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Custom actions enables expanding or extending the standard behavior of SharePoint 2010 core components.

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SPWeb = this.Web always points to Central Administration?

I'm learning SharePoint 2010 and facing a strange problem : I implement a custom action to add a ribbon button under Documents tab, this button has a command to open a modal dialog in my site which ...
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How to create workflow & submit data using infopath form?

I have designed the Form in InfoPath. I want to submit the form's data in my Sharepoint site. Sothat the supervisor(the higher level)person can check the details and he can Approve/Reject the ...
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How to add a custom action in Ribbon.EditingTools.CPEditTab.Markup with SharePoint Designer or PowerShell?

I'm trying to add a custom action in the Ribbon.EditingTools.CPEditTab.Markup group. My goal is to add a button that fires a custom javascript that inject som html content in the rich editor control ...
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Localize a CustomAction programmatically

I work in a farm environment and i want to add a CustomAction in a specific SPList. The list is created programmatically, so i cannot know the ID. For that i tried to register the action with ...
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Creating Workflow -> Error

When I try to create a new WF in my Sharepoint Designer I get following error: The list of workflow actions on the server references an assembly that does not exist. Some actions will not be ...
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Conditionally Show/Hide/Disable Custom Workflow Action Buttons

I have three custom action buttons on a list created through SharePoint Designer. All three buttons execute a workflow and I need to show/hide or enable/disable the buttons based on certain conditions ...
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Initiate Workflow With Custom Action

I have looked around on Google, and I have found tutorials on how to initiate a workflow from a custom action in the ribbon, but I have run into a problem. I am not sure why (I assume I have a ...
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Create a custom action to my custom settingpage, but got error: Application Server Administration job

I have created a new VS 2010 sharepoint empty project. Create a feature with the name "Create action". I created also an action element file with the following xml code: <?xml version="1.0" ...
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custom action string type dependency property error

I am writing a custom action and running into an error on the publish stage of the SPD workflow editor. Essentially, my problem is that my dependency properties are not working correctly. Half of ...
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Custom Ribbon button in Calendar event edit form SP2013

I am trying to define a ribbon button that appears in the calendar new event and/or modify event form using Visual Studio. I am perfectly able to have a ribbon button appear in the list view and ...
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Access Denied on Custom Page deployed to Central Administration

I deployed a custom application page to central admin. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798467.aspx If I am a farm administrator and the central admin site collection administrator I can ...
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How to quickly get the EditForm look and feel and functionality and customize it?

I have developed a custom ASPX page (a SharePoint application page) which is used as a replacement for the default EditForm. I need to have some fields available for editing (so, not all as the ...
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open new item form through custom action

I have created a custom action which visible to user on "Issue" Display Form. I have another list called "Note" which has a look field (Type of Issue) called Issue. Basically there is one to many ...
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Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 - Having limit of max absence (MC,Leave) function?

I've just joined a company, and they threw me their sharepoint website which had functions up and running, including the Absence and Leave Calendar. Currently the absence and leave calendar functions ...
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Custom workflow activity for SP 2007 appears in Designer's action picker but won't add

This is SharePoint 2007. I created a custom workflow activity in Visual Studio 2008 (using this and a few other blogs as a reference). I deployed it properly, I think. I can go into SharePoint ...
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Is it possible to add a CustomAction in a SharePoint 2013 Survey Settings menu?

We have an application deployed on SharePoint 2013. Part of the application adds custom items to the ribbons of lists and libraries and the edit control block of list and library items. This is the ...
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Load List Item Ribbon tab on page load when using Page in Pages Library

My question is a little bit different than the other missing / loading ribbon questions and I'll explain why. In order to properly style my application, I've created a page in the Pages Library and ...
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SP2010 Ribbon add confirm logic on publishing a page

I need to display a confirm popup when page is published to warn about unpopulated publishing page fields. User might contiune in which case page will be published, or user might cancel publishing. ...
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SharePoint 2013 display usage reports for custom events

I created custom usage event type and button described on this page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj715889.aspx Everything is working fine - I can find logs files with this event ...
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SP2010 Custom action runs sandboxed but not as farm solution

Short version: Which changes need to be made to convert a custom workflow action, developed in VS2010, from a Sandbox to a Farm solution. Assume it is a placeholder with no logic added yet. Long ...
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Ribbon Custom action for creating new page

I would like to create a new Ribbon Custom action for creating new page, because I want to have more control on creating new page. I have created a SharePoint hosted app and added new ribbon custom ...
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Action / TASK assignment

