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Comment on Microsoft SharePoint Hyper-V virtual machine DNS fix by Charbel Hajjar

Charbel Hajjar — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:23:45 +0000

Thank u very very much . i was stuck with this issue , i was creating site collection on the Central administration

Comment on SharePoint static 2nd level current navigation in MOSS 2007 by ericschrader

ericschrader — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:27:17 +0000

per our email, looks like SharePoint 2010 navigation sources that start with “Combined…” behave differently than in SharePoint 2007. They may have added more properties to navigation controls. (Google SharePoint:ASPMenu and PublishingNavigation:PortalSiteMapDataSource, also make sure publishing features are tuned on, or you are using a publishing site template)

Comment on SharePoint 2010 – Themes and CoreV4.css comparison technique for Developers by ericschrader

ericschrader — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:22:49 +0000

Janaiah, Themes in 2007 had thier own CSS files. Themes in 2010 now place tolkens in for the CSS attribute values. As far as I know, there is no way to do this easily, but thats off the top of my head.

2007:
Own css per theme

2010:
Same css file per theme, but replacing of “colors” for CSS attributes in CSS files.
ie.
.sameclassnamehere {
color: [theme accent color] // I forgot the exact syntax
background-color [theme accent 2 color]
}

So if you had a “red theme”, the colors might be red for those css attributes, whereas a “blue theme” might have blue colors for those css attributes, depending on what your theme permutations are

Comment on SharePoint 2010 – Themes and CoreV4.css comparison technique for Developers by Janaiah

Janaiah — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:28:16 +0000

Hi, excellent info. how to incorporate dedicated css style sheet to multiple themes. Could you please provide your suggestion.

Thank you.

Comment on SharePoint static 2nd level current navigation in MOSS 2007 by Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:22:08 +0000

Actually, now that I tested it for a bit I realised it doesn’t quite work for me.

I have got a menu that looks like this:

Section 1
– Subsection 1.1
Section 2
- Subsection 2.1

The menu looks the same no matter where in the site the user is. I expected the section that the user isn’t in to be “collapsed”. So if a user is in Section 2 or Subsection 2.1 I thought the menu would look like this:

Section 1
Section 2
- Subsection 2.1

But that doesn’t happen. Any idea where I am going wrong?

Comment on SharePoint static 2nd level current navigation in MOSS 2007 by Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:01:22 +0000

Your’e a genius! You wouldn’t believe how many times I tried to do this and always gave up on it in the end. I can’t believe it’s that simple.

Comment on SharePoint static 2nd level current navigation in MOSS 2007 by ericschrader

ericschrader — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:54:57 +0000

You can use any datasource prefixed with “Current” as far as I remember. Intellisense or googling a few of the datasources should lead you to all of your choices.

Comment on SharePoint static 2nd level current navigation in MOSS 2007 by Basilios

Basilios — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:39:48 +0000

Will do. Thanks for the quick response. The only reason i did not use SiteMapDS was because i get an error when i try to use it. Any idea on why SiteMapDS is not working on SP2010?

Comment on SharePoint static 2nd level current navigation in MOSS 2007 by ericschrader

ericschrader — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:06:08 +0000

You can try:

SharePoint:AspMenu id="V4QuickLaunchMenu" runat="server" 
    EnableViewState="false" DataSourceId="QuickLaunchSiteMap" 
    UseSimpleRendering="true" UseSeparateCss="false" Orientation="Vertical"
    StaticDisplayLevels="4" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="1" 
    SkipLinkText="" CssClass="s4-ql"

But the QuickLaunchSiteMap datasource might not keep track of the current page you are on like SiteMapDS does.

Comment on SharePoint static 2nd level current navigation in MOSS 2007 by Basilios

Basilios — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:26:01 +0000

Is there a way to do this in SharePoint 2010? I have been trying to find a way for weeks to adjust my left navigation (QuickLaunchSiteMap) that displays 3 static levels to only display three on the selected node like your example above? any ideas? suggestions?