Using Control Adapter to Set Default Values for Publishing Pages
Developers, who use customized page layouts bound with custom content type, have probably realized that if your custom content type is not the default content type of Pages library, you will not get default values populated when you create a new page. One way to work around this is to create feature, which sets your customized content type to be...
CAML and Querying Boolean Fields
Today I had some trouble trying to filter out items by a field of type Boolean. I have a custom content type definition which has a FieldRef to a Field:
Type="Boolean"
DisplayName="IsHeadlineDisplayName"
Description="IsHeadlineDescription"
Required="TRUE"
...
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Upgrade Path from SharePoint 2010 Beta/RC to RTM is Blocked
In the installation notice of SharePoint 2010 public beta, it was mentioned that:
“This beta is not supported and you CANNOT upgrade the installation to RTM when it’s released.”
It was later clarified in more detail in a TechNet blog article by Steve Chen. The upgrade paths and the content database attach methods from pre-RTM to RTM will be prevented by technical means. Apparently Microsoft...
Content Queries Using SharePoint Enterprise Search API
In an earlier post to SharePoint Blues Juho wrote about the challenge of – how to find anything from the sea of content. One way of solving this issue is to use SharePoint Enterprise Search API and the FullTextSqlQuery class. This class allows you to query SharePoint content using SQL syntax. FullTextSqlQuery queries always query from SCOPE(). In...
Three Cases of List Manipulations in Recent Real Life Cases
Case 1: AllowDeletion
There might be a case where you have custom document libraries in your SharePoint-solution bound to a customer specific custom content type. It might be confusing for the customer to have the default libraries, which come when the Office SharePoint Server Publishing feature has been activated.
“Some user will at some point inevitably put...