Custom Themes, Master Pages, Background Images and Font settings made easy in SharePoint 2013.

            This week i was playing with the SharePoint 2013 space. (Thanks to my Friend and Colleague Atul).

When i was checking for the Changes in Site Settings I observer few additions.

The best thing that i observed is

Composed Looks

Which takes you to the screen.

And you will find the list of all the available Composed looks which will have

Properties

1.  Name (Name of Compose Look).
2. Master Page URL
3. Theme URL
4. Image URL
5. Font Scheme URL
6. Display Order

Where you can provide the link to files that you want to use in your custom Composed Looks.

you can save the local copy of 

• .spcolor
• .spfont

files and edit them (They are nothing but plain XML Files). upload them and use them in your custom looks

see the below files .

I feel this is a very neat new feature in new version.

Courtesy: http://www.sharepointdesignlabs.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=16

No Author (Created By) Field in SPList.getItems(SPQuery).

Hi,

I assume that you all know that all the list items can be retrieved from SharePoint List using

SPList.getItems(SPQuery)

And returns all the items based on user permission and Filter that were specified in query. The columns that it return by default (For a document library) are

FileLeafRef
Title
ID
ContentType
Created
Modified
_CopySource
_CheckinComment
LinkFileNameNoMenu
LinkFilename
DocIcon
FileSizeDisplay
ItemChildCount
FolderChildCount
Edit
_UIVersionString
ParentVersionString
ParentLeafName
CheckoutUser
Editor

And Author.

The reason why i mentioned Author separately is because GetItems() method return Author Filed only for SiteCollection Admins and application pool admins. 

 

Regual user like site administrator, modifiers, visitors will not get that column.

 

If you are trying to get datatable from GetItems() method and use a custom column that shows Author (created By) column make sure to user elevated privileges based on your need.

Custom People Picker

Nice article to build Custom People Picker.


http://sharepointsolutions.com/sharepoint-help/blog/2009/10/create-a-custom-picker-in-sharepoint-2010/

Error Compiling SharePoint Workflow in Dev Server.

If any one of have problem compiling the SharePoint 2010 Workflow (Sequential and State Machine) in you Dev Server. And if the Error is this

Even for the empty workflow its giving this error.

Error 1 The "CompileWorkflowTask" task failed unexpectedly.
System.NotSupportedException: The given path's format is not supported.
   at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CanonicalizePath(String path, Boolean needFullPath)
   at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CreateListFromExpressions(String[] str, Boolean needFullPath)
   at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess access, AccessControlActions control, String[] pathListOrig, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList)
   at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission..ctor(FileIOPermissionAccess access, String[] pathList, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath)
   at System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(String path)
   at System.CodeDom.Compiler.TempFileCollection.EnsureTempNameCreated()
   at System.CodeDom.Compiler.TempFileCollection.AddExtension(String fileExtension, Boolean keepFile)
   at System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler.CompileWorkflowTask.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(ITaskExecutionHost taskExecutionHost, TaskLoggingContext taskLoggingContext, TaskHost taskHost, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, Boolean& taskResult) stateWorkflow1

Check this Thread in MSDN Forum.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010programming/thread/74975cb4-20f9-4a3f-bb41-74382eecc5bb/#dd666781-46fb-4bb2-b8e8-cf49a4ebfa4b