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Adding PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer Shortcut to a page.
Oscar Medina
You probably already know that branding the PerformancePoint Site is a good undertaking and you should consider doing it on your branding efforts. But what if you just need the shortcut to the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer within a page or even your own design? Her is a quick tip, just drop this code into either a Layout Page or Master Page or Form WebPart:
function ULSrFH(){var o=new Object;o.ULSTeamName="PerformancePoint Monitoring Service";o.ULSFileName="ppssample.aspx";return o;}
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Posted: Mon, Oct 24th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 - Set Regional Settings Time Zone using PowerShell when Provisioning a New Site
Oscar Medina
As you probably already know SharePoint 2010 has added functionality when dealing with multiple Time Zones. There are two areas aside form the Web Application level where a user can set this preference. The first is managed at the site level via the Site Settings > Regional Settings page. The second is managed at the user level via the My Regional Settings page accessible via the User actions menu where a user can choose a Region other than the one configured on the Site as shown in figur [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 13th '11 |
Access SharePoint Object Properties Declaratively in your User Control
Oscar Medina
This short post really isn’t anything new as it relates to typical .NET core development. But I think at times while working on SharePoint projects we forget those same techniques apply. Prime example is using the DataItem object properties declaratively rather than wiring to the OnRowDataBound Handler. And yes, there are times when you must wire up to that handler. EXAMPLE: Declaratively access SPListItem Properties within User Control My User Control needs to display various metadata of [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 12th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Object Model: How to find out if a Web Application exists.
Oscar Medina
Ever run into a situation where you allow a user to configure a custom component with site URLs but wish you can verify if those URLs are valid in SharePoint? This was the case for a couple of custom components I recently completed. The user simply types the Site URLs on the WebPart Tool Pane configuration Textbox delimited by semicolon. One thing I wanted to do is to validate if the Web Application existed before actually iterating through it and searching for a given SPSite Object based on [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 11th '11 |
Latest SharePoint 2010 Project
Oscar Medina
I’ve been extremely focused on a major SharePoint 2010 global implementation and barely have time for anything else (except now only because I am a bit sick). The features we are implementing are very much needed and I believe many other companies will want to implement them as well. Think of NewsGator Social Sites minus the licensing cost :) Hopefully soon I will be able to disclose more detail, but here is a list of high level features: News Subscription (corporate news, organiz [read].
Posted: Wed, May 18th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 - Deploy a Web Template via PowerShell
Oscar Medina
Short but sweet post. So you’ve created your Web Template and need to deploy as part of your overall deployment scripts. How do you include this? The Web Template in this case is a User Solution (Sandbox Solution), and this is how you go about deploying it. Learn more on the available parameters at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607715.aspx #Install Web Template Add-SPUserSolution -Site $intraneturl -LiteralPath (resolve-path "Web Templates\WebTemplateName.wsp" [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 10th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 - Set Regional Settings Time Zone using PowerShell when Provisioning a New Site
Oscar Medina
As you probably already know SharePoint 2010 has added functionality when dealing with multiple Time Zones. There are two areas aside form the Web Application level where a user can set this preference. The first is managed at the site level via the Site Settings > Regional Settings page. The second is managed at the user level via the My Regional Settings page accessible via the User actions menu where a user can choose a Region other than the one configured on the Site as [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 27th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 – Creating a Related Content Custom WebPart for a Publishing Portal
Oscar Medina
I recently worked on a project for a large pharmaceutical company that called for a business requirement where we needed to show “related content” on a SharePoint Publishing Page. Here is a brief description of how I implemented that. note: “Related” is relative to our particular scenario on this project, but I am sure you get the point on how you can tailor this to your specific project. Business Need On this project there was the need to have a view that dis [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 18th '11 |
Quick tip on setting up Windows Phone 7 (HTC HD7 for AT&T)
Oscar Medina
