For questions completely specific to SharePoint 2013 and **not past or future versions**
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Change the Office 365 logo and link on SharePoint 2013
I'd like to change the office 365 logo and link on my SharePoint 2013 so users don't leave the site, is this possible in SharePoint 2013?
I have managed to hide the logo and change background colours ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Contact integration with Outlook
We're trying to move away from the whole public folders thing...we have a fair few contacts in these folders at the moment however (about 5000). I have connected my contact list to Outlook and copied ...
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SharePoint 2013 Hashtag searching not working
I've got SharePoint 2013 running and everything seems to be running fine. My Search Service App and Mysites are all up and working fine. I can search for people, content etc. The only thing that is ...
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Get current language via Client Object Model
I need to get the current display language of a web via Client Object Model (C#) from a provider-hosted App. The app runs inside a Client Web Part (IFrame). I am aware of this solution but think it is ...
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Microsoft.CustomDictionaryDeployment fails even if search content access account has reading permissions
I have a problem with my SharePoint 2013 installation, that is driving me nuts. The same error appears in the event logs every 10 minutes:
The Execute method of job definition ...
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Development with SQL Data Source in Visual Studio
There is a sql database. I want to get datas and display them as a list. And I want to filter the datas too. But I can't find any basic tutorial to do it. I don't know where to begin. Where should I ...
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How to remove the shared with or email to everyone buttons
Is there a way to hide the "Shared with ..." or at least the user-names and emailaddresses from specific user groups?
I'd like to hide at least the users which have access to a SP2013 site from the ...
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Personal Sites site collections only being created on default.aspx
I am having problems with the self service creation when the system account's site collection is being created automatically in a customized My Site Host.
If I go to ...
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How do I use different term sets on different pages?
I have made a term set for the main navigation of the site collection I'm working in. This main navigation contains links to pages titled "General", "Strategy",... and so on.
I would like to find ...
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SharePoint 2013 - Error “init.js failed to load”
I am new to SharePoint 2013 server and SharePoint designer 2013. When I browse SharePoint site in IE, I am getting the below error.
"init.js failed to load"
But when I browse SharePoint site in ...
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ResolvePrincipal vs SearchPrincipal
So I'm attempting to write something to mimic sharepoint's people picker. I was originally using Utility.ResolvePrincipal with some success, but it was only returning me a single user (obviously). So, ...
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SharePoint 2013 Forms based authentication with a user list on each site collection
We need to provide forms authentication on a SharePoint Internet website where the users will be added to the site collection they have access permission.
It's kind of a multi-tenant website. Imagine ...
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SP 2013 - The content processing component failed to process the security descriptor of the item
I have a small farm one FE server one AP server
I have started to configure the Search for the 2 existing webapps (both running sites in SSL). Both are configured the same and using the same Search ...
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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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2007 templates broken in 2013
We're upgrading to SP2013 from 2007 and using 2010 as a stepping stone for the DB upgrade.
(This is all out of production, we're building a plan to do production)
The problem we're having is that many ...
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1answer
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Get actual item from SPRecycleBin
Similar to this question, I need to permanently delete only specific items from the recycle bin. I need to know more than just their names, however, and SPRecycleBinItem seems to have only have a ...
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How can I create a List with predefined Id in SharePoint Apps?
I'm working on the Apps development for SharePoint 2013. I need a List for my app, so I can do it using visual studio. But I can't find any option to set up an Id for my List. Is it possible?
P.S. I ...
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How to get a client context for App in provider-hosted Apps?
I use a provider hosted Apps, so need to work with an App Web and Lists.
Could anybody provide a code snippet to get ClientContext() of the App?
Can I do something like this?
Uri appWeb = new ...
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A problem with a website's security certificate for Apps
How can I fix a problem with my certificate for SharePoint Apps?
I receive an error "Mismatched Address" for every app that I deploy.
The url looks like ...
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Templated projects for autohosted or provider apps don't have TokenHelper and aren't set up correctly
When I add new project to my solution, select SharePoint 2013 App, then choose Autohosted or Provider hosted and create it, the created web project is completely empty and the projects are not set up ...
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List Does Not Exist Error After Importing
I have a set of sites that are using one of the Fab-40 templates and we are upgrading to 2013 and as you all know, none of the templates are compatible with 2013. So, I'm having to export the content ...
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CSWP “Value of a field on the Page” Questions/Issues
We're trying to create a seach query that grabs a content type based on a taxonomy field added to our custom Publishing Page content type. We seem to be having one of two issues:
We don't know how ...
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Get list properties via JCOM
How do I get list properties like BaseTemplate, ItemCount, ListItemDeletedDate etc. via Javascript Client Object Model for SharePoint 2013?
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HierarchyTasksList with a custom schema and extra view gives error list not found
I am creating a HierarchyTasksList with a custom schema.
When I add an extra view with a BaseViewId="10" or any other not used number I get an error.
However when I change the BaseViewId to "1". ...
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Deploying my SharePoint application from my development, UAT and production environment
I am somhow new to SharePoint and I have read on an online training which mentioned that “Creating a new content type using feature will improve re usability, since it will enable us to transfer ...
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SharePoint 2013 Migration - WideListSchema error is upgrade blocking
I have a SharePoint 2007 site that has a list with a lot of fields, We are trying to migrate this site to SharePoint 2013 (with a hop on SharePOint 2010).
