When deploying a branding solution through Visual Studio, you might notice that your Page Layouts will not be published, and could be ghosted as well. If you’re having a ghosting issue, follow this article. This post should be enough if all you want to do is deploy and publish a...
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Deploying page layouts with Visual Studio to SharePoint 2010: Revert to Site Definition (Ghosting Unghosted files)
So, you are deploying branding through Visual Studio into SharePoint 2010, which includes your Masterpage(s) and Page Layout(s). It works great the first time doesn’t it? But what then . . . as soon as you use the page layout in any of your sites, it gets locked down and...
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Setting a custom Master Page in a Team site
Natively, SharePoint uses v4.master for Team sites and does not give you the option to choose a different master page. To enable master page selection, you need Publishing enabled. Follow the steps below to enable publishing features (in this order). Site Actions > Site Settings > Site Collection Features (under...
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_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames in SharePoint vs. jQuery’s document ready
In the last few months, I’ve done a lot of integration of jQuery into SharePoint for its rich animation framework. Instantiating the jQuery has always been an interesting challenge. During the branding process and masterpage creation, everything seems to work great. As time goes on and more content is added,...
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Adding Images & Links to a SharePoint 2010 Survey
As you probably know, SharePoint 2010 (like 2007) only allows plain text in the question fields for surveys. This post explains why, and gives a solid workaround with little effort....
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Allow the browser to control the scrollbars in SharePoint 2010 (increasing browser support) when using v4.master.
This article explains how to give scroll-control to the browser instead of objects on the page (through div overflows). Why would you want this? Well, for 2 reasons: Increase browser support, and allow mobile users to view full pages in SharePoint (specifically - the browser on Android has...
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Hiding SharePoint content from anonymous users in public websites (and still keep the functionality intact for logged-in users)
Building a SharePoint site to be fully functional in an authenticated view vs. what the public sees is actually fairly simple. This article covers how to remove the Site Actions menu and Browse bar from SharePoint only for Anonymous view, while keeping all the SharePoint functionality in play....
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Custom-branding a FAST Search Center (how to fix the search box and dual-site actions menu)
For those of you who are branding a FAST Search Center in SharePoint 2010, you might have come across 2 interesting quirks when using a masterpage other than the OOTB minimal.master (which happens to be the same as the minimal.master included in any regular site): The search box is rendered...
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