InfoPath

InfoPath – Multiple attachments in one web based form

Attachments in InfoPath are great.  The only issue with this, is that you can only attach one file to your form at a time.  In order to get a around this, you will need to add a handy dandy repeating section.  I have also added a count box to show how many attachments have been… Continue reading InfoPath – Multiple attachments in one web based form

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PowerShell – Add or remove a site collection administrator from all sites

This is an issue I recently faced.  I needed to add myself as a site collection administrator to 100+ site collections.  I did not want to do this manually because it would have taken too much time.  So what did I do, I put it off until I got fed up with having to add… Continue reading PowerShell – Add or remove a site collection administrator from all sites

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Cannot find the FAST site template

By default, the FAST search site template is missing.  It has to be enabled via PowerShell.  Luckily, this is a very simple process. Perform the following steps to enable the template: Login to one of the web front ends Open the SharePoint Management Shell (PowerShell for SharePoint) Type or Copy/Paste in the following making sure… Continue reading Cannot find the FAST site template

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Cannot publish InfoPath custom list form

Today, I ran across an issue when I went to customize a list with InfoPath.  I clicked on the ‘Customize Form’ button and it opened the item view in InfoPath as expected.  After I made my changes I went to publish my form.  I received the following error message: “InfoPath cannot connect to the server. … Continue reading Cannot publish InfoPath custom list form

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SharePoint 2010 – Hiding the Search Bar

Have you ever needed to hide the search bar on your site?  Me neither until the other day.  The page needed to be plain Jane and this was one of the requests.  Turns out, this is very simple to do.  All that you need to do is add a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to… Continue reading SharePoint 2010 – Hiding the Search Bar

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InfoPath – Shorten url for browser based forms

In the world of InfoPath, you may have noticed the the url for an open form is crazy big!  I ran into a problem in the past when I ran out of space in the url.  Sometimes this happens if the form is nested a couple of levels down in a site.  Whenever you open… Continue reading InfoPath – Shorten url for browser based forms

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InfoPath form library tries adding new documents instead of opening form

Our current migration from MOSS to SP2013 has been interesting, needless to say.  Because I am an administrator I never see these little issues.  This is one of the latest fires I had to put out.  This popped up for different users whenever they would click on new document.   At first, I thought it… Continue reading InfoPath form library tries adding new documents instead of opening form

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SharePoint 2013 site in Read only

Have you ever seen this pop up at the top of your screen in 2013? This was just one more thing to pop up during our migration from MOSS 2007 to 2013.  Fortunately, this is not a big deal.  Here is a link to another post explaining how to clear this message and remove the… Continue reading SharePoint 2013 site in Read only

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Highlight a list/library line item

I blogged on this a while back using a similar approach for MOSS 2007.  Here is a link to that post: https://www.saltypc.com/?p=99 Things have changed since then so here are the steps to set this up in 2013. You will need to reference jquery for this to work.  I prefer to download the minified script and… Continue reading Highlight a list/library line item

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Hiding the left nav or all navigation in SharePoint 2013

Sometimes, you will find the need to hide the left nav on a page in one of your sites.  You could always click the focus on content button, but then you have to unclick to reset for any other page you browse to. Hiding the left nav took a little more work in MOSS 2007. … Continue reading Hiding the left nav or all navigation in SharePoint 2013