For questions completely specific to SharePoint 2013 and **not past or future versions**
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How to hide recent in the navigation
In SP2013 you have the recent entry in the navigation.
Is there an easy way to automatically hide/remove this entry?
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Can't upload a non-text file to SharePoint App via REST API
I am using the following REST code to add a file as an attachment to a SharePoint 2013 list item.
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<SharePoint:ScriptLink ...
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“Web Template” item template is not available in Visual Studio 2012 list of item templates
I am working with visual studio 2012 and want to add sharepoint 2013 "Web Template" item from VS 2012 list of sharepoint 2013 item templates. But I could not find "Web Template" item in SP 2013 item ...
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1answer
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sp.js not loaded js file provisioned by a module
I am trying to use a .js file to highlihgt nodes in a top navigation menu based on url of the current web. The javascript file is provisioned by a Module in a Empty SharePoint 2013 project item. The ...
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1answer
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Is there any way to validate site ID without instantiating SPSite?
I need a fast way to ensure that site ID is correct. Instantiating SPSite seems to be quite expensive, so may be there are other options to do this.
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462 views
Invalid issuer or signature error in autohosted app - SharePoint 2013
I'm creating my first app for SharePoint 2013. I follow this MSDN article, that explains how to create autohosted app.
This piece of code I took from the article and didn't change anything in it.
...
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SharePoint 2013 APIs for anonymous and/or mobile access
In SharePoint 2013 (Preview), does any of the APIs (csom, REST, etc.) work with anonymous access? With mobile access?
I haven't found any reference to this in the documentation. I did a quick test ...
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How to access the documents in using javascript in SharePoint 2013 Preview?
I try to get familiar with with the Javascript API of SharePoint 2013 (Preview). Therefore I started a SharePoint-hosted app using VS2012. The default app works just great after deploying to my local ...
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1answer
55 views
SharePoint 2013 list items paging
I'm trying to make a webpart with list items paging. I followed this link http://www.directsharepoint.com/2011/03/step-by-step-guide-to-implement-paging.html
and on SharePoint 2010 server it works ...
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1answer
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Allow users to see other users in sharepoint groups with CSOM
How can I allow users to view the users in a sharepoint group? Currently if I try to query users in the site groups using the client object model I get an unauthorized exception.
For example, if I am ...
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1answer
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Content Deployment and what happens when deployed files change on the remote server?
A quick and simple question which I can't find a definite answer on:
When using Content Deployment to e.g. deploy a subweb from Farm A to Farm B, Farm A is the "Master".
What happens the next ...
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1answer
319 views
External access gives a blank home page
I've created a site that serves as a service portal. It requires a customer to login, so when accessing the home page, when not authenticated, you'll get redirected to the login page.
On the site ...
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295 views
Why is the “SharePoint Administration” Service not started by default on SP2013?
I have carried out a fair share of SharePoint 2007/2010 installations over the years, but always in Farm mode, never in stand-alone mode. As our main database server is not yet upgraded to a version ...
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1answer
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SharePoint 2013 email templates
I have a SharePoint 2013 instance that I would like to modify the default email template. I want to put my company's logo as a header and the company contact info as a footer on every email that is ...
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3answers
347 views
Sharepoint 2010 vs Sharepoint 2013
What are the pros and cons? Why should we use 2013 instead of 2010?
Are there any significant changes that you will see, or is it just a design fresh-up and some minor change!
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2answers
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CMIS Producer in Foundation 2013
I have to figure out how the CMIS support in SP2013 foundation does work out. And everything I find says that it is natively supported. But the site feature 'Content Management Interoperability ...
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1answer
111 views
Why is SP.js is not registering for Anonymous Users?
In SharePoint 2013 I tried:
ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(function () { alert("Hi"); }, 'SP.js');
But SP.js is not registering for anonymous users.
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1answer
246 views
How to update title of Sharepoint web using REST in c#
I want to know how to update title of Sharepoint web using REST. I have used REST to view the title but not sure how to update the title.
I can view the title by exploring ...
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1answer
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Remove app from SharePoint with PowerShell
I have deployed an app to SharePoint 2013, but something went wrong during deployment. Now I cannot remove or redeploy this app.
Can I force remove this app with powershell or STSADM, like you can ...
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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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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 ...
2
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Where to put my custom.xsl for my List View's XslLink?
I'm in the process of creating my first App for SharePoint 2013 and after following this tutorial (using Visual Studio 2012), I now wish to create a custom XSLT file and apply it to my ...
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Creating a Categories term store to manage my Wiki Pages Vs creating multiple wikis sub-sites
I want to create a publishing site which have enterprise wiki to store and manage internal procedures for our company, so I find that there are two different approaches which I can follow to organize ...
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3answers
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Retrieving Taxonomy Terms by Rest API based on refiners
I don't have any Site Columns, any Catalog Site Collection or Catalog list. I have about 30 Terms and TermSets (in MMS). Now I want to use them as a search based menu. By using Powershell I have ...
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How to send automatic email/s to the approve/s of content on my enterprise wiki
I have created a publishing site which contain enterprise wiki and for some sites I define that I contents require approval before being published. Currently the new wiki article will not be published ...
