Disabling mobile page redirection in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 is supported for mobile devices and it will detect the request from mobile devices according to the request it will changes the URL of the page automatically. Mobile view is different from the desktop view in SharePoint. SharePoint is having complete different controls for mobile pages. We are having Microsoft.SharePoint.MobileControl namespaces for mobile...

SharePoint custom workflow Error – This view cannot be displayed because the number of lookup and workflow status columns exceeds the threshold”

While working with SharePoint custom coding on lists, I got an error saying that “This view cannot be displayed because the number of lookup and workflow status columns it contains exceeds the threshold..” After googling in to the issue, I have found the solution in this post....

Cache profiles in SharePoint

SharePoint adds caching mechanism with output caching that is available in ASP.Net 2.0. It contains Cache profiles that we can name and apply the pages and page items, content types and levels of scales in the development environment. By using cache profiles we can control the...

SharePoint SEO and Robots.txt

Many of public sites developed in SharePoint that are configured to allow anonymous access with restriction that should not be indexed by any search engines. We can prevent that by placing robots.txt file in the root of our SharePoint site. Robots.txt file is text file that we...

Sharing with Everyone in SharePoint 2013

Sharing with everyone option will help users to share without depending on permissions. That will be applicable for “All authenticated users” and “all users in tenant” in the sense “Everyone” and “Everyone excluding external users”. By default sharing option will be available for SharePoint 2013 site created using existing template. But when we create a site using site template...

Suggested Content Browser Locations in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint Site collection, we can configure “Suggested Content Browser Locations” to access the directories easily. When we configure these locations, we can see them as drop down to the users when we select the content SharePoint. To view this link, we need to activate the...

Get SharePoint feature ID using IE developer tool bar

We can get many errors in SharePoint referring the feature GUID. It is not possible to check quickly what associated feature with that GUID is. We can get the feature GUID using IE developer tool bar. To get the GUID, navigate to site collection features page (Site Settings ->...

Enable auto approval in SharePoint community site

We can enable auto approval in SharePoint community site to get access automatically without request approval. We can enable the auto approval for only community site; it will not apply membership for any group. Generally auto approval is suitable for open communities without having restrictions....

Adding blog to a SharePoint site instead of creating new site

It’s nice trick from Steve Mann. In SharePoint to create new blog site we have to create a site in site or site collection using blog template. Instead of adding new blog site, we can add the blog to existing site by using a simple command in SharePoint 2013 by enabling blog content...

Add BCC to SharePoint designer workflow

In SharePoint designer 2010, workflow to send emails, we cannot find BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) column. We can see only To and CC (Carbon Copy) options with Subject and Body.  If we have the requirement to include users in BCC, we can do that by using the steps below, Complete...

Enable Videos in SharePoint 2013

This is basic thing in SharePoint 2013. We can enable videos by activating an in-built feature in Site collection level. To get video support in SharePoint 2013, we have to activate the Video and Media feature in Site Collection level. To do that, Navigate to Site Settings and...