configuration enables publishing of such data over HTTP GET.

           This does not
include metadata about the STS itself such as Claim Types, Keys and other
elements to establish a trust.

-->

      <serviceMetadata
httpGetEnabled="true" />

      <!-- Default WCF
throttling limits are too low -->

      <serviceThrottling
maxConcurrentCalls="65536" maxConcurrentSessions="65536"
maxConcurrentInstances="65536" />

      <serviceDebug
httpHelpPageEnabled="true"
includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />

    </behavior>

 
</serviceBehaviors>

</behaviors>

After
changing the “web.config” we received the detailed and correct message 

Server
Error in '/' Application. 

Error
was “FormsAuthUser” Password has been changed.

So you
have the detail of the error and you have clue what is going on.

Enjoy
Debugging!!!

Disha Shah 

The requested database does not have provider name set in the connection string

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:12:41 PST

Hello Friends

I came across with an error when I was trying to connect to SQL Database by using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data

It throws below error every time.

“The requested database <databasename> does not have provider name set in the connection string."

Then I checked the connection string in web.config file of SharePoint WebApplication and I found that this parameter is missing “providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" in the <ConnectionString> tag.

Old Connection string:

</connectionStrings>

Changed Connection String Add the Provider name:

<add connectionString="Server=servername;Database=dbname;User ID=userid;Password=password" name="MyConnectionstring" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"

</connectionStrings>

Enjoy!!

SharePoint 2010:No Audience Targeting Option in SP2010 WebParts

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:20:44 PDT

Moving of webapplication from one server to another server, everything is working fine except "Target Audience". It is not displaying "Targeting Audience" as "WebPart" properties when edit the webpart.

So to make it enable and visible we do have a few workarounds. Any one of workaround can fix this problem.

1> Make sure the User Profile Service Application is running and enabled under Service Connections for your target Web Application. Go to Central Administration>Application Management>"Highlight Your Web Application">Service Connections>User Profile Service Applicatiton. Ensure that you have a "Started" USPA under Service Applications.

2> Activate publishing feature on your site collection.

3> Go to Site Setting àSite Collection Administration à Site Collection Navigation Settings and Make sure audience targeting is checked.

4> Do a simple "iisreset /noforce" can fix this.

Enjoy!!!!

Hide the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2007/2010

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:37:55 PDT

We do have one requirement in which customized search result page needs to use full width of the page , it means I need to hide Quick Launch for that page.

There is not any out of the box way by which we can easily hide or make invisible the Quick Launch and the Tree View navigation in SharePoint 2010 sites.

How to do this?

The easiest way is to do this is

1> Edit the Page by selecting from Site Actions.

2> Add a Content Editor Webpart

3> Add the following text in the HTML Source mode:

#s4-leftpanel{

display:none

}

.s4-ca{

margin-left:0px

}

I applied this logic to pages which are related to Team Site.

See the magic!!!!! :)

Disha Shah

SharePoint 2010 :JQuery Magic SPCascadeDropdowns with the same list

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:48:14 PDT

Hello Friends

I have this below situation in which all SharePoint lists has been created and deployed to the production and Users are using this list , their list structure is like this.

First List ,name is "Country" list which contains "title" field is text field and act as "Country" and "State" field contains name of the State in that country.

Below is the "City" list in which we have Country and State as Lookup column and "Lookup" list is "Country" and City name will come under the "Title" field.

Now, on production actual problem has been started when they insert the city inside the list, because country and state has not been cascading. It is production and people already using it. How to add atleast the minimum cascading so user select the right state depends on country.

Let us use the magic of JQuery.

Here is simple javascript code that I have used to accomplish this.

var sCamlQuery = "";

$(document).ready(function() {

// Cascade definition for State dropdown

$().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns({

relationshipList: "Country",

relationshipListParentColumn: "Title",

relationshipListChildColumn: "State",

parentColumn: "Country",

childColumn: "State" ,

completefunc: function() {

sCamlQuery = "<Eq><FieldRef Name='Title'/><Value Type='Text'>" + $("select[title='Country'] option:selected").text() + "</Value></Eq>";

}

});

});</script>

After add this script inside the "Content Ediotr Webpart" we have below results, users happy , we happy.

Exact thing what we need!!!
Thanks JQuery!!!

Disha Shah

SharePoint 2010: Change the “Add New Item” (and other) messages for a all SharePoint List Types

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:48:18 PDT

In SharePoint, to add a new item/document we always have one standard message like “Add a new item”.

Users who are familiar with SharePoint they are used to understand but sometimes users do not understand they have question why I it always has said “ Add a new item”. So to avoid confusion let us add user friendly message.

How to do that? Let us use power of javascript.

Steps:

1. Add a content editor webpart in the page and add this javascript. Add Content Editor Webpart at the end of the page after list.

2. “<script> document.getElementById("idHomePageNewItem").innerHTML="Click here to insert a new country"</script>”

This is just the text message for SharePoint Custom List how to make change for each type of list.

Below is list for id for every SharePoint list type.

ID’s used by web parts

SharePoint List Type	Default message	ID for “.getElementById” in the code below
Announcements	Add new announcement	“idHomePageNewAnnouncement” (changed in 2010)
Links	Add new link	"idHomePageNewLink"
Calendar	Add new event	"idHomePageNewEvent"
Picture Library	Add new picture	“idHomePageNewItem” * (changed in 2010)
KPI List	Add new item	"idHomePageNewItem" * (changed in 2010)
Tasks	Add new item	"idHomePageNewItem" * (changed in 2010)
Project Tasks	Add new item	"idHomePageNewItem" * (changed in 2010)
Document Library	Add new document	"idHomePageNewDocument"
Wiki	Add new Wiki page	"idHomePageNewWikiPage"
Discussion	Add new discussion	"idHomePageNewDiscussion"
Custom List	Add new item	“idHomePageNewItem”

Hope this helps!!!

