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SharePoint Specialist – Intelligent Business

Custom site provisioning provider

Up until a week ago, I thought the only 2 ways to make a template for a site where Site definition and Site Template.

Both ways required that you figure out a lot of XML syntax, feature ids lists ids etc… for any code you want to run on the created site, you need to staple another feature and if you need to run code after the site is provisioned, you need to spawn another thread that will sleep until the site is provisioned. Possible but not very intuitive or easy.  
Then when I needed to create a custom publishing site to be used as a template for sub sites, I found custom site provisioning provider   while reading this post.
I will probably never code another site template any other way from now on.

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Anything Picker

​We are all familiar with the people picker used in SharePoint web parts and application pages to find and select single or multi users from AD or any form authentication provider. The control is actually built to inherit from a more general purpose control named "EntityEditorWithPicker".

I will show how you can build a picker from any searchable source. The particular demo is for employees in a SQL table.

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SharePoint wish List

​It maybe too late for SharePoint 2012 or 2013 (office15) but maybe someone will listen to us. :-)

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Filter by management hierarchy

Often organizations need to allow managers to see list items or documents only for their own employees.
SharePoint’s security can use group membership or direct assignment to a user but has no usage to the organization structure.

 

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My take on integration architecture

​In itegration between 2 different systems, the middleware is not just a gigo machine.

But that is just my opinion.

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Multi approvers’ approval workflow

I had a requirement to start an approval process for document in a library whenever a user checks in a major version.

The customer had a list with 3 look up fields as the key to an item and 6 person fields such that approver 1 , 2 , 3 etc…, Will get the task in order.
The library had the same 3 look up fields and for each document; the combination of the 3 would be the key to select the list of approvers.

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How to have your own site template and make site collections with scripts

In Order to create site collections with a script, you need your own template ID registered in the farm.

Here is how to do it.

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But it works on my SharePoint farm

for cross web applications trust to work, the user has to have rights on the other side.
In a “RunAsSystemAccount” situation, the user is the application pool’s service account. For 2 service account to have exactly the same right, it might as well be the same account.

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Override the pages for lists items new, edit and display

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