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2013-05-17T17:23:00.001+03:00

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SharePoint 2013: Visio Graphics Service "Failed to access the cache"

2013-05-16T11:17:00.001+03:00

Problem

Visio Graphs are not working on SharePoint 2013, you will see generic error message in Visio Web Part and the following error messages in Windows Application Log.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-Visio Graphics Service
Event ID:      9004
Task Category: Web Access
Level:         Warning
Description:
Failed to access the cache.

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Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-Visio Graphics Service
Event ID:      8079
Task Category: Graphics Service
Level:         Error
User:          AD\svc_sp_serviceapppoo
Description:
Failed to generate raster diagram for file http://intranet/Documents/MyVisio.vsdx page Image0 Error : System.IO.FileNotFoundException: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data\VisioServer\VisioCache372264ef-b563-434d-bee0-11dede201c0b\VisioBundle637d234b68df44f8b5957a482056ef00.cache
   at Microsoft.Office.Visio.Server.GraphicsServer.DiskCache.ReadBundlePart(Bundle bundle, Int32 index)
   at Microsoft.Office.Visio.Server.GraphicsServer.ServiceCore.GetRasterPageItem(RasterPageItemRequest request)
   at Microsoft.Office.Visio.Server.GraphicsServer.VisioGraphicsService.GetRasterPageItem(RasterPageItemRequest request)

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Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-Visio Graphics Service
Event ID:      8078
Task Category: Web Access
Level:         Error
User:          NT AUTHORITY\IUSR
Description:
Failed to get raster diagram for visio file http://intranet/Documents/MyVisio.vsdx page Exception : 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 SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs.

Server stack trace:
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.ThrowIfFaultUnderstood(Message reply, MessageFault fault, String action, MessageVersion version, FaultConverter faultConverter)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.HandleReply(ProxyOperationRuntime operation, ProxyRpc& rpc)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
   at Microsoft.Office.Visio.Server.GraphicsServer.IVisioGraphicsService.GetRasterPageItem(RasterPageItemRequest rasterPageItemRequestContract)
   at Microsoft.Office.Visio.Server.Administration.VisioGraphicsServiceApplicationProxy.GetRasterPageItem(RasterPageItemRequest request)
   at Microsoft.Office.Visio.Server.ServiceWrapper.GetRasterPageItem(RasterPageItemRequest request)

Solution

Look at the path highlighted in yellow on one of the error messages. You need to grant Modify permission to the folder E:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data\VisioServer\ for the account Visio Services is using. You can find the account by going to Manage Service Applications page in Central Admin, and highlighting the Visio Graphics Service row, then clicking on the Properties button and looking at the Application Pool used.

Then, in Service Accounts page in Central Admin, you can find the actual AD account you need to grant the Modify permissions.

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SharePoint 2013: Linking item titles to items

2013-05-03T09:33:00.001+03:00

Task

When you add List View Web Part to a page in SharePoint and would like it to display e.g., all pages in the Pages library, and provide links to items, you will run into issue where you're not able to link to the item using the title of the item. You can only link to the item usin the file name, which will look bad, and include dashes, remove special characters, etc.

In SharePoint 2010, you would modify the XSLT of the XSLTListViewWebPart using SharePoint Designer (like here), but in SharePoint 2013 you can use new feature in SharePoint 2013, called JSLink to do the same.

Solution

Use JSLink to override how Title column is rendered. In the override, add link tags around the title. I do like this JSLink method better compared to the old XSLT SharePoint Designer way as you can reuse the JavaScript file and only reference that in the Web Parts when required.

In a location of your choice (such as SiteAssets library of your site, or in _catalogs/masterpage), create new JavaScript file.
In the file, add the code below
In your web part, reference this JavaScript file in the JSLink setting, like ~/site/SiteAssets/news_ui.js

(function () {
//   Initialize the variables for overrides objects
 var overrideCtx = {};
 overrideCtx.Templates = {};
      
