Free Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Templates

Download free SharePoint 2010 templates at:
http://www.microsoft.com/government/en-us/campaigns/pages/sharepoint-templates.aspx 

SharePoint Custom List form with horizontal RadioButtons

In sharepoint list form we don't get options to show radiobuttons horizontally and they take to much space of form if there are too many of them.

We can make those radio buttons vertically using some javascript. I searched on google and I found below post.
http://www.mickyjay.co.uk/blog/?p=668

We need to open the form in designer and add below javascript in it.

<script type="text/javascript">
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("reconfigRadios");
function reconfigRadios()
{
var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");
var radios = new Array();
for (var i=0; i < inputs.length; i++)
{
    if (inputs[i].type == "radio")
    radios.push(inputs[i]);
}var html = new String();
var openTable = "<TABLE cellSpacing='0' cellPadding='0'
width='100%' border='0'><TR>";
var closeTable = "</TR></TABLE>";for (var i=0; i < radios.length-1; i++)
{if (i == 0)
html = openTable;
var obj = radios[i];
while (true)
{
    if (obj.tagName == "TD")
    break;
    else
    obj = obj.parentElement;
}
html = html + "<TD>" + obj.innerHTML + "</TD>";
if (radios[i].name != radios[i+1].name)
{
   html = html + closeTable;
   var obj2 = obj;
   while (true)
   {
      if (obj2.tagName == "SPAN")
      break;
      else
      obj2 = obj2.parentElement;
   }
   obj2.innerHTML = html;
   html = openTable;
}
if (i == radios.length-2)
{
   obj = radios[i+1];
   while (true)
   {
      if (obj.tagName == "TD")
      break;
      else
      obj = obj.parentElement;
   }
   html = html + "<TD>" + obj.innerHTML + "</TD>";
   html = html + closeTable;
   var obj2 = obj;
   while (true)
   {
      if (obj2.tagName == "SPAN")
      break;
      else
      obj2 = obj2.parentElement;
   }
   obj2.innerHTML = html;
}}}</script>

Programmatically sending mail in SharePoint using SPUtility class

To send mails using SharePoint API, we can use SPUtility class sendMail method. For reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.utilities.sputility.sendemail.aspx

To use this method we will require:

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;

using System.Collections.Specialized;

You can assign to, cc, bcc, from, subject by creating stringdictionary, like

StringDictionary headers = new StringDictionary();
headers.add("to",strTo);
headers.add("cc",strCC);
headers.add("bcc",strbcc);
headers.add("from",strFrom);
headers.add("subject",strSubject);
headers.add("content-type","text/html");

string emailBody = “Hi<br><br>Sending mails using SPUtility.”;

SPUtility.SendEmail(web, headers, emailBody);

Where web is SPWeb object that represents site from which you want to send mail.



Input mask on textbox in SharePoint list form

Yesterday on LinkedIn I saw one discussion where one of group member asked a query about how to create Input mask on text box in SharePoint List form.

While searching on internet I found this post. In this post Author opened the new form in SharePoint designer, added custom new form and then added jQuery code on page.

But what if I do not have SharePoint designer.

So instead opening page in SharePoint designer, I added CEWP on NewForm.aspx

And then I did some changes in original code, Instead of custom style I used Title of the field. And I inserted below code in Source editor of the CEWP.

<script language="javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
<script language="javascript" src="http://jquery-joshbush.googlecode.com/files/jquery.maskedinput-1.2.2.min.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function($){
   $("input[title='Phone']").mask("(999) 999-9999? Ext.99999");
});
</script>

And it worked for me. Have a look at below screenshot.

Reference:
http://www.a2zdotnet.com/View.aspx?Id=194 (Original post)
http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin/

Filter document library view by file type

Sometimes we get requirement such that document library should display files with certain file type.
For an example, I want to create view which will display only word documents.

Here is how we need to create our view

1. Go to Document library settings.
2. Create view
3. Name the view: Word documents
4. Go to Filter and Select "Show items only when following is true"
5. Choose Name > Contains > .doc (See below screenshot)
6. Or When Column > Name > Contains > docx (See below screenshot)

When we will select this view it will display word documents.

SharePoint Server 2010: boundaries and limits

This article describes software boundaries and limits of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2010 & 2013

http://sprider.org/2012/12/14/software-boundaries-and-limits-for-sharepoint-2010-2013/

Add Hit Counter on a page using SharePoint Designer 2007

To add hit counter on page

1. Open the page using SharePoint Designer.
2. From the Insert menu, select Web Component .
3. Select the counter style you want from the right screen and click finish.
   

To reset the hit counter

1. Double-click the hit counter.
2. Click to select the Reset counter to check box, and then type a number in the box.
3. Click OK.