Tag: SharePoint Development
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Adding an O365 Security group to the Site Collection Administrators group
Here is the scenario… you wish provision every site collection in your SharePoint Online environment so that a key group of staff, say for example your support staff, have Site Collection Admin access. To provide centralised control of this group you want to define it and its membership outside the boundaries of your SharePoint Online…
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Customising Overlay Colours in SharePoint Calendars
It was recently noted by one of our technical team that when setting up Calendar overlays the list of colours available seemed a bit screwed up with the same colour name appearing next to different colours. This issue is a result of the colour palette used to generate the custom Look for all sites in our…
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Problem rendering infoPath forms for External Lists
I was configuring a set of external content types and associated external lists the other day and encountered the following error message “The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator” when I create the lists to have…
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Installation of SP1 for SharePoint Foundation failed
I installed SP1 for SharePoint Foundation yesterday on a brand new insatllation and encountered no problems at all. Today I’ve attempted to install it on another SharePoint Foundation enviornment but this one has a handful of custom Features installed but basically no content loaded. The installation ran fine but I hit a problem when running the…
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Problems adjusting the list Sharepoint:FormField width
I’ve been doing some work on a SharePoint 2007 application and have a custom list where one column looks for data in other list. Everything works as expected but I hit a problem with the formatting of the field on the New and Edit forms for the list. On the default forms the FormField doesn’t auto expand…
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Problems Caused by IE Developer Toolbar
I’ve had a shocker of a time over the last day or so after I installed the IE Developer Toolbar on my new Windows 7 64bit laptop. I had been trying to debug some issues with a custom SharePoint list form and having used the toolbar on my old laptop to great benefit and with…
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