Right, so, again I’m looking at the problem of consistent formatting of client authored text in SharePoint. (Incredibly, it’s 4 years since I first looked at this).
Anyway, as a note to myself… Continue reading “Reminders on customising the RichTextField control in Publishing”
The Portal Site Connection can be a useful way of making your breadcrumbs link to a site collection that is ‘above’ them in the logical architecture of a site. It’s also a good way of navigating out of Search Sites and My Sites – which are kind of navigational black holes.
Unfortunately, they don’t work in Publishing sites. I investigated why. Continue reading “Portal Site Connection and Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2010”
I have a custom list definition that I’ve been writing. The ribbon on it looks something like this:
Unfortunately, I don’t want some of the groups shown on this tab. For example, I don’t want any of the ‘Connect & Export’ group, or ‘Customize List’ – these things could actually break my solution. So, how to hide?
Initially, I looked at the HideCustomAction Feature element. This what you’d use for hiding links to settings pages, etc., and it seems a natural choice. Unfortunately, it doesn’t allow a RegistrationId in the same way that a CustomAction element does – so there was no way to restrict this to my list only. Damn.
Continue reading “Hiding a Tab Group from a custom list type in SharePoint 2010's Ribbon”
In SharePoint, different types of list can have different icons:
That’s fine, but SharePoint 2010 adds a second icon – one that’s used in the Silverlight control for creating new Sites/Lists:
I wanted to specify that for a list definition I was upgrading from a 2007 version. But there doesn’t seem to be a property to set the name/url for this file.
In SharePoint 2007 the icons were usually .GIF files. In SharePoint 2010, those still seem to be in the IMAGES folder in 14-Hive, but there are .PNGs of the same images too. There are also the larger PNGs used by the SilverLight control. The small sized ones all seem to be called ‘ITxxx.PNG’, and the larger ‘LTxxx.PNG’:
So, I tried changing the Image property of my list definition to use a file with a .png extension (e.g. ITandy.png )
I converted my GIF to PNG format, and I created a 64×64 pixel PNG for the SilverLight control. I called this new PNG file LTandy.png – and low, the SilverLight control picked it up. It seems that the Silverlight dialog replaces the IT at the start of the image file name with an LT when looking for an icon – but only for lists where the smaller icon also has the .png extention.
Therefore, I’d recommend always using PNGs for icons in SharePoint now.
Themes in SharePoint 2010 are so much better than 2007 – and so much easier to generate! You can either create them with a .thmx file from PowerPoint, or just set them up through the user interface.
One problem, though, is what areas of the page are controlled by these colours? Well, I’d been going to set up an experiment to find out, but fortunately Erik Swenson had already taken the time to map this out. So, rather than reinvent the wheel, I’ll just use that – it’s well worth a read.
Came across something interesting today – I went looking for an icon in SharePoint 2010’s ribbon, and came to a file called formatmap32x32.png. Interestingly, it contains:
So, it actually holds lots of icons, but the image is cropped using CSS at display time to only show one of those icons. Nice to be able to see a bunch of the icons in one place easily.
(Though not all buttons come from this file – other icons are ‘stand alone’)
So, followers of this blog will know that I seem to get quite a lot of branding tasks, and that I don’t much like themes, preferring to use either the AlternateCssUrl and Features instead. Features are great – you can deploy the CSS/image files you need, set master pages (and handle Meeting Workspaces), themes, AlternateCssUrls. They can also add HTTP Modules for branding Application Pages.
Themes, on the other hand, are fiddly to install automatically, don’t work on the DatePicker, and are individual to each site once applied. To pick up changes to a global theme, you’d have to apply a different theme and then reapply the desired theme – for every site.
Well, that was with SharePoint 2007. SharePoint 2010 is a bit different, as I got to find out on a Combined Knowledge course in January (and this is the first time I’ve managed to write about it!) Continue reading “Themes in SharePoint 2010”
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