January 2013 – Page 5 – The Solution Architect

Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 6 – Sharepoint Designer 2010 Beta Workflow Doesn’t Work Correctly

It simply….FAILED! I created a test document library called Test Document Library. I then created a SP workflow and associated with the list. I uploaded a new document, the workflow didn’t trigger. Fine, it might be because I haven’t set the “Start workflow automatically when an item is created”. So I went back to […]

Sharepoint 2010 – Clever – Has Re-Ghost Page Functionality

Microsoft has done a good job adding the functionality to re-ghost a modified page/file. Go to the URL below: http://yoursharepointsiteurl/_layouts/reghost.aspx Or alternatively you can access it from Sharepoint Designer 2010. Click on the site then on the ribbon click Reset to Template. Cheers, Tommy

Upgrade Add-In for Sharepoint Visual Studio 2010 Project Template

Hi everyone, On my previous post: http://www.tfsconsulting.com.au/sharepoint-2010-beta-what-can-be-improved-part-2-visual-studio-2010-custom-deployment-steps/ I mentioned about how the deployment step configuration on Sharepoint VS 2010 BETA project template does not allow you to upgrade your solution. Well, I’ve managed to develop the add-in based on Microsoft’s article. Really, to be honest, I ripped their code completely out of this […]

Sharepoint 2010 List, Content Types and Columns – What’s the Verdict?

We all know that content types, columns and list are the core or the “heart” of Sharepoint. I bet that there will be at least one content type or column that we need to create on every Sharepoint project we do. I had a lot of problems before with MOSS 2007 especially when attaching […]

Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 8 – Save and Restore Site to/from WSP Does’t Work Properly

I tried to save a site as WSP and then when I restored it I get the following error: This error was caused by a workflow that I attached to a list of which it has custom Collect Data from User task. I tried to collect 2 fields from a user: – Manager Approval […]

Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 2 – Visual Studio 2010 Custom Deployment Steps

In Visual Studio 2010 you can actually modify the deployment configuration and steps. By default you will get the following: – Default – No Activation Default With the default one, when you do “Right Click -> Deploy” VS will then retract your solution, re-deploy your latest solution and re-activate the features. No Activation […]

ElementFile vs ElementManifest

I just noticed that when you add a linking Module in your VS 2010 for your custom Feature project, and when you add a file into the module, VS 2010 automatically marks it as a ElementFile. When I tried to develop custom content types and fields, I needed to add 2 XML files into the module (eg. ContentTypes.xml and Fields.xml) and they have […]

How to Change From Sandboxed Solution to Farm Solution

PLEASE FOLLOW YUBIN’s COMMENT BELOW. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP YUBIN. I’ve arrived at a stage where I wanted to create my own custom Sharepoint solution using Visual Studio 2010. When I created a new blank Sharepoint project it asked me whether I want to deploy the solution as a Sandboxed Solution or a Farm Solution. […]

Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 1

So far I’ve found the following bugs (or things that can be improved in later releases): – Administration breadcrumb is all over the place. It’s really-really hard to navigate to where I was before without going back to the main Central Admin screen. Especially when I was in a particular Service Application page, the breadcrumb […]

User Profile “The query returns nothing” Error

It’s time for me to configure the User Profile Synchronization service. I started with configuring the connection. It can somehow crawled and displayed my OU structure but when I click OK it returns to the connection listing page with the following error message: “The query returns nothing” I then research in Google and […]

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