What’s New in SharePoint 2013 for End User

Following are the key features of SharePoint 2013 for End Users:

• Social Computing Features: SharePoint 2013 has introduced many good improvements with respect to Social Computing including Communities, Micro blogging, My Sites, Activity Feeds,Yammer Integration etc.
  • New Site Templates are introduced for Community sites in SharePoint 2013.
  • SharePoint 2013 has Micro blogs – It allows a user to broadcast a message publicly at a central location where other users can respond.
  • My Sites design has also been improved for better navigation.
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM): As we already know thatSharePoint is primarily an ECM (Enterprise Content Management) System, so every versionhasimprovedit’s capabilities with respect to Content Management.SharePoint 2013 has improvement as ECM e.g. Site MailBox, Site-Level RetentionPoliciesandeDiscovery Capabilities etc.
  • It’s always been desired to Keep relevant and important emails in SharePoint. Now, it’s easy to keep emails and documents with SharePoint Site Mailbox.
  • Moving documents from one location to another in SharePoint by defining a Policy which is basically a set of rules.
  • eDiscovery capabilities is a key feature for End Users;  i’ts a better and improved way to protect Business.
• Mobile
  • HTML 5 support in SharePoint 2013 extends it’s usage for Mobile devices.
  • Office Mobile Web Apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Push Notifications
  • New Geo location Field Type to store map coordinates.
• Search: Search has always been a very important feature for End-User in an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) System,soSharePoint improved a lot in version 2013 as:
  • More powerful and unified search. It gives more functionality to search with results coming much faster.
  • Relevant and personalized Search on the basis of a user’s search history.
  • Document preview on search result without opening document.
  • In order to keep the index current (maximum possible), continuous crawl feature is introduced.
  • and much more to it that requires a complete separate post.
• Business Connectivity Services (BCS):
  • Support for OData.
  • Improvements to Online SharePoint Business Connectivity Services.
  • REST based Object Model for Web and Mobile application developers.
  • Improved support for sorting and filtering of external Lists.
  • Export external list data to an Excel workbook.
  • Improvements to Event Listeners.
• Business Intelligence (BI): SharePoint 2013 has presented Business Intelligence tool as a way to integrate all Microsoft Office Applications as well as other Microsoft technologies.
  • Visio Services.
  • Excel Services.
  • Performance Point Services i.e. Dashboard Migration, Filter Search, Support for Analysis Services,  Support for Performance Point on iPad.
• SharePoint 2013 Apps

A MUST HAVE SharePoint Interview Questions

What is SharePoint?

Microsoft SharePoint is an extensible platform that provides a range of products that can help organizations with solution for a variety of business needs. Primarily, SharePoint was introduced as an Enterprise Content Management System but later on Web Publishing, Collaboration, Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) features were introduced through a variety of ways.

What are the Core features of SharePoint?

With every new version, new and exciting tools were added to SharePoint platform but core of the tools that makes SharePoint an outstanding platform for Content management, Business Process Management, Collaboration and Web Publishing are:

• SharePoint Sites facilitates to create websites.
• SharePoint Communities plays it’s role to collaborate with other peoples.
• Contents makes SharePoint a true CMS (Content Management System)
• Search Engine provides smart and efficient searching of enterprise contents.
• Insights brings information together from different data sources.
• Composition makes SharePoint an extensible platform and extends it’s capabilities by using different tools like SharePoint Designer etc.

Can you briefly explain SharePoint Version History?

Latest version of the product is SharePoint 2013 but if we look into version History, it will be as follows:

What’s new in SharePoint 2013?

New and exciting features are released with every version of SharePoint. SharePoint 2013 also bundled with lots of new features. Few of them are listed here:

• Improved Performance
• Cross-Site Publishing
• Design Manager for Publishing Sites
• Improved and better Search
• Changes in SharePoint Workflow Architecture
• Office Web Apps Server
• Improved Social Computing Features
• Optimized User Interface for Mobile Devices
• Shredded BLOBs for Storage
• New Features to BCS (Business Connectivity Services)
• and much more…

For details on new and updated features in SharePoint 2013, please follow here.

What specific features Improve Performance in SharePoint 2013? Kindly elaborate.

SharePoint 2013 introduces following features that improves performance significantly.

• Distributed Cache Service
• Minimal Download Strategy and
• Shredded Storage by introducing Shredded BLOBs.

Web Application Limits and Boundaries in SharePoint 2010

This article describes Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 software boundaries and limits. These include the following:

Exceeding any of Supported limits may cause Performance Issue in SharePoint 2010.

• Maximum size of Document in SharePoint 2010 is 2GB
• Default Threshold of Document Size in SharePoint 2010 is 50MB
• 250000 maximum recommended number of site collections per Web application is supported in SharePoint 2010
• 300 Content Databases Per Web Application are supported
• Maximum 5 Zones per Web Application. (Default, Intranet, Internet, Extranet, and Custom. Zones limit defined for farm is hard-coded.
• Managed paths are cached on the Web server, and CPU resources are used to process incoming requests against the managed path list. Maximum 20 number of Managed Path per Web Application supported.
• Maximum 300 MB Solution Cache Size per Web Application. The solution cache allows the InfoPath Forms service to hold solutions in cache in order to speed up retrieval of the solutions.

