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Or: How to add terms to a termset from Powershell :) In this case we are collecting project numbers from a SQL Server table, the Job table in a Navision instance to be exact. When we have got the records all fine and happy we connect to SharePoint and asks it gently if it could please let us in to the Managed Metadata Service. Once inside we rush to the term group Projects, demands...Read more

I have been using the excellent toastr library for my clientside messages now for a while. Today I needed to send a message from codebehind to the client and I wanted to keep using toastr. As I prefer to solve things only once I wanted this to be reusable through my app. Something...Read more

Permissions needed to start Workflow manually I had a list workflow in SharePoint Online that wouldn't start for users with Edit and/or Contribute permissions on the list. This was a workflow the user would start manually, but before it started the user would get to a page...Read more

I had a page that was loading data using getJSON, and then looping through the resultset with each and populating a viewmodel using Knockout: $.getJSON('../../api/AppointmentApi/UntreatedAppointments') .done(function (data) { $.each(data, function (i, avt) { self.createAppointmentVM(avt); }); }); The problem was that already at 50-60 records the actual view was taking quite a...Read more

HTML: <button class="btn btn-success btn-sm" data-bind="click: $root.matchAppointment.bind($parent)">Match appointment</button> The outlined .bind($parent) above will set this to the parent context of your viewmodel in your javascript: JavaScript: self.matchAppointment...Read more

Javascript:  $.ajax({                     url: "/Api/AppointmentApi/MatchAppointment",                     type: "POST",                ...Read more

To update Web.Title or Description is pretty easy if your SharePoint-installation is in English, i.e: $web = Get-SPWeb "http://sp2013" $web.Title = "My title" $web.Description="My site description" $web.Update() We are using Norwegian, and setting web.Title and web.Description gives no errors, but you will not see any changes either. The problem is that this only changes the default...Read more