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Point to Point Bing Map from Sharepoint List

January 18, 2012 mmwheeler

Another project I’m working on is to plot Point to Point data on a map. Using Andrew Whitten’s blog post, I was able to create a Sharepoint Web Part that calls a List with location data and plot that on a Bing Map. My list has Point A Latitude, Point […]

Interactive Google Map Web Part for Sharepoint 2010 – Part 2

January 7, 2012 mmwheeler

Feature-creep version! I have added an additional list configuration/lookup column called Color. This allows you to specify an alternate icon/color for your push-pins by item. The format of the Color column in your list should be Single Line of Text and in the form of a URL. In the example […]

SQL Function to convert Float to VarChar

January 3, 2012 mmwheeler

This is related to the Google Maps web part from an earlier post. I have latitude and longitude columns in a database table. Both are Float datatypes. I needed to build a URL string for the push-pin description box. That would seem straight-forward enough, however, I was receiving an error […]

Interactive Google Map Web Part for Sharepoint 2010

December 20, 2011 mmwheeler

I needed a way to display an interactive Google Map against a Sharepoint list over SSL. I did a slight modification to Mazin’s great Google Map Web Part on Codeplex. In MapWebPart.cs – Look for ResolveAddress function and add the following line at the top of function. ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate […]

Simple Google Map from Sharepoint List using JQUERY

December 16, 2011 mmwheeler

I created a simply JQUERY script to allow you to query location data from a basic Sharepoint list and then plot that data on a static Google Map. Adjust where applicable and paste onto your page. My Sharepoint list had two columns: City, State // Call in the JQUERY Library […]

Sharepoint Metadata Navigation Position in Quicklaunch

November 30, 2011 mmwheeler

Here’s the way to move the Metadata Navigation higher in the left-hand navigation bar. You have to edit the master page if you want to move the location of the metadata navigation. Here are the steps: 1. Open the site using SharePoint Designer 2010; 2. Open the master page of […]

Scheduling Sharepoint 2010 Farm Backups

November 29, 2011 mmwheeler

1. Create a folder on a local or network drive “backups”. Share that folder as “backups” and give the account you used to install SharePoint as well as the farm and SQL database accounts full access (share permissions and NTFS). 2. Create these files in a Folder somewhere: • backup-full.ps1 […]

Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms Errors in Sharepoint

October 11, 2011 mmwheeler

In using Dashboard Designer, I was having problems with the drop-downs for databases and tables when creating datasources. Using ULS Viewer and the Windows Application Event Viewer I was noticing a lot of errors referencing; this implementation is not part of the windows platform fips validated cryptographic algorithms. On the […]

Displaying PDFs in the browser from Sharepoint 2010

October 5, 2011 mmwheeler

If you have a default SharePoint 2010 setup you would notice that when you go to open a PDF file SharePoint prompts you to save it rather than opening. The cause of this behavior is SharePoint 2010 Browser File Handling. This property is on SharePoint Web Application level and its […]

SSRS Sharepoint Integrated Mode Missing Subscribe Button

October 5, 2011 mmwheeler

Ran into an issue when running SQL 2008 R2 Reporting Services in Sharepoint 2010 Integrated Mode. Only those with Full Control permissions could see the Subscribe option in the Actions Menu. However, users could Manage Subscriptions from the Item drop-down menu in the Report library. By default, the OOB Permissions […]