SharePoint 2010 List color codes indiacator using HTML calculated columns

Hi guys,

I have the requirement to build the dashboard designer based on the data from the list. After research on the google, I am able to find the simple way to achieve it using html calculated columns.

Below is the brief description about it for reference.

For example, you have the choice field to show the field "Kickoff" status to green for in progress, red for delay and yellow for hold on.

I created the calculated column to name it as "KICKOFF" and wrote the calculated formula as follows.

KICKOFF: ="

•

"

Once the user selects the Kickoff field to green from choice dropdown, the dashboard field will be updated with green bullet.

Similarly for other fields, you can write the html calculated fields easily based on the choice specified in the original field.

PRESENT: ="

•

"

In above one ,if the choice field "Final presentation" selected by user is Red, the calculated field show red bullet in dash board.

Once you insert the list view webpart in the page, modify the view of list to display the calculated fields .

After that , your job is not completely done.  You have to modify the columns value in sharepoint designer.

Open the list view webpart in designer and select the calculated field, then go to properties and then write

xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"

Save and close the page. Refresh the page in webpage and see the color dashboard.

Dataform webpart throws error XSLT timeout error

In the data form webpart, if the xslt transformation takes more than one second, the stack overflow exception would be thrown and error message displayed to the user.

To increase the transformation time out, the below power shell script is required.

Activating FAST search feature using power shell script

Hi Guys,

I had a chance to check whether the fast search feature is activated on your site collection or not using power shell script.

If you navigate to the below url, then you are able to find the fast search feature status
http://sitecollectionurl/_layouts/contextualkeywordmanagement.aspx

Fast search feature is the hidden one, where you need to activate that one using power shell console only through farm administration rights.

Here is the powershell command to know the features activated on your site collection

Get-SPFeature -site siteurl |sort displayname.

If you do not find the feature named "Search Extensions" in the activated features list, you need to activate the hidden feature manually using Fast search feature GUID.

Enable-SPFeature -ID "5EAC763D-FBF5-4d6f-A76B-EDED7DD7B0A5" -site sitecollectionurl

SharePoint List item do not update modified time and modified user

Hi,

I had a requirement to not update the modified user and modified date on the list items with the ability to update the items in the list.

This situation comes like in the production sharepoint sites, the documents modified time and modified by fields are updated by business users and while doing code executions on these items, those modified fields on the lists items should not be updated with system account and latest time.

For this, we used the item.systemupdate(true/false) method.

Here is the script, we had to run on each item in the document library in the entire site collection to make the item update , but without updating modified by and modified time.

Our requirement was to delete the minor versions in the entire site collection, so we recommended the approach of enabling version history with setting "Keep the following no of minor versions" to 1 or 2 or 3.

So if we set 1 for the setting, only the current published minor versions other published versions will exist and all other minor versions will be deleted.
But this job will be done only the item has to be checked out with check in /discard checkout action.

To avoid manual action on each item, we prepared the following script.

Permissoins required for doing backup job in SharePoint 2010

Hi All, The below permissions are required on the backup folder you created to complete the required backup job.
1. Sharepoint timer service account --i.e on which account the timer jobs are running in your farm --> go to services.msc and check the service properties

2. SQL server service instance -- i.e. on which account, the sql service is running in your database server -->go to services.msc and check the service properties

3. The user who is doing the backup job--

These above users should have full control on the backup folder

For better performance, create the backup folder in the sql server itself, so that the network speed would not be a problem.Later you can copy the content to network drive for restore operation.

Modify Webpart Title Color, background color, Header background,

Hi All, Recently I had to work on some custom css changes in my team site home page. I need to change the Color of the Webpart titles, background color of the total webpart and header. To achieve these things easily ,I first had to go to developer tools (short cut : F12 or Tools -->Internet options -->Developer Tools) of the required page and then understood what the css classes were written in CoreV4.css file for existing styles of the web part and the page. We need to override these css classes in our custome code in master page or CEWP. Here is my work for different categories.

Code for changing the color of Webpart title

 <style type="text/css">
  
 .ms-WPTitle {
  
      COLOR: #d47600; FONT-WEIGHT: bold
  
 }
  
 .ms-WPTitle A:link {
  
      COLOR: #d47600; FONT-WEIGHT: bold
  
 }
  
 .ms-WPTitle A:visited {
  
      COLOR: #d47600; FONT-WEIGHT: bold
  
 }
  
 }
  

Code for Changing webpart header background color

 <style type="text/css">
  
 .ms-WPHeader {

BACKGROUND-COLOR:Trasperant;

}
}

Code for Changing the Total Webpart background color: If you want to change the background color for a required webparts in the page, you should first locate the id of the webpart. This could be found by using again developer tools, open developer tools, select "Find Element by click" on menu, switch to your site page, then locate the webpart with mouse and then identify ID highlighted in Developer tools. Here is the script for that changing color:

 <style type="text/css">
  
 .s4-wpcell#MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ7 {

BACKGROUND-COLOR:blue
}
}

In the above snippet,.s4-wpcell is the css class for total webpart box and we are applying only for the webpart with the id "MSOZoneCell_WebPartWPQ7 ". if you want to change for all the webparts, you could directly use the single css code like here

 <style type="text/css">
  
 .s4-wpcell{

BACKGROUND-COLOR:blue
}
}

Code for removing the headers of list/document libraries

 <style type="text/css">
  
 .ms-viewheadertr{

 Display:none;
}
}  

Code for removing left quick launch panel

 <style type="text/css">
  
 #s4-leftpanel{

 Display:none;

}
}  

You can apply directly in CEWP for quick testing of these css snippets.
For adding the styles in master page, it would be recommended to maintain a separate style sheet in styles library of the top level site and give that style sheet reference in master page head tag like below.

 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../style%20library/CustomCSS/Mystyles.css" />   

Add Background image to the site page

Hi Guys, I had a requirement from customer to add a background image to the existing site page. I just wrote a css style to achieve this through Content editor webpart. Here I noted downn my brief work . The Background image needs to be applied to the BODY tag of the page and here is my css script.

 <style type="text/css">
  
 BODY{
  
 background-image:url("/sites/yoursite/images/bgimage.jpg");
  
 background-position:center;
  
 background-repeat:no-repeat;
  
 }

.s4-ca {
 BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent
}

  

In addition to the above code,you must add the background color transperent style to overcome the white background. Use this code in CEWP, if you have a requirement in only page, Otherwise, add the same style snippet in Master page head tag if you have enough permissions.