Extend the Settings Ribbon Group in SharePoint 2010 for Document Libraries: Ribbon.Library.Settings.Controls
This article demonstrates how to customise the settings group on the Ribbon for Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010. Custom Actions are created containing the new controls, whic... [read more]
Free SharePoint 2010 Templates & Themes
In this post, a range of links to SharePoint 2010 Templates, Themes and Master Pages are provided with descriptions. Some references to information that can help when implementing... [read more]
Customise the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon: View Format Group for Document Libraries (Ribbon.Library.ViewFormat)
The SharePoint 2010 Ribbon architecture allows new tabs, groups and controls to be added to Extend the built-in controls for managing sites, lists and items/content in SharePoint 2... [read more]
Add Custom action to the New group on the Ribbon for Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010
The Server Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 can be extended using Custom Actions to include additional links and controls. Various attributes and child elements of the CustomAction eleme... [read more]
Dynamic Content Filtering on SharePoint Web Part Pages using Metadata & Audiences
In the article below, two methods to target content to different audiences on SharePoint Sites based on meta data are explained. Both methods assume that the targeting to eac... [read more]
SharePoint User Acceptance
User Non-Acceptance or resistance when adopting new systems and processes implemented using SharePoint can be quite common. Factors such as the computer skill level of end users a... [read more]
SharePoint: Show or Hide Content based on Permissions
In this article I explain how to use the SPSecurityTrimmedControl class in SharePoint to show or hide content on a page based on the current user’s permissions. This can be applie... [read more]
Developing a custom User Control for SharePoint 2010
The purpose of the tutorial is to demonstrate how to create a custom User Control for SharePoint using Visual Studio 2010. The example User Control generates and displays a title ... [read more]
SharePoint Master Page: Include Title of a Site as a link to the Site’s Homepage
When building a Master Page for use on multiple sites across a SharePoint site collections, there is often a need to include the Title of the current site on every page on a site t... [read more]
Hide SharePoint Global / Top Navigation Settings from Sites
This tutorial demonstrates a method to allow owners of SharePoint sites to have control over the navigation menu for the current site, but to restrict changes to the top (global) n... [read more]
Advanced SharePoint recovery software to deal with any instance of SharePoint failure
SharePoint Server or the previously known Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a common platform for web publishing, file sharing, social networking, collaboration etc. Many organ... [read more]
Add global column to all existing content types and lists in a Site Collection (MOSS)
There may be circumstances where a new field is to be added to all existing content types in a SharePoint Site Collection. The result is that any new list created from an existing... [read more]
Multiline Text Field - Consolidate Appended Versions
The following explains how to use a Multiple line text field and a SharePoint Designer Workflow to store all historic entries, when the field is configured to append to previous en... [read more]
InfoPath Data Connection Performance - Web Service vs SharePoint List Connection
InfoPath provides functionality to easily retrieve data from a SharePoint list or library. This can be done using the Data Connection Wizard and doesn't require code. Although be... [read more]
SharePoint Administration: Create a consolidated SharePoint site permission report using Excel
Managing site permission in SharePoint can become an onerous task when an environment expands to many sites with various permission setting applied for different users. This ... [read more]