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SharePoint Modal Dialog Popup, Return Values

tariq — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:22:26 +0000

Whilst working out a problem with how to return values from a SharePoint Modal Dialog I found an interesting link to a page in the his book online explaining the works.

Firstly here is how values are returned from a SPModalDialog to its calling page

http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2010/07/22/programming-with-dialog-in-sharepoint-2010/

and here is the page with stuff on the javascript functions within the popup frame

link

You can find the book here

Editing Field/Schema Display patterns

tariq — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:02:34 +0000

Here are some usefull resources on how to change the way your field is rendered in SharePoint 2010 Lists

1. SharePoint uses XSLT to render the views in SPS 2010. Here is a sample on how to customize the rendering of a field

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff606773.aspx

2. The <xsl:template … element requires a mode attribute. Here is how to find the mode attribute for your field type

http://www.silver-it.com/node/66

SharePoint SPBasePermission Decimal Values

tariq — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:30:53 +0000

I have been hunting around the web for the decimal representation of the SPBasePermission enum values on more than one occasion for permissions stuff. Usually finding a good resource surf up on Google et al is a bit tough.

So I am bookmarking James’s blog post on it

http://www.jamestsai.net/Blog/post/Understand-SharePoint-Permissions-Part-1-SPBasePermissions-in-Hex2c-Decimal-and-Binary-The-Basics.aspx

ILSpy Long Live Thee

tariq — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:34:02 +0000

Allright, I let you know I am pissed at the way things turned out with .NET Reflector (no link love for it either)

So from its ashes rises ILSpy for the guys at SharpDevelop, and its open-source

Guys Keep up the hard work, we love you for picking up after Reflector

Here’s the link, go get it.

MOSS–Weird Ajax Issue

tariq — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:13:55 +0000

Thought I should bring this to attention since it’s a weird issue and the solution isn’t obvious when googling.

The issue is - In MOSS an Ajax-Partial postback, causes the page to loose its page title. Like shown below

So whats the fix?

Appaprently additional spaces between the <title> and the <asp:ContentPlaceHolder> cause this issue.

The solution is to remove the spaces.

<title id=”onetidTitle”><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id=”PlaceHolderPageTitle” runat=”server”/></title>

Original Source: http://www.directsharepoint.com/2011/04/page-title-disappears-after-ajax-post.html

Minimal Master Page Ajax Issue

tariq — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:55:06 +0000

Hi All, just wanted to point out a teensy weensy but maybe very useful tip. It might be outdated information if you are using SharePoint 2010, but if you are using SharePoint 2007 then you might find this useful.

I am sure all of you working with SharePoint has come across Heather Solomon through her blog, it being a really wonderful resource for skinning SharePoint. Heather also has provided a ton of help to the SharePoint community by sharing the minimal masterpages for WSS and MOSS.

What I wanted to point out is that if you are suffering from AJAX controls not working propperly on the above mentioned master pages you might want to change

<WebPartPages:SPWebPartManager runat="server"/>
<form runat="server" onsubmit="return _spFormOnSubmitWrapper();">

<WebPartPages:SPWebPartManager runat="server"/>

Gmail Motion–It really works–You just need a Kinect and some Custom Software

tariq — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:40:00 +0000

Some of you have probably already seen Google’s April 1st announcement of their technology to use “Motion Sensing” to control Gmail.

I betcha Google probably didn’t think of Kinect when making that spoof or perhaps they did which is why it sound plausible in a remote way.

Anyways the FAST crew have responded to the spoof with demoing their Software doing just that. i.e. having motion control for Gmail using a Kinect and custom software.

Actually this seems very feasible if you could get an intermediary software layer to function as a keyboard by recognizing Kinect Gestures, controlling Gmail is a matter of mapping keyboard shortcuts to gestures. At least that is how I think this works.

Link - http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/02/gmail-motion-april-fools-gag-inevitably-turned-into-reality-usi/

jQuery Primer for SharePoint

tariq — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:12:56 +0000

fyi - http://sharepointmagazine.net/articles/a-jquery-primer-for-sharepoint-selectors-attributes-and-traversing-oh-my

On SharePoint, Hide the ‘Sign-in As A Different User’ option through JQuery

tariq — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:10:26 +0000

A simple script you can add to your master page or content editor etc. to hide the “Sign in As a Different User” option that is available in the Personal Actions Menu.

<script src="/jQuery/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/JavaScript">

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

var objects = document.getElementsByTagName("ie:menuitem");

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

itm = objects[i];

if (('#' + itm.id).indexOf("LoginAsDifferentUser") != -1) {

$('#' + itm.id).remove();

}

}

})

</script>

This is a modification of the original script found here

Is Metro the Future Design Language

tariq — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:04:16 +0000

There’s quite a few interesting hypes going around the web with regards to Microsoft’s future in terms of UI design. One of the bigger ones is that Windows 8 (yes the desktop OS that comes after Windows 7) would have a theme that would enable a metro like UI (see here).

If you are confused about what this Metro business here’s a good pointer.

The Windows 8 rumors were followed up with a revamp of the Microsoft Site that follows the principles of Metro (see here). What's more is that Office 15 is rumored to have a metro interface as well (see here).

Personally I think metro works. The mantra about typography is beautiful, reduce the clutter, layout is key, “iconify”, and make things easy to access. This has worked very well with the limited real-estate available on the Windows Phone devices. So if it works on a small screen size, why not on a large screen.

One thing I am sure about is that there will be at least a few sites that might copy Microsoft on the principles of metro, if not in current form maybe in other variations, and it would be interesting to see if this would resonate with the designs done for SharePoint.