Author Archives: Peter Gerritsen

CSS contents showing in settings page for site based on custom template

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on July 12, 2010
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At a customer we created a few custom site templates by configuring them and then saving them as template. When creating new sites based on this template, we had the strange issue that the contents of the Alternate CSS (AlternateCSSUrl) were included and showing in the header on layouts pages in the sites. It appears [...]
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SharePoint 2010 Search: Property Restriction in Keyword Queries

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on July 1, 2010
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The new version of SharePoint offers more capabilities in the keyword syntax to enhance the search experience. While in the previous version you had to resort to FullText SQL queries, a lot of things can now be accomplished with keyword syntax. For instance if you would like to filter on a date, you could use [...]
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Set default value on a Managed Metadata field through code

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on June 26, 2010
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In some situations, such as metadata inheritance from web properties, you’ll want to set the default value of a field from code. Because the DefaultValue property of a SPField is a string, you will need to know the correct format to set the value of a Managed Metadata column. The easiest way to retreive this [...]
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Term Store management option missing in Site Collection settings

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on June 9, 2010
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When you don’t see the Term Store Management option in your site collection settings: A hidden web application feature is probably not activated. You can activate it through PowerShell or stsadm: Enable-SPFeature -id “73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C” -Url <Site-URL> stsadm -o activatefeature -id 73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C -url http://<url> -force Bookmark to:
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Issues with SharePoint Designer 64 bit

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on June 4, 2010
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When you’ve got Office 2010 64-bit installed you can only install the 64-bit version of SharePoint Designer. Sadly this version has some integration issues. Main ones I’ve noticed is not being able to use the “Edit in SharePoint designer” link in the context menu and not being able to edit page layouts in SharePoint Designer. [...]
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New languages available for Soccerino

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on June 4, 2010
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Soccerino is now available in more languages besides English: -Dutch -German -Portugues -Serbian -Polish If you would like to translate it into your own language, you’re very welcome to. You can download the language source file from: http://www.babelzilla.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6237 Bookmark to:
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Tam Tam Lauches Soccerino – World Cup 2010 Pool for SharePoint AND Facebook

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on May 12, 2010
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At previous footbal tournaments we had a lot of success with our SharePoint football pool webparts. This year we launch Soccerino, available on SharePoint (2007 / 2010) AND Facebook. More information on soccerino.com UPDATE: We have a resource file available if you want to the application in you own language. Just download the zip-file below [...]
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New sample project for SP2010 Word Automation: UI

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on March 2, 2010
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I’ve just published a second sample solution for the SP2010 Word Automation project on CodePlex. This solution will add a button to the Ribbon when browsing document libraries: When the button is clicked a modal Dialog is shown that will allow the user to specify the options used for conversion: When the Ok button is [...]
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2 new worflow activities added to SP2010 Word Automation

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 18, 2010
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I’ve added two new worfklow activities, Convert Folder and Convert Library, to the SP2010 Word Automation project on CodePlex. Because you can’t associate workflows created with SharePoint designer to libraries or folders, these actions won’t use the current item from the context, so you need to specify the input and output library or folder by [...]
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SP2010 Installation – Error creating configuration database

Posted by Peter Gerritsen on February 11, 2010
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When I tried to install the new RC of SharePoint 2010 on my machine, I got an “Error creating configuration database” message. When I went to the installation log I found a “User cannot be found” error. The cause was that the configuration wizard could not find the AD controller, which was easily solved by [...]
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