Disha Shah

Read only field in SharePoint EditForm.aspx via Javascript

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:48:35 PDT

When we need to make some fields as read only when users wants to edit the item.This thing we can do very easily by SharePoint Designer , open that edit form and create one custom form and edit the field in which we want to make as read only we can change displaymode as edit. But what if do not want to change by SharePoint Designer.

We have very easy way which named as “JavaScript”.

I need to make one field as read-only, here is sample code

Open the editform.aspx page for a list and add one “Content Editor Webpart”, add the below javascript code.

function MakeReadOnly()

{

// find all the elements with tag Name as INPUT

var elements=document.body.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");

// loop through all the elements till we find an element with type text and title as name of our field

for (index=0; index < elements.length;++index)

{

if(elements[index].type=="text")

{

if(elements[index].title=="Address") //Field name

{

elements[index].readOnly=true;

}

_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("MakeReadOnly()");</script>

Hope this helps!!!

Disha Shah

SharePoint : Validate controls before the item is saved via PreSaveAction() in SharePoint 2007/2010

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:25:01 PDT

I do have one requirement in which I need to check if they check one of the checkbox then they must have to enter the value. Without eventhandler or any custom code how could we do that?

We can achieve this thing via Content Editor WebPart and write JavaScript inside that. PreSaveAction() is manly used to validate controls before the item is saved( new item or edit).

How to do that?

Let us edit the page and add one content editor webpart , and add the javascript code in that content editor webpart and save page.

Sample of Javascript Code.

function PreSaveAction()
{
var control = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","BooleanField","Other available");
var control1 = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","TextField","Other Value");
if(control.checked)
{
var StrToCheck= control1.value.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/, '');

//then we check for the length of the string if its 0 or not
if( StrToCheck.length==0 || StrToCheck =='0')
{
alert('Enter the value for Other');
}
}
else
{
control1.value=0;

}

return false;
}
function getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle(tagName, identifier, title) {

var len = identifier.length;

var tags = document.getElementsByTagName(tagName);

for (var i=0; i < tags.length; i++) {

var tempString = tags[i].id;

if (tags[i].title == title && (identifier == "" || tempString.indexOf(identifier) == tempString.length - len)) {

return tags[i];

}

return null;

}</script>

Hope this helps!!!

Disha Shah

SharePoint 2010 Membership Error :“The method or operation is not implemented”

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:33:04 PDT

Hello Friends

I was working with “Claims based authentication” in SharePoint 2010, develop registration page for new user so first I need to check whether that user already exists or not so when I checked for GetUser of Membership it always throws error

I got this error: “The method or operation is not implemented”.

Nothing about my membership provider was custom, it was all default .Net stuff. I also found this to happen on other methods provided by the Membership object.

We can find out from here

MembershipProvider _provider = Membership.Providers["MyCustomMembershipProvider"];

MembershipUser user = _provider.GetUser(“username”, true);

if (user == null)

{

}

["MyCustomMembershipProvider "] is provider name in web config file

Hope this helps!!!

Disha Shah

Error occurred in deployment step 'Retract Solution': Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:48:28 PDT

I have created one Sharepoint 2010 WebApplication which uses classic based authentication and add myself as "Site Collection Administrator", then I need to convert Webapplication authentication type "classic based authentication" from "Claims Based Authentication". Then when that user tried to deploy solution it gives this error.

"Error occurred in deployment step 'Retract Solution': Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation."

How to solve this one?

1> In SharePoint 2010 go to Central Administration - Manage web applications (under Application Management).

2> There you select the SharePoint application and press "User Policy" in the ribbon. Over there you add your user you want deploy with and give him full control.
Disha Shah

How to Create a SharePoint Application Page for Anonymous Access

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:15:51 PDT

There are some occasions in which we need to give anonymous access to SharePoint Application Pages , but on that webapplication does not give the anonymous access. Examples like Registration Page, Forgot Password page. So how to do that?

We need to do three things for that.

1. protected override bool AllowAnonymousAccess

{

get

{

return true;

}

2. Instead, you need to use another base class for your anonymous application page called UnsecuredLayoutsPageBase. MSDN reference at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols.unsecuredlayoutspagebase.aspx

3. Please make sure we don't use DynamicMasterPageFile="~/masterurl/default.master" your application layout pag .aspx file.

change it to MasterPageFile="~/_layouts/simple.master"

Active Directory Account Creation Mode In SharePoint 2010 Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Disha shah) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:47:08 PDT

Hello Friends

In SharePoint 2010 Foundation, during configuration the last screen of the Config Wizard enables you to confirm the settings you have chosen before committing to them. If you are doing anything other than a SharePoint Foundation install, you will see an Advanced Settings button that is grayed out. If you are doing a SharePoint Foundation install, this button is enabled. If you click the button, you are taken to the Enable Active Directory Account Creation Mode.

Active Directory Account Creation Mode (ADACM) :

It allows your SharePoint farm to be set up to automatically create Active Directory
users when you add them to SharePoint. These new accounts are created in the organizational unit (OU) specified on the screen. You can even have SharePoint e‑mail a notification to users when their
account is created, along with the password. This is a truly automated scenario that works very well
in hosted environments.IT is an interesting but mostly unused feature of SharePoint.

There is disadvantage too. So if you are deploying SharePoint in ADACM, you cannot
use your existing Active Directory accounts to access SharePoint. Users hate having one username and password;

Remember, it is only available in Foundation, not Server.

Disha Shah