The site gets upgraded onto SharePOint 2010 ...
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Best practice for deploying Site Columns and Content Type
What is the best practice for creating a site column or content type in SharePoint 2013? Is it still recommended to use farm solutions? I was hoping we could do something with the new app model, but ...
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Implementation of power view in sp 2013 - Pain Points and Ideas
Can anybody please give me some painpoints of using PowerView in sharepoint 2013.
Recently in our project we are planning to upgrade our site from SP2010 to 2013. In SP2010 site we have lots of ...
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How to change Native Mode to SharePoint Integrated Mode in SQL Server 2012
I have installed SQL Server 2012 in Native Mode. How can I change it to SharePoint Integrated Mode. In the Reporting Service Configuration Manager Tool I found that there is no option to change Native ...
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Analog of SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog function, but render to specific div
How to make the analog of SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog function, but render to specific div?
I need to render EditForm to div on page and set callback function. Something like ...
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Too many automatic redirections in SharePoint provider-hosted App
I have an exception with the message "Too many automatic redirections were attempted." in my SharePoint provider-hosted App. This exception has been occurred in the following code:
using (var ...
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1answer
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Customising list views w/JS or XSLT: for my own specific type of list
When customising a list with JS or XSLT, the formatting seems to be applied not just to the list view web part the property is set for - but for all parts with the same list type ID on the page ...
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SP2013 CSOM, am I missing something?
The CSOM samples from Microsoft.. the samples I find online.. blog posts and resources.. ALL seem to use CSOM from a C# app.
If the push is to write Apps and use a client-side model, why are there no ...
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SP2013 “_spUserId” is undefined
As we migrated our solutions and scripts from SP2010 to SP2013 my script ran into some weird error where I could not fetch the current logged in user with "_spUserId" anymore.
var user = _spUserId
...
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Wikis features when having an Enterprise wiki Vs having a wiki page library
I am reading about wiki in SP2013, and some tutorials talks about Wiki pages when creating either:-
Publishing site ------> enterprise wiki
Team site-----> wiki pages OR wiki page libraries.
But I ...
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Sharepoint 2013 public view of MySite and WebPartZones in private
Anybody know how to configure mysite so that when another user browse to my site, he/she only views some webparts? Is it possible that the user moves the webparts in other webpart zones within MySite? ...
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SharePoint-hosted app, with edit mode to update its own properties
I'm using the editMode parameter to detect and display a simple web part admin UI.
When the admin clicks a particular button, I want to use CSOM to update the web part's properties for the page it is ...
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“HostId is not registered” when starting User Profile Synchronization Service
I'm totally stuck trying to get the User Profile Synchronization Service to run in a new SharePoint 2013 system. I've followed every possible guide and applied every known fix, but it's still unable ...
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Sharepoint 2013 extremely slow
We have an new sharepoint 2013 site, Server Virtual and standalone , it has 12 gb ram.
This sharepoint user interface extremely slow.
In Developer Dashboard we see each aspx page requests waiting ...
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Customizing discussions list in SP2013 with JsLink
I'm working on a community site and was looking at ways to modify UI of the discussion list that is presented to the user (and possibly more going forward).
It is my understanding according to the ...
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Edit List Items or List view not working for owner outside of the intranet
Owners cannot edit list view or list items, when they browse to a intranet from outside the network zone that the SP Server located. "They get the page cannot be displayed".
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How to get URL of a document if I have the documents item ID (JavaScript)?
I am trying to create a Ribbon Custom Action in SharePoint 2013 that will e-mail links of selected documents in a document library. I can get the Item ID's of selected items, but how can I use these ...
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Updating a Property w/ 2013 REST Api
I have a sharepoint hosted app that is succesfully able to add Read and Create files on the Host site (using the REST Api and SP.RequestExecutor). Now I am trying to figure out how to update ...
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Setting Person field type in a SharePoint Designer Workflow does not work for Groups
I am using an InfoPath form for my document library. Because of issues with InfoPath Person/Group fields mapping to SharePoint person/group fields correctly, I have a workflow that runs on form ...
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Deploying a SharePoint 2013 on a live environment
I am currently working on developing a SharePoint 2013 application on my development environment; but I have the following questions on how I will be deploying my work on the live environment or on ...
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Documentation about creating and building an enterprise wiki inside a Collaboration site
I cannot find enough documentation on the web that describe advance features when building enterprise wiki, these topics include:-
How to implement a workflow so that a wiki goes through an approval ...
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Get Query string from inside app
I'd like to have access to sharepoint's query string from inside of my app. Since the app is hosted in an iframe, I tried just using window.top.location.search, but that gives me an error since the ...
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Visual Studio 2012 Feature Deploying with two front-ends
We have a situation where we have too many developers needing to work on the same SharePoint 2013 farm. We thought the best way around this was to build out another front-end and install VS 2012 on ...
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CustomSchema.xml and Multilingual site
I am trying to create a Task based list with a customschema.xml.
I have created a custom contenttype with custom fields that uses resource files for title and description.
However when I activate a ...
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Bad cursor position in SharePoint 2013 Note Board (FireFox)
I'm trying to post a note in SharePoint 2013 Note Board (using FireFox 19 version), the mouse cursor goes out of the text input area.
Screenshot: http://www.rodyk.lt/images/2013/04/10/cursordSbh3.png
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