How to: Create a SP2010 view filtered by Group
We all know that it is easy to create a view that only displays list items to specific users. You just go into the views and create one filtered for (for example) Column “Assigned To” equals “[Me]”. This is how the “My Tasks” view works anyway. But what happens when you want to filter the [...]
Read MoreIntro to: Interacting with SharePoint 2010 Data (post 3 – SPMetal and LinQ)
This is the third tutorial about accessing and manipulating data on SharePoint. The first one leveraged web services and the second used the server object model. There’s a client object model as well, but we’ll see more about that some other time. In order to leverage LINQ, you will first need to create a strongly [...]
Read MoreIntro to: Interacting with SharePoint 2010 Data (post 2 – Server Object Model)
In a previous post, I made an introduction to interacting with SharePoint data through Web Services; easily, albeit a bit on the verbose side. In 2007, the way to go was by leveraging the Server Object Model (SOM). This is of course kept in the 2010 version of the platform. Today, I’m going to make [...]
Read MoreHow to: Create a site column in SharePoint Designer 2010
Site columns, as we discussed in a previous post, differ from list columns in that they are reusable and guarantee uniformity across the lsits that they are used with. Site columns can easily be created through the web interface. Here, We see how easy it is to create a site column in SharePoint Designer 2010 [...]
Read MoreWhat is: Site columns, content types and lists
SharePoint 2010, just like its predecessor, supports the fundamental elements that made SharePoint 2007 such an important platform. Content types, site columns and lists. In the sense of SharePoint, everything is a list. A site column is a definition of a reusable -within the specified web site that they’ve been defined in- column. That means [...]
Read MoreHow to: Format a Tasks list (or, any other list) in SharePoint 2010 (through Designer)
If you have ever worked with SharePoint before, you know how versatile and important the Tasks lists can be. In the 2007 version of SharePoint, the things you could do with the Tasks list (without using code) were limited to changing views, rights and running out-of-the-box or custom workflows, “developed” in the SPD2007 (SharePoint Designer [...]
Read MoreHow to: Get a SharePoint 2010 Lists XML file
There will be times that you need to fetch the XML file that describes one of your lists in SharePoint 2010. One example that pops to mind is when working with the Lists.asmx web service. You will need to have a visual of the XML file in case you need to operate on the data [...]
Read MoreHow to: Get a SharePoint 2010/2007 list GUID
There will be times when you will need to get a SharePoint list’s ID number. You might want to reference it in a look up field or work with it in some other coding example. There’s a couple of ways to do this: 1. If you’re inside Visual Studio, you can always use the Lists.asmx [...]
Read MoreIntro to: Interacting with SharePoint 2010 Data (post 1 – Web Services & CAML)
Working with the SharePoint platform you will quickly realise that the easiest and probably best and most direct way to interact programmatically with the SharePoint data are the various web services that are shipped with the platform in order to easily leverage what is already available. For a quick intro to Web Services we will [...]
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