SharePoint 2010 - Survey List

What is Survey List?

Survey is a way of getting data or feedback from users of your SharePoint sites.
Survey List Template of SharePoint 2010 allows you to create and maintain list of questions and define how users can specify their answers.

Survey List allows you to create multiple types of questions and allows you to select the type of answer to that question, such as Single line of text ,Multiple lines of text , Choice ,Rating Scale  , Number  ,Currency  ,Date and Time ,Lookup ,Yes/No , Person or Group ,Page Separator (inserts a page break into your survey) ,External Data ,Managed Metadata.

A SharePoint survey provides Branching Logic features also.

DYNAMIC PICTURE Library Slideshow and embedded with image link by Using SPServices and JQuery Cycle Plugin

<table width="940px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tbody>

        <tr>
            <td width="260px">
            <div id="BGLStaticContentArea" style="display: block" >
                <img width="260px" height="175px" align="left" src="/sites/BGL/BGLBannersLibrary/BGLStaticBanner.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></div>
            </td>
            <td width="680px">
                <div id="slideshowContentArea" style="display: block"></div>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery-1.6.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery.SPServices-2014.01.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery.cycle.all.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

    $(document).ready(function () {
        $().SPServices({
            operation: "GetListItems",
            async: false,
            listName: "BGLBanners",
            CAMLRowLimit: 10,
            completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
                $("#slideshowContentArea").html("");

                $(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function () {
                    var title = $(this).attr("ows_Title");
                    var pictureURL = '/' + $(this).attr("ows_RequiredField");
                    var bannerLinkURL = $(this).attr("ows_BannerLinkURL");
                    var n = bannerLinkURL.indexOf(',');
                    bannerLinkURL = bannerLinkURL.substring(0, n != -1 ? n : s.length);

                    var liHtml = "<div padding=0><a target=_blank href=" + bannerLinkURL + "><img align=left border=0 height=175 width=680 src=" + pictureURL + "></a></div>";

                    $("#slideshowContentArea").append(liHtml);
                });
                $("#slideshowContentArea").css("display", "block");

                $('#slideshowContentArea').cycle({
                    fx: 'fade',
                    timeout: 6000,
                    delay: -3000
                });
            }
        });
    });
</script>

Image sliding Using JQuery Cycle plugin

<table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="70%" valign="top"><div id="slideshowContentArea" style="margin: 5px; display: block">&#160;</div></td></tr></tbody></table>
<script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery-2.1.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery.SPServices-2014.01.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery.cycle.all.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
 $(document).ready(function () {
         $().SPServices({
            operation: "GetListItems",
            async: false,
            listName: "BGLBanners",
            CAMLRowLimit: 10,
            completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
                $("#slideshowContentArea").html("");
               
                $(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function () {
var title = $(this).attr("ows_Title");
                  var pictureURL = '/' + $(this).attr("ows_RequiredField");
                    var bannerLinkURL = $(this).attr("ows_BannerLinkURL");
                    var n = bannerLinkURL.indexOf(',');
                    bannerLinkURL = bannerLinkURL.substring(0, n != -1 ? n : s.length);
                 
var liHtml = "<div><a target=_blank href=" + bannerLinkURL + "><img align=left border=0 height=150 width=680 src=" + pictureURL + "></a><a href=" + bannerLinkURL + "><p><strong>" + title + "</strong></p></a></div>";

                   $("#slideshowContentArea").append(liHtml);
                });
 $("#slideshowContentArea").css("display", "block");

                $('#slideshowContentArea').cycle({
                    fx: 'scrollDown',
                    timeout: 6000,
                    delay: -3000
                });
            }
        });
});
    </script>

Dynalmivallly update

<table width="100%">

<tbody>

<tr>

<td width="30%"><img width="250" height="135" src="/sites/BGL/Banners_homepage/_t/BGLStaticBanner_JPG.jpg" alt=""/></td>

<td width="70%" valign="top"><div id="imgRotator">&#160;</div></td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

<script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery-2.1.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery.SPServices-2014.01.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

var newBanner =0;

function rotateimages(){

var bannerImg = new Array();

var bannerLink = new Array();

$().SPServices({

operation: "GetListItems",

async: false,

listName: "BGLBanners",

CAMLRowLimit: 10,

completefunc: function (xData, Status) {

var i=0;

$(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function() {

var pictureURL= '/' + $(this).attr("ows_RequiredField");

var bannerLinkURL = $(this).attr("ows_BannerLinkURL");

var n = bannerLinkURL.indexOf(',');

bannerLinkURL = bannerLinkURL.substring(0, n != -1 ? n : s.length);

bannerImg[i]=pictureURL;

bannerLink[i]=bannerLinkURL;

i++;

