By: Shaili Modi Symptom: Assume that you are running Microsoft InfoPath on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, and the Desktop Experience feature is not enabled on the server. In this situation, you cannot use InfoPath to publish an InfoPath form on a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 server. Additionally, when you try to publish and […]
By: Shaili Modi SharePoint Calculated Columns are powerful tools when creating out-of-the-box solutions. With these columns, we can manipulate other columns in the list item. If we need to get a Reply Due or a Due Date field as a date being 5 working days from the received date/added date/modified date? We can use the […]
By: Neil Barkhina One of the really cool features of Excel Services is the ability to use it for reporting and dashboards, without divulging its underlying formulas and data connections to the end users. However to get this working, you need to understand a little about what permission levels and configuration settings to use. Luckily […]
XML is one of the most popular formats for files and data streams that need to represent complex data. The InfoPath forms use XML data as well as many task forms and the RSS data feed. Once you’ve got your hands on XML data, you can use LINQ to query anything from the data. LINQ […]
By: Shaili Modi Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an SDK for developing and deploying services on Windows. WCF provides a runtime environment for your services, enabling you to expose CLR types as services, and to consume other services as CLR types. Adding the IRestService.cs and RestService.cs classes Once we add the service(.svc) we need the […]
By: Neil Barkhina SharePoint 2013 supports a lot of customization of the Ribbon for Document Libraries. However, sometimes does something simple such as creating a button that opens a document in a new tab is not so easy to do. There are a few reasons for this. One is because you will be programming mostly […]
By: Shaili Modi Analysis Services in SharePoint integrated mode is an Analysis Services server instance that supports in-memory storage of compressed data that is calculated in real time, in response to queries for PowerPivot data. When installed through PowerPivot for SharePoint, an Analysis Services server instance loads and unloads PowerPivot data in the farm, and […]
By: Neil Barkhina SQL Server 2012 is an amazing platform for reporting and business intelligence. In order to use some of its most powerful features such as PowerView, PowerPivot and PerformancePoint you will need to use SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) which stores its data in a specialized database called a cube. Cubes are designed […]
By: Neil Barkhina Telerik is a company that makes some great ASP .NET controls. One of the many requests I get from customers is how to use these controls within a SharePoint Visual Web Part. SharePoint, being an enterprise and scalable environment by default does not allow custom controls from DLL’s without first doing a […]
By: Neil Barkhina InfoPath forms are a great platform for building web based forms quickly and easily with business rules. One of the common questions I get is, can it be possible to enable and disable controls in an InfoPath Form based on the user that is logged into the system. Thankfully the answer is […]