One of the trickiest thing I came across last couple of days is to run my console application using CSOM to connect to a SAML Authenticated SharePoint site. In my case the authentication provider was CA SiteMinder. There are many techniques to connect to SAML authenticated sites using CSOM. Below are some of them which … Continue reading Console application for SAML authenticated SharePoint 2013 sites
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Limitation of OOTB “E-mail Users” functionality in SharePoint group- Too many e-mail addresses were selected
SharePoint provides OOTB functionality to email selected users from any SharePoint Group. You can go to any SharePoint group and select the users and click Actions -- > Email Users. Limitation: The email users functionality will not work , if you select large number of users .It will show a message "Too many e-mail addresses … Continue reading Limitation of OOTB “E-mail Users” functionality in SharePoint group- Too many e-mail addresses were selected
SharePoint 2013 Search Query (KQL) fails for DateTime properties
Recently I faced with this weird issue when one of my customers reported an issue in one of content search web part. For that user the content search web part would throw the below error: Interestingly this issue was not reproducible in my machine and so I started checking the logs and found the below … Continue reading SharePoint 2013 Search Query (KQL) fails for DateTime properties
Change Permission of a SharePoint Group using Javascript CSOM
Everything (ideal scenario) in SharePoint is now an App. SharePoint hosted Apps uses JavaScript Object Model (JSOM).So now developers have to code more on JavaScript and learn more about doing even administrative tasks using JavaScript. In this blog i will detail one such administration task- Changing the permission of any SharePoint group. Below is a sample code … Continue reading Change Permission of a SharePoint Group using Javascript CSOM
Custom Date time refiner template for SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 OOTB display options for DateTime refiners are very limited. By default there are four display options available for DateTime refiners: But these refinement options are often not suitable as the range for each refinement value is too big and there is no option to refine the results between 2 specific dates. So let's see how we … Continue reading Custom Date time refiner template for SharePoint 2013
Update User Profile Property on Get Requests like Page_Load
When ever you are trying to use user profiles in SharePoint , things can get tricky if you don't get the settings right. Here i am discussing about an issue i recently faced when trying to update the custom user profile property in a Visual webpart in SharePoint 2010.Now you might face similar issue if you are trying … Continue reading Update User Profile Property on Get Requests like Page_Load
