Author Archives: Stu

Field Order for External Content Type

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Stu

Working with external content types isn’t as straight forward as it should be, especially within a Visual Studio project. Take trying to define the display order of your columns as an example. You define your task entity by adding your … Continue reading →

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Automate Metadata Property Creation

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Stu

Looking for an easy way of ensuring newly created site columns have a metadata property in the default search service application? Luckily, there’s a setting for this, although it isn’t that easy to find, unless you know it’s there. Before … Continue reading →

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Show Web Template

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Stu

Carrying on from my previous post Hide Web Template, this post demonstrates how to show a web template in the New Site dialog for a specific web using a PowerShell script: function Add-SPWebTemplate { [CmdletBinding()] param( [parameter(Position=1,Mandatory=$true)][Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb]$web ) process { … Continue reading →

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Debugging InfoPath Browser Form

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Stu

If you’re using custom code with your browser enabled InfoPath forms and would like to be able to debug them, follow the steps outlined below to configure the form to enable this. Open the Visual Studio Tool for Applications(VSTA) editor … Continue reading →

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Loopback Check and 401.1 Error

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Stu

SharePoint Short #18 If you’re developing a web service for SharePoint, or trying to access one of the SharePoint web services, through server code and get a 401.1 Unauthorized exception, it’s worth checking if the status of the loopback check, … Continue reading →

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