Have you ever found yourself thinking. Man, that would be really easy to achieve in SharePoint 2010 with jQuery but I don’t want to edit / modify the master page or page layout. And I don’t want to use the messy solution of adding content editor web parts to all these pages?
I want a jQuery only solution? AND I want it to span all pages on a site or across a whole site collection?
Well here is a very easy way to have just that.
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Today a client needed a quick fix to truncate the blog posts on the home page of their SharePoint 2010 blog site.
Transforming the posts like so…
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Here is the quick and dirty on how I did just that.*
* note: this can also be done within XSLT without JavaScript, which I can blog about too, but like I said, this is quick with less chance for error.
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The information architecture and designer folk at my company were in need of being able to see what the SharePoint 2010 default out of the box lists, libraries, sites and web parts look like.
So I have taken some time and compiled 46 screen shots to show almost every page in SharePoint freshly created.
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I originally posted about a solution here, but now looking back this is not the best way to achieve this.
So here is a better solution!
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Do you ever have days when you sit back, take a breath and ponder just how rudimentary SharePoint Designer can feel when compared with a real IDE?
I know I do and it’s this very thought that compelled me to search for an alternative. What I ended up with was a quick and easy setup that allows me to have code collapse, better syntax highlighting and jQuery Intellisense when I need to do some serious JavaScript editing.
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* Note: This post was created with SharePoint 2010 Beta and might be a little off. Just keep that in mind!
One of the biggest features of SharePoint 2010 is the Office Ribbon. Whether you love it or hate it, it’s here to stay and eventually you will be faced with the choice of including the ribbon within your site branding. What can be edited and changed in the ribbon? Microsoft spent millions, if not billions of dollars to research and develop the ribbon so how much should we change?
Just because we can…does it mean we should?
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The new whitepaper I just wrote on branding SharePoint has just been release by the company I call home, Non~Linear Creations.
In my paper I dive into the Five steps for transforming the visual design of SharePoint.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
I retackled this fix and now have a much better way of doing this that I have been using for many projects.
Please see my new solution here
— Old Solution for archive purposes ——————
I was faced with the challenge of creating my first fixed width SharePoint site and the content had to be centered!
SharePoint 2010 implements a complicated system of divs, css and JavaScript to attain their static ribbon at the top of the screen but unfortunately this can get messy with different layout types.
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I recieved this weird error in SharePoint Designer.
Cannot perform this operation. The file is no longer checked out or has been deleted.
After googling it I found some solutions.
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You as my ever so loyal reader must be wondering where I have been for the last 2 weeks. Well I went to Italy!
I’m back and It’s time to get back to work! Expect some more interesting posts in the future!
