Custom master page error : "You must specify a value for this required field"

Reblogged from W0ut SharePoint and .NET: When using a custom master page and editing a page in SharePoint 2010 I received a dialog box the following error: “You must specify a value for this required field”. This error is caused when you set the contentplaceholder ‘PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea’ to: Visible=”False”. After removing the Visible=False attribute from the [...]

Adding images to SharePoint 2007 survey options

In this example I am using – SharePoint MOSS 2007 JQuery 1.5.2 min  A colleague asked me for a way to spruce up his SharePoint survey page with images, so I put together the following script. It is generic and re-usable so you might even wrap it into a js file to share between sites. Check [...]

Importing html into a SharePoint 2010 Document Library

I recently needed to move a MOSS 2007 wiki into a MOSS 2010 wiki. There’s no easy OOTB way to do this and third party tools are expensive, so I am rolling my own apps to handle an export of wiki content from MOSS 2007 and another app to do the import to MOSS 2010. This [...]

Export a SharePoint 2007 wiki to the filesystem

*Updated* - A codeplex project has been created for this. http://sp2007wikiexport.codeplex.com/ I recently needed to move a SharePoint 2007 wiki into a SharePoint 2010 wiki library. After some digging, I found no easy way to do this. So I’ve decided to write a couple client apps – one that can export the 2007 wiki to the filesystem, [...]

Adding an anchor in a SharePoint 2007 wiki

Unfortunately, there is no ‘Anchor‘ support in the SharePoint 2007 wiki wysiwyg editor. If you want to continue using the ‘out of the box’ wysiwyg editor, you’ll need to add anchors in the source view. To access the html source view, open the desired wiki page into edit mode. Look for an icon on the editor toolbar [...]

Filtered Lookup Column For Cascading Drop-Down List

This is an example how to use the SPServices JQuery library to filter a SharePoint hierarchical drop down list (cascading lookup column) on an additional column. For a better understanding, first read the documentation for the Cascading Drop Down List function of the SPServices. http://spservices.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=%24().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns&referringTitle=Documentation In this example, I am using – MOSS 2007 JQuery 1.4.2 – http://jquery.com/ [...]

How to Require a Unique Title in a SharePoint List

In this example, I am using – MOSS 2007 JQuery 1.4.2 – http://jquery.com/ SPServices (A JQuery Library) – http://spservices.codeplex.com/ First let me say, props to the SPServices developers. This is a great project and has become a necessity for my SharePoint development. Goal – Require a unique title in a SharePoint list This is helpful [...]