I recently bought an HTC HD7 phone which comes with the cool new WP7 OS primarily to start developing and playing with the SDK. Since my carrier is AT&T and the HTC HD7 is only available with T-Mobile, I opted to purchase a “no-contract” phone and unlock it so that I can use my existing SIM card. Overall the process was easy, the only gotcha I ran into was that I was not able to browse the web, or get data for that matter. I was however able to text and call. So w [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 2nd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Web Templates don’t get populated with WebParts and other customization elements
Oscar Medina
While working on a project, I had the basic requirement of using Web Templates for various site flavors. However, it proved a challenge. For reason unknown to me, the pre-populated and configured WebParts would not appear on the home page when a site was created based on a given template. Prior to installing the August Cumulative Update, I had to write a custom Site Provisioning Tool (another post soon) using the new SPWebProvisioningProvider that populated and configured all the Web [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 22nd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Add an “Edit Page” link on your Page Layout
Oscar Medina
pAnother great tip - The Ribbon is definitely a nice UI#160; enhancement to SharePoint 2010 and is quite customizable via custom menu items within the groups etc.#160; /p pHowever, there are times when your design calls for replicating the functionality of some Ribbon menu items within your page layout.#160; A great example is the scenario we ran into recently.#160; Here is how the end result looks and it is embedded directly on the Page Layout./p pstrongFIGURE 1 – Custom Edit Page link/strong [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 28th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Add “Tag Page” JavaScript to your page.
Oscar Medina
pOne of the projects that I am working on totally leverages the out of the box social components and features of SharePoint 2010.#160; The trick, is that we have a super cool custom branding on the Portal, and do not use the default look for many controls.#160; /p pWe all know that the top right corner of any page has the “strongI Like It/strong” and the “strongTags and Notes/strong” but what if you wanted to not use the Control that comes with the Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 27th '10 |
Content Query WebPart – Recurring Calendar Events now on sale!
Oscar Medina
pHappy to announce this WebPart is now on sale a title="http://www.sharepointace.com:29706/Products/Pages/About_CQWPRCE.aspx" href="http://www.sharepointace.com:29706/Products/Pages/About_CQWPRCE.aspx"http://www.sharepointace.com:29706/Products/Pages/About_CQWPRCE.aspx/a/p pHere are some of the features, if you have an enhancement idea, I’d love to hear about it (sales at sharepointace dotcom)/p pbFeatures/b/p ul liEnhanced Rollup Calendar Events /li liShows Recurring Events /li liDisplays on [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 20th '10 |
Developer Tip: Debugging your SharePoint 2010 Solution
Oscar Medina
pstrongProblem/strong br /If you run into a scenario where you have modified the web.config file on the root IIS Site to output the stack trace and and in addition you have switched your strongcustomErrors=off/strong but still cannot see the stack trace, what do you do? br / br /strongSolution/strong br /You can temporarily modify the web.config file located under the virtual directory strong_layouts, /strongrestart IIS and you should see the error details at that point. br / br /Hope this helps [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 5th '10 |
jQuery Tabs – Allow users to edit tab content using WebPart Zones!
Oscar Medina
pIt has been a while since my last post, my apologies.#160; But hey that is a good thing it only means I have been busy with billable work :) br / br /Anyway, I thought I’d share this cool implementation of jQuery Tabs that allow a user to update tab content for each tab.#160; I am using the strongjQuery plug-in for accessible, unobtrusive tabs/strong found at a title="http://www.stilbuero.de/2006/05/13/accessible-unobtrusive-javascript-tabs-with-jquery/" href="http://www.stilbuero.de/2006/05/ [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 19th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Current iPhone User Experience
Oscar Medina
pWhile working on SharePoint 2010, I thought it would be interesting to view some of the pages via my iPhone.#160; Not all pages have a mobile view, but one can also use the query string “strong?mobile=1/strong”.#160; Also, I believe there is a server-side function that may allow developers to render a page in mobile view!/p pI am using NTLM authentication on this sample site em(the infamous fictitious Contoso, hey at least is not Fabrikam!)/em.#160; br / br /The following screenshots show y [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 2nd '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Rich Media – Skinning the MediaPlayer and using it as a Page Field on a Publishing Page
Oscar Medina
p/p pI have been playing with SharePoint 2010 for a while now, and have found the enhanced platform quite exciting.#160; One of the areas that I have recently explored is the Rich Media capabilities - now offered out of the box./p pThe new platform makes it very easy for anyone to share videos, pictures, music and more.#160; Microsoft certainly has paid close attention to what is happening in the enterprise 2.0 environments and it is no surprise why. strong“Gartner Predicts that by 2013, More [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 23rd '09 |
Now a Microsoft Certified Partner!
