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SharePoint 2010 Themes

rkapiljith — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:14:59 +0000

The way in themes in SharePoint 2010 arranged is bit different from the previous version of 2007. Now we have themes gallery where we can place theme files.These themes can be applied using the Site themes links from look and feel section of site settings page.

So how to create a custom theme. The best tool would be powerpoint. For editing you can use the tool from Microsoft (Theme Builder)

URL : http://connect.microsoft.com/ThemeBuilder/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=17634

Say if you want to make changes to an existing theme file(Ricasso.thmx).Downlaod it from the themes gallery of Sharepoint and open the file in powerpoint. Save the file as Kapiljith.thmx, make sure the selected type is “Office Theme”

This is to make sure that the XML internal file name should match with the external name.Otherwise it would be like the below sample…

After saving using powerpoint, open the Kapiljith.thmx using “Theme builder” and make necessary changes and upload it back to Themes gallery.Apply the newly created theme from look & feel section of site settings page.

What is this Synchronous and Asynchronous event calls in sharepoint?

rkapiljith — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:39:09 +0000

In SharePoint we come across many event handlers like …

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWebEventReceiver(Event happenign at Site Level)
SiteDeleted/SiteDeleting/WebDeleted/WebDeleting/WebMoved/WebMoving

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListEventReceiver(Event happenign at List Level)
FieldAdded/FieldAdding/FieldDeleted/FieldDeleting/FieldUpdated/FieldUpdating

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPItemEventReceiver(Event happenign at List Item Level)
ItemAdded/ItemAdding/ItemAttachmentAdded/ItemAttachmentAdding/ItemAttachmentDeleted/ItemAttachmentDeleting

So what is the difference in them? Pretty simple to understand.

Synchronous will always ends with “ing” eg: ItemAdding/ItemUpdating
Asynchronous will always ends with “ed” eg: ItemAdded/ItemUpdated
Synchronous event will run at the same time before the event completes its operation. Say we are adding a value, we wish to validate that value. Using synchronous event we can validate it before its get added to the content DB.In other words these event provide us to block the execution of code.
Asynchronous event will run only after the items get added.Say if a new item is added to the list and we need to send email notification, if its gender field is male to male@male.com else to female@female.com. The email logic can be integrated to ItemAdded event.
Both methods reduce the performance as it need to execute the custom code from dll. So write the code logic very carefully!

R.Kapiljiths’s few words on …Bringing navigation menu for WSS/MOSS portals

rkapiljith — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:31:26 +0000

FYI, there was a query you posted me for enabling the menu items for WSS/MOSS portals. PFB details with which you can accomplish the same  First the menu is driven using the menu control called as , this will utilize the content DB and generate GUI menus. When we drill it to show many sublevel, which required more DB access, performance issue will come into picture. This might be the reason they disabled it purposefully in portal on WSS & MOSS. To enable the functionality you need to make changes to master pages • Default.Master page (/_catalog/masterpage/default.master in the site collection • \12\Template\Global\default.master on the file system. Check the web.config file have the following entry for section • • In master pages check the section • Set the parameter as ShowStartingNode=“True” • Make changes for settings within the < SharePoint.AspMenu / > control as required one. StaticDisplayLevels=”2″ MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels=”1″ Note: Increasing this parameter will create performance issues. Before change After change For more details read the following internet pages. http://sharingpoint.blogspot.com/2007/02/wss-v3-drop-down-menus-in-team-sites.html http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/6d032478-0b6c-4308-b03f-b04e25e878fe/

rkapiljith’s few words on …IIS Worker Process/Worker Process Group/Web garden

rkapiljith — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:59:45 +0000

Dependency on installing WSS/MOSS 2007 with windows 2003 server operating system and its web hosting on IIS – 6 is now familiar for us (sharepoint guys). For configuring access priviledge we will go for checking users and group from computer management menu. Here comes our group called as IIS_WPG.Yes the members/accounts of this group have the access priviledge to start and run a worker process.

When we create a web site on our IIS there will be a associated application pool. These application pool runs its own worker process to operate all request/response on that site. Worker process running in application pool is the hero which help us to differentiate from other website and helps hosting multiple sites on same machine. So when we create another site on same system using IIS Manager we can host the application pool to an existing pool or a new app: pool.If we host it on an existing app: pool two sites request/response will be operated by same worker process.Which is an overhead? At the same time a website can have multiple multiple worker process to operate all request/response of that site.This scenario is called as web garden.

Note: For checking websites/application pool through IIS manager, from windows start window>>Select Run>>Type inetmgr. The tree view display information on web sites and application pool on that system. But make sure that you already installed IIS 6.0 on your sytem for checking the same.

Learn more from below URL and share it to others…Best of lucks

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633256.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/659f2e2c-a58b-4770-833b-df96cabe569e.mspx?mfr=true

Sharepoint abbrevations

rkapiljith — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:46:41 +0000

Hello & Good day readers,

Welcome to my blog. These are some of the common abbrevations used by sharepoint guys.

MOSS -Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server 2007
WSS – Windows SharePoint Services (Active version is 3.0)
STSADM -Sharepoint Team Services administration
SSP – Shared Service Provider
SD – Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
AAM – Alternate Access Mapping
CAB – Cabinet file(Microsoft;s intenal code name is Diamond)
DDF – Diamond Directive File
WFE – Web Front End servers
AppServer – Application Servers
DB Server – Database Servers
SPS – Sharepoint Portal Services
STS – Sharepoint Team Services
WPG – Worker Process Group
SIP address – Session Initiation Protocol
… wait and see for more results sooner.

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