Author: Marijn

How Microsoft does SharePoint Governance for their internal platform

A few months ago, Microsoft IT released a document ( and webcast) that describes the extra effort they took to balance their SharePoint implementation.


Change width of a SharePoint rich text editor (textarea field – multiline text)

A coworker wanted to change the width of a textarea on a new-form. This is, as it turns out, not so easy.
The textarea is a complex component, containing lots of other components.


Get a list of site users with no code via SharePoint Designer

Just like last time, when we created a list containing the sub sites, we can use the data source and a data view to display all site users that have access to a site. 1)Open the site in SharePoint Designer. 2)Go to the Data Sources block and click on the button SOAP Service Connection 3)Add …


Get subsites of a SharePoint 2010 via jQuery

Show all subsites on a SharePoint 2010 page without code via SharePoint Designer

I was looking for an easy way to display a list of subsites in SharePoint 2010 and I couldn’t find it. It seemed you could only do that with some webparts or heavy use of custom code. Then I found Michael Wilcox blog who explains how to do it in SharePoint 2007 and I decided to …


Open a SharePoint 2010 screen as modal dialog wherever you want via jQuery

My coworker at Belfius just found this cool trick to make your input screens cooler. He pointed me to the blog of Tobias Lekman: You can use the SP.UI.ModalDialog namespace via javascript. What his code does is open a SharePoint 2010 screen as modal dialog: The code Simply point the url to the page you …


Turn off the warning on IE6 browsers for SharePoint 2010 sites

Some large organisations might still use older browsers, like IE6 browsers for SharePoint 2010. If you open a SharePoint 2010 page in those browsers, you will get a popup saying that “Your browser will have problems displaying this web page”. This blog has the answer on how to turn off that warning message: The masterpage …


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SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples pack

Microsoft released a pack containing 101 code samples for SharePoint 2010 on MSDN.
Download the SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples here


Are employees rejecting SharePoint ?(Melcrum internal comms hub – case study)

An article on Melcrum, a networking site on strategic communication challenges, drew my attention via a note on Yammer. They asked 2 communication experts to argue whether or not employees rejecting SharePoint. Sam Marshall, director of ClearBox Consulting Ltd says: Yes – Employees still use email attachments – Team sites are often document graveyards – Low …