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2013 - Setting Object Height to 100% Issues
I've been running into some very bizarre issues. Something that seems (and should be) pretty simple. What I'm trying to is have objects fill a new page's height 100%. Initially, I was trying this ...
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Sharepoint 2013 CMIS producer NTLM authentication
I was able to integrate with Sharepoint 2013 CMIS producer only by using Basic HTTP Authentication!
According to Microsoft:
...
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1answer
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Youtube preview in on-premises Newsfeed
I've seen a couple of demos where people add a YouTube link to their newsfeed, and a Facebook style thumbnail with a video preview is displayed. The same thing happens on my Office 365 account.
For ...
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Office Web Apps 2013 on different domain
Does anybody know if it's possible to connect a SharePoint 2013 farm to an Office Web Apps farm that's on a separate domain? I tried to set it up using the steps documented in ...
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TFS 2012 Integration SharePoint 2013 Issue
Trying to do integration between TFS and SharePoint, but running into some issues.
Followed instruction as below, with a small difference, TFS 2012 is sitting on one server, SharePoint 2013 is on a ...
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Bug: JSLink on field/column breaks callout menu in Chrome, Firefox
I am trying to use JSLink+JavaScript to customize the rendering of a field. My very simple JavaScript code looks like this:
;(function () {
'use strict';
console.log('EmployeeFieldCSR ...
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Windows Live ID Compliance Guide
I've been following this guide to set up Windows Live ID authentication (http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Visual-guide-to-Windows-Live-ID-authentication-with-SharePoint-2010-part-1.aspx) and it makes ...
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1answer
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People I'm following via API
In SharePoint 2013 there is a list "People I'm following" (usually under http://MyServer/MyPeople.aspx). Is this a list, that I can access via Object Model? I would need to write piece of code (from ...
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1answer
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Disable empty file rejection
Is it possible to disable the (extremely annoying) behavior of SharePoint whereby it rejects "empty" documents? I need to do this because I'm programmatically creating documents where the template may ...
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Chrome font rendering issues
Basically, the issue lies with Chrome, as it will not render ttf fonts properly using antialiasing. A popular fix is to order the @font-face directive so that the svg-font is first. Only Chrome will ...
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1answer
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“500: Internal Server Error” when trying to add a simple text file as an attachment via SharePoint 2013 REST API
Using SharePoint 2013 REST API, I am trying to attach a simple text file to a list's item.
jQuery.ajax({
url: web.get_url() + ...
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1answer
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SharePoint 2013 - “Change the Look” breaks when editing master page
I'm trying to make some changes to a master page, the thing I actually want to do is test the ReplaceColor attribute within the CSS, however it seems as soon as I do so, the whole 'change the look' ...
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1answer
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Does SharePoint 2013 support Single Sign Out?
Really simple question, that I can't seem to find a definitive answer for.
Does SharePoint 2013 support single sign-out?
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Opening document from Search results - This action couldn't be performed because Office doesn't recognize the command it was given
Hi I am trying to open an Office document by clicking on the search results document title, however an error box pops up saying:
This action couldn't be performed because Office doesn't recognize the ...
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Setting up a sharepoint production sever 2013 - Setup account permmision level
I am using three accounts and 4 different severs for this environment.
Accounts
- setup account
- farm account
- service account
Severs
- AppSever
- DBSever
- etc....
When i try to create a ...
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2answers
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Authorization Fails When Using Active Directory Group Membership
I have a test user who is a member of an Active Directory Security Group. I've added that Active Directory group to the a SharePoint Group "[SiteName] Users".
In this scenario, when I attempt to ...
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How to single click hyperlink in Visio Web Access Webpart to go to the url
We are displaying a Visio 2013 document (.vsdx) in a Visio Web Access webpart on a SharePoint 2013 page.
The hyperlinks in the Visio file now reqire that the user click both Ctrl+Click to navigate to ...
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Are Display Form FieldControls used in 2013 Custom Field Types?
When using a Custom Field Type that has a Field Control (provided by FieldRenderingControl), it seems that the Field Control isn't used when rendering data on the Display Form if the SPField.JSLink is ...
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1answer
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Install app for SharePoint': The System Account cannot perform this action
we have installed share point server 2013 in windows server 2008 machine.
For development environment we have visual studio 2012 on windows 7 machine and installed office development tools to develop ...
2
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1answer
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request timed out error while creating User profile service application after long time
in order to configure my sites in sharepoint 2013, we need to start user profile synchronization service. while starting that service it should populate user profile application. for me it is not ...
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SharePoint Branding and Parallax Scrolling
Has anyone been able to design SharePoint UI using Parallax scrolling? Similar to the following site http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com/#menu=home-page (I am not affiliated with this site in anyway)
...
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creating site collections using SharePoint management shell 2013
I am creating Site Collections for Testing SharePoint. I am using Host Named Site Collection to do that instead of the path based site collection addressing.
For that
Got a reference to the HNSC ...
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From where can i add People Card, Reputation Builder
Could not see where are these, are these webparts, is some feature needs to be activated for them to work???
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sharepoint 2013 / bootstrap.js / only working in edit mode
I am trying to get the twitter bootstrap framework running on our sharepoint 2013 intranet page. When I'm editing the page, the code is working as expected.
After saving the web part page, the ...