 //List of default Object.keys(ctx.CurrentItem)
 //ID,PermMask,FSObjType,HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type,ContentType,File_x0020_Type,
 //File_x0020_Type.mapapp,HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type.File_x0020_Type.mapcon,
 //HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type.File_x0020_Type.mapico,serverurl.progid,
 //ServerRedirectedEmbedUrl,File_x0020_Type.progid,File_x0020_Type.url,
 //FileRef,FileLeafRef,CheckoutUser,CheckedOutUserId,IsCheckedoutToLocal,Title,
 //Created,Created.FriendlyDisplay,firstRow
 
 overrideCtx.Templates.Fields = {
  'Title': { 'View' : '<a href="<#=ctx.CurrentItem.FileRef#>"><#=ctx.CurrentItem.Title#></a>' } 
  };
  
 SPClientTemplates.TemplateManager.RegisterTemplateOverrides(overrideCtx);
})();

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Office 365: Have to press "Sign In" twice to log in with new login UX

2013-04-16T11:16:00.001+03:00

Problem

If you're using 3rd party password manager application, such as LastPass, you might run into issue where you need to press "Sign In" button twice in order to log in.

Steps:

Type in username + password
Press "Sign In"
You see the progress indicator flash beneath the user name text box shortly, but nothing else happens
You press "Sign In" the second time
You get authenticated and logged in

This is due to new ADFS improvement made in the new Login UX. The improvement is great for ADFS users as it verifies the user name field automatically when focus moves away from the user name box, BUT for us password add-on users it will cause nasty side effect of having to hit Sign In twice. This is because user name validation javascript is not run when password manager injects username and password to the form.

Solution

Keep pressing that Sign In until you're in.

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SharePoint 2013: Adding Script Editor to page breaks RSS Viewer web part

2013-04-08T17:22:00.001+03:00

Problem

As soon as you add Script Editor Web Part to a page in SharePoint 2013 and publish the page, RSS Viewer Web Part will get stuck on the loading animation. If you remove the Script Editor Web Part, RSS Viewer Web Part start to work immediately.

NOTE! When in Edit mode, and even after checking-in the page, RSS Viewer works nicely, this only occurs after you publish the page.

Solution

None, will add it here as soon as I figure out a workaround. Occurs at least on March 2013 update, unsure if it occurs on RTM bits.

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SharePoint 2013: Overriding value renderer in Display Template

2013-03-28T12:07:00.001+02:00

Task

By default, SharePoint 2013 Content by Search Web Part (CSWP) displays dates in long date format, such as March 13, 2013 or 7. maaliskuuta 2013 (in Finnish). How to change that to short date format?

Solution

You need to create custom Display Template, and also custom Value Renderer.

Start off by making a copy of your favorite OOB Display Template
Modify the display template .html file and add custom value renderer, call it myDateRenderer. Hint! You can copy default renderers from /_layouts/15/search.clientcontrols.js
Modify date pattern you want to use.
Finally override the actual CSWP display template line with myDateRenderer.

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SharePoint 2013: Managed Navigation not working when inheriting from parent site

2013-03-12T12:24:00.001+02:00

Problem

You're using SharePoint 2013 Managed Navigation in your site collection. You create new subsite (e.g., Team site or Community site) and on the new site creation form on "Navigation Inheritance" section you select Yes in "Use the top link bar from the parent site?". Still you still don't see the Managed Navigation on the newly created site.

Solution

You need to create the site without Navigation Inheritance, so select No to Use the top link bar from the parent site?.

After creating the site, go to Navigation Settings of the site, and select Display the same navigation items as the parent site.

Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2013,Managed Metadata

SharePoint 2013: Managed Navigation not showing sub-items

2013-03-07T14:57:00.001+02:00

Issue

You're using Managed Navigation in SharePoint 2013 and you've created navigation items that have subitems. In Term Store it would look like this (where Alisivu is the term that is not shown on the site):

For some reason, the navigation in your site doesn't show the sub-item.

Explanation

When you're on the site, subitems are visible. But as soon as you go to Site Settings, or other pages under _layouts, you will not see subitems. This appears to be a functionality carefully implemented in SharePoint, for you pleasure/confusion.

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Office 2013: Make RIBBON TAB TITLES not all caps

2013-02-19T14:49:00.001+02:00

Issue

After installing Office 2013 you might want to revert ribbon group titles to initial caps instead of ALL CAPS.

Solution

You can modify the ribbon tab titles manually, or by importing the modified settings files at the bottom of this article (for English only).

