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SharePoint 2010 – How to use Audio and Video Webpart

Video and Audio Web Part [ a.k.a Media Web Part ] is one of the new cool web parts in SharePoint 2010, so in this article I am going to show you the way to add this web part in your page. To add Media web part to the page you must activate those two features 1- SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure Feature in Site Collection features 2- SharePoint Server Publishing Feature in Site features After that edit page then click on Insert tab in SharePoint Ribbon then select Video and Audio Now the Media Web Part in the page Click on the Media Web Part and you will find Options Tab in the Ribbon As you can see in the Options tab there are Chang Media button allow you to select the video and Chang Image button to change the image of web part and Styles (Dark, Light) Click on Change Media to select the Media file. From Computer opens up the Upload media so you can upload the video and display it. Once you click ok and saving the page. Click on play button and enj

Creating Custom Timer Job in SharePoint 2010

Open Visual Studio 2010 >File > New >Project >SharePoint 2010>Empty SharePoint Project. >Name it Custom_TimerJob>Ok Check Deploy as farm solution>Finish create a class that inherits from the Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPJobDefinition class. To implement this class, you need to create a few constructors and override the Execute() method as following 01 namespace DotnetFinder 02 { 03      class ListTimerJob : SPJobDefinition 04      { 05           public ListTimerJob() 06 07              : base () 08          { 09 10          } 11 12          public ListTimerJob( string jobName, SPService service, SPServer server, SPJobLockType targetType) 13 14              : base (jobName, service, server, targetType) 15          { 16 17          } 18 19          public ListTimerJob( string jobName, SPWebApplication webApplication) 20 21              : base (jobName, webApplica

Setting Up PerformancePoint Services in Sharepoint 2010

I recently got very frustrated trying to get PerformancePoint Services to work on a fresh Sharepoint 2010 installation. Dashboard designer just wouldnt connect to the sharepoint site. Event viewer showed errors along the lines of “There are no addresses available for this application”. This same error appeared to affect a lot of other items such as the Secure Store Service, Excel Services etc. So i eventually got it working and can say the following need to be done. A similar proces will apply to other similar service applications. The most important step.. and my main problem: make sure your services are enabled at the server level! Central Admin -> (System Settings) ->Manage Services on Server: Add the Secure Store Service: Central Admin -> (Application Management) ->Manage Services Applications. then Select New -> Secure Store Service. Configuration asks you for a database name and credentials. Add the PPS service application: Central Admin -> (Ap

Cascading drop down column in a SharePoint List

This article will show how to use codeplex project to achieve Cascading drop down columns in SharePoint list. This article will show how to achieve parent child relationship in column of SharePoint list.   Objective This article will show how to use codeplex project to achieve Cascading drop down columns in SharePoint list. This article will show how to achieve parent child relationship in column of SharePoint list. Step 1 Download the project from codeplex . Choose WSP file to download. To download the project Click here Step 2 After downloading the WSP add the solution using STSADM command. Navigate to BIN folder and add the solution. Command C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN> stsa dm -o addsolution -filename c:\Stoneshare.CascadingDropDown.WithFilter.wsp Step 3 Open Central ADMIN and deploy solution. Navigate to Operation -> Global Configuration -> Solution Management. Select the Global Deployment option. Step 4