Andrey Markeev on SharePoint

SharePoint JavaScript and TypeScript Definitions for SharePoint

Andrey Markeev — Sunday, March 24, 2013 00:00:00

Thoughts about JavaScript in SharePoint, and announce of the first release of the SharePoint 2013 TypeScript Definitions opensource project.

A better alternative to SharePoint Mapped Folders

Andrey Markeev — Wednesday, February 27, 2013 07:00:00

After 2 years of using SharePoint Mapped Folders and Application Pages, I abandoned them in favor of more native modules and Site Pages. And for 1.5 years now I've been using this approach successfully and with huge profit!

Top5 SharePoint features to avoid

Andrey Markeev — Tuesday, February 19, 2013 07:45:00

SharePoint is vast and luxurious: it has so many features it is easy to completely loose yourself in them. But not all of its features well designed or well implemented. Herein I present my top 5 error-prone features of SharePoint.

Blog on SharePoint: RSS feed

Andrey Markeev — Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:00:00

Unfortunately, SharePoint OOTB RSS feed for a document library doesn't look very tempting, and cannot be much customized. How to fix that? Once again, DataFormWebPart will help!

Blog on SharePoint: Series

Andrey Markeev — Monday, October 29, 2012 23:55:00

Another DataFormWebPart successful usage example: now for automatic management of blog post series here on this blog.

Public blog on SharePoint

Andrey Markeev — Wednesday, October 24, 2012 09:00:00

Blog site template is notorious for it's inconveniences and not fitting the real public blogging needs. But it turns out, there are some other, easier ways to create your public blog with SharePoint.

Tabs for fields in SharePoint

Andrey Markeev — Monday, October 22, 2012 10:35:00

If you have a SharePoint list with many fields (say, more than 10), you might want to tabify the forms. There is a number of well-known ways to do that, but I think I invented one more :)

SharePoint Ribbon ToggleButton: creating multiview pages

Andrey Markeev — Friday, January 06, 2012 11:30:00

Majority of SharePoint developers think that SharePoint Ribbon customizations end with adding plain buttons. Nothing of the kind! Ribbon allows quite a number of controls, and among them - one of my favorite, ToggleButton.

Item expiration reminders in SharePoint using workflow

Andrey Markeev — Friday, November 11, 2011 02:05:00

If you want to send remainder letters before expiration date set for some list item in SharePoint, there is an easy way to do it: use custom SPD workflow.

Add ribbon tab to all site pages using Fluent Ribbon API

Andrey Markeev — Monday, October 24, 2011 10:30:00

Sometimes ribbon customizations have to be site-wide. And now Fluent Ribbon API opensource project fully supports such customizations, making the implementation of a cross-wide ribbon tab trivial and fast.