For questions completely specific to SharePoint 2013 and **not past or future versions**
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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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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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Read permissions in User Profile Service Application
I am developing a webpart in SharePoint 2013 that must access the user profiles of users in the Active Directory. The problem is that when I try to access some user profile properties I get an ...
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SharePoint 2013 - Doing Web Services the right way
Many things have changed in SharePoint-architecture from 2010 to 2013. In 2010 I would create it in ISAPI-Folder.
How do I create a custom web service in 2013? Hosting it in IIS? What App-Pool should ...
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Excluding URLs from Sharepoint Foundation 2013 Search
I am running SharePoint Foundation 2013. I am having an issue excluding URLs from my search results.
We have setup the search query to only search a particular subsite which is a List that has ...
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Workflow getting Access denied when calling the rest webservice from subsite
i have following problem. I am using SP 2013 Online and i am trying to access some informations from the sub site, like http://[SPOnlineUrl]/SubSite/_api/web/title. But i will always get the annoying
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Enterprise Wiki with metadata navigation is showing many errors and problems:-
I am trying to create an Enterprise Wiki which have a metadata navigation and filtering, I though the requirement is straight forward in SharePoint 2013, but I have fall into a number of problems and ...
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DIP not displaying when doc template saved on SP
I have saved a document template and a Document Information Panel into a templates library in SharePoint 2013. If I associate the document template using a url to a content type (eg. ...
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Is there an avilable Fix for the Managed metadata navigation Bug in sharePoint 2013
I am facing this bug on my "Publishing Site ---> enterprise wiki Template" inside SharePoint server 2013. and when i tried to specify the target page manually as mentioned in this link it did not work ...
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Sub-sites contributors and reader are unable to view the sub-site navigation
I have created a term store using the site collection administrator. And I associate this term store with a sub site navigation.
But the problem I am facing is that the sub-site readers and even the ...
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Apps not available for user pages
our company just started using sharepoint 2013 (in office 365). We are trying to get an app to show up in the user personal pages. In this case it is about the app 'promoted links'.
When we login ...
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Navigation using Term Store in my enterprise Wiki Site is not working well
My problem is as follow:-
I have a site collection that contain an Enterprise Wiki template.
And I create a new Term Store
I link the term store to the “wiki Category” column.
When I add or edit a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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List event receivers not triggered after quick editing/grid editing
I have a custom Sharepoint 2013 list with event receivers attached to it (adding, updating, deleting).
However, it looks like the event receivers are not triggered when the user is adding/editing in ...
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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Has the search alert API in SharePoint 2013 changed from the 2010 and Preview 2013?
I previously developed a Visual web part to programmatic-ally create Search alerts based on the user input. I used a text box to capture the text and create a Query using the Keyword Query Class. Then ...
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File size too large with RBS and SharePoint 2013
since i set up my SP2013 Foundation Preview with SQL Server 2008 R2 Express i wanted to use the RemoteBlobStorage. It works seemingly fine just now.
The only problem is if my files which im uploading ...
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Installing Sharepoint 2013 preview on Windows 7
How can i install Sharepoint 2013 preview on Windows 7? (without virtual machine)
I'm dev and i don't have money for a windows server system!!
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What is the fastest way to build a simple publishing site for demo purposes
I want to present for my management the sharePoint 2013 capabilities and for this presentation I want to build a simple publishing site that have an enterprise wiki template inside it using SharePoint ...
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Access Services - can't get it working and I've installed everything FIVE TIMES
I've been trying like a banshee to get Access Services working. I generally know my way around sharepoint.. I just can't for the life of me get this thing working.
I've literally installed SharePoint ...
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change look in sharepoint 2013 programatically
I want to change the look of the sharepoint 2013 site programatically, I have tried setting up different theme but it didn't work.
Thanks
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Start Learning SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013
I am a SharePoint Developer with +1 year experience mostly working on SharePoint 2007 but very little on SharePoint 2010, Now I got a choice to either learn SharePoint 2010 or start learning ...
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How can I apply a Web Part to all the sub sites?
I have an Enterprise Wiki site collection and it have 5 sub sites, currently I have implemented a Web Part which extended the page layout.
But I am facing this:-
To apply the page layout I have to ...
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Why cant a Site collection owner/Site owner remove posts that a site member created in the feed? (Sharepoint 2013)
I have a site collection that have a teamsite, when a normal user posts something in the microfeed webpart the site collection administrator/site owner of the teamsite cant remove the post that the ...
