By Oliver N.
As we approach the new major release of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 it is important to review the newset of features and how your organization can benefit from them:
First, SharePoint is more than just another application, it is a Software Platform, and it is platform in the sense where not only developers can build with the Rapid Application Development Tools, but also end users through Composites and Mashup Tools, enabling them to really customize and adapt the product to their needs.
SharePoint provides a unified technology infrastructure and costs for your organization. No more separate purchases for a Collaboration System, another for a Business Intelligence Sys...
By Edith Colegio
When it comes to SharePoint site branding, you think about styles, pages library, web parts, etc. But then you realize your site has another “side”… the “_layouts” section where it involves all pages: 1) People and groups (site permissions), 2) All site content, 3) Site settings, and all of them use a different masterpage than the rest of your site!
Then you think you can “customize” those pages with a simple modification to your “Application” master page (using your site’s theme of course). That’s not as easy as it looks. According to Microsoft there are two ways to modify/customize the application.master page:
1. Modify the application.master page in t...
By Edith C
Building a SharePoint solution can be a mess, but using this tool, the process becomes very easy and intuitive.
Feature creation
Prerequisites:
· Install WSP Builder tool
1. Create a new project on Visual Studio (i.e. Feeds)
2. Add a new item on the project, right clicking Project Name, Add… New Item… WSP Builder Templates, select Web Part Feature set a name for it (i.e. Feeds), and click Add.
3. Set the name and description of the new feature, and set the scope: Web, Site, WebApplication or Farm. Click OK.
4. Your feature its created, and the generated files are:
· 12/TEMPLATE/FEATURES/Feeds folder (this is...
By Edith C.
If you've seen a blog (out of the box) in SharePoint, you will have noticed that even though you change the color, image, font, etc. of the document it still has the same style that at the very beginning.
To be able to change the "theme" of complete blog you need to change the MasterPages styles, and finally a very detailed and tedious task. I found a solution on CodePlex, a very professional solution to be able to achieve this.
The best of all is that this solution is a "Feature", meaning you can activate and deactivate it after creating your blog, and in a very quick and easy way. You only need to download it, unzip the zip file on the server, and ru...
By Edith C.
This is very useful when for instance, Google has one of your site’s no longer existing pages, on cache: or if a user types a wrong URL directly on the browser.
Here you’ll find the steps needed for customize your Error 404 Page, with SharePoint.
1. First you have to create a new page in your SharePoint Page library, personalize it with your site’s style, you add an error or page not found message. In my case I created the page: Error.aspx
2. Now in the server where the SharePoint site is located, on the Layouts folder (systemdrive%\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\) you have to create an ASPX page to re...
It’s a fact that a great number of your site’s visitors come from Search Engines. This is why companies are investing good money on web marketing campaigns, and a very important part of this Marketing is having a great SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO is about certain rules that most of Search Engines follow, and it’s a little more technical than it looks like.
Here I present to you some advice to optimize your Search; they can be very easy to follow if you plan them since the beginning of your Public Site design, using SharePoint off course.
Semantic Code. It’s very important to use the correct HTML elements, for example, in headers, use <h1> to <h6>. Use the “list” el...
Sometimes when you create a folder on a SharePoint library, you need more information about it, like a description or an image. This is not possible using the default “Folder” option on SP libraries. This post will help you create a custom “Folder” content type, to add images and text to your library folders.
1. Go to: Site Settings, Site Content Types. All site content types will appear.
2. Click on the create button to create a new content type. Once the create page is open, you can start by giving your type a name, then select the Folder Content Types, and Folder parent. Then click OK to finish creating your content type.
3. The next thing we’ll do is create a new co...
You can use the out of the box Content Query Web Part, to control how the content is displayed for everything contained on libraries and lists.
These simple steps will help you customize the main view of your library
Create your library using folders (this will help us organize the items), and go to the main view (i.e. AllItems.aspx)
2. Go to Site Actions, Edit Page, and add the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) to your page.
3. By default the CQWP will display all of the pages in the site.
4. Click on edit menu, then choose to Modify the Shared Web Part and in the Web Part Tool Pane, expand Query and change the Source settings to the library where you want to...