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Save document library as template option not available

By On May 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Administration

Problem

The Save Document Library as Template option is not available on the default Documents library that gets created by the site publishing feature.

Cause

This is a known issue in SP 2010 and a work-around has been provided.

Work-around

Open the document library -> Library Settings

On your address bar, change the link from [...]

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Content Query Webpart – Displaying Richtext

By On August 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Development

Requirement

Create a content query webpart that pulls data stored in Richtext format. Data must be displayed without html codes.

Solution

Modify the XSLT to use the ‘disable-output-escaping=”yes” tag:

For example: <xsl:value-of select=”@Description” disable-output-escaping=”yes”/>

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Calculated Columns – Week of month

By On August 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Development

Requirement

Create a calculated column called ‘Progress Report No’ based on the following format:

yyyy.MM.W(WeekOfMonth).

e.g. A report created on 4/8/2011 would be, 2011.8.W1

Solution

The formula for the calculated column is:

=TEXT(Created,”yyyy”)&”.”&MONTH(Created)&”.W”&ROUND((DATEDIF(DATE(YEAR(Created),MONTH(Created),1)-(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(Created),MONTH(Created),1),1))+1,Created+(7-WEEKDAY(Created,2)),”D”)+1)/7,0)

 

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Using Export-SPWeb to export libraries / lists

By On June 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Administration

This is a simple one but many people get the syntax wrong when they try to export individual document libraries / lists.

Syntax:

To backup a document library called ‘Library1′ in ‘Subsite’.

export-spweb <http://sharepoint site/site collection/subsite/ -itemurl “/site collection/subsite/library1″ -path c:\sharepoint\library1.cmp

To backup a document library called ‘Library 2′ in ‘Site Collection’.

export-spweb <http://sharepoint site/site [...]

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Change content type for all documents in a library

By On June 20, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Administration

Requirement

An old migrated library is populated with several thousand documents with the default content type set to ‘Document’. All the documents now need to be assigned a specific content type.

Solution

Found a powershell script that does the trick:

http://get-spscripts.com/2010/10/change-content-type-set-on-files-in.html

 

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