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Remote form customization: Passing data to a modal dialog – Part 1

2013-05-14T10:04:14Z

Let’s jump right into the topic how it is possible to pass data to a modal dialog. On first sight it looks like a complex task but after you read this article you will get an overview how it works. In this simple scenario I use a HTML Form web part with a text box [...]

Remote form customization in modal dialogs

2013-05-12T01:38:02Z

You might know this situation, when you like, for example, pass a query string to a modal dialog to preselect values in a list form. With SharePoint Designer or custom development this is an easy task. What if you like to customize the form without permanently modifying the form itself?

Problem with script debugging in Visual Studio 2010 and IE 10 – Solved

2013-03-31T01:36:43Z

Recently I updated the Internet Explorer on one of my SharePoint Development Servers to IE 10. Since then I wasn’t able to script debug directly in Visual Studio 2010. The problem was whenever I tried to attach to the Internet Explorer process I got the error message that a debugger is already attached to this process.

Encode and decode field names from display name to internal name

2012-12-10T06:10:32Z

In this article you will learn how fields in SharePoint can be encoded from a display name to an internal field name. The problem with the difference between internal field names and display name is that, SharePoint won’t have any built in function that is available to use in your code.

Build a flexible mega drop down navigation for SharePoint

2012-11-07T01:44:12Z

This mega menu solution provides an easy way to add a mega menu to the out of the box navigation. It is also flexible and allows every SharePoint user to customize the content of the mega menu navigation.

Use Syntax Highlighter in SharePoint Rich Text Editor

2012-10-10T20:47:46Z

In this article I show you how the well-known SyntaxHighlighter script by Alex Gorbatchev can be added to a wiki page in SharePoint.

Lookup fields as site column declarative deployed

2012-09-22T12:13:15Z

In this article I like to show you my way to deploy lookup fields to SharePoint declarative. I need to note that I won’t do this fully declarative but found a solution that works best. This will be used by SharePoint internally and is fully supported. The lookups I’m talking are lookup fields deployed as site column.

Embed everything in SharePoint 2013 Rich Text Editor

2012-07-31T22:45:59Z

While in SharePoint 2010 for embedding videos from YouTube or Vimeo special web parts or html form web part needs to be use the embedding is now native supported by the rich text editor.

Turn summary link web part into an accordion

2013-01-31T09:01:27Z

This article shows how to enhance an out of the box summary link web part and turn it in an interactive accordion.

Close SharePoint Modal Dialogs with “Esc”-Key press

2012-07-22T07:52:37Z

When a user browse through various list items in SharePoint a modal dialog pops up and needs to be closed manual. With this JavaScript SharePoint modal dialogs can be closed with the ESC Key.