Parameterize a javascript object and create url
If you want to add some parameters to an url which you want to open, you can use jQuery.param function:
var url = "some\_url";
var params = {
name: "Setner",
email: "setner@narspi.name",
mobile: "123456789"
};
var search = "?" + $.param(p);
url += search;
```It is handy, indeed. In an environment without jQuery (are there some?:) ) you can just iterate an object and join properties:
var url = “some_url”; var params = { name: “Setner”, email: “setner@narspi.name”, mobile: “123456789” }; if (url.match("/\?/g") == null) { url += “?”; } else { url += “&”; } var search = “”; for(var p in params) { search += [p, params[p]].join("="); } url += search;
Erik Swensson's book about Sharepoint Branding
Today Erik Swensson’s book Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization came to our company. I am looking forward to read it. It’s about time to see alternatives to Randy’s starters.
Save an excel sheet as a clean table
To save an excel sheet as a html table is very easy. Just select the needed area, then go to Save as and check the selection and choose html as output format.
It works fine. It even looks like it did in Excel. But what if you don’t want all this junk, you want only the plain html table (e.g. for pasting into WP). When I saved my permission levels to html, I used this javascript code. First open the html page which Excel has created in Chrome, open the Dev Tools console, load the latest jQuery into the page, and remove all unnecessary attributes and styling, remove the comments, after that you can just copy the outerHTML of the table and paste into a text editor:
OOTB permission levels in SharePoint
There are much info about standard permission levels in SharePoint. Here is my visualization for that. Just a little bit easier to find out the right permission level. Enjoy:
Full Control (FullMask)
Design
Contribute
Read
Limited Access
Restricted Reader
Manage Hierarchy
Approve
ViewListItems
x
x
x
x
x
x
AddListItems
x
x
x
x
EditListItems
x
x
x
x
DeleteListItems
x
x
x
x
ApproveItems
x
x
OpenItems
x
x
x
x
x
x
ViewVersions
x
x
x
x
x
DeleteVersions
x
x
x
x
CancelCheckout
x
x
x
ManagePersonalViews
x
x
x
x
ManageLists
x
x
ViewFormPages
x
x
x
x
x
x
Open
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
ViewPages
x
x
x
x
x
x
AddAndCustomizePages
x
x
ApplyThemeAndBorder
x
ApplyStyleSheets
x
ViewUsageData
x
CreateSSCSite
x
x
x
x
x
ManageSubWebs
x
CreateGroups
ManagePermissions
x
BrowseDirectories
x
x
x
x
BrowseUserInfo
x
x
x
x
x
x
AddDelPrivateWebParts
x
x
x
x
UpdatePersonalWebParts
x
x
x
x
ManageWeb
x
UseClientIntegration
Remove protected Organizational Units from AD
To remove a protected OU, go to ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers), select the domain and enable “Advanced Features” in View. When Advanced Features are enabled, just right click you OU go to Properties -> Object and uncheck “Protect against accidential deletion”. Disable Advanced Features after that. By the way. When Advanced Features are enabled you can even see the distinguished Name of objects directly in ADUC UI.
Settings in Sharepoint_config database instead of appSettings
An alternative to store key-value paired properties in appSettings in web.config we can use Sharepoint_config database by creating our own SPPersistedObject. First we have to create a class which inherits from SPPersistedObject and decorate its properties with [Persisted]:
namespace Takana.SharePoint
{
public class Settings: SPPersistedObject
{
\[Persisted\]
public string DbConString;
public LinkCheckerPersistedSettings() { }
public LinkCheckerPersistedSettings(string name, SPPersistedObject parent) : base(name, parent) { }
}
}
```Then we must create such an object. Let's do it in Powershell:
if(-not(Get-PSSnapin | Where { $_.Name -eq “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell”})) { Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell }
Adding organizational units to AD through powershell
Want to create some organizational structure in AD, I suppose it is specifically useful in a development environment, well the best solution is powershell then. Mastering Powershell by and Powershell.nu by Niklas Goude provide examples how to do this.
$domain = [ADSI]""
$ou = $domain.Create("organizationalUnit", "OU=Administration")
$ou.SetInfo()Be sure you write “organizationalUnit” in lower case. Otherwise you’ll get “Exception calling “SetInfo” with “0” argument(s): “The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist” when you invoke $ou.setinfo(). If you want to create an OU under another OU, just create $domain and specify the location:
Install a custom timer job in Powershell
First we have to create a class for our timer job which inherits SPTimerJobDefinition, build it and deploy it.
public class TakanaTimer : SPJobDefinition
{
public TakanaTimer(){}
public TakanaTimer(string jobName, SPService service,
SPServer server, SPJobLockType targetType)
: base(jobName, service, server, targetType) { }
public TakanaTimer(string jobName, SPWebApplication webapp)
: base(jobName, webapp, null, SPJobLockType.ContentDatabase)
{
Title = jobName;
}
public override void Execute(Guid contentDbId)
{
Log.Info("Running Takana Timer");
}
}
There is a powershell example for this, but it has not been updated since MOSS.
Shrink sharepoint database
A Sharepoint Database can become big and have unused spaces. To shrink database go to CA-> Health Analyzer:
http://takana:1337/Lists/HealthReports/AllItems.aspxSee if there is a list item about unused space in db under the Availability. Click on Repair Automatically in the opened Modal Dialog:
