Tips and Tricks - SP2013

Here are some of my commonly used SP2013 Tips and Tricks :


SP2013 Office 365 site - Napa App can be added only to a Site collection of the template : Developer

 

 

 

 

To get a list to display the add new item and edit list menu on a page - add the list to the page and set the view and tool type as Summary Toolbar

 

 

SP2013's Design Manager has an option to Upload Design Files or Design packages by mapping the Master Page gallery as a network drive. I have tried that several times and have had success and failure intermittently.

More details here :

                            

 

 Links in the suite bar ‘NewsFeed, SkyDrive and Sites’ are displayed using “SuiteLinksDelegate” Delegate Control. Adding, Removing and Customizing these Links however is not easy. You can add and remove these links only by Overriding “SuiteLinksDelegate” Delegate Control.

 

 

In SharePoint 2013 Managed Metadata type Site columns from with the site Collection. ‘Metadata type’ Field type & all Site Columns that contain values will automatically become managed properties when they are crawled.

Using Drag and Drop you can only drop 100 documents at a time but the size limit does not really matter. So multiple documents of upto 1gigs can be uploaded at one time but only 100.


 Image Retention in SharePoint 2013 - need to enable the BlobCache of the web application
In the Web.config file for the web application search for "BlobCache" and set enabled=”true”

There is an easier way to email, the link to new Document Library that you created. simply Click the Library tab, and then in the Share & Track group, click Email a link. Your default email program opens a new email message that has the link in the message area.

 

Development environment for Visual studio 2012 - SP2013 development :

 

when I set up my VS2012 environment, the first VS project that I created gave me an error

 

Cannot connect to the targeted site. This error can occur if the specified site is not hosted on the local system. SharePoint solutions work only with locally-installed versions of SharePoint Foundation or SharePoint Server. Remote development is supported only for apps for SharePoint 2013.

 

Usually this error goes away by doing the below:
               
.e.g.
123.45.67.89  myurl.com
 

o365 Sharepoint Online Branding

For the Sharepoint Saturday Chicago on Nov 2nd 2013 @the Hard Rock Hotel, downtown Chicago, I spoke on one of my favorite topics : o365 SP2013 Online Branding - How to make your SP online site not look like Sharepoint.

I had worked on gathering some good demos and the audience found it valuable. The public site that I showcased in my presentation is https://sponlinedemo-public.sharepoint.com/ , it is a carousel based site with static images as of now but can be easily changed to getting the images from the library. Well this site does not look like this was built on Sharepoint.. and guess what.. IT IS!

Here is the session details and deck from my presenation.