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Another Change

You may have noticed that the site look and feel has changed. I felt it was about time to get a new theme on the blog since much has recently changed. For those that didn’t know I began working directly for Microsoft at the end of June 2015. As I continue to grow professionally I have decided it is time forme to spend a greater amount of time focusing on Identity and to begin to move away from my focus in SharePoint. The wonderful thing about identity is that I won’t actually leave SharePoint, but now my focus will be on WHO is accessing the portal. I also get the opportunity to expand my technology base into Skype for Business, CRM, Mobile Apps, basically any and every technology you can think of. I’m excited about this change and I hope to share lots of new information with everyone. As always, come back often and if you have questions always reach out.

Feb 26, 16 | Read more...
Azure Mobile Angular Services

I recently had a request for a more detailed example of how to use the Azure Mobile Angular Services so I went ahead and created a single page application that has very little capability but is a good example for those getting started with AngularJS and Azure Mobile Angular Services and have pushed it to the GitHub site. The example is built using Visual Studio but is just a single HTML page and a Scripts folder with the necessary .js files inside.Once you have pulled the project you will find it does actually read from my Azure Mobile Services, although write is disabled,so you can follow along.

Mar 31, 15 | Microsoft | Azure | Read more...
How to Fix the SharePoint Modified Date to use Date and Time

If you’ve started using SharePoint 2013 you probably noticed that Microsoft changed the way they present the Modified value. In SharePoint 2010 the Modified field showed a Date/Time stamp, but in SharePoint 2013 the Date/Time is replaced with something like “3 minutes ago”. Personally I like this, but some users may not and the Date/Time stamp may be really important especially for Legal Departments or other Audited applications. Fortunately there is a very simple fix, using the Client Side Rendering to override SharePoint’s default rendering of the Modified field.

Nov 17, 14 | Microsoft | SharePoint | Read more...
Client Side Rendering of Form Fields

I’ve been working on a site migration from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 and a lot of what we did in 2010 was to customize forms the user interacts with. One of the requirements we had was to ensure a Project Name and Project Alias field did not contain the same information. In SharePoint 2010 this had been done by adding some JavaScript to the page, grabbing each control by HTML Element ID, and then comparing their values. When we migrated these fields all got new HTML Element IDs so our validation logic was broken.

Nov 14, 14 | Microsoft | SharePoint | Read more...
Hero Blog Post of the Day

I was working on a project today where I need to dynamically create a MS Word Document, save it to a SharePoint library, and then present the document to the user for editing. My first attempt was to create an IFrame that would redirect to the document once it was created, but this would only open the document in ‘Read Only’ Mode.

Jul 24, 14 | Microsoft | SharePoint | Read more...
AngularJS Module for Azure Mobile Services

A few months back a coworker introduced me to AngularJS as an alternative to using KnockoutJS. Around the same time Microsoft was pushing a bunch of videos and “How To’s” on the Azure Mobile Services. After walking through the AngularJS tutorial and playing with the Azure Mobile Services “To Do” Demo I decided it would be interesting to mesh these two items together, use AngularJS in the UI to communicate with Azure Mobile Services for data storage, and who know what else in the future. The first thing I did was create the To Do demo application and then I started to create the AngularJS partial views for everything. Once the views and all worked I began working on the actual communication with the Azure Mobile Services, and this is where things went south.

Jul 08, 14 | AngularJS | Read more...
More About Managed Metadata

I recently had more fun with setting Managed Metadata values in SharePoint 2010. This time as part of an event receiver during the Item Adding, Item Updating, and Item Updated events. (There are interesting event ordering challenges which lead to using all of these events, but that is not the focus of this blog.) The challenge I faced was copying values from a Document Set down to documents that were being created/uploaded to the list. Normally, using Shared Properties would negate this but because we wanted use to edit the Managed Metadata Values in the Document Information Panel we could not use shared values because the Document Set would immediately overwrite any changes made to the document. Instead we created an Event Receiver to manually handle the updates from the Document to the Document Set, and from the Document Set to the child documents.

Apr 24, 14 | Microsoft | SharePoint | Read more...
Setting Managed Metadata

I recently had an issue trying to set the Managed Metadata field value on a new list item I was creating in C# code. In the control where the user could select the managed metadata value I was using the OTB Taxonomy Control which was properly bound to my Managed Metadata Field.

Mar 31, 14 | Microsoft | SharePoint | Read more...
Fixing IE11 Enter Key Problem with Search

I was recently working for a client who began having issues with the Windows 8.1 baseline and their search center. If you are familiar with Windows 8.1 then you are aware that it comes with IE 11 which has a new User Agent string that can cause some issues with SharePoint (ref: IE11 Broke SharePoint 2010). My task was to figure out why when a user entered a search term/key word and hit enter the page simply refreshed.

Mar 18, 14 | Microsoft | SharePoint | Read more...
More customizations with Client Side Rendering

Recently I posted about how you can use Client Side Rendering (CSR)to display contacts on a map. After posting about how to display the entire list data, I decided I wanted to see how CSRcould be used to change the user experience while adding, updating, and viewinglist items, updating items, and viewing items. This post will provide a high level overview of how I was able to change the display during New, Display, and Edit of an individual item and then later I will actually put this together with the Contact Map idea.

Feb 12, 14 | Microsoft | SharePoint | Read more...