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SharePoint 2013 online Parent/Child relationship - A step by step demo

SharePoint uses lookup fields to represent the Parent-Child relationship. For child list items it is OK as you can trace back to its parent from the lookup field. For parent the OOB forms are not good enough as they are not displaying the children belong to it. In real world it is often required that when view the parent list item it also displays its children, further more it is great if user can add child list items directly from the parent. In SharePoint on-premise we can use visual web parts and code the parent/child logic and use web part pages to replace the parent item forms. In SharePoint online we can't do server model code and visual web parts, so the solution is almost NO CODE and just a little bit client side scripts, and they work beautifully! Here I will do a step by step demonstration to explain the ideas:   Step 1: Create a parent list called "Category" and a child list called "Product", in Product list add a lookup field to reference Cat...

SharePoint 2013: Unexpected response from server issue and how to fix

From time to time when you do some operations such as search using SharePoint 2013 you may see the following error: Unexpected response from server. The status code of response is ’500′. The status text of response is ‘System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException’ After having this issue on newly installed SharePoint 2013 farm in production environment, I figure it out that Single server is running out of memory. Especially, thanks to one new process noderunner.exe. Noderunner.exe is the new executable of search service on SharePoint 2013. This process can’t turn it off because Search is one of essential service application in SharePoint 2013, and it is integrated in many features. So, there are some things you can do to reduce the impact of Search on your system. Solution 1 Reduce the Search Service Performance Level with this PowerShell command: Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService -PerformanceLevel Reduced or Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService -PerformanceLevel PartiallyReduced,...

A SharePoint 2013 weather web part

I created a nice SharePoint 2013 weather web part. It has extremely simple code-behind and so easy for you to use or extend.  The core is using Yahoo! Weather Feed Plugin for jQuery Please go to https://weatherwebpartsp2013.codeplex.com/  to grab it. It is free with all the source code. Enjoy!

How to add Lync presence to a SharePoint 2013 page

1. Add a "Snippet Editor" web part to the web part zone 2. Press "Edit Snippet" 3. Insert the following Snippet, replace the highlighte d parts with correct value <span class="ms-imnSpan"><a class="ms-imnlink ms-spimn-presenceLink" onclick="IMNImageOnClick(event);return false;" href="#"><span class="ms-spimn-presenceWrapper ms-imnImg ms-spimn-imgSize-10x10"><img name="imnmark" title="" class="ms-spimn-img ms-spimn-presence-offline-10x10x32" id="imn_1,type=smtp" alt="Offline" src="http://dpgintranettldev/_layouts/15/images/spimn.png" sip=" Your Email Address " showofflinepawn="1"></span></a></span><span class="ms-noWrap ms-imnSpan"><a class="ms-subtleLink" href="#"> Your Name </a></span> 4. Save - ...