Elio Struyf is an independent Engineering Lead working for Valo Intranet, Blogger, and Speaker on a mission to share his tried-and-true wisdom with as many IT developers as possible.
April 5, 2011
In SharePoint 2007 you had the ability to quiesce the farm inside central administration. This ability is not implemented in SharePoint 2010, you need to use the STSADM command to achieve this. 1 stsadm -o quiescefarm -maxduration minutes But, I have done some research and development to achieve the same as in SharePoint 2007.
Read moreMarch 30, 2011
This week I was a experimenting with creating SharePoint Designer workflows. After some time I noticed that it was not possible to retrieve the file extension in a SPD Reusable Workflow. Because this is a very useful action, I am going to explain it in this blog post on how to create a SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflow Action.
Read moreMarch 3, 2011
In my previous blog post I showed you how to create a to-do list with ECMAscript, the only problem is that you need to append the HTML and JavaScript code to a Content Editor Web Part. This isn’t very flexible and therefore I made this blog post. The purpose of this post is to show you how to add this code to a Sandboxed Visual Web Part.
Read moreFebruary 24, 2011
In one of my previous post I created a task manager with ECMAscript. In this post I will go a step further and create a to-do list. This to-do list that enables you to add new items, delete items and mark them as completed. To-do list final result Download the solution package
Read moreFebruary 17, 2011
Normally subsites are displayed in a dropdown menu when the site collection publishing feature is activated. Subsite navigation dropdown In this post I will show you how to display these subsites on their own navigation row. The end result is shown in the picture below. Final result Hide the subsites dropdown menu First you need to hide the subsites dropdown menu from the global navigation.
Read moreFebruary 8, 2011
In SharePoint 2007 a problem with JavaScript occurred when you used a recurring meeting workspace. When you clicked on the hyperlinks under “Select a date from the list below” a JavaScript error was thrown. Michmon found a solution for this problem and he made a blog post on MSDN about it.
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