Can I use jQuery to assign ID attributes to form elements in SharePoint?

While customizing an "add new item" form, you might find yourself needing to manipulate form elements via jQuery. However, before you can do that you must and an #id or .class to the elements in question. I will be adding an #id in this demonstration. But why would I want to manipulate form elements in the first place? If you wanted to hide/show a textbox based on the user selection of a checkbox you could use this technique.


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How do I: Create a simple form to collect data in SharePoint 2010
How can I hide/show a textbox based on a radio button selection?
How can I hide/show a textbox based on a drop-down value?

Can I create a SharePoint Lookup Column from a sub-site to a top-level site?

Lets say you are working with a sub-site an you want a drop-down list that contains values from your top level site. There is a way to do this OOTB! Go to "Site settings" > "Site Columns" ... well just watch the video.

Adding simple jQuery to a SharePoint 2010 page via SharePoint Designer 2010

This videos show you have to setup a SharePoint page to start adding jQuery.

NOTE: this is a SharePoint Online site, and of course it will work on your local farm the same way.

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Adding an animated link to a SharePoint 2010 page using jQuery

NOTE: This is also done in a SharePoint Online site

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SharePoint Book Reviews

Here you can find various overviews of upcoming SharePoint 2013 books from O’Reilly published by Microsoft Press.

http://search.oreilly.com/?q=sharepoint+2013&x=0&y=0

Downloadable eBook: Explore SharePoint 2013

Learn what’s new in SharePoint 2013 from this official ebook from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35396

Downloadable eBook: Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013

Want to learn how to install and configure SharePoint 2013? This book provides deployment instructions for SharePoint 2013. It's aimed at application specialists, line-of-business application specialists, and IT administrators who are ready to deploy SharePoint 2013.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30384

New ways to share with external users in SharePoint Online 2013

The sharing functionality in SharePoint 2013 has been improved and made easier. In the upcoming SharePoint Online 2013 (currently still in preview), you can make use of it already, as described here by Microsoft.
 

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=673

SharePoint Manager 2013

The SharePoint Manager 2013 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property.

Documentation: http://spm.codeplex.com/documentation

 

Downloads: http://spm.codeplex.com/releases/view/97332

RECOMMENDED DOWNLOADS

SharePoint Manager 2013 (ver: 1.0.12.1106)

Other Available Downloads

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InfoPath cannot save the following form: Form Name . This Document Library was either renamed or deleted, or network problems are preventing the file from being saved. Contact your network administrator

Problem Description:

Assume that you are running Microsoft InfoPath on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server. In this situation, you cannot use InfoPath to publish an InfoPath form on a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 server. Additionally, when you try to publish and save the form, you receive the following error message:

InfoPath cannot save the following form: Form Name . This Document Library was either renamed or deleted, or network problems are preventing the file from being saved. Contact your network administrator.

Analysis/Troubleshooting Results:

This issue occurs because the Desktop Experience feature is not enabled on the Windows Server 2008 R2 server.

Therefore, connections cannot be made from the Windows Server 2008 R2 server to the SharePoint server.

Workaround | Resolution:

To work around this issue, install the Desktop Experience feature, and restart the Windows Server 2008 R2 server.

Then, start the Themes service from the Windows Services console.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.

Thank you.

SharePoint 2013 Certifications

SharePoint 2013 is part of the new version of Office, making it easy for people to stay connected, access files anytime, and maintain messaging security. Get certified as an MCSE in SharePoint and earn recognition for your expertise in helping a company organize sync, collaborate, and share information across the organization.

Certification Exam for SharePoint 2013 would be release in February 2013. Microsoft revealed this.

70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

70-332: Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

First Look Clinic: What’s New for IT Professionals in Microsoft SharePoint 2013

First Look Clinic: What's New for Developers in Microsoft SharePoint 2013

SharePoint list 'show filter choices' mystery

When we face any product limitation issue or call it as default SharePoint behavior then it’s difficult to conclude or explain to the customer that this is by design.

Filter Web Parts connect to Web Parts containing one or more sets of data to change the view of the data. The filter Web part can be visible on the page, to ask for user input, such as a date or text, or they can be invisible, as is the case with the Current User filter, which filters data based on the user who is logged on to the computer.