1. First, right-click on a ribbon tab title and select “Customize the Ribbon…”.

2. You should be on Customize Ribbon screen, on which you can select each tab one by one and select Rename

3. Best option is to add space after the current title, so “Home” becomes “Home “, and click OK

4. Then go through all tab titles OR just use the configuration files I created by modifying each title.

5. For importing these files, you only need to “Import customization file” for each Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) separately.

6. Just pick corresponding file, click OK and you’re all set!

PS. FILE will always be CAPS, sorry.

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Windows 8: SemanticZoom that covers also App title area

2012-12-03T15:13:00.001+02:00

Challenge

In my Windows 8 XAML app, I use GridView surrounded by SemanticZoom. However, you are only able to zoom in/out if you pinched (visually) on top of the GridView that was surrounded by the SemanticZoom control. On Surface and other devices with smaller screen, it was quite common one of the fingers used for pinching was outside the SemanticZoom control, i.e., on top of the app title Grid row on top of the screen making semantic zoom not work.

Solution

Consider the height of your app title row is 140. You need to set the margin of the SemanticZoom to have -140 top margin in order for the control to cover also title row. Then you need to take this -140 into account in your GridView control and add 140 top margin there. This solution seems a bit too quick and dirty for me, maybe there is more sophisticated solution?

Technorati Tags: Windows 8,XAML

SharePoint: Site titles obey MUI language

2012-11-20T11:06:00.001+02:00

Issue

What I love about SharePoint is that even after working with it pretty much daily for over 6 years, you still keep learning new stuff almost every day. Today I run into a strange navigation issue when I had to copy and rename a site within Site Collection. Along the years (still remember my first SharePoint project like it was yesterday), I’ve learned to play safe, so I copied the site X instead of moving it, after which I renamed it to Y.

All good, except when I navigated to some other sites, Global (=top) Navigation still showed the old site title X. On some other sites, the title was the correct renamed Y. Also Content and Structure showed the old title.

Thoughts

What to do? Tried fiddling with the navigation settings of other sites and on that specific copied site in order to maybe refresh some cache holding navigation items. Usually it takes few seconds for the navigation to refresh in these kinds of renaming scenarios, but minutes passed and the old title was still there…but ONLY when being on certain sites. Something I hadn’t seen before.

Renamed the source site, and got exactly the same issue.

Well, went to flush object cache, just for the fun of it, no effect.

Opened Remote Desktop and recycled Application Pool, no effect.

Even did IISRESET, no effect. Conclusion: definitely wasn’t any cache related issue.

Noticed I had Multi Language User Interface (MUI) set for English for some of the sites, while having Finnish for few of them. Changed it to same language on all sites, BINGO!

Solution

When you define site title, you’re actually defining the title for the MUI language you’re currently using on the site. Change the MUI language and you can define different site title for that language, then when changing the MUI language, site title changes accordingly.

What was confusing was if some other site has MUI title set, it will show that MUI specific title in navigation when you go to some other site with that same language MUI selected.

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SharePoint: Open Current Navigation links in new window

2012-10-03T10:50:00.001+03:00

Challenge

There was a need to open Current Navigation, a.k.a Quick Launch links in new browser window, when being on a front page of a specific section of the SharePoint portal.

Solution

Again, jQuery provides us an easy way to achieve this without having to create custom Navigation controls or providers and whatnot. Please note that this requirement (and solution) assumes that all subsites are visible in Current Navigation. By default, Current Navigation shows two levels of subsites. If there would be more, navigating to third level subsites would not be convenient unless Current Navigation was configured to show at least 3 static levels.

In your master page, add the following JavaScript code:

var isWorkspaces = false;

if(window.location.href.toLowerCase().indexOf('https://myintranet.sharepoint.com/workspaces/sitepages/home.aspx') > -1)
{
isWorkspaces = true;
}

// Open left navigation in new window only when in Workspaces section
if (isWorkspaces)
{
$("#s4-leftpanel-content .ms-quicklaunch-navmgr a").attr("target", "_blank");
}

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,jQuery

SharePoint: Adding “More…” link to CQWP using jQuery

2012-09-26T14:43:00.001+03:00

Challenge

When using CQWP, how to add “More…” link to the bottom of CQWP.

Solution

One of the easiest ways is to use jQuery. Within CEWP on the page, or in a separate JavaScript file, add the following JavaScript:

$("#" + $('td[title*="MYWEBPARTTITLE"]').attr("id").replace("Title", "") + " > div > ul").append("<li><a href='/news'>More...</a></li>");

Where MYWEBPARTTITLE is the…well…how would I say it, it’s the title of your web part!

