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In SharePoint we are using various types of web parts. List View web part are one of major type which uses to populate data on the web page from a SharePoint list. By default all the web parts of the page use the styles inherits from the site theme. Here I explain a simple workout to apply a CSS style to a web part only using out of the box features of SharePoint 2010. There are only 3 steps for you to follow. 1. Get the ID of web part you wants to apply CSS style 2. Add Content Editor web part 3. Apply CSS style as you required Step 1 ♣ Go to “view source” of the browser you are using and search for the web parts name. In my scenario, it’s “Emergency”.   ♣ Now grab the ID number mentioned there at the end of WebPartTitleWPQ 2 . “2” is the ID of “Emergency” web part in my web page. Step 2 ♣ Now add a Content Editor Web Part by go to edit mode of the page. ♣ Set the Chrome Type as None of the added Content Editor Web Part. S...

Avoiding thousand separator(Comma) in SharePoint Number field SharePoint number fields having thousand separators(Comma) which may not want us to need every time. But there are no possibility to avoid the thousand separator(Comma) in the number fields.  To avoid this comma we can do a small workout as following.. Suppose our Number field named as "Student No." Create another Calculated column and name it as "Student Number" Then you have to type the formula according to the following format     = TEXT( Number_Column_Name, "0") And click Save In our scenario it will show as =TEXT([Student No],"0") Note : If the Student No field will empty, the value will be shown as "0".... Or if you want to keep it blank you have to adjust the formula as   =IF( [Student No] <>"",TEXT( [Student No] ,"0"),"") 

Step One :  Go to the SharePoint site collection you want to create the new site. And click Site Action button to drop down the Site Action menu. The select New Site in Site Action menu Step Two : Select the type of the site template you want to create. Team Site template is the most popular template among those Step Three :  Enter the Title of the site you are going to create and the URL of it        (If you are planning to manage the permission uniquely, click More Option rather than Create ) Step Four : Enter the Site Title and the URL you are going to create. Then select Use unique permission to introduce a different permission structure which not use in the parent site of this newly creating site Click Create button to create the new site.   That's ALL......!

Applying Information Right management (IRM) policy to your document library in SharePoint 2010 Set IRM policy Create a SharePoint group and set permission level Stop permission inheritance from the parent site Allow newly created group to access the document library which you want to apply IRM policy Add users to the group 1. Go to the Document library which you want to apply information Right Management server ( IRM server)Click the Library tab Then you have to click on the Library Settings icon of the Library tab You can see the following interface under the Library settings Then select Information Right Management under Permissions and Management which will open IRM Policy creation page Permission Policy Title: Give a title to identify the policy you will create. (Give a meaningful name for it) Permission Policy Description: Give a short description to the policy Allow Users to print docum...

When you create a SharePoint list the default SharePoint add/edit/display form get its looks by its own. For example the fields appears in the add/edit/display form based on the sequence you added the fields. Also by default all fields of the list are shown in the forms. Sometimes you may need to give a hand to customized that look and feel. I’ll try to give some light on how you can customize the default add/edit/view form of SharePoint list. Enable Content type Management First To customize the List forms you need to enable ‘content type management’. You can do so from List settings Page and then click ‘Advance Settings’. Then select yes for “Allow management of content types” as shown below: Figure 1: Enable content type management. Once you have enabled the content type for a list you will find a available content types associated with the lists under ‘content types’ section of list settings page as shown below: Figure 2: Content type management section in list settings...

SharePoint provide rich support for approval process. You can maintain version of changes, you can use built-in workflows or develop your own for approval process. You can even create custom workflow activities and use it in SharePoint Designer to create your own approval workflow. Unfortunately, SharePoint doesn’t provide a nice UI where approver can get a snapshot of what’s changes he’s going to approve/reject.  What we are familiar with the following UI: Figure 1: Very generic UI to approve/reject What if we could have a dialog as shown below: Figure 2: Custom Approve/Reject dialog with modification highlighted As shown in figure 2, the approver will have the better look of what’s the changes he’ll approve/reject. As shown in figure 2, the person who will approve/reject, can get a snapshot of what changes are waiting for his/her approval. What’s the cost of custom approve/reject dialog? Now the question comes what’s the development cost of such a custom approve/rej...

An easy to use out-of-the-box webpart, for creating a slideshow, was missing in SharePoint 2007 but don’t worry SharePoint 2010 is here. The webpart is easy to use. You have to create a picture library and upload some pictures. You can also create view that you want to show in the webpart. Click on the  ‘Edit hero button’  and the site opens in edit mode. Click on  ‘Insert’  and  ‘Web Part’ . Go to the category  ‘Media and Content’  and select the slideshow webpart. The settings of the webpart looks like this: You can choose from the following settings: Duration to Show Picture (seconds) The amount of seconds before a new picture will appear. Picture library Select the picture library that you want to use. Library view Select the view that you want to use. Picture Display Mode Do you want to show the pictures in random or sequential order? Display with The pictures can be shown with the title and description. Show toolbar A too...