Author Archives: Stu

Enhanced Lookup Field – Part 1

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Stu

The SharePoint lookup field is far from perfect. Once configured, it’s not possible to change the list it gets it’s data from. This is a good thing while the list actually exists. Now, if a user deleted the source list, … Continue reading →

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Manually Set Form Field Context

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Stu

When you’re developing custom code for SharePoint, sometimes you’ll have a situation where you’re dynamically adding form field controls to your control or WebPart and the form context will not be automatically picked up by the controls. If you’re using … Continue reading →

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PeopleEditor control not available error

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Stu

If you’re using a PeopleEditor control in your solution and enforce the filtering of selectable users by specifying a SharePoint group in the SharePointGroup property you may see the following error instead of the PeopleEditor control: “The control is not … Continue reading →

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GetDataTable Object Reference Error

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Stu

Calling the GetDataTable method of a SPListItemCollection object that was retrieved using a join with projected fields will throw the following error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object For example: SPQuery query = new SPQuery(); query.Query … Continue reading →

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Create a local term set

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Stu

SharePoint Short #12 Instead of creating term sets that are available farm wide, it’s also possible to create a term set that is only local to a particular site collection. Create a site column as normal, selecting Managed Metadata type … Continue reading →

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