Tag Archives: Feature

Housekeeping timer job that can dynamically load housekeepers

Posted on 31 August, 2011 by frogman

I have been toying with the idea of creating a general purpose timer job that can carry out any number of tasks now or in the future and that will not require re-compiling or redeployment. The solution I thought of … Continue reading →

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Short cut to provisioning pages with web parts

Posted on 10 August, 2011 by frogman

I recently had to provision a page with the OOTB Business Data List web part using a feature. The Business data List web part uses a BDC application definition to surface SQL data to the list. The web part once … Continue reading →

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Content Types, Inheritance and the RemoveFieldRef element

Posted on 4 August, 2011 by ceej

This is an issue that has just bitten me so wanted to document my findings. There are quite a few postings out there on this – this is my take on it following some extensive testing of the different combinations.

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Using Managed Metadata in SharePoint sites created from the blank site template

Posted on 16 June, 2011 by ceej

One for my own reference primarily but hopefully others out there will find it useful. When you create a site from the Blank Site template and then attempt to add a list column of type Managed Metadata you are confronted … Continue reading →

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Leveraging the AdditionalPageHead delegate control to override the default help collection

Posted on 15 June, 2011 by ceej

I have mentioned the use of the AdditionalPageHead delegate control for inserting useful functionality into all SharePoint pages in a site a few times. Until now I haven’t actually outlined how this is done – since let’s be fair there … Continue reading →

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