How to hide Recycle Bin and All Site Content in SharePoint 2010

If you want to hide Recycle Bin and All site Content in the Quick Launch menu in SharePoint 2010, you can use custom CSS for this.

For one of our customers, we've created a custom CSS named CoreOverrides.css in SharePoint 2010. In this CSS we inserted a display:none element as follows:

/* Hide All Site Content and Recycle Bin */
.s4-specialNavLinkList
{
display:none !important;
}


How to apply the custom CSS in SharePoint 2010
To apply the custom CSS:
1. Go to Site Actions | Site Settings
2. Click on Master Page (in Look and Feel)
3. Specify a custom CSS file in Alternate CSS URL as shown below
4. Click OK

No left navigation when new webpartpages are created in SharePoint 2010

Creating webpart pages or basic pages in SharePoint is done with a click of a button. But when you view the page you've created you won't get to see the left navigation menu. The cause I reckon is that the left side navigation is defined in the Master Page in the "PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" content place holder and templates for webpart pages shipped with SharePoint are overriding this content place holder and delete its content. 


The solution for this is to change the page so it will not override the menu place holder, but inherite it from the Master Page. The place holders we are interested in are: "PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" and "PlaceHolderNavSpacer". 


Start by opening the SharePoint Designer. Open the webpart page or basic page you want to add the menu to. In code view look for the following lines and delete them:

      <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"></asp:Content>

and

      <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server"></asp:Content> 

and

      <SharePoint:UIVersionedContent ID="WebPartPageHideQLStyles" UIVersion="4" runat="server">
      <ContentTemplate>
      <style type="text/css">
      body #s4-leftpanel {
      display:none;
      }
      .s4-ca {
      margin-left:0px;
      }
      </style>


Save the file. You will get a warning saying you are about to customize the page. Just go ahead.


Hope this saves time.

SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training

For developers, SharePoint 2010 provides a business collaboration platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs. SharePoint 2010 Advanced Developer Training offers technical training as self-paced modules and hosted labs for SharePoint 2007 professionals who want to upgrade their skills to SharePoint 2010.

Module 8 for example, presents Business Intelligence capabilities in SharePoint 2010. There are improvements in this area to help build Business Intelligence dashboards, which can be used to expose relevant information for business users in a meaningful way.

SharePoint 2010 Advanced Training
01 : Developer Roadmap and Tools
02 : Core Development
03 : User Interfaces and Lists
04 : Data Access in Technologies
05 : Composite Solutions
06 : Enterprise Content Management
07 : Enterprise Search
08 : Business Intelligence
09 : Communities
10 : Development Life Cycle

Developing on SharePoint 2010

As a software developer you can use the SharePoint 2010 business collaboration platform to build enterprise-class solutions for intranet portals and the web. View these ten modules on Microsoft MSDN to get started with development for SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010.

Module 01: Getting Started: Building Web Parts in SharePoint 2010
Module 02: What Developers Need to Know About SharePoint 2010
Module 03: Building Blocks for Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010
Module 04: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Server-Side APIs
Module 05: Accessing SharePoint 2010 Data and Objects with Client-Side APIs
Module 06: Accessing External Data with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010
Module 07: Developing Business Processes with SharePoint 2010 Workflows
Module 08: Creating Silverlight User Interfaces for SharePoint 2010 Solutions
Module 09: Sandboxed Solutions for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010
Module 10: Creating Dialog Boxes and Ribbon Controls for SharePoint 2010

Connecting PerformancePoint 2010 site with Dashboard Designer throws error

Recently I had a problem with connecting to a PerformancePoint 2010 site using Dashboard Designer.

I created a new site in SharePoint 2010 using the "Business Intelligence Center" template and started the Dashboard Designer. When I tried to connect to the site, the Dashboard Designer failed to connect and throws the following error : "The URL is not available, does not reference a SharePoint site, or you do not have permission to connect".

When a System Administrator (working for our customer) checked the Event Logs (Administrative Tools | Event Viewer | Windows Logs | Application), he saw the following message : "Login failed for user : domain\username". After some research, it appears that the Service Account under which the PerformancePoint Service runs, did not have sufficient permissions.

The System Administrator executed the following commands in the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell to fix this problem:

$w = Get-SPWebApplication("Web application name")

$w.GrantAccessToProcessIdentity("domain\username") 

For more information about how to grant a managed account access to the content databases where PerformancePoint data will be stored, read this article on Microsoft Technet.

Sharepoint 2010 Business Intelligence Center Template Missing

One of our customers is using SharePoint 2010 with SQL Server 2008 R2. Everything in their SharePoint environment seemed to be working fine, but when we wanted to create a new "Business Intelligence Center" subsite, we didn't see the template.

 

After the customer activated the following settings in the root of their Sharepoint site, the "Business Intelligence Center" template was available for us:

• Site Settings | Site Actions | Site Collection Administration | Site Collection Features | Activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
• Site Settings | Site Actions | Site Collection Administration | Site Collection Features | Activate PerformancePoint Services Site collection features
• Site Settings | Site Actions | Site Collection Administration | Site Collection Features | Activate PerformancePoint Services Site Features
  
  

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