Setup the home page using SharePoint Designer 2010

Today’s article is based on simple facts which can be done by GUI also but would like to share the way by using SharePoint Designer 2010.

Here are the complete steps:-

1.   Open the SharePoint Designer 2010 (Start->All programs->SharePoint->Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010)

2.   Select open site option

3.   Enter the site URL without default.aspx / Home.aspx

4.   Enter the credentials i.e. your username and password

5.   Select the ‘site pages’ library/ the location where you have created the pages

6.   Right click on the page

7.   Select ‘Set as Home page’

Note- Not only Home.aspx but you can set any page as your welcome page by this process.

Please refer the following screenshot for better clarity!

Please let me know in case of any issues/questions regarding the above mentioned information. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

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You cannot delete a hidden column

Working on lot of tickets nowadays, trying to share as much as i can!

Today’s article is based on a simple issue but needs a quick trick to resolve it. I have resolved this issue within a quick span but it might be difficult for somebody to troubleshoot and will take lot of time to get stuck on the same. Just wanted to save your time by sharing this article, but still after following the below mentioned information, if your issue still remains unresolved then please drop a note in the form of comment and I would be there to help you!

Problem description

One of the users is trying to delete a column from a custom list but he is facing a very weird problem which might scare you initially, as hey what happening in my farm J

Error message

You cannot delete a hidden column. <nativehr>0x81020092</nativehr> <nativestack> </nativestack>

What’s the ultimate goal? – To delete the column!

Please follow these steps-

Resolution

a)   Open the list where you are trying to delete the column

b)   List settings

c)   Go to the columns section

d)   Click on the column that you want to delete

e)   Change the metadata of that column - example from single line of text to multiple line of text

f)    Click OK

g)   Click on that column again

h)   Hit Delete

i)     You would be able to delete that column without any problems.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. Thank you.

There has been a critical error while processing the form

One of our users has reported a concern that they are facing problems while opening the SharePoint list. When I checked the list then I could open it without any problems, further I checked the customizations but it’s an out of box list.

SP entities

a)   SharePoint 2010 site

b)   Internet explorer 11

c)   Permissions- contributor

Here is the error message that I was talking about:-

Error Message-1:

Object doesn't support property or method 'addeventlistener'

Error Message-2:

There has been a critical error while processing the form.

Troubleshooting

1.   Check in different machine to isolate the issue

2.   Check in different browsers to make sure that browsers are not the culprit

3.   Check the user permissions

4.   Check for any customization's

5.   Check the firewall restrictions

Resolution

SharePoint 2010 does not recommends/support IE11

1)   Open the IE

2)   Tools

3)   Compatibility view settings

4)   Enter the URL of your SharePoint site (without default.aspx / Home.aspx) in the “Add this website” section

5)   Click on Add

6)   Close

7)   Close the Internet explorer

8)   open your SharePoint site in a new IE

9)   Check the results and confirm!

In case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

How to monitor SharePoint – Part -2

This article in in continuation with the first part – 

http://sharepointknowledgebase.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-to-monitor-sharepoint-part-1.html

If you have any queries / questions regarding the first part then please feel free to ask so that we can discuss and proceed further…

We are going to discuss the remaining sections today in descriptive manner-

Usage data and health data collection

 As we discussed, ULS, Event Viewer logs, SharePoint Health Analyzer are vital enough to provide the cause behind the issues but sometimes not everything gets captured inside these logs, example-

1.   Traffic Reports - How many hits a page got, how the user got there, and what browser they used to get there.

2.   Search Reports - What was searched for, top clicks, failed queries.

3.   Inventory Reports - What space is being used by whom, how many sites you have, what languages those sites use.

"Site usage reports" have been renamed as Web Analytics.

You can access Web Analytics reports by going to Site Actions -> Site Settings.  Under the Site Actions heading you will see two links, Site Web Analytics Reports and Site Collection Web Analytics Reports.

Inventory Reports:

The inventory reports are targeted to help the site administrators in managing the site by keeping track of the site structure and storage and version issues.

1.   How much disk space is being consumed?

2.   How many sites have been created?

3.   What languages are in use?

Developer Dashboard

Developer Dashboard is one of the clean and neat tools to troubleshoot performance issues. This functionality is disabled by default but pretty useful. With the help of developer dashboard (DD), we can easily recognize type of problem, either programmatically by using the object model or visually by looking at page output, critical events, database queries, service calls, and SharePoint requests allocation.

How to enable this:-

$svc=[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService

$ddsetting=$svc.DeveloperDashboardSettings

$ddsetting.DisplayLevel=[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::OnDemand

$ddsetting.Update()

Best Practices on Memory Leak

Microsoft has created an awesome too to find out the memory leaks.

More details- http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck

If you have any questions/queries then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Product applies to:

a.    SharePoint Server 2010

b.    SharePoint Foundation 2010

References:

Capacity requirements for the Web Analytics Shared Service in SharePoint Server 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg440601.aspx

Reporting and usage analysis overview (SharePoint Server 2010)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg266383.aspx

Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010: Insights into Reports and Metrics

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2010/05/03/web-analytics-in-sharepoint-2010-insights-into-reports-and-metrics.aspx