What is Managed Metadata? This post explains key terms and concepts in Share Point 2010 Managed Metadata. Understanding these terms are very important before you read the Managed Metadata Features. Taxonomy A taxonomy is a hierarchical of words which are organised into groups based on similarities. It can be defined by one or more individuals. Advantage with Taxonomy is, it provides a...
Creating Business Data Connectivity Model for SharePoint 2010 using VS 2010
This post discusses about how to connect .NET Connectivity Assembly for Business Connectivity services using Visual Studio 2010. Business Data Connection Model allows you to connect to the external data sources and can edit them directly from SharePoint site list.
Creating Visual Web Parts using VS 2010 for SharePoint 2010
This post discusses about how to create a visual web part for SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010. Visual Web Parts can be developed on Visual Studio design surface which is as easy as drag and drop controls in asp.net application. The web part which we are going to create is standard asp.net tree-view control which shows Interview Events and candidates who attend those interviews. We...
Recovering the data from an unattached content database in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Content databases contains the sites content that you have created in the web application. You can connect to the unattached content database to the farm and can select the items for the backup. Once you recover the data from content database then you can use SharePoint PowerShell cmdlets to restore the recovered content. The Database must be attached to SQL Server but not...
Performing a farm backup in SharePoint 2010
This post discuss about performing farm backup in SharePoint 2010 using central administration.You can do variety of backup operations using Backup tree on the perform a Backup page. To perform the farm backup
1. Click the Backup and Restore from Quick launch in central administration in SharePoint
Configuring content deployment settings in SharePoint 2010
Content Deployment in SharePoint 2010 is basically used to deploy the content from one site to another site. You can set the content deployment jobs (incoming and outgoing) using SharePoint Central Administration in 2010. Generally In development machine where you author the pages, you do not need to configure the Incoming settings. If you are using a staging server then you need to...
Managing Content and Documents in SharePoint 2010
This post explains some of the changes in content and document management in Document Center web site in SharePoint 2010 server. You can effectively manage the content and store large number of documents in SharePoint 2010 document center website.
Creating Three-state workflow in SharePoint 2010
The Three-state workflow tracks the 3 states in a list to manage the business processes. Example Three states for Issue List could be Open, Resolved and Closed. Three state workflow supports to track the list item or issue through states. The workflow assigns a task to a person and sends an email to that person. When workflow is completed it updates the status of the item or issue. By...
Browsing Flash (.swf) files in SharePoint 2010
By default SharePoint 2010 does not allow you to browse the Flash (.swf) files. In order to browse the flash files in SharePoint 2010 configure the below steps in SharePoint 2010 Central Admin. Note: By Default flash files render in SharePoint 2007 and these steps require in SharePoint2010 1. Go to SharePoint Central Admin then click on Manage web applications link 2. Select the web...
Creating status indicators in SharePoint 2010
Status Indicator is a report type, where it shows and compares the actual performance of particular measure with goal value. Without doing any calculations, you can know the performance of a measure with good status indicator. You can know whether measure results are on target or off target. This post explains how to create a status indicator in SharePoint 2010. Status Indicator shows...