Tag Archives: SharePoint 2010

Increase the manageability of CEWPs using jQuery and a single list

Posted on 9 December, 2011 by frogman

A few days ago I was asked to take a look at a SharePoint site with a faulty web part. The fault was in a web part on a site home page used to display the site’s announcements. Easy I … Continue reading →

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Managed Metadata Column (TaxonomyField) Values & the Ampersand (if you’ll pardon the pun)

Posted on 25 October, 2011 by ceej

I have recently been developing a solution which imports key data into a SharePoint list and tags it using values (i.e. managed metadata) set in the Term Store. These tags are stored in a number of Managed Metadata Columns (aka … Continue reading →

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To call or not to call? SharePoint event receiver base methods.

Posted on 20 September, 2011 by ceej

When you create a new SPListItemEventReceiver using one of the templates available in Visual Studio 2010 you will find that the method stub that is generated contains a single line of code. Let’s use the ItemAdded event as an example.

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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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