Setting Managed Metadata
SharePoint 2010

Setting Managed Metadata

David McWee ·

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.

Fixing IE11 Enter Key Problem with Search
Firefox IE11 UserAgent SharePoint 2010

Fixing IE11 Enter Key Problem with Search

David McWee ·

I was recently working for a client who began having issues with the Windows 8.1 baseline and their search center.

More customizations with Client Side Rendering
SharePoint 2013

More customizations with Client Side Rendering

David McWee ·

Recently I posted about how you can use [Client Side Rendering (CSR)to display contacts on a map](http://davidmcwee.com/2014/01/28/sharepoint-contacts-on-a-map-with-client-side-rendering/ "SharePoint Contacts on a Map with Client Side Rendering"). 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.

Bye InfoPath, Hello Apps for Office & Lightswitch
InfoPath

Bye InfoPath, Hello Apps for Office & Lightswitch

David McWee ·

The Microsoft Office [announced](http://blogs.office.com/2014/01/31/update-on-infopath-and-sharepoint-forms/)on Friday that InfoPath 2013 will be the final version released.This is a significant announcement because itmeans any customer with customSharePoint workflows, Office Document Information Panels, and any other Data Entry Applications will have to move those to a new technology, but Microsoft hasn't said which one.

SharePoint Contacts on a Map with Client Side Rendering
SharePoint 2013

SharePoint Contacts on a Map with Client Side Rendering

David McWee ·

Several years ago, back in the dark days of SharePoint (MOSS) 2007, [Tom Resing](http://tomresing.com/) and I worked together on a demo displaying contacts from a SharePoint contact list on a Bing/Google Map. He and I presented this at several SharePoint Saturday events (Boston, Virginia Beach, Richmond, Tampa) and found highly positive response. It has been a while since Tom and I worked together, and a lot has changed in SharePoint so I wanted to revisit our old demo and take a newly available approach.

IE11 Broke SharePoint 2010
IE11 User Agent SharePoint 2010

IE11 Broke SharePoint 2010

David McWee ·

I've been noticing recently my SharePoint site was behaving oddly, especially when I wanted to edit a web part. Yesterday the odd behavior hit a critical point as I was unable to connect web parts on a page. The problem was every time I clicked the drop down arrow on the web part heading the page would refresh and some of the menu content would appear in a side panel, where the web part properties are usually displayed.

Site Collection Content Type vs. Content Type Hub
SharePoint 2010

Site Collection Content Type vs. Content Type Hub

David McWee ·

I've been working on a project recently that has a large number of sub-agencies and the parent organization was attempting to push a standardization of Content Types.

SharePoint Published Content Types
Publishing Content Types SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Published Content Types

David McWee ·

I have done a lot of development with SharePoint workflows, especially those developed in Visual Studio. Unless I have been working with a standard list type, I generally create a Content Type that my workflow can be associated with and to ensure the columns and values needed in the workflow will be present. However, creating Content Types is always a painful process, because as you develop the content types and test them you need to delete the original content type, and any list depended up in before you deploy the updated version. This is even worse when you upgrade a solution that is in use in production because you can't easily delete the content type just to add additional fields.

SharePoint 2010 and jQuery 2.x
jQuery jQuery 2 KnockoutJS SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 and jQuery 2.x

David McWee ·

Recently, I was working with a coworker who had created a javascript dashboard using jQuery and KnockoutJS in SharePoint. The dashboard had worked perfectly for him, but when I viewed the site none of the data would render.

User Profile Personalized Links
SharePoint 2010

User Profile Personalized Links

David McWee ·

Recently my company performed a migration for our old production environment to a new production environment so we had a more stable and robust platform to support the company, including providing leadership with better business intelligence about our operations. As part of the migration one of my goals was to launch My Sites for our internal users so they had somewhere to store information they were working on.