SharePoint Thoughts

An Error you may face is when you try to run a simple SharePoint Management Shell Command, it gives you an error saying :

The HTTP service located at http://localhost:(portNumber)/securitytokenserviceApplication/securitytoken.svc is too busy.

And no commands were working at all.

In this case check the Application Pool for the SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool, you’ll notice it’s stopped, start it and try again.

If you used RSS feeds with SharePoint, and want to make a button where it will display an RSS for specific pages library, you will notice that title in the RSS will open the properties page for the page, not the page itself, so how to change the option?

Go to your “Pages” library, and click library settings in the ribbon, click on RSS settings, you will see a category called “Document options”, change the “Link RSS items directly to their files?” to yes

After changing this option, you’ll see the expected results.

Happy SharePointing

When you first install SharePoint and open Central Administration for the first time, you’ll be given two choices, either to run the configuration wizard and let SharePoint do the administrative tasks for you, or configure the farm yourself.

If you configure the farm yourself and decided to add the Managed Metadata Service, you would simply go to Application Management>> Manage Service Applications>> Click new and choose managed metadata service. The SharePoint will create the Service Application for you. So if you try to click on the Managed Metadata Service Application you will be presented with the following error:

The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or Managed Metadata Web Service may not have been started. Please Contact your Administrator.
To Solve this issue, go to Central Administration >> System Settings Tab>> Manage Services on server>> and notice the managed metadata web service, its not started by default. click start and go back to your service applications page and view your service application. Note you may need to wait fora minute so that the error will disappear and you can use the service application.

There is a requirement that is requested so much to change the Add new item label in SharePoint lists to something meaningful. The good about these labels is that they have an ID that you can play with using JavaScript. Each of SharePoint lists has ID that is different from a list to another.

For the custom list you have the ID= idHomePageNewItem,  for document libraries it is = idHomePageNewDocument, you can know the exact ID using the IE developer tool or the Firebug in Firefox.

To change the label, use JavaScript, you get the ID of the anchor and change the innerText property. The code is like this:

 

document.getElementById(‘idHomePageNewItem’).innerText= “my new text”;

That’s it.

I was trying to install SP Foundation on my Hyper-V machine, and I faced this problem:

After searching and searching online, some people mentioned activating services and trying to run the configuration wizard again, others mentioned navigating to Microsoft Office Servers folder, which doesn’t exist anymore in the RTM release of SP Foundation, but the same principle works for the RTM. All you need to do is to navigate to the following path:

c:Program FilesWindows SharePoint Services15.0Data, and you’ll find an Analytics folder with a GUIC appended to it. All you need is to share this folder.

Hope this helps someone out there as it took a while for me to resolve.

Here is a short video that will show you how you can style your pages using Apptex:

 

Templates available until now:

Tabs: 

 

Accordions: 

Testimonials: 

 

 

Events: 

 

Slider: 

 

 

Google Maps: 

 

Bing Maps: 

 

Styled Google Maps: 

 

Quick View: 

 

 

Modern Tiles: 

 

 

Pinterest View: 

 

Line Chart: 

 

 

Bar Chart: 

 

Radar Chart: 

 

Polar Area Chart: 

             

 

Now Apptex supports SharePoint on-premise in the new release. Please send us your suggestions for desired templates.