SharePoint Development & Administration + InfoPath

This post explains how to incorporate permissions into custom links and actions added to the UI on menus, toolbars and default layout pages such as the Site Settings page in SharePoint 2010 .     Examples included in the post are: Restricting custom links on list settings pages to only site collection administrators Adding custom actions to the Document Library dropdown menu (ECB - Edit Control Block) that are displayed only to users with edit permissions on the document. Displaying a link on the Site Actions menu only to users with access to manage  permissions for the current site. Displaying a custom link on the List Actions menu for users with access to manage the list. Display a link on the Site Settings page of a site to users with access to add and customise pages on the site, as well as apply themes and stylesheets to the site (Site Designers).

In this article I explain the steps to include a custom User Control in a Master Page in SharePoint 2010 using SharePoint Designer .   In my case, the example User Control I am adding to the Master Page in this tutorial is in the following location which would vary depending on the name and of the Control and the folder it is saved in:  “~/_controltemplates/SP2010_UserControl_Example/DynamicSiteTitle.ascx file” SharePoint Designer 2010 Master Page User Control Using SharePoint Designer 2010, open the Site and Master Page Library where the Master Page will be stored containing the User Control.  In this example, I am creating a copy of the default v4.master used in SharePoint 2010 in the root site Master Page Library and calling it v4b.master. Open the Master Page you wish to modify by right clicking the and selecting the “Edit File in Advanced Mode” option. Close to the top of the markup below the existing @Register / @Import tags, add the fol...

Last night I set up a fresh development environment for SharePoint 2010, but ran into a few issues when I came to install Visual Studio 2010 on the server, and also SharePoint 2010 once Visual Studio was installed, although there were a number of possible causes of SharePoint stopping working during the process.  In this article, I explain the steps taken to resolve issues with the Visual Studio 2010 installation and the SharePoint 2010 environment. Server Configuration The server is configured with Windows Server 2008 Standard as the operating System, which was created from a snapshot taken from the base install some months ago.  In the “base install”, I had installed MS SQL Server 2008, and SharePoint 2010 which were both working fine at the time the snapshot was created. The problems and steps taken to resolve: After creating a new VM from the snapshot and testing SharePoint, I was able to load the root SharePoint site as expected.  No other sites ex...

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