SharePoint Tips & Tricks by Namwar Rizvi
Published Links are the addresses of SharePoint sites/libraries which are available to user as a destination to save the document from Office Application. User can add additional sites/libraries by clicking on Connect To Office button on SharePoint Document Library ribbon. Microsoft Office Applications e.g. Word and Excel try to sync information for all Published Links of SharePoint … Read more
Microsoft contniously updates Office 365 with new features and experiences and releases them to the users as per release preference selected by customer. If you have a Developer Tenant account and want to receive updates as soon as possible, you will need to swicth your Release Preference to First release track. Following is the step by step … Read more
Microsoft is rolling out new user experience for Document Libraries and Lists in SharePoint Online. If you are a SharePoint Online tenant user and want to test new User Experience for your Document Library and/or SharePoint Lists then perform following steps: Document Library: Open Library Settings Click Advanced Settings Scroll to bottom of the page, you will … Read more
If you are trying to find exact Version and Patch level of your SharePoint installation, then use one of the following methods Method 1 : Using Service.cnf url Navigate to following url in your browser <Your SharePoint Site>/_vti_pvt/Service.cnf You will a response similar to following vti_encoding:SR|utf8-nl vti_extenderversion:SR|14.0.0.4762 Check the number shown in your response at SharePoint … Read more
If you want to embed a link to current item in your SharePoint Workflow email or in any other action then use Workflow Context -> Current Item Url
If you want to find out whether the given web page is generated by SharePoint or not then the most authentic way of verification is to check Response Headers. SharePoint adds an specific response header (along with others) called MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices The presence of this header is a proof that the given web page is served … Read more
In SharePoint 2010 document library, if you click on a file with .html extension, you will notice that browser will open Save File dialogue box. This behaviour stops you to view HTML files directly in browser from document library and some times it is very annoying. To resolve it and view HTML files in browser, … Read more
As you may already know that SharePoint uses Source parameter in query string to take you back to the page from where you came. The value of the Source paramter must be properly encoded. Don’t worry, you do not need to write your own Javascript function to do this. Just use already provided function called … Read more
In my last article “Useful Javascript Functions and objects in SharePoint – Part 1” I listed some useful javascript objects in SharePoint. Today I will continue exploring useful functions. DOM Management byid(id) = Return element for the given id newE(tag) = Create a new dom element of the given tag e.g. div etc. wpf() = … Read more
SharePoint has a huge set of javascript functions and objects which are defined in essential SharePoint javascript files like init.js, core.js, forms.js etc. These files are necessary for SharePoint to function properly. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel by writing your own javascript function for something which is already provided by these core … Read more