});

}

});

var totalBan = bannerImg.length;

if (newBanner == totalBan)

{

newBanner = 0;

}

document.getElementById('imgRotator').innerHTML="<a target=_blank href="+bannerLink[newBanner]+"><img height=135 width=650 src="+bannerImg[newBanner]+"></a>";

newBanner++;

setTimeout("rotateimages()", 3*1000);

}

window.onload=function(){

rotateimages();

}

</script>

Dynamically Sliding Picture Library Images using SPService in CEWP (Content Editor Web part)

<div class="ama-outerwrapper"><table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="30%" class="ama-newsbox1"><img width="250" height="135" src="/sites/BGL/Banners_homepage/_t/BGLStaticBanner_JPG.jpg" alt=""/></td>
<td class="ama-newsbox2" valign="top"></td>
<td width="70%" class="ama-newsbox3" valign="top"><div class="ama-topnewsimage" id="imgRotator">&#160;</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery-2.1.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery.SPServices-2014.01.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">


var curImgIndex=0
function rotateimages(){
var bannerImg = new Array();
var bannerLink = new Array();
$().SPServices({
operation: "GetListItems",
async: false,
listName: "BGLBanners",
CAMLRowLimit: 10,
completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
var i=0;
$(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function() {    
var pictureURL= '/' + $(this).attr("ows_RequiredField");
var bannerLinkURL = $(this).attr("ows_BannerLinkURL");
var n = bannerLinkURL.indexOf(',');
bannerLinkURL  = bannerLinkURL.substring(0, n != -1 ? n : s.length);
bannerImg[i]=pictureURL;
bannerLink[i]=bannerLinkURL;
i++;        
});  
}
});
var totalBan = bannerImg.length;

 
  if (newBanner == totalBan)
    {
    newBanner = 0;
    }
document.getElementById('imgRotator').innerHTML="<a target=_blank href="+bannerLink[newBanner]+"><img height=135 width=650 src="+bannerImg[newBanner]+"></a>";
newBanner++;
setTimeout("rotateimages()", 3*1000);
}

window.onload=function(){
rotateimages();
}</script>

Getting SharePoint List Items from Picture Library in CEWP

Step 1:

Add CEWP on page and GO to Edit Webpart and then click on html on top of the page and Add Jquery and SPservice Reference

<script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery-2.1.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="/sites/BGL/SiteAssets/jquery.SPServices-2014.01.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">

Step 2:-

Add below simple code to get the list items, Don't forget to provide your listName

$(document).ready(function(){
alert("CEWP inside");
            $().SPServices({
                operation: "GetListItems",
                async: false,
                listName: "BGLBanners",
                CAMLRowLimit: 6,
                completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
  $(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function() {
         var _url = '/' + $(this).attr("ows_RequiredField");
  alert(_url);
   var img_Size= $(this).attr("ows_ImageSize");
               alert(img_Size);
       
      });            
                }
            });
        });
</script>


All the best :)

Get all Site and Subsites collection from other Web Application within the server

<div id="divContainer"></div>
<script src="/jquery.js/" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="//SPAPI_Core.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="/SPAPI_Webs.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
s = new SPAPI_Webs(siteURL);
var xmlhttp= webs.getAllSubWebCollection();
if(xmlhttp.status == 200){
var xmlDoc = xmlhttp.responseXML;
var Webid= xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("Web");
var html= '<table>';
for (i=0;i<Webid.length;i++) {
   var linkTitle = Webid[i].attributes.getNamedItem("Title").nodeValue;
   var linkURL = Webid[i].attributes.getNamedItem("Url").nodeValue;
   html = html + '<tr><td>';
   html = html + '<p style="border-radius:10px;background-color:Silver;border:2px solid black"><a href="' + linkURL + '">' + linkTitle + ' <img src="PlayButton.jpg" style="height:15px;width:15px;float:right" alt="linkButton"/></a></p>';
   html = html + '</td></tr>';
   }
}
html=html + "</table>";
document.getElementById("divContainer").innerHTML=html;

</script>

Get DDM values from SharePoint List in CEWP

Get DDM values from SharePoint List in CEWP

<div id="divContainer" ></div>

<script src="jquery-1.11.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SPAPI_Core.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SPAPI_Lists.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

function getDDMValues() {
var pcSites = new SPAPI_Lists(siteUrl );
var pcList = pcSites.getList(listName);
html = '<table width="100%">';
$(pcList.responseXML).find("Field[DisplayName='Community Type'] CHOICE").each(function () {
var fieldValue = $(this).text();
html = html + '<tr>';
html = html + '<td  onclick="getByType(this.innerText);">' + fieldValue + ' <img  src="/sites/myparagon/MIX/ImageLibrary/PlayGreen.jpg"
style="height:20px;width:20px;border:none;float:right;" alt=""/></td>';
html = html + '</tr>';
html = html + '<tr><td></td></tr>';
});
html = html + '</table>';
document.getElementById("divContainer").innerHTML = html;
}
</script>