Add a new file type

Ok here is another nice tip. I recently needed to add to the context menu (ECB menu) of a file the "Edit in ..." command. Basically, if the native application is WebDav compatible I want to be able to edit any file for the referenced application, just from the browser, instead of navigating throw the Explorer View. (This will only work for Internet Explorer)

Like this:

Check it out, this is pretty fast yet very helpfull.

Explorer view is too slow

Ok I've passed the last day and a half trying to find a solution for a know problem.

Some users, were facing huge low performance copying files to a Document Library in Explorer View. After alot of web surfing without getting anywhere I add a sparkle idea that worked finally.

Check it out.

Format Date in Custom Display Form

Hi guys, here is another nice trick that took me a while to get.

Imagine you have a list with a Date field, only showing date value, not Time. If you create a Custom Display Form in Sharepoint Designer, you wiill see something incredible.

1. Date field shows Time value
2. Date field shows less 1 hour, which might lead to show one less day in date value

Just like this:

Ok the goal is to format the date value, check how I did it.

List of Locale Codes

Use the LCID Dec values for the FormatDate function.

SharePoint 2010: Hide Recently Modified

Hi again, after a long wait. Saddly last month couldn't free some time to write a bit. Nevertheless I'm back and with some new tips that will post in the following days.

So the first one is to show, how can you hide the Recently Modified box from the Quick Launch area, in a Wiki Page Library.

Create a new site with a Wiki Page Library
You should get something like this

As you can see there is a, sometimes, annoying Recently Modified box in the Quick Launch.

So check how to hide it in 2 easy steps.

Filtering lookup columns

Good day all, I bring you another tweak for Sharepoint. In  Sharepoint 2010 and Cascade Lookups I've shown you how to filter a lookup column based on the value of another. Now, what if you want to filter a column, based on a query of the source list?
There are plenty of options over the web on how to do it using third-party tools. In my opinion it is always good to avoid that. Why? Well in the past I had huge problems with  third-party tools, specially restoring sites with those features. 

So, now, I always try to avoid third-party tools unless I've no other option.

Check how I filter columns based on queries in 6 easy steps:

Datasheet View not working

This will be one fast tip.

Recently I was struggling with Datasheet View, in some clients it simply didn't show. So how I did it in 30 seconds?