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SharePoint: Prefix site with static string</h1> <p>2012-09-25T10:33:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Challenge</h3> <p>By default SharePoint uses content placeholder <em><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server"/> </em>to construct title of the page shown in browser tab. How to add static string in front of the title so that it is easier to identify sites from browser tabs.</p> <h3>Solution</h3> <p>There are few alternative solutions, but I prefer the JavaScript method.</p> <p>Add the following to your master page, last thing in <head> tag:</p> <p><font face="Consolas"><script type="text/javascript" >document.title = ‘MYSITETITLE - ' + document.title;</script></font></p> <p>Now, e.g., the front page of your site will show as “MYSITETITLE - Pages - Home” in browser tab making it more convenient to browse when using multiple tabs and/or SharePoint sites, as well as making bookmarks more readable.</p> <p> </p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7ea15e65-9107-4b14-a567-dd181aef5e35" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=kESTCEeU6qY:OFN0n1ahr5o:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=kESTCEeU6qY:OFN0n1ahr5o:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>SharePoint Designer: Web Part PartOrder not working</h1> <p>2012-09-24T16:34:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Issue:</h3> <p>When defining PartOrder property of a web part using SharePoint Designer 2010, no matter what integer you set as the value, the web part will get positioned incorrectly in the Web Part Zone.</p> <h3>Solution:</h3> <p>Delete the ID property of the Web Part control and save the page. SPD will create a new ID for the Web Part control, and at the same time, web part order will start behaving correctly.</p> <p> </p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b385e092-4afc-4a7c-be5b-b7fc7068ad35" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=-T4ZLRwH-PU:-FHedEmkWF0:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=-T4ZLRwH-PU:-FHedEmkWF0:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Windows Store URL for updating apps</h1> <p>2012-09-14T16:09:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Challenge</h3> <p>I wanted to release update for my Windows 8 app, but cannot find Windows Store or the site where I originally published the app. Google/Bing don’t find anything relevant with queries like “windows store”, or “windows store apps”.</p> <h3>Solution</h3> <p>Here’s the link: <a title="https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/EN-US/Account/signup/Start" href="https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/EN-US/Account/signup/Start">https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/EN-US/Account/signup/Start</a></p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ae6b66e2-c467-4711-b3b4-f64bef7429fe" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows+8" rel="tag">Windows 8</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=LK0wDrH6sxE:E2Sb7EYq6yA:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=LK0wDrH6sxE:E2Sb7EYq6yA:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>SharePoint Online: Change Search Center default language</h1> <p>2012-09-10T08:26:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Challenge</h3> <p>We had initially created our SharePoint tenant and site collection root site in language A. However, it turned out that we wanted to have the whole SharePoint Online experience in language B. I removed the root site collection using Online Portal and re-created it using correct language. </p> <p>Then I realized the default Search Center at <em>https://xyz.sharepoint.com/search</em> was still in wrong language. I removed it as well and sent a Service Request and asked them to recreate the default search site collection in correct language.</p> <h3>Solution</h3> <p>Again, Office 365 customer service responded very quickly and called in a matter of few hours. To my great surprise, I also got the issue resolved immediately. Check this solution out, there’s some pretty wild things happening behind the scenes. Although I’m happy I could solve my issue, I’m puzzled how site collection restore will not restore the site collection as it was when it was deleted. </p> <p><strong>NOTE! I didn’t test if configurations or customizations made to a Search site are persisted when it is deleted and restored.</strong></p> <p>So, how to change default search site collection language in SharePoint Online.</p> <ol> <li>Go to Online Portal and Manage SharePoint</li> <li>Go to site collection list</li> <li>Delete the default search site collection</li> <li>Create a new site collection in a language you wish to have your new default search site collection. Yes, just create any new site collection. I created a <em>http://xyz.sharepoint.com/sites/test</em> in English.</li> <li>When site collection creation has completed, go to Recycle Bin and restore the Search site collection you deleted in step 3.</li> <li>The restored Search site collection will now be in the same language as </li></ol> <p>In a nutshell, what the Search site collection does, is that it restores itself to the default language of the last site collection created. Pretty neat/scary, huh?