In short, the project was to display Blog Posts on our Intranet home page in a web part. No, doubt the CQWP comes to mind first. It is easy enough to configure by selecting your query source, and styling how it will be presented in the web part via web part editor and xslt (another

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SharePoint 2010: Dispaly a Users Profile Picture in a Content Query Web Part Using SPDesigner Workflow

Objective: implement custom sort functionality for list items make order number (rank) visible on the list First, let’s create custom action for reordering items and make hidden field Order visible and sortable on default view with PowerShell. [void] [System.reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”) | out-null # Add “Change item Order” button at target List $siteUrl = “yourSiteCollectionUrl”; $listTitle =

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Rank list items by custom order with JSLink

One of the things I love best about SharePoint is I am always learning something new every day. In my experience, when things work right the first time you try something, you don’t learn much. Conversely, when things don’t work correctly, I learn tons of stuff. ‘Nuff said about learning opportunities in SharePoint. I recently

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Workflow throws an error when you try to update or delete to a BCS external list

In some Apps there are cases when you want to deploy SharePoint 2013 workflow on Host Web rather than app web. This article explains how to do it. The basic premise is that we first create the Workflow inside AppWeb and on ‘AppInstalled’ event we will get the published workflow definitions from AppWeb and copy

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How to create and publish a SharePoint 2013 Workflow from an App in the Host Web (without using SharePoint Designer)

Hi, I created a script that will allow you to download all files stored in document libraries in a given site collection. You can find it here: http://sharepointrelated.com/2014/11/11/download-all-content-in-a-site-collection/ Run the script as follows: Get-SPContent.ps1 -SiteCollection “” -Path “” If the path does not exist, the script will prompt you to create it for you. Before the script

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How to download all files in a Site Collection with Powershell