How To SharePoint
This series of 'How To SharePoint' articles explain how to do some of the most common tasks in SharePoint, ranging from novice end-user tasks to developing using Powershell and the SharePoint object model.
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Mark Jones
| Apr 06, 2012
Quite often when developing code for DocRead we need to be able to discover what versions of SharePoint are on installed in the target platform. So being the kind souls we are - we have decided to share this helper library. The class is a singleton, so only once instance can be used and is cached after the first hit - so there no perf hits. We have added LOTS of boolean's to make it really easy to find out if a product SKU is installed.
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Mark Jones
| Feb 14, 2012
We recently received query for DocRead to see if it was possible to set the 'Required Audience' and 'Acknowledgement Days' to about 100 policies on mass (via a script). Hence, being one who is always up for a challenge, I cranked open PowerGUI and set to work.
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Helen Jones
| Feb 14, 2012
This post explains how to create a new Document Library in SharePoint 2010. It also explains the creation of 2 columns that can (optionally) be configured for use with DocRead.
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Helen Jones
| Feb 03, 2012
This blog post outlines how to distribute a document contained in a DocRead enabled Document Library. Documents can either be distributed to SharePoint Groups or Audiences.
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Helen Jones
| Jan 30, 2012
SharePoint 2010 Top Tips : How to add documents to a SharePoint document library.
This user friendly step-by-step guide shows you how to add a document to a SharePoint 2010 document library.
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Helen Jones
| Jan 30, 2012
This blog post explains in very simple terms how to add users to a SharePoint group! Treat it as a quick-reference guide.
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Helen Jones
| Jan 30, 2012
This blog post explains in very simple terms how to create a SharePoint group! Treat it as a quick-reference guide.
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Mark Jones
| Jan 22, 2012
This post will discuss how to create a Survey in SharePoint using out of the box functionality and nothing else! The example we will use is to create a survey that asks employees to answer questions about their previous training in the organisation.
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Mark Jones
| Dec 29, 2011
This SharePoint code example illustrates how to develop a helper method to return an SPFile based on a Web, folder and file name.
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Mark Jones
| Dec 27, 2011
If your SharePoint farm has been configured to use an SMTP server, then it is possible to send an email in code using the SPUtility class. The c# code below illustrates how to send a mail and return an XML string outlining what was sent for logging purposes :
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Mark Jones
| Dec 27, 2011
Once a solution has been added to SharePoint, then there's no apparent way to download it. Using the SharePoint object model we can easily download a wsp using the 'SaveAs' method.
The C# code below illustrates how to download all of the solutions in the farm with just a few lines
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Mark Jones
| Dec 27, 2011
If you have ever tried to delete a web either in code, or via the SharePoint GUI, then you will note that isn't possible if the web has one or more child webs. (or grandchildren). To delete a web, you must first delete it's subwebs.
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Mark Jones
| Dec 09, 2011
The following code sample illustrates how to associate a SharePoint Workflow to a list based on the workflow name. This is very useful if you need to do this as part of an automated build process.
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Helen Jones
| Dec 03, 2011
We are very often asked how DocRead differs from its competitors. Here's a recent response we gave (slightly tweaked to protect the identity of the requestor!):
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Hugo Esperanca
| Jul 20, 2008
Ever wanted to use the same page layout containing a DFWP, and bind it to a local site list in each site of your site collection ?
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