A blog is a personal journal published in a SharePoint environment consisting of posts
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How to enable the “From SharePoint” link when inserting a link in a blog post?
When I create a new post in a Blog website, I would like to insert documents by picking them directly from my SharePoint libraries.
Actually there is an option for that but it appears disabled even I ...
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CAML Now Instead of Today - CAML Bug?
I have a CAML query, in which the <Where> node looks like:
<Where>
<Leq>
<FieldRef Name='PublishedDate'/>
<Value Type='DateTime'>
<Today/>
...
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How to Impersonate Users Via Client Object Model?
I want to insert new SP List items -- blog comments, to be exact -- on behalf of other users.
Ideally, I'd just pass a SharepointID for the user, but that doesn't seem to be possible. I think that ...
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Importing WordPress to SharePoint
I'm getting ready to import a WordPress blog to SharePoint 2010. Anyone have an importer already built? If not, I'll have to build my own.
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Setting “contribute” permissions for blog comment lists
It appears as though Sharepoint 2010 OOB does not give Authenticated Users "contribute" permissions for users' blog comment lists. Authenticated Users only have the permission to read, which is not ...
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How do you disable the “Save as draft” button shown when creating a blog post?
How do you disable the "Save as draft" button shown when creating a blog post?
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Can you disable email notifications for a blog post saved as a draft?
In SP 2010 Foundation, I have a blog setup to allow contributors to post as a draft. However, all of the users that have alerts setup for posts receive an email when these drafts are created. That ...
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How to add quick launch to the blog site in SharePoint 2010?
I want to remove the default blog navigation which is categories and archives and just create custom links with the SP navigation feature in All Site Settings. The problem is that in blog sites, the ...
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Add custom field to blog post.aspx page (SP 2010)
I have changed the default look of the post.aspx and default.aspx page for the OOB SharePoint Blog 2010 by using custom XSL file based on the OOB one only changed the option to show custom logo in the ...
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Slow SharePoint Blog
The SharePoint 2010 blog can at times be very slow when rendering individual posts.
The time is generally due to the following operations:
DataBinding DataFormWebPart (Posts[1]) (2654.17 ms)
...
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Blog - how to avoid List Tools in ribbon when clicking on text
I have created a custom blog with the publishing feature enabled.
When I am logged on with a normal user (with no admin rights) and click on a text or an image, "List Tools" appeares in the ribbon, ...
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How do I enable ratings for blogs?
I'm trying to add the rating feature for blog posts.
Any solutions please?
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SharePoint Wiki Versus SharePoint Blog for building a knowledge base library for our company
I am new to SharePoint and after reading about the available features inside SharePoint 2013 I have decided to either:-
Build a Wiki Site using the Wiki Page Library
OR to use the Collaboration -> ...
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Edit date format of Blog post and comments
I'm trying to change the date format of blog posts and comments in Post.aspx, but having trouble. What I want to do is change the $thisNode/@PublishedDate value with ...
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Change default view on sharepoint blog
I am trying to figure out how to have only certain categories of blog posts show on the default page of the blog.
Any time I create a new view or modify existing views the default page does not show ...
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Hide “View all site content” on a blog website
The desire is to remove the "All site content" link from the quick launch menu on all sites.
I have removed it from our master page. However when I now go to a site that has been created using a ...
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Custom Blog Alert Template - Missing ID for list post
I have made a custom alerttemplate and tried to add the ItemID without success. I can add but i need to add post.aspx?ID=xx where xx is replaced by the ItemID.
Tried the following ID-s (and removed ...
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How do I make RSS feeds show images for a blog?
I'm hosting a SharePoint Foundation 2010 site, tomresing.com on fpweb.net and pushing my blog feed through feedburner at http://feeds.feedburner.com/TomResingsSharePointBlog.
However, my images don't ...
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Enabling attachments with DataFormWebPart on a Blog template
As most of you probably know, once you customize a form and use DataFormWebPart you lose the attachments functionality.
After spending several hours investigating this subject, I've installed Hotfix ...
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How do I show the quick launch menu in a SharePoint foundation blog?
I'd like to display the Quick Launch menu on a blog site above the standard blog navigation on the left hand side (e.g. above the categories and archives webparts), the quick launch menu displays on ...
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Customize the left side panel of a Blog Template
How can I customize the left side panel of a Blog Template in SP2010?
I'm pretty new to SharePoint, and I was asked to customize the left side panel of a blog (the one that has Category 1, Category ...
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How to publish blog posts on behalf of another user in SharePoint 2010?
I have blog for our management team. Assistants will be posting instead of the managers. I have created a column called "Author" which is "people/group" lookup field for the assistants to add a person ...
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Sharepoint 2007 Publishing sites and integrating the blog site template
Has anyone had any experience of using the MOSS blog template for publishing sites?
It seems you have to turn off the ‘ViewFormPagesLockDown’ feature to stop authentication prompts when clicking the ...
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Using MS Word for editing a already published Blog in SharePoint 2010 Blog site
I've seen that we can use MS Word to create new Blog posts.
The option is available under Blog Tools > Launch blog program to post
Works fine, word opens with Blog kind of template, and I can ...
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Search Core Results showing My Site Blogs
I'm trying to create something like "Recent blogs" after some research I came up with two feasible options.
Use Search Core Results - has been suggested that it is possible to create some sort of ...
