For questions completely specific to SharePoint 2013 and **not past or future versions**
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Design decision (Site collection Vs Subsites) to take when creating new SharePoint web application
Basically I want to build a knowledge based library for our company. The general requirements are as follow:-
Each department need to store their documents and procedures as Wikis inside SharePoint.
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SharePoint Word Document template uses old Server Fields
I have a new SP2013 Foundation site. I am making a Design document library. I don't want to import the old site Library because it's a mess but I am trying to re-use my old 2010 document template to ...
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SharePoint server 2013 is running too slowly on VM workstation
I have the following specification for my development environment;
Host Machine:-
Windows 7 professional.
Core i7 (8 processes).
VM workstation.
32 GB RAM.
700 GB hard disk.
On the VM:-
Windows ...
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Modify the TypeDescriptors in Creator Method for BDC
I created a BDC list. When I create a new item, I have to type in all the neccessary columns.
I want to make two of the columns radiobutton choice and dropdown list.
I can't create new columns for ...
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How to get data from Sub Site in App?
I have created a web which is a sub web of the "Host Web"(In terms of App).
I want to get data from a list which is part of that sub web into my SharePoint hosted App.
How can I get it?
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Uninstall app for SharePoint': Only users who can View Pages can list Apps
I am Developing a Provider Hosted app for the SharePoint 2013. In that I am facing this error while deploying the App.
Error occurred in deployment step 'Uninstall app for SharePoint': Only users ...
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How is the user information list populated?
When you add a user with direct permissions somewhere within a site but they haven't yet visited SharePoint - will the user be added into the user information list automatically or only once they ...
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All possible places to receive permissions from
I'm trying to find out why a certain user appears to have full control on a site.
Using Check Permissions, I can see that the only permissions they are given directly on the site are Read permissions, ...
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Will search index Ajax content?
I've got page containing a Data View Web Part. The page itself has been modified via SPD so that when loaded, jQuery loads up additional information (prices, etc.) for each row in the DVWP. Of course, ...
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SharePoint 2013 Alerts: Add Link to take you to the Discussion Thread
Can I change the link in a discussion alert email to point to that discussion thread instead of the reply itself?
I have figured out how and where to edit the Alerts:
SharePoint 2010 custom alert ...
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Check “indirect” group membership using .NET Managed Client Object Model
I am trying to establish whether it is possible to determine indirect group membership (i.e. being in an AD group who is in a SharePoint Group) remotely using the .NET Managed API (client side).
The ...
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Inserting new list items into SQL
When I add new item into the list, I have to insert the items into the SQL database. How can I do it? Any clue is good for me.
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SharePoint 2013 theme engine issue applying selection background color.
In our SharePoint 2013 site we have custom theme aware CSS, most of which is working fine across browsers (IE8/9/10, Safari and Firefox) but in case of
/* ...
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Disable SharePoint mobile view for a specific page only for example main.aspx
I understand SharePoint 2013 automatically points to mobile view when viewing a site from a mobile device. However I would like to disable mobile view for a specific page only while maintaining the ...
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Updating contents in a custom webpart in a Discussion Board topic page
I have made a custom Visual Webpart. I'm wanting to periodically update a label in the webpart without refreshing the whole page. I've got the label to update, however it is also updating the replies ...
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How Can I Change My Intranet's Homepage Page Layout?
As part of the branding of our new SP2013-based intranet, I have created a new custom Masterpage and Page Layouts and set this as the default Masterpage.
I have also created a custom Masterpage and ...
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Creating pages dynamically through code?
First thing is first, I'm doing this in Sharepoint 2013.
I'm not exactly sure what the best approach is to be, so I'm explaining my problem and hopefully people can throw around some terms or ideas ...
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How to create object of type SP.ListItemFormUpdateValue
How can i instantiate object of type SP.ListItemFormUpdateValue and initialize it to a List field so i can read the field values on client side?
If this is not posible, how can i read a value in a ...
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Opening a document in SharePoint 2013 requires logging in
We have implemented a new install of SharePoint 2013 at my company. I've set up a web application, a site collection and a site so far. I'm setting up sites and testing them to see how SharePoint 2013 ...
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Error occured in deployment step 'install app for SharePoint': The System Account cannot perform this action. Deploying App - On-Premises Farm
Yes this question is the same as :
This question
How ever none of the proposed solutions work for me.
I've tried swapping the account in Central Admin (did not work)
I've created a new AD account, ...
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SharePoint2013 Search Navigation Web part and query string parameters
Im using Search Navigation web part to navigate to a search result page when user decides to do a scoped search. Im trying to pass all scoped search to the same search result page, instead of ...
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SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps - Unable to view documents
We have a Web Applications Companion (WAC) server connected to our SharePoint 2013 web application (upgraded to claims based authentication). It appears to us that the WAC server does not trust the ...
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Get-SPSite : There was no endpoint listening at securitytoken.svc
Get-SPSite : There was no endpoint listening at
http://mydomain.com:32843/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/securitytoken.svc
that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect
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simple visual webpart, is not rendering the controls
I created a simple visual webpart with this html
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="LinkButton.ascx.cs" ...