Oscar Medina
pSharePointAce Consulting Group, LLC has reached the Microsoft Certified Partner status.#160; Currently with the strongInformation Worker Solutions/strong strongCompetency/strong which covers the following areas:/p ul liOffice Solutions Development Specialization /li liEnterprise Content Management and Forms Specialization /li liPortals and Collaboration Specialization /li liSearch Specialization /li liLegacy Assets /li /ul pWe are in the process of getting all prerequisites for the strongBusine [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 11th '09 |
Microsoft continues to improve the Mac client experience on hosted Exchange/SharePoint
Oscar Medina
pIf you’ve ever experienced the SharePoint/Exchange hosted services with Outlook 2007, you would know that there is a plug-in that is needed to provide a Single Sign-on experience for the end users.#160; This same experience will be available for Mac users soon!#160; You can read more on this article a title="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46168" href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46168"Microsoft beefs up its hosted Exchange/SharePoint suite/a/p pRecently I published [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 1st '09 |
SharePoint 2010 – New functionality we like!
Oscar Medina
No doubt SharePoint 2010 rocks! It has lot’s of new architecture changes and added functionality. One of the cool things I like is the ability to go to site settings > “Save site as template” and get a WSP file which you can then import into Visual Studio 2010 for further development! That alone can save some serious development time. Developer Dashboard Another nice feature is the Developer Dashboard. It definitely provides useful information that can save you [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
Microsoft continues to improve Mac client experience, even on their hosted SharePoint/Exchange Cloud Service
Oscar Medina
If you’ve ever experienced the SharePoint/Exchange hosted services with Outlook 2007, you would know that there is a plug-in that is needed to provide a Single Sign-on experience for the end users. This same experience will be available for Mac users soon! You can read more on this article Microsoft beefs up its hosted Exchange/SharePoint suite Recently we published a quick overview of what the Mac User Experience is like within the Enterprise, obviously assuming all server product [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 14th '09 |
SharePoint – It’s a love and hate relationship!
Oscar Medina
I enjoy seeing the reaction of many newbies on the platform. Joel makes some good points on his post. Bottom line is, if you are ignorant, don’t put the product down if you don’t know enough. I can totally relate, after spending the last 7 years in the SharePoint world… -Oscar [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 13th '09 |
SharePoint Calculated Column – Calculate Business Days Only, exclude weekends!
Oscar Medina
A while back, I talked about only taking into account business days on any SharePoint Designer workflow or SharePoint List calculated column. It seems to be a very popular post to date (based on Google Analytics Reports), and I thought it would be great to point people to it today! In case you missed it: http://blogs.sharepointace.com/post/SharePoint-List-Calculated-Column-Calculate-Business-Days.aspx Regards, Oscar [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 7th '09 |
SharePointAce Consulting Group is now being aggregated on Planet SharePoint!
Oscar Medina
We at SharePointAce Consulting Group are delighted to be part of the vast amount of SharePoint blogs that are being aggregated by Planet SharePoint and look forward to continuing contributing our experience. You can view our profile here [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 3rd '09 |
Enterprise SharePoint/Exchange and Mac User Experience – A quick overview
Oscar Medina
[UPDATE] – Michael Gannotti has a nice video on other tips here. He talks about many challenges. First let me say, I myself am a big Mac OS X user. I have developed iPhone Apps and use the platform on a regular basis, have my iPhone working with my Exchange 2007 account etc. So I definitely know of some of the challenges using SharePoint on the platform as I have experienced them first-hand. One of the most important facts is that ActiveX Controls only exist in IE.&# [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 30th '09 |
Static WebPart in Master Page – yes you can!
Oscar Medina
If you have a .NET background, you are bound to have many questions as to how things can be done on SharePoint. Given the fact that SharePoint 2007 is written on top of .NET 2.0, anything and almost everything you can think of, can be accomplished using the .NET web app typical techniques. Recently, I ran into a scenario where my client had completely scratched the “look n feel” of SharePoint. One of the requirements was to have a custom navigation WebPart available on all pag [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 16th '09 |
Programmatically add a CSS link on your WebPart
Oscar Medina
So, you have a WebPart you have developed and you are deploying it as part of a Solution (at least you should be). Your WSP includes CSS, Images and other artifacts that are dropped into the _layouts folder when your featureis activated. Now you need a way to ensure that the CSS Classes you are referencing on your WebPart code are available to the WebPart, BUT you do not want the person deploying the WebPart to modify the Master Page. In other words, your WebPart should not have a [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 2nd '09 |
Did someone say branding???
Oscar Medina
SharePointAce LLC is going through a transformation right now. We are expanding! I have been practicing what I preach, meaning I will run my public site on MOSS 2007! So, what does that look like? Take a look! I did this in a day! A Master Page and a Publishing Layout Page! Going live soon… -Oscar [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 28th '09 |
CQWP Recurring Calendar Events – New Version coming soon!
Oscar Medina
My friend and SharePoint MVP Brendon Schwartzand I are working hard to get an online store live by end of this month! The vision is to have an online store where other SharePoint Developers and companies can sell and promote their products. This store will offer a turnkey solution for anyone that wishes to sell their SharePoint custom components. Among the first products we will sell is an entirely enhanced version of the CQWPRCE WebPart currently available on CodePlex at http://cqwp [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 3rd '09 |
Building Dashboards Using SharePoint Designer 2007 – Techniques using Linked Data Sources
Oscar Medina
Today I am going to show you the different built-in technologies you may take for granted, always have been curious about or simply do not know about. My scenario in this case is building a dashboard using the SharePoint Designer 2007. Our end result will look something like what you see in Figure 1. It is a DataViewWebPart created using the SharePoint Designer 2007 Use of Linked Data Sources in SPD 2007 to form a relationship between two SharePoint Lists (you can use this me [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 3rd '09 |
SharePint knows no geographical boundaries
Oscar Medina
Below is the equivalent of the US SharePint event for Mexico :) {the following is taken directly from Ricardo Munoz’s blog} SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night 22 y 23 de Abril MEXICO 2009 Luego del Segundo Simposio Latinoamericano de Sharepoint a realizarse en mexico este 23 de abril (increible ya solo faltan 10 dias) estaremos realizando una gran costumbre en estos eventos que es el sharepint by nigth en la cual estaremos compartiendo con todos los expositores del evento (entre ellos jo [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 7th '09 |
SharePoint Bug makes it expire after installing service pack 2
Oscar Medina
Just in case, you have not seen this http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10248404-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 Use this KB article to fix it http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620 Regards, Oscar [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
It is official, I am going independent!
Oscar Medina
It was only a matter of time :) As of now, I am fully dedicated to making SharePointAce.com grow. We have some projects in the pipeline, but if you know of project I can assist on, please contact me. Here is to a new start! -O [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
Windows 2008, IIS 7.0, and SharePoint large file uploads
Oscar Medina
You probably have experienced these symptoms when attempting to upload files larger than 30MB on SharePoint. In addition to standard SharePoint settings via the Central Administration for your Web Application, you have to set the allowed on the web.config file. What would be nice, is that when you change those settings, the web.config file also adds the section below if it does not exist. Single File Upload via Document Library You get a 404 page. Single or Multiple File Upload/Copy [read].
Posted: Sun, May 17th '09 |
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