Sharepoint Technology

Restore-SPSite problems in sharepoint

 

 I have a requirement change the site collection URL (path based). Best recommended way to change the site collection URL in sharepoint 2010 is backup and restore. I followed the same, first I took the backup and then trying to restore the same but it giving exception. Observation: Restoration fails if any of the URL characters exceed the limit of 260 characters. So, please check the URL characters before proceeds with backup and restore. Below script will give the accurate…

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SharePoint Hosting :: How to Solve Error Occurred in Deployment Step ‘Activate Features’

 

 Today, we will explain about How to Solve Error Occurred in Deployment Step ‘Activate Features’. This error can appear when you try to deploy your SharePoint solution, but this message has no detailed data so it is not obvious how to solve it. There are few things you can do to remove this error: 1. If you changed namespace or assembly name or class name in your solution, you have to check that you have the same namespace and assembly…

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SharePoint Hosting :: How to Solve SharePoint 2013 Search Crawl Access is Denied

 

 Error Message : Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has “Full Read” permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. ( Error from SharePoint site: HttpStatusCode Unauthorized The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. ) Context: Application ‘Search Service Application’, Catalog ‘Portal_Content’ Details: Access is…

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: Working with Survey List and debugging ECMA Script

 

 The list schema for survey list is quite different from the custom lists. Every question is added as the list column(field) and every response to questions is added as list item. To retrieve the survey question and and to submit the response to list via client object model, do the following. 1)Load the reference of sp.js and Load the address of function to be called as below SP.SOD.executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(DisplaySurveyQ,’SP.js’); 2)Define the function.

3) Create callback handlers in this function

4)Execute an async…

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: How to Cut Workload and Minimize Risks in SharePoint

 

 Deploying SharePoint Workflows SharePoint workflows are great at streamlining and tracking processes, ensuring their compliance, and automating tasks. Workflow automation is a must for all companies wishing to have their internal methods functioning smoothly and effectively. It makes sure that a process runs in the correct way, allows to track its current state, and speeds it up by delegating many tasks from people to computers. Things that used to be done in days now take hours. SharePoint workflows is a…

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: Run Workflow From Hyperlink in SharePoint List

 

 There is an  easy way for the users to start a workflow from the link instaed of selecting from item menu and then select the workflow from the available workflows and then start workflow from the workflow start form. In this example i am going to update the list item with the workflow that is triggred from the hyprtlink in the SharePoint list First create a workflow to update any list item in the SharePoint site List. In the workflow…

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SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: How do I Change the Content Type Hub URL?

 

 The URLof the content type hub cannot be changed from UI of SharePoint 2013 Central Administration once we have the Managed MetaData Service (MMS) application created. We can however still change it by using Powershell! (Of Course) You’ll need to know two pieces of information: What is the administrative name of your managed metadata service and what is the new URL you want to serve as the content type hub. Then just launch the SharePoint Management Shell as an administrator…

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