</p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5c7911e4-3fa1-46ed-bd56-76af2b39265f" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Office+365" rel="tag">Office 365</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=o5zyt61iKxY:EjpU6woOHMs:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=o5zyt61iKxY:EjpU6woOHMs:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>SharePoint: Default Theme colors</h1> <p>2012-08-30T10:57:00.001+03:00</p> <p>At least for SharePoint 2010.</p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Text/Background - Dark 1</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#000000</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Text/Background – Light 1</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#FFFFFF</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Text/Background - Dark 2</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#1F497D</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Text/Background – Light 2</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#EEECE1</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Accent 1</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#4F81BD</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Accent 2</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#C0504D</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Accent 3</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#9BBB59</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Accent 4</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#8064A2</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Accent 5</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#4BACC6</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Accent 6</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#F79646</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Hyperlink</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#0000FF</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Followed Hyperlink</td> <td valign="top" width="200">#800080</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Heading Font</td> <td valign="top" width="200">Calibri</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Body Font</td> <td valign="top" width="200">Calibri</td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:704c7002-de8f-49d5-adf9-089751eeb8a3" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=5Ji5VT-nT0I:m9GTWGqh_sc:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=5Ji5VT-nT0I:m9GTWGqh_sc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Office 2013: Disable transition and cursor animations</h1> <p>2012-08-06T14:38:00.001+03:00</p> <h2> <b>Issue</b></h2> When using Office 2013 you have all kinds of nice animations when moving around in the applications. E.g., in Excel 2013 you can see smooth animation of cell selector moving from cell to another. In Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint 2013, you can see cursor smoothly moving when typing text, or in Outlook, there is transition animation when you move between Mail and Calendar. In some scenarios these neat new animations are not desired. Good thing is that one can easily disable them. <br /> <br /> <h2> <b>Solution</b></h2> <ol> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Right click</b> on <b>My Computer</b> icon on the <b>Desktop</b> and choose <b>Properties</b> option <b><span style="color: red;">OR just hit Win+Pause</span></b></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">In the <b>System</b> window click the <b>Advanced system settings</b> link in the <b>left pane</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Click <b>Continue</b> button if prompted by <b>UAC</b></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Now click <b>Settings</b> button under <b>Performance </b>section</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Select</b> the <b>Custom</b> and <b>check</b> the option <b>Animate controls and elements inside windows</b> to </span></span>enable<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> animations</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Click <b>OK</b> button</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Click <b>OK</b> button in the <b>System Properties</b> window</span></span></li> </ol> <h2> <b>Another solution</b></h2> The above solution affects all animations across all applications. In order to only limit this within Office 2013, do as <a href="http://winsupersite.com/office/office-2013-tip-disable-animations" target="_blank">Paul</a> instructs and add the following registry key: <br /> <br /> <i>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Graphics]<br />"DisableAnimations"=dword:00000001</i><br /> <br /> To see the effect, you’ll need to reboot your computer. To reverse the effect, change the value of the added DWORD to its default of 0.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=6Ua4HOb37uU:x6noj7R95q4:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=6Ua4HOb37uU:x6noj7R95q4:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Media Center Status Application 0.6.6 released!</h1> <p>2012-08-01T15:18:00.001+03:00</p> <p>Fixed in this version <ul> <li>Twitted suspend now clears Tweet queue which prevents queued tweets from appearing after suspend has been clicked. </li></ul> <p><a href="http://www.jussipalo.com/fbmce" target="_blank">Download here</a></p> <p> </p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:26271354-5710-41c6-8990-4daef9e8578c" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Media+Center" rel="tag">Media Center</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Twitter" rel="tag">Twitter</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Facebook" rel="tag">Facebook</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=B651Fgwt_j8:Zvqzq4FeSDg:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=B651Fgwt_j8:Zvqzq4FeSDg:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Remove VMware Workstation or Player when Hyper-V is installed</h1> <p>2012-06-12T10:38:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Challenge</h3> <p>Time to go all in with Windows 8 and migrate development environments to Hyper-V.</p> <p>When you’re migrating from VMware to Hyper-V, and you happen to install Hyper-V before uninstalling VMware Workstation or Player, you will get warning that VMware uninstall cannot proceed while Hyper-V role is installed on the server or workstation.</p> <h3>Solution</h3> <p>Modify file <em>C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\Uninstaller\bootstrap.lua</em>, or <em>C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\Uninstaller\bootstrap.lua</em> using text editor and comment out line </p> <p><em>CheckForMSHyperV() </em></p> <p>with two dashes, so it will become</p> <p><em>--CheckForMSHyperV()</em></p> <p>Then save file and rerun the uninstall and it will succeed.</p> <p> </p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:48ac29dd-71bd-4d0f-9b69-9d495db6f954" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/VMware" rel="tag">VMware</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Hyper-V" rel="tag">Hyper-V</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=wGRwKAmuMRs:KkDWSlBQi5A:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=wGRwKAmuMRs:KkDWSlBQi5A:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>SharePoint: Web part title bar colors using jQuery, part 2</h1> <p>2012-06-07T14:20:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Challenge</h3> <p>How to set web part title bar colors so that different web parts have different colors? How about making it easy also for content editors who have no HTML/JavaScript/jQuery skills?<br><br> <h3>Solution</h3> <p>Sure thing. Instead of hard coding the colors to web part titles, let’s append name of the color in front of the web part title. Then with jQuery, let’s set the color accordingly, and finally remove the color definition when the page has been rendered.</p> <ol> <li>First, create web part with title <em>[PURPLE]Actual title. </em> <ol> <li>[PURPLE] is the name of the color you want this web part’s title bar to have</li></ol> <li>Add CEWP to your page, or by other means register the following JavaScript on your page. CEWP must be located after the web parts that are modified as I don’t want to use document.ready as users might notice old colors for a moment when pages reload before the JavaScript kicks in.<br><br>$('td[title^="[PURPLE]"]').siblings().andSelf().addClass("WPTITLEPURPLE");<br>$('td[title^="[PURPLE]"]>h3').addClass("WPTITLEPURPLE");<br><br>$('td[title^="["]').each(function () <br> {<br> $("#" + $(this).attr('id').replace('Title', 'Caption')).prev().html(function (index, oldhtml)<br> {<br> return oldhtml.substr(oldhtml.indexOf(']') + 1);<br> });<br> });<br></li></ol> <p>jQuery <em>starts with</em> selector is used (^=) to search for web part titles with color definitions. The color is set with <em>background-color </em>in a CSS class, which in this example is <em>WPTITLEPURPLE</em>. Last part of the jQuery above removes the color definition text from the web part titles. <p>As you might guess, further improvement on this would be to define the color in the web part title using actual colors, e.g., <em>[#CCCCCC], [rgb(123,123,123)]</em>, or even with actual names of the colors, like <em>[blue]</em>. One could then use RegExp to get the real color and inject that to correct elements using jQuery. Downside of this is that branding might be adversely affected as any color could be used; also some content editors might not be familiar with these types of color notations. <p>See <a href="http://blog.jussipalo.com/2012/05/sharepoint-web-part-title-bar-colors.html" target="_blank">part 1</a> if your web parts and titles are relatively static or content editors like to work with jQuery. <p> </p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:76812682-aa60-4b14-85cd-ac241ad07dfb" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/jQuery" rel="tag">jQuery</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=iAonw1nU2To:OZJx93S-ad4:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=iAonw1nU2To:OZJx93S-ad4:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>SharePoint Online: Grant permissions for Delegated Administrators</h1> <p>2012-06-07T13:29:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Challenge</h3> <p>After setting up a company as delegated administrator of a Office 365 tenant, I noticed that I couldn’t modify SharePoint Online content and sites of the tenant. This is obvious as they didn’t have any permissions to SharePoint in the first place. What wasn’t so obvious, was the user account or group that should be used when granting permissions to the delegated admins.</p> <h3>Solution</h3> <ol> <li>Go to <a href="https://XYZ.sharepoint.com/_layouts/groups.aspx">https://XYZ.sharepoint.com/_layouts/groups.aspx</a> page on your site</li> <li>Find a group named <strong>Foreign Principal for ‘DELEGATE’ in Role ‘Company Administrator’ (GUIDS)</strong></li> <ol> <li>‘DELEGATE’ is the name of the company that was set as delegated admin for the Office 365 tenant</li> <li>(GUID) isn’t really a GUID, but a alphanumerical string containing dashes, that looks like GUID</li> <li>Example: <em>Foreign Principal for 'Sulava Oy' in Role 'Company Administrator' (123456aa-5eaf-34ga-a11b-5b0adf095e9a5b13a072-5e7a-6b35-6b35-a9b3e7ae45aa)</em></li></ol> <li>Click on the group name</li> <li>Copy Account string of the group, e.g., <em>c:0ǵ.c|tenant|654321aa-5e7a-6b35-6c71-23456d4564dd</em> </li> <li>Paste the account name to Site Collection Administrators group, or wherever you wish to grant permissions for the Delegated Admins</li></ol> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:66c53b7a-70a9-46b2-b50f-bdae6269b70f" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Office+365" rel="tag">Office 365</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=OgH0B4_bi-I:BFihihUkSo0:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=OgH0B4_bi-I:BFihihUkSo0:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>SharePoint: Web part title bar colors using jQuery, part 1</h1> <p>2012-05-14T08:22:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Challenge</h3> <p>How to set web part title bar colors so that different web parts have different colors?</p> <h3>Solution</h3> <p>With jQuery, you can set the web part title bar background color using two lines of code.</p> <p><font face="Courier New">$('td[title^="WPTITLE"]').siblings().andSelf().addClass("WPTITLEPURPLE");<br>$('td[title^="WPTITLE"]>h3').addClass("WPTITLEPURPLE");</font></p> <p><em>WPTITLE</em> can be the full web part title, or just something from the beginning of the title. In this example jQuery <em>starts with</em> selector is used (^=) because the actual title attribute of the HTML contains also other text after the actual web part title. The color is set in a CSS class, which in this example is <em>WPTITLEPURPLE</em>.</p> <p>See <a href="http://blog.jussipalo.com/2012/06/sharepoint-web-part-title-bar-colors.html" target="_blank">part 2</a> for improved approach that gives content editors easier and more controllable way to set the web part title bar colors.</p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:250ddacd-3af7-4f29-ae4e-41126f6271f7" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/jQuery" rel="tag">jQuery</a></div> <p><font color="#ffffff" size="1">Technorati claim code: N48QKHDE2CM5</font></p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=0s6kEW9jNvE:rxzSerTt0jI:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=0s6kEW9jNvE:rxzSerTt0jI:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>SharePoint: Append link to bottom of CQWP using jQuery</h1> <p>2012-05-11T15:23:00.001+03:00</p> <h3>Task</h3> <p>Append link to the bottom of Content Query Web Parts that show articles from News subsite so that users can click the link to view more news articles of the specific category.</p> <p>The picture below is in Finnish, but link at the bottom called “Lisää…” is the one added using jQuery. Also the CQWP style is quite heavily modified, but I’m sure you get the point.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1HWYcMKXb7E/T60ErcnDcTI/AAAAAAAABus/JwGW8sOJK8s/s1600-h/morenews%25255B2%25255D.png"></a></p> <h3>Solution</h3> <p>Not being a fan of custom CQWP implementations for this purpose nor modifying the out-of-the-box XSL Style Sheets using SharePoint Designer, I decided to solve this using jQuery.</p> <p>Add the following code to CEWP inside <script> tags:</p> <p><font face="Courier New">$("#" + $('td[title^="WEBPARTTITLE"]').attr("id").replace("Title", "") + " ul").append("<li class='moreNews'><a href='/news/Pages/Forms/Article.aspx?TreeField=METADATACATEGORY&TreeValue=METADATAGUID'>More news...</a></li>");<br></font><font face="Courier New"><font face="Arial"><br>Where WEBPARTTITLE is the title of CQWP. Note that you need to use the <em>starts with selector (^=)</em>, as the actual HTML node <em>title</em> attribute contains also other text after the actual title you define in web part properties. For the style <em>moreNews</em>, you can define what you see best, I just added some padding around the link. For the link I redirect the user to a site pages library view that has metadata filtering enabled and visible on the left: this is done using the <em>TreeField</em> and <em>TreeValue</em> parameters.</font></font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d3fdd4a8-3d32-4943-89ae-08229f18fa2b" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/jQuery" rel="tag">jQuery</a></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=vSgbdIzVyH4:NNI7P3vdPSc:yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/howtocode?a=vSgbdIzVyH4:NNI7P3vdPSc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"></img></a> </div> </article> </main></body></html>