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Upgrade to CKS 3.0 - Metaweblog.ashx won't work
We're using windows live writer for our blog and therefore we're using the metaweblog.ashx. But after the upgrade from CKS 2.0 to CKS 3.0 there is an error when calling metaweblog.ashx.
The error is:
...
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How can I remove Category from the SharePoint 2010 blog posting form?
How can I remove Category from the SharePoint 2010 blog posting form? Apparently Category is a protected field cause I can't delete it, which I don't want to anyway. I just don't want Category to be ...
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Remove “Launch blog program to post”
How do I remove "Launch blog program to post" from the SharePoint 2010 blog page??? Any suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks!!!
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Link to Another Blog Post from Within Modal Window
I have a simple blog on my internal development site which has two posts. I use JavaScript on a custom application page to launch the Post.aspx?Id=3 page in a modal window. Works great. The only ...
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Showing more months in Monthlyarchive.aspx in a Blog-subsite
So if I created a blog-subsite in August 2011, the Monthlyarchive.aspx is going to show me months from August 2011 onwards.
Let's say that I want to create a blog-post now in January 2012 but I want ...
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Blog posts appear to all users before the set published date has been reached
Setting the "Published" date (a list column in List 'Post') to some time/date in the future seems to have no effect on delaying the post. I'm finding it becomes publicly viewable immediately. I tried ...
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Deleting a blog post leaves related .png files in Photos list
I used the blog template when creating a new subsite within mysites and in the process an associated list called Photos got created.
While this has worked well, I've noticed that when I delete a blog ...
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Display a custom column from a blog list in a summary view
I have created a blog using sharepoint 2010
I added a few new column using sharepoint designer
List-post-add new column.
Of couse each post I edit and added the content to the extra field.
...
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How can I remove “All Site Content” from the Blog Navigator in SharePoint 2010?
How can I remove "All Site Content" from the Blog Navigator in SharePoint 2010? I removed it from v4master and "All Site Content" disappears on all of the site pages (which is what I wanted) but it ...
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SPF2010 Blog displays “Alert Me” for anonymous users
Working on a public facing SharePoint Foundation 2010 site with anonymous access enabled. Anonymous/authenticated access to content works as expected without problems so far.
Accessing the Blog with ...
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Weekly newsletter alert on Blog library shows pending entries
We have setup an alert on our internal blog that sends an email once a week with all the new blog posts, as follows:
The problem is that it sends both Approved and Pending blog posts.
Is there a ...
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Sharepoint 2010 posting to a blog via email body of the post epmty
I am trying to post to a SharePoint blog via email. It is working partially. I am able to send an email to the Blog but it only posts title of the post and body of the post is empty. Is there special ...
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How to Retrieve the Data from an Individual Blog Post
I am trying to brand a blog post according to our standards, and to do that I have simply created a custom visual web part to take the place of the SharePoint default. What I am wondering is how am I ...
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LiveWriter Post to Blog generates SOAP Exception when post contains images
My company recently moved our wiki, blogs and internal knowledge base to a outsource SharePoint host sherweb.com. I have been using LiveWriter (2011 - 15.4.3555.308) to post my updates to the blog and ...
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Setting up alert for comments based on categories in a Sharepoint Blog
I have set up a blog on my sharepoint site and need users to be able to subscribe to the blog using the "Alert Me" option. I need each user to be able to subsribe to a certain cateogory so they only ...
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How to add a blog post programmatically?
I'm trying to create a C# script that will allow me to import blog posts from a different system (exported as CSV) into a SharePoint blog. I have found a script for comments to a blog post, but I'm ...
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Can the Default blog page be edited?
Can I edit the Default blog page in SharePoint 2010? Basically I would like to change the sort order of the posts. Currently the default page is sorted by date, is it possible to change it to where it ...
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How do I manage alerts for a blog on SharePoint 2007?
I'm able to find where I can add alerts for blogs by going to Blog > Categories > Edit however, this doesn't allow me to manage already existing alerts.
For a normal site I can just go into Site ...
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What are the advantages of SharePoint 2010 blog compared to WordPress
we already have SharePoint 2010 in our company, and we are considering which blog platform to use in our company, we have the option to chose between SharePoint or WordPress.
Can you explain please ...
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Blog posts on main frontpage
I have a main company site and a blog subsite. I want to display the posts & comments from the blog on the main homepage of the main site, along with some other content.
I have looked into ...
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SharePoint 2010 & MySites & Remove 'Create Blog' link
I have a SharePoint Server 2010 instance that has UPS setup and over 1000 end users using MySites. Is there a way to disable the 'Create Blog' link? Currently I have already deployed a custom master ...
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Recreating the Blog Template
The blog template allows you to display several blog posts on a page. Clicking on the title allows you to goto a view of the blog post on a seperate page. How would I go about doing something similar ...
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Associate Vote to Blog Post in SP 2007
I want to create a blog site in SP 2007 that allows the users to vote on existing blog posts but not to their own. Provide users instant voting talleys next to each post. How do I go about in ...
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Customizing the SharePoint 2010 Blog Post page
Can I customize the blog template pages in SharePoint 2010 Foundations? I found some articles online about editing the schema located in the 14Hive folder. I'd rather not do this, can it be done ...
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Find categories list for a blog
I am developing a webpart related to blogs and is there any way to fetch the categories list url for that particular blog?
