Upload a SharePoint Sandbox solution to Office 365

A Windows SharePoint (WSP) solution is a cab file that enables us to deploy data lists and web content like JavaScript, CSS, ASPX assets to a SharePoint site. It is a sandbox solution because it only enables us to deploy assets that can run on the browsers. When deploying to Office 365, we need to deploy...

SharePoint 2013 Missing Store App List on Custom Master Page

When adding apps on SharePoint 2013, we can add apps from our organization app catalog or the built-in apps like Tasks and Customs Lists.  This works well when using the default master page. The app selection view looks as shown below: When...

Office 365 Change Password Expiration Days

Office 365 passwords expires by default every 90 days.  If this setting is too short, you can modify the number of days from the Office 365 Administration screen which can be accessed by following these steps: On the header/top menu, click on Admin On the Left navigation menu, click on service...

Copy Office 365 files to Local Disk

og-bit.com So we are done building your Office 365 website, and we would like to save a copy of the files to a local disk. We open SharePoint Designer and realized that we are able to see the files and folders. However we are not able to just right click and save the files to a Windows directory.  What do we do know? In order to be able to copy files from Office 365 to Windows explorer,...

SharePoint Designer 2010 how to change the current user

www.og-bit.com When using SharePoint Designer 2010 to connect to a SharePoint and SharePoint online website, the application prompts the user to login for the first time. After the user has logged on once, the application caches this information and automatically logins to the website the...

Office 365 Public Website Branding

Office 365 provides by default a public website which is usually located at an URL similar to this: og-bit.com http://mydomain.com/pages/default.aspx The pages folder is already set up with public permissions. This allows the site to be visited by non-authenticated users. The pages on this site are created with the root.master page. This master page can’t be modified to brand our site. The...

The site template requires that the feature be installed in the farm or site collection.

The site template requires that the feature be installed in the farm or site collection This message is usually generated when we try to create a new site from a site template, but the site template was built as a Sandboxed solution and depends on a site scope feature which may not be active or...

Add a Custom List on Office 365 Developer Preview

The way to add a custom list on the Developer preview (SharePoint 2013) is a bit different than adding the custom list on SharePoint 2010. The option to add a list is bundled under the concept of an app. From your team site, add a custom list by following these steps: Click on Site Contents Click...

Application Hosting Models for SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 provides developers with the following hosting models for their custom applications: SharePoint-Hosted apps These applications are JavaScript based applications that are hosted on a SharePoint website (host web). These applications have access to SharePoint artifacts like list and Web Parts. No server-side code is available for these applications. This model is a perfect fit for...

Office 365 Open Contact Page on Modal Dialog

Office 365 provides the contact gadget which allows visitors of a site to submit contact information. This gadget can be embedded on an ASPX page, and it is usually added to the contact us page. There some instances when we want the users to not have to navigate to another page to submit the contact information...

SharePoint Custom Form Shows HTML as Text on Lookup Fields

Display forms on SharePoint by default display a link on lookup columns. This allows us to click on the link and edit the record from another list. When creating a custom display form on SharePoint Designer, the form displays the actual HTML instead of rendering the HTML on the lookup columns. For...

Set SharePoint Multi-Value field with JavaScript

A multi-value field column in a SharePoint list allows us to store multiple look-up ids. This is an alternative to creating a separate list that has a one-to-many association. For example, an invoice item that needs to be associated to one ore more time entries. For this example, we could define an invoice list with a lookup field that can hold multiple values. When adding a new record to the...

Office 365 Missing Create New Document Menu

The Office 365 platform provides users with the ability to add Office 2010 documents from the ribbon menu. In some cases, these menu options are missing from the document library. The reason for this is that perhaps the library does not have the content type definition to know about those documents....

Office 365 Documents Do Not Open in the Browser

Office 365 allows users to create and open Office 2010 compatible documents using the Office Web Apps. This is basically the office web client which frees the user from the need to have the Office 2010 client installed.  There may be some cases when the editing or creation of new documents is...