How To Change Sharepoint PageLayout Icon To Custom Image

In Sharepoint, when you create a new article page, you have to choose a page layout for this article to control the way the article page will appear. So, to differentiate between different page layouts from UI, each page layout has its own title and an image. Thus, once you click on any page layout, its corresponding image appears. This image should somehow reflect the basic structure of the layout so that you can differentiate between all of the...

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How To Get Real-time Info Of Sharepoint Module Files On Feature Activation Event Listener

Sometimes you need to run some code at the moment of certain feature activation. This is for sure doable by creating an event receiver on the desired feature and then overriding the code of the "FeatureActivated" method. This topic is not the main topic here so I will assume that you already know how to do this. Ok, but what I will be talking about in this post is how to use the module "Elements.xml" file to get live or real-time data to be used inside your "FeatureActivated" code. Let me explain first what I really mean here. Sometimes in your...

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How To Make Sure jQuery Is Loaded And Only Once

While working with Sharepoint you will notice that adding jQuery to the main masterpage is not a good idea cause sometimes and with some jQuery versions problems happen just after adding jQuery even without using it. May be some of you encountered this problem or not but at least it happened to me and some other colleagues. So, the first lesson here is, don't add jQuery on every page except when you really need it. Also, when working with webparts, you may be using jQuery on more than one webpart, so you need to make sure that jQuery is...

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Using "EditModePanel" To Show/Hide Webparts In Edit/Display Mode in Sharepoint 2007/2010

While working on Sharepoint pagelayouts I needed to control whether an element will appear on edit/display mode. I specifically needed a webpart zone to appear in the edit mode but not appear in the display mode. So, after searching, I found an OOTB control called "EditModePanel" which has an attribute to decide the mode in which the control children will be rendered. So, if this attribute -which is called "PageDisplayMode" by the way- is set to "Display", then the control contents will be rendered in the display mode of the page. While, if it...

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Sharepoint "ListItemPropertyField" WebControl To Render Any Subproperty Of ListItem Field

I was working on a Sharepoint 2010 project and I had a task to modify a custom page layout to include the e-mail of the article owner. I found that this article owner field is a custom field in the pages library and its type is "Person or Group". So, I started to trace this field to find how I can get the email. I found that I can use an OOTB Sharepoint webcontrol called "BaseFieldControl" which has a property called "FieldName". When this property is set to the name of the field in a Sharepoint listitem, it fires its ToString() to get a string...

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