Category: SharePoint 2013

  • Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 3

    In this post I want to talk about Fixtures and a major pitfall I’ve found when working with Chutzpah Test Adaptor for the Test Explorer.

  • Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 2

    Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 2

    Last week I wrote about how to configure Jasmine to run within Visual Studio using Chutzpah Test Adaptors. However since then I’ve run into a number of issues for which I will share my thoughts in this post.

  • Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 1

    Jasmine with Visual Studio and SharePoint Apps – Part 1

    This blog does no​t describe how to perform JavaScript ​TDD (test-driven development) or BDD (behaviour-driven development). It does however describe how to set-​​up Visual Studio and configure an App for SharePoint project to get you started.

  • Useful UI Branding tools for SharePoint 2013

    Just thinking about branding my website and came across a tool by Microsoft called Color Palette Tool SharePoint 2013 which downloaded from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16806.color-palette-tool-sharepoint-2013.aspx And if you require inspiration for your theme one of colleges (Matthew Holden) pointed me in the direction Adobe Kuler https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/  

  • Disable mobile auto-redirect for SharePoint anonymous access website

    The quickest way for all mobile devices and browsers add the following to the web applications web.config file: View the code on Gist. However for a more granular approach, edit the App_Browsers\compat.browser changing the following to “false” for the relevant userAgent: View the code on Gist.

  • SharePoint: Enable Publishing features

    SharePoint: Enable Publishing features

    To use Web content management on SharePoint, activate Publishing features at both site and site collection levels; this allows for branding and editing the corporate site. Additionally, enable multilingual support by creating and translating a source site. Detailed steps are provided for feature activation.

  • Definition of a SharePoint Feature

    Represents a modular server-side, file system-level customization that contains items that can be installed and activated in a SharePoint environment within one of the following scopes:

  • SharePoint: How to Update a Site Collection Date Format

    A step-by-step guide on how set to a Site Collection’s Date Format *It is possible to update sub-sites; however updating the root (parent) site collection gives the opportunity to update all its sub-sites at the same time. Tip: When the Site Settings page loads, if you see the Go to top level site settings link…