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Applies to SharePoint 2013 After using filter webparts with a dataview you will soon realize that if you want to clear the filter so that you can see all the records in the dataview it just does not work, i.e. you have to select all the filters all the time. There is not the way…

Using Dataview Webpart web partrePoint 2013 Let’s go ahead and use a DataView webpart and discuss some of the basic options that it provides. Open SharePoint Designer 2013, connect to your site and create a new non-webpart page by clicking on New ASPX page in the folder in which you want to create the page.…

FBA users when opening documents get either prompted with login or MS Word opens up the document and it is either blank or just a new document. The way I found around this problem is to force them to download the document by going to Central Admin \ Select webapplication\ Authentication provider\ Set Enable Client…

In a publishing site even if anonymous users have been granted permission on all the level i.e in Central admin, in Site and if permissions are broken then in List\ Libraries but still they get prompted to enter username\ password to view the list\ list items. To fix this issue deactivate a hidden feature by…

Creating a site collection from site 1. Below I am creating a new database since my site is a publishing site I will be creating a blank publishing site. Create a new site in its own DB using the below cmstemplate a. $w=Get-SPWebApplication(“http://shareptapptest:9002”) b. New-SPContentDatabase “WSS_Content_Internet_Hosted_Sites_3” -DatabaseServer “shareptDBtest” -WebApplication $w c. new site: here I…

Namespaces to refer in Visual studio for using LinQ using System.Linq; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq; using System.Collections.Generic; Generate Entity classes using SPMetal Run the following command to generate it spmetal /web:http:// /code: Creating a Join between two list UserAccounts and Invoices List UserAccounts have Account, Name List Invoices have Account, Amount, Paid //First refer the Datacontext class…

The good part about it is that using this option everything within a site collection will be backed up including workflows! Backup Process Backup of the site collection can be done using CA but the restore has to be done using power shell command, I am going to take you step by step through both…

SharePoint gives the ability to create site collections with its own domain name while the web application has a different domain name, these site collections are called hostname site collections and their creation and behavior are different from regular path-based site collections which by default are created under http://sp2010/SITES/XYZ/. Below are 10 differences that I…