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Add a link to perform certain actions. E.g Upload a document, then optionally add a workflow to this document etc
I've been asked to create a simple page where a user can
Click a link to upload a document to an existing library
Optionally click another link to add an predefined workflow to the uploaded ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Suddenly Going Slow
I currently have a test SharePoint 2013 install setup on a VM, the specs of the VM are very modest (8GB RAM, Dual Core Xeon, linked to SQL 2012 on another server) and it has been working fine as far ...
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Add visualwebpart with vs2012 does not add an ascx path
I am making a visual webpart with custom properties. Basically its a link button which Text and Url properties can be set by the user via web part properties.
All samples I have seen say that in vs ...
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history and tasklist are missing when creating a sharepoint workflow in visual studio
I recently ran into a problem which seems to be a bit annoying, or maybe I understood it false. Well, if you create a new project and add a new sharepoint workflow you have to insert some data i.e. ...
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How do I fully automate Restore-SPFarm?
I have heard that it is a best practice to maintain a QA environment for SharePoint. I would like to script a nightly restore from our production SharePoint 2013 farm, which I'm successfully backing ...
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SharePoint 2013: Access the metadata Tags of a page within a Search Result Display Template for an Item
I'm trying to access the metadata Tags of a SharePoint page within the search result of that page using a Display Template. In the Managed Properties for my search service, the Tags property is ...
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Adding user control to 2013 master page causes a 404 error
I have a problem when adding a user control to my SharePoint 2013 master page: my site shows a 404 error.
At this point I have a brand new, empty user control (i.e. created in VS2012 but nothing ...
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Cannot access new App in SharePoint 2013
My problem started as follow:-
I installed SharePoint 2013 and visual studio 2012.
When I first try to deploy a SharePoint hosted app I got the following compilation error in visual studio “Error ...
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Posting Large File to Remote App
I am trying to implement functionality by which you can post a large file (85MB+) to an autohosted app.
I have tested locally and the functionality works. As soon as I deploy to O365, large files ...
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First o365 SharePoint Online Workflow - A2/P1 license issue?
Probably doing something wrong, but wonder if it's a License or settings issues in o365.
Created a new Library (where I have owner rights) in SPD 2013, added
a very simple workflow that emails ...
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SQL connection string doesn't work
I made the Oracle connection string work for another project.Now for another project I want to make a connection string for SQL. In my BDC VS Project
Data Source=.....;Database=....;Initial ...
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No users were displayed when I try to select the administrator for a new site collection
I wanted to create a new site collection under the default application on my development environment, but when I search for users which were defined inside my development environment to assign one of ...
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The Machine Translation Service is not running when it should be running error message
I get this error in Central Administration.
The Machine Translation Service is not running when it should be running
It tells me to do the following:
"From the Central Admin UI, navigate to manage ...
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Taxonomy Field provisioned from Feature is not being crawled by Search
I have provisioned my own Taxonomy Field as a Site Column. I have used a feature receiver to bind the correct Term Store / Term Set information and I have created (and bound) the hidden Note Field ...
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How to retrieve documents from list?
I created a simple Custom List in WSS3. I also created a Document Library with an additional column field which is a lookup to the Custom List that I created before. Now when I am on the Custom List ...
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Visual studio 2012 cannot find SharePoint Server 2013
I have installed SharePoint server 2013 on my dev machine and it is working fine when I login as an administrator. and after that I installed Visual studio 2012 professional on the same machine. But ...
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How many processes & RAM I should assign to my SharePoint VM development environment
I have a machine with the following specifications:-
32 GB RAM
Core i7 with 8 processes.
670 GB hard disk.
Windows 7 professional.
Inside the machine I installed VM workstation 9.0 .
And I have ...
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Activate Features step failed when deploying a workflow
I`m about to start to develop workflows in VS2012 for Sharepoint2013. Creating a workflow works fine. The HistoryList and Tasklist are created as well. Now, when I want to depoy my new workflow i ...
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Render Failed on Show Filter Choices
It looks like this old SharePoint 2007 bug has been re-introduced in SharePoint 2013:
http://spnovice.blogspot.com/2013_04_01_archive.html
We upgraded this weekend and now all large lists exhibit ...
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Can you build SharePoint 2013 solutions by simply copying the assemblies to your machine?
Let me start off by saying that I know you can't install SharePoint 2013 on a Windows 7 machine (confirmed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/ee554869.aspx). However my situation is this...
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News feed Sharepoint 2013
I get this error anytime I try to submit a post on a News feed in MySites or team site MicroBlog.
"SharePoint returned the following error:
Unexpected response from server. The status ...
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Modal Popup wont popup unless page is checked out?
I have a strange situation whereby I have written my own code to open a modal popup window as shown below:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js" ...
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Default Sharepoint 2013 client-side people picker to current user
I'd like to be able to default the client side people picker for SharePoint 2013 to the current (or any) user.
I've read the "How to" MSDN document here:
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Which installation option I should use for SQL server 2008 to work with SharePoint 2013
I want to prepare a development environment for SharePoint 2013, so I want to know which SQL server option I should use from the SQL server 2008 installation center , the available options are:-
1.New ...
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Sharepoint 2013 AD FBA 2010 Compatability
I have a Sharepoint 2013 server set up to use FBA through active directory. I've set up the claims providers following microsofts guidelines: ...
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Deploying Sharepoint 2010 solutions to sharepoint 2013 giving me error
does anyone have any suggestions where to look for guides when deploying sp 2010 solutions to 2013,
I've tried everything and keep gettin the error :
Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS ...