Problem Description:  Some of SharePoint list’s which are present on my site collection are not displaying the list of content types; instead they are showing an option “show filter choices”

While researching on the issue, I found one article which clearly suggested that this happens because of increase in the number of items in the list.

Million Thanks to Nauplius for publishing this article: http://sharepoint.nauplius.net/2010/09/sharepoint-list-filter-problems-or.html

In the above mentioned article, it clearly mentioned that when the list items crosses beyond 500 items then it will the option “show filter choices” and Microsoft place this option because of performance problems.

Please let me know in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information.

Thank you.

You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server

Problem Description:

When you try to open a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 site, you receive the following error message:

You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page.

Troubleshooting/Analysis:

This problem occurs because the JavaScript feature is disabled in Windows Internet Explorer.

Resolution:

To resolve this problem, enable the JavaScript feature in Internet Explorer.

To do this, follow these steps:

1.   Open Internet Explorer,

2.   Go to the SharePoint Server 2013 site,

3.   Press Alt to reveal the Menu bar,

4.   Click Tools

5.   Then click Internet Options. 

6.   On the Security tab, click Custom level.

7.   Scroll down to the Active scripting section,

8.   And then select Enable.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

How to find which w3wp.exe belongs to which application pool and Find correct w3wp ProcessId for Web Application in IIS: IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0

Today we see some performance issue on two of our webservers and I was supposed to do the analysis of the it.

I know this is a tuff Job but work is worship so no compromise.

We had similar problem in the past as well; however, our Search 2008 server has contributed to the server CPU utilization to 100 %. We stopped all search crawls in the past and issue was resolved.

Today is another scary day when we saw the search was stopped and still CPU is at 100 % of it utilization on two of our servers.

I noticed from the task manager that multiple instances of w3wp.exe was running and some of them was eating up the complete memory.

I enabled the PID from Process Tab -> View -> Select Columns -> Select PID.

PID is a unique process ID associated with each process running on the server or client.

Why this PID was required?

PID is required to compare the PID associated with each and w3wp.exe. 
Now questions comes to mind is how we can know which web application or which application pool is binded with which worker process. Below is the answer…J

How to find which w3wp.exe belongs to which application pool: Applicable to Server 2003

Introduction

If you have multiple application pools on your IIS 6.0 web server you have certainly already noticed (in Task Manager) that you have multiple w3wp.exe processes running. If you notice a problem with one of these processes (for example consuming much memory, or taking too much CPU power) the following question arises: How do I know which application pool this process belongs to, so I know what application is causing this? It may sound like an easy to answer question, and it is, if you know the solution!

iisapp.vbs

The command-line script iisapp.vbs can be used to view which application pool a worker process belong to (a w3wp.exe process in Task Manager). This script is stored in the systemroot\system32 folder. To run this script open a command prompt.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cscript.exe iisapp.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

W3WP.exe PID: 1188 AppPoolId: DefaultAppPool

The example above tells us that the w3wp.exe with PID 1188 belongs to the application pool called DefaultAppPool. The syntax for this script is:

iisapp [/a AppPoolName | /p PID]

So you can also search for a specific application pool by specifying the PID, or vice versa (search for a PID by specifying the application pool name).

Ref: www.it-notebook.org

Find correct w3wp ProcessId for Web Application in IIS: Applicable to Server 2008.

To debug SharePoint assets such as web control (.ascx) in development environment, it’s very important to attach correct w3wp processId to visual studio.

Following is the process to find correct w3wp ProcessId for specific web Application in IIS, Please note that the step below is applied only to Windows 2008  and IIS 7

1.      Go to Start >> RUN >> cmd

2.      Copy following command >> %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list wp

3.      This will list all web applications w3wp process with id as follows.

4.  From the list you can find the processId of particular web application and attach it to visual studio for debug.

Ref:  www.sohilmakwana.wordpress.com

To know more about this:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771273(v=ws.10).aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/friis/archive/2009/10/22/which-w3wp-exe-pid-corresponds-to-which-application-pool.aspx

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues.