SharePoint 2013 CAML Query Designer - It's not only CAML query builder... More than that...

Karine Bosch and Andy van Steenbergen created new caml query designer. We can download it from biwug site by clicking on downloads and select caml designer. SharePoint 2013 caml designer provides many more features including all features of SharePoint 2010 caml...

Set and Get property bag values in SharePoint 2013 apps using CSOM

Property bags are a place to store metadata or properties of SharePoint 2013 site. A Property bag is a key value pair, that can be used in Farm, Web Application, Site and Web level. Following example shows how to write and read the property bag values of host web. Following code shows how to write value in property bag. Here I am writing value for “Directory Tagged” key. function...

Add current logged-in user to a new list item by using SharePoint 2013 Client Object Model

While working in SharePoint event registration with SharePoint-hosted app by using Client Side Object Model. In that code I had a requirement to add the current logged in user to list item. Here is the code to get the current logged-in user and add a new list item to the new list item. var currentContext; var web; var user; $(document).ready(init()); function init()...

Error exporting the list named “Announcements” at the URL: Lists/Announcements while saving site as template in SharePoint

One of my client having a requirement that to create sub sites programmatically using SharePoint site template location in solution gallery. We need to create a site with some lists and libraries and save it as site template by navigating to site settings and clicking on save site as template link. By doing this I got an error saying that, Error exporting the list named “Announcements”...

SharePoint - Back to Basics - Are you SharePoint Developer? What Kind of Developer you are?

As per my knowledge, I have divided SharePoint Developers into three categories. Each of them in three groups knows SharePoint very well. Managing complex custom list and creating custom workflows are both come under Application maintenance. As per the knowledge on custom application...

"The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a mis configuration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator," error while configuring legacy workflows in SharePoint 2013

I had a requirement to show the approval workflow form SharePoint 2010 in SharePoint 2013. By default in SharePoint document library we will have two workflows, Three state and expiry workflow. When I try to create a workflow service without state service setup I got the following...

SharePoint – Back to basics – Why SharePoint is so famous?

Few of my friends who working on .net and other technologies always asking me questions, why SharePoint is famous?  Why organizations (mid and enterprise size) are preferring SharePoint? Incredulously, there are now well over 10,00,00,000 global users, Fortune 500 companies using this multi-functional platform. It’s one of Microsoft's biggest businesses...

SharePoint 2013 Excel Services: We don’t know what happened. But something went wrong

While working with SharePoint 2013, checking the audit log reports in excel got the error as shown below. I have already configured the excel service as shown in the msdn.  Checked the event logs, shows the error below. Unable to access the workbook cache “C:\Windows\TEMP\Excel Server\FileCache\d8746073-d542-5f43-9b0d-45d345fd9f43\Workbooks....

SharePoint 2013-"The blob cache is not enabled in this web application. Image renditions will not be generated until the blob cache is enabled. For information on turning on the blob cache, please review the product documentation."

Image Rendition is new feature in SharePoint 2013, those users can re size the images to a fix predefined position to use them in web parts or pages. So that it can help us to improve the user experience of site by changing the image sizes. Using Image renditions we...

“We’re having a problem opening this location in File Explorer, Add this web site to your Trusted sites list and try again” error while uploading multiple documents in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2013 document library, to upload multiple documents , we need to select upload button on the top ribbon and click on the link “Upload Files using Windows Explorer Instead” in Add a document popup. By clicking on the link, popup window has shown with error message...

SharePoint 2013 Manager released

SharePoint 2013 manager got released. You can check and download SP2013 manager in codeplex.(http://spm.codeplex.com/releases/view/97332). SharePoint manager is one of the necessary tool for share point developers/administrators. SharePoint manager...

Audit log reports in SharePoint 2013

Audit log reports in SharePoint, used to check who did what. We can check, sort, filter, and analyze the data in sites, lists, libraries, content types, list items, and library files in the site collection. It is very helpful for the organization. We can also save...