I have created site with actions/tasks assigned to several team members . How can we set the permission levels such that people are able to see only task assigned to them in outlook as well from the ...
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Hiding Custom Action for Just one document library

I have a custom action deployed for a site collection, now if I want to hide it for a custom document library is it possible. Also this is what I am doing actually, can you think a better way of ...
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Trying to convert a SP2010 document version to a PDF generates SPException: List does not exist

I am trying to modify an existing SP2010 custom workflow action that converts an existing document to PDF using Word Automation. There is a new requirement to only convert the last published version ...
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Start a workflow from the ECB

I want to add a custom action to the ECB to start a workflow automatically. To get to the workflow page I can do something like: <UrlAction ...
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SharePoint 2010: How to add custom element to Create menu?

I want to add custom element to SharePoint 2010 Create menu. (Site Actions -> View all site content -> Create). I want to to add this element to Page directory like a "Web Part Page" element. How can ...
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SP 2013 - How to prevent Quicksteps and custom action from going to default page after starting workflow?

I'm having problem with quick steps or custom action which I set up to manually execute a workflow. After the workflow starts, it automatically send us to the default site page. What I want is to go ...
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I can not see Custom Ribbion that created from following code

I have created custom action to view on webpart page but i can not see it. <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <CustomAction Id="MyRibbonCustomization" ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Custom Action not appearing when there is no custom action for list in Designer!

I have a strang problem in my site , I created a custom action by Using a Feature in Visual Studio for one of custom lists , when I added another custom action to displayForm in SharePoint Designer I ...
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Gantt View with custom action

Does anybody now if it is possible to have a Gantt View with custom action in row context menu (or something similar). What i mean is to add an action above Delete (see photo)
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CustomAction Javascript is not executed on Publishing page

hi i have the following problem. I try to add a custom action(code below) to a publishing page it adds but if i click the button the javascript in the handler is not executed does anybody know the ...
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Create Ribbon Button on a custom list template SP2013

I am trying to add a ribbon custom action to a custom list that is created from a custom list template. The list template itself is based on Asset Library. The code below successfully adds the ...
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Link in ECB menu 'Send To'

I have a small question regarding the poisition of the menu in "Send to" in EditControlBlock menu on an item. Basically when you click over an item in document library or whatever you have a menu: ...
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Error in Custom workflow Activity in Sharepoint Designer 2010

I have create one Solution. on that time solution name was 'CrossSubsSiteAction'. deployed it successfully working my Custom Workflow Action from this articale : ...
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How to add data in DropDownlist dynamically in InfoPath?

I have 1 form, in which there is 1 Dropdown list that contains List of Months From January to December of current year 2013. Now if I select any particular Month then, all the Dates(Only for Sundays) ...
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Sharepoint 2007 HTML Form submitting to PHP Script not working

I am working in Sharepoint Designer 2007 through the web API to set up a form for a client of mine. The form simply collects some data, and upon submit, a PHP script compiles the data into a formatted ...
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SharePoint Delete confirmation message shows up twice

I'm facing a problem with delete confirmation message box which shows up twice. my scenario is the following : - I have a SharePoint Site. - Document library - Some custom actions i developed for the ...
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How to group custom actions in ECB of a list / library

I created some custom actions and i want to group them together in some kind of group. So that you have before and after my group of actions a dotted line.
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How to add LinkItem inside folder in sharepoint list of type Links

I have SharePoint 2010 in which i have a list whose type is "Links". Inside this "Links" list, i have a folder. I want to add link item to this folder programatically. I am using ...
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custom action rights

I have a sharepoint 2010 site with a library. this library has three subfolders. the system admin has full control over the whole library. All users have read only rights to the whole library. ...
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XSLT 0x80004005, a reference to variable or parameter cannot be resolved. the variable or parameter may not be defined

While trying to change a view column name so that the view would apply to all lists through an event handler I keep recieving a most annoying error after I deploy and create a new list. The initial ...
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External Content Type custom action with parameters not showing up in actions menu

So I looked around for solution and could not find anything. Here's the problem: I am using SharePoint 2010. I want to add a custom action to an external content type. If I add a custom action ...
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Custom Action for BDC Entity adds Plus Symbols in Query String Parameters

Using the web interface in SharePoint 2010, I add a custom action to one of my Business Data entities (External Content Type) to navigate to a URL with some parameters in the query string. The link ...