November 21, 2011

Sorting Dates in javascript

To sort an array in javascript, just run sort():

array = \["skåne", "blekinge", "halland"\];
array.sort();
```To [perform a more intelligent sorting](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3859239/sort-json-by-date "See the original answer in stackoverflow") we can define our sorting logic. What if an array has objects with different properties? For example, an object has title and lastupdated. We want to sort on lastupdated. Just create a function for this with two parameters:

function custom_sort(a, b) { return new Date(a.lastUpdated).getTime() - new Date(b.lastUpdated).getTime(); }

November 15, 2011

Google Analytics in Sharepoint

Google Analytics is a popular and mature tool for monitoring network activities on your site. Why not use it in Sharepoint? Dave Coleman and Mike Knowles provide good guides for doing that. There is a promising plugin to SP SPGoogleAnalytics which integrates both and provides an easy interface to put GA to your SharePoint installation and see the data directly on your intranet. It comes from codeplex: What do you think about spgoogleanalytics.codeplex? When I recently had to turn on Google Analytics on an intranet, I had no time for evaluating SPGoogleAnalytics, so I did the harder way: just put ga script in the end of a master page, just before ending tag. But what if one has multiple masterpages? Is there a way to put GA in one step? Maybe a user control like Knowles suggests?

November 2, 2011

Subdomains for site collections

In order to be able to use subdomains for different sitecollections, we have to use hostheaders. Sharad Kumar provides a good example:

$w = Get-SPWebApplication http://sitename
New-SPSite http://www.contoso.com 
    -OwnerAlias "DOMAIN\\jdoe" -HostHeaderWebApplication $w 
    -Name "Contoso" -Template "STS#0"
```If we want to create, say http://rockets.contoso.com, we can run:

New-SPSite http://rockets.contoso.com -OwnerAlias “DOMAIN\jdoe” -HostHeaderWebApplication “http://sitename” -Name “Rockets” -Template “STS#0” -Language 1053

restart-service iisadmin

October 31, 2011

Bootstrap and Sharepoint

Twitter Bootstrap is awesome, based on less.js, ust add this line in your html code:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/1.3.0/bootstrap.min.css">

And your page looks already good. If you use css classes like btn label warning danger and much more, you get a right design directly out of the box. Now I want to test it in Sharepoint. Will it work? What do you think? jQuery Theme Roller. Another interesting resources are jQuery ThemeRoller. WebResources Depot:

October 25, 2011

Working with web.Properties

Sometimes one may need more properties to track on a SPWeb beside Title and Description. One of the possibilities is to create a custom list (maybe a hidden one) with keys and values (Title and Value). It works fine. The good thing with it is also the possibility to change the key-value pair directly in the web interface. Another approach is to use web.Properties which is a Dictionary with key-values pairs. A simpler and neater solution: Here is a good motivation from the best sharepoint book Sharepoint as a Development Platform (p. 1043):

October 25, 2011

$.getJSON, jQuery.tmpl and _vti_bin

Javascript is very fast, responsive and unburdens the cpu at the server. Here I show a little example how to use jQuery.getJSON, jQuery.tmpl (wonderful plugin for rendering repeating data, repo hosted on Github) and REST-based service listdata.svc from /_layouts/_vti_bin/ folder. For this example I created a generic list “Contacts”, added two text fields Name and Phone. Add some phone numbers and try to go to /_vti_bin/ListData.svc/Contacts If you get 404-error, install a ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2, as described at dotnetmafia. If you want to know more about how to sort and filter, skip and limit results, read more at nothingbutsharepoint. If you encounter problems, follow Michaël’s blog post and download and install Windows6.1-KB976127-v6-x64.msu (if you have Windows Server 2008 R2), or NDP35SP1-KB976126-v2-x64.exe (if you have Windows Server 2008). After installing the version of the System.Data.Services.dll file is 3.5.30729.5004 (Windows Server 2008 R2), and 3.5.30729.4466 (Windows Server 2008). Allright, the remainder is pure javascript. In order to get it working you have to run the script from the same domain, meaning you can’t run javascript to retrieve the data from a html-file from your home folder. Create a webpart and add it to your page.

October 25, 2011

Remove links to user profiles on list with javascript

Well, if you need remove links to user profiles, you can iterate all td-elements with class ms-vb-user using jQuery each function and remove a elements. Here is a little script:

$(document).ready(function() {
	$(".ms-vb-user a").each(function() { 
	   var text = $(this).text(); 
	   var span = document.createElement("span"); 
	   var user = document.createTextNode(text); 
	   span.appendChild(user); 
	   var parent = $(this).parent()\[0\]; 
	   parent.removeChild(this); 
	   parent.appendChild(span); 
	});
});
```EDIT 2012-02-05 A much more better way to do it is [to use replaceWith in jQuery](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2409163/632117 "See a similar question and an answer on StackOverflow"):

$(".ms-vb-user a").each(function() { $(this).replaceWith(this.childNodes); });

October 24, 2011

New types of inputs in html5

html5 provides more types of inputs than the classic submit and text and a few more. Here you can see an example on fiddle

October 24, 2011

Reset favicon cache

Favicon is one of the hardest. Ctrl-F5 doesn’t help. You can of course see the source, find the location of the favicon, click on it (if you use Firefox or Chrome), otherwise copy the url and paste it in the address bar. When you load it separately, the favicon cache is renewed. It works. But if you want to make it easier for your users, set a version to your favicon file in the masterpage:

October 24, 2011

Show files first in view

When you create an own view in schema.xml it is easy to show files first (Scope). It is quite useful if you want to show only few items on start page in xsltlistviewwebpart:

Scope="Recursive"
```Though there is a problem when you provision this list instance. Thanks to [a great post of Koen van der Linden about how to show files recursively](http://kvdlinden.blogspot.com/2010/04/schemaxml-onetxml-and-baseview-doesnt.html) it is no big deal to solve it. Just add the same scope to View element in the module in onet, which provisions your site: