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The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user
This is a nasty one. If you try to rename a folder from the SharePoint UI sometimes you may get an error saying “The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user”. If you enable...
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UrlAction Tokens of the CustomAction Feature
I was looking today for the complete list of tokens that can be used in the UrlAction element when building a CustomAction feature but I couldn’t find much. So I decided to put together this blog entry...
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Deploying WebParts with a DelegateControl
Brian Farnhill talks about an interesting approach of deploying zoneless web parts by using a Delegate Control in your master page or page layout. See his blog post here:...
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Custom ‘Presence’ With SharePoint Person Fields
Not that you will want to do this often, but I discovered today that the “Presence” control displayed with every Person on a SharePoint site can be actually completely customized. Usually it looks...
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The column name that you entered is already in use or reserved. Choose...
This is an annoying one. SharePoint will not allow you to create a site column from the UI (using the _layouts/fldnew.aspx page) if the name of the column is one of: constructor, concat, join, pop,...
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Understanding SharePoint: SPRequest
I am going to put together a series of ‘Understanding SharePoint’ posts and cover various important parts of SharePoint which are not very well understood or for which there is little or no information...
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Understanding SharePoint: List Forms
For my Event Receiver’s post I had to do some more investigation on how the List Forms work and I thought it will be a good idea to put together my findings. As you know each list has 3 forms – one for...
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Understanding SharePoint: Event Receivers
This blog post shows some details about how the event receivers in SharePoint work and also provides a solution how to wait for an ItemAdded event receiver to complete before the EditForm.aspx page is...
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Running execadmsvcjobs through code
Well there are many ways you could achieve this and this is just one of them. It simply creates a new instance of the SPExecuteAdministrationServiceJobs class and calls its Run method. This will start...
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My Last Post in ‘SharePoint Internals’
Hi all, I am moving away from SharePoint and consulting into serious custom software development and this is my last blog post here. I wish all the best to all of you that remain in the SharePoint...
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