A Quick tip on how to send a Controls Property as the Paramter when binding to a command.
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<Button x:Name="myButton" Command="{Binding SomeCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding ElementName=myButton, Path=PropertyName}"> Click Me </Button> |
The following script sets the Site Collection Search Center, Stie Collection Dropdown Mode and Site Collection Search Results Page for all Site Collections that are not a Search Center in the Web Application.
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#Search Center URL $searchURL = "/searchcenter/Pages/results.aspx" #Get the Web Application $webApplication = Get-SPWebApplication "<a href="http://alvsptw03:11682"">http://localhost"</a> #loop through the sites in the web application foreach ($site in $webApplication.Sites) { #Get the root web $web = $site.RootWeb #We want to update all sites that are not a search center if ($web.WebTemplate -ne "SRCHCEN") { #Site Collection Search Center $web.AllProperties["SRCH_ENH_FTR_URL"] = $searchURL #Site Collection Search Dropdown Mode #Show scopes Dropdown = ShowDD $web.AllProperties["SRCH_SITE_DROPDOWN_MODE"] = "ShowDD" #Site Collection Search Results Page $web.AllProperties["SRCH_TRAGET_RESULTS_PAGE"] = $searchURL $web.Update() Write-Host "Updated Search Settings on Site: " $web.Url } } |
The SRCH_ENH_FTR_URL is the URL or relative path of the Search Center you want to use.
The Drop Down can be set to one of the following values:
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Site Collection Search Dropdown Mode |
Value |
Do you need to set the Sit Collection Search Results Page? |
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Do Not Show Scopes Dropdown, and default to contextual scope |
HideScopeDD_DefaultContextual |
YES |
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Do Not Show Scopes Dropdown, and default to target results page |
HideScopeDD |
NO |
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Show scopes Dropdown |
ShowDD |
YES |
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Show, and default to ‘s’ URL parameter |
ShowDD_DefaultURL |
YES |
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Show and default to contextual scope |
ShowDD_DefaultContextual |
YES |
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Show, do not include contextual scopes |
ShowDD_NoContextual |
NO |
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Show, do not include contextual scopes, and default to ‘s’ URL parameter |
ShowDD_NoContextual_DefaultURL |
NO |
The following PowerShell script loops through an Array of Server Names, stops the SharePoint Timer Job Service, Deletes the files in the folders located in the ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config and restarts the SharePoint Timer Job Service.
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$servers = "ServerName1", "ServerName2" $deletePath = "C$\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config" #loop through each server foreach ($server in $servers) { #Stop the service #Get the service for the remote server and stop the service Get-WmiObject -computer $server Win32_Service -filter "Name='SPTimerV4'" | Stop-Service Write-Host The SPTimerV4 service has been stopped #setup the server delete path $path = "\\$server\$deletePath" #Get the directories $folders = [System.IO.Directory]::GetDirectories($path) foreach($folder in $folders) { #remove all the files in the folder if you want to delete the folder remove the \* Remove-Item $folder\* -Recurse -Force } #Start the service #Get the service for the remote server and stop the service Get-WmiObject -computer $server Win32_Service -filter "Name='SPTimerV4'" | Start-Service Write-Host The SPTimerV4 service has been started } |
Keep forgetting this one.
When developing a Custom Timer Job you may and encounter situations where old code keeps getting executed even after you retract / delete / add / deploy the solution. If this is the case then the your old code is probably getting cached in the Timer Job Process. To clear the cache, open up the Windows Task Manager and end the OWTIMER.EXE process:
Another way of clearing the cache is to restart the SharePoint Timer Job Services:
I had a requirement to send a an email on behalf of a user in a workflow so I added a ‘SendEmail’ Activity and configured the ‘From’ property and deployed the workflow.
From Setting:
I tested the workflow and it sent the email from the address configured in the Outgoing E-Mail Settings in Central Administrator. Turns out you can’t send on behalf of using the ‘From’ address using the ‘SendEmail’ Activity.
In order to get around this limitation I added the ‘CodeActivity’, sent a System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and it worked fine.
Example of how to use the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage in a code activity:
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private void CodeToSendEmail(object sender, EventArgs e) { //using System.Net.Mail MailMessage message = new MailMessage(); //fill out the mail message message.From = new MailAddress("From@company.com"); message.To.Add("To@company.com"); message.CC.Add("CC@company.com"); message.Bcc.Add("BCC@company.com"); message.Subject = "Subject"; message.Body = "Hello"; message.IsBodyHtml = true; //get the outbound mail address string outboundAddress = workflowProperties.Site.WebApplication.OutboundMailServiceInstance.Server.Address; //Create an SMTP Client Address SmtpClient smtpClient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient(outboundAddress); //Send the address smtpClient.Send(message); } |
In order to use an Apple Touch Icon in your site add the following to the header in your site’s html:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="iconlocation.png">
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If you don’t feel your icon needs the default iphone gloss then use the following
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="iconlocation.png">
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The CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups method in SPWeb adds the Owners,
Contributors and Readers group to a SharePoint site. Description and example below.
Description
The CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups method creates the Ownerd, Contributors and Readers groups to a Web and takes in the following
parameters:
UserLogin: Login Name of the user you want to add to the Owners Group
UserLogin2: Login Name of the user you want to add to the Owners Group
groupNameSeed: The prefix of the groups (example: If you set this as MyGroups then the resulting groups will be “MyGroups Owners”) The best practice is to keep the groupNameSeed as the site title.
Example
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using (SPWeb web = newSite.OpenWeb()) { //creates default SharPoint Groups web.CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups("domain//username1", "domain//username2", web.Title); web.Update(); } |
This one gave me a hard time. I was trying to add users to the Site Collection Administrators for a site;
This button:
I thought ok easy and tried the following, which executed without any errors:
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using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://url/sites/test")) { using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb) { web.SiteAdministrators.Add("Domain\\newAdmin", "newAdmin@company.com", "New Admin", ""); web.Update(); } } |
I go back to the site and the user was not added. I don’t know why this does not work but there is a pretty easy workaround and here it is:
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using (SPSite s = new SPSite("http://url/sites/test")) { using (SPWeb web = s.RootWeb) { web.AllUsers.Add("Domain\\newAdmin", "newAdmin@company.com", "New Admin", ""); SPUser user = web.AllUsers["Domain\\newAdmin"]; user.IsSiteAdmin = true; user.Update(); } |
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