(this is a copy of a post that is not available anymore) DateRangesOverlap Value Type I don’t know if any back-end developers have run into this same issue when working with the SPQuery to pull expanded recurrence date, but from here, not all DateRangesOverlap Value types work the way they should. And they’re cryptically-documented, where […]

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I wanted to inject some codes on Github, however I received Content Security Policy errors. It’s because Github blocks this kind of injected code. To bypass this restriction I installed the addon Content Security Policy Override (if you have Firefox you can install this Chrome addon using Chrome Store Foxified) then I applied the below […]

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I have this document library on Sharepoint where I have one custom column called Metadata and that is a lookup to another list on my Sharepoint. When the users download an Office document from this library and then re-upload it we could have the below error message: There is at least one lookup column that […]

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When you open a file from Sharepoint, it will receive a short term lock that will prevent others to change some properties on the file. This protection can be useful, but also very annoying, for example when the file is not closed properly, then the lock could stay “forever”. There are many posts on the […]

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We can find plenty of demo and tutorials about it on the web, but it took me a while to understand how to setup something easy and quick. The purpose is to have a zone where we can drop a file from our computer. You need: A zone where the file will be dropped (for […]

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Sharepoint provides automatic fields, like “Created” that contains the creation date of a list item. It’s a readonly field. You could use a webservice to change the ReadOnly property in order to overwrite its value. Using SharepointPlus the code is: // don’t change the below information // the details about this field are found using […]

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It’s very frustrating to have to work with ASP again, after so many years… I wanted to use an ASP page to get a remote page. However I needed to pass some NTLM authenticate to it. After a few searches I found this solution: <% ‘ I want this page to be accessible for Cross […]

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In Sharepoint you can use <WebPartPages:AllowFraming runat=”server” /> to disable the SAMEORIGIN for X-FRAME-OPTION giving you the opportunity to call your page from an iframe (see this other article). However you cannot use the same trick to preview a file into the browser with WopiFrame.aspx. But there is a way to do it, using the […]

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Sometimes you want to modify the options for a dropdown box by removing some existing options, however you want to be able to keep these old values for reporting or whatever reasons. Below is a way to do it by using jQuery and SharepointPlus. It will hide the “Specify your own value” stuff, and add […]

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If you want to trigger an event after a drag&drop a file for an upload operation on Sharepoint, then you’ll have to add some JavaScript into your page. // we need to make sure sp.core.js is loaded SP.SOD.executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(function() { window.UploadFinishFunc=function(b, a) { typeof g_currentControl.postUploadFunc == “function” && a.status != UploadStatus.CANCELLED && g_currentControl.postUploadFunc(a.files); a.status != UploadStatus.CANCELLED […]

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