Author Archives: Venkat Karri

“Colligo briefcase” is a product used for synching/accessing SharePoint documents using iPad. All works well, as long as we use Out-of-the-box libraries. I recently came across a portal which showed a completely different display in iPad. The document Name looks … Continue reading →

According to me, Managed Metadata is one of the greatest additions to SharePoint. There are many advantages of using Managed Metadata Service and needless to mention the flexibility and the ease of maintenance it provides to maintain enterprise data. However, … Continue reading →

I came across a very interesting requirement with respect to “Tasks” in SharePoint but before we get into the requirement lets get into few details first. As most us are aware of the fact that when a task item is … Continue reading →

Few months ago, I was asked, “Is it possible to restrict the users (even with sufficient privileges to add, edit, delete items) from Editing, adding, deleting the items using ‘Edit in DataSheet‘ option” because the application had a Custom Form … Continue reading →

Here is a very Simple requirement which many users would like to have it. Say for instance when the New Item Form of a SharePoint List is loaded, the user would be displayed with all the controls (Form Controls), among these … Continue reading →

I was recently asked to develop a WebPart which enables searching in a List. This doesn’t sound like a big deal as we can always use the DataView WebPart which takes Query String Parameters as Filter Values to display the … Continue reading →

There are very few posts on working with Versions in SharePoint Lists Programmatically. While browsing through those posts I ran in to a question saying “How to get the Columns which changed in the SharePoint List?” Problem Description: How to … Continue reading →

SharePoint Data View WebPart grouping and Filtering: In continuation to our previous blog l’ll further demonstrate on how to add a message under each group if no records are found: something of this sort “No records found for this Group” Issue: … Continue reading →

SharePoint Data View WebPart grouping and Filtering: Not always we can use the filtering conditions in a Data View WebPart, say for example we have few parameters (Group, SubGroup, level etc..) passed in Query String and based on these parameters … Continue reading →

One of the most demanding requirements in recent times is to have the cascading dropdown columns in SharePoint. There are many useful articles available over Internet to achieve this functionality, each using different methodologies and technologies. The one I prefer … Continue reading →