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Questions tagged [sharepoint-foundation]

SharePoint Foundation is the platform for all on-premises products in the SharePoint family. Questions having this tag should be specific to SharePoint Foundation and not SharePoint Online or other license SKUs of SharePoint Server. It contains all of the core functionality and architecture drawn on by the commercial versions of the package, but is free to download

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is the platform for all products in the SharePoint family. It contains all of the core functionality and architecture drawn on by the commercial versions of the package. SharePoint Foundation is available for download at no cost.

Questions having the tag should be specific to SharePoint Foundation and not any other SKU.

Reference: Wikipedia - Microsoft SharePoint

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What exactly is SharePoint?

What is SharePoint anyway? What's the difference between SharePoint and Dropbox or SkyDrive for example? They all share files. Why should anyone use SharePoint instead of SkyDrive or Dropbox?
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Make a document library the sites default homepage

I am making a very simple document library. Sharepoint foundation 2010 I have a number of countrys sites, displayed as tabs at the top, each site contains 1 document library. I would like to click the country site tab and then the document library…
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get list of all users SharePoint using REST API

I have the id of the user and I need to get his login name. I use REST API: there is my code : function ReturnItemBY(fieldName, listname, id, url) { //Url should be _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl // var item = getListItems(url, listName,…
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How to make a SharePoint 2013 "yes/no" list field to be displayed as a checkbox during inline editing?

I have a "yes/no" field in a SharePoint 2013 list. In a default list view I can click "edit" link and get to inline editing of the list. In this case I can edit the "yes/no" field via a dropdown with values "yes" and "no". Like so: But in my…
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From .NET developer to SharePoint developer - Can it happen?

I am a .NET developer who builds web apps and I’m thinking of learning SharePoint 2010 and change my career to SharPOint development. Why? Because web development is widely focused and I never seem to be an expert in any one technology. There’s just…
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When & why I need to use web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true

When & why I need to use web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true, and why it is false by default: web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; //Update Item web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
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Regarding Export list to excel

One of my SP list has items over 55,000 when I try to export to excel it is retrieving only 52,000 records. Exactly which resource throttling settings we need to modify to retrieve 52,000 plus list items?
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SharePoint 2013 - Send-to button greyed out - probably because of claims?

I wonder if someone knows... We have installed SharePoint 2013, and we realized that the send-to button in document libraries is greyed out. When we created a new web application with NTLM authentization, the button was not greyed out. Therefore, we…
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sharepoint user control

We are currently using outlook and exchange to reserve / book rooms and resources at our company. We set up a mail box for the resource and share the calendar so that others can use it. We are looking at changing to Sharepoint Foundation 2010 to do…
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Sharepoint 2010 database move from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, Alias question

I want move my Sharepoint 2010 foundation from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008. Now, from what I read the best practice is to use a SQL alias on the new server pointing to the old server after I attach all the sharepoint DB's. What if I have other DB's on the…
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Apply master page for all subsites in SharePoint 2010

Working on a SP2010 Standard intranet/extranet project.I have created a master page to use for all sites. But i would like to apply the masterpages to all sites and subsites. So what i'm trying to achieve is when i create a new site i want it t use…
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Retrieve data from large SharePoint list

I have full control permission over a SharePoint list. I am trying to retrieve all the items from a list which is having more than 60,000 items in it. I have tried using export to excel and datasheet view but they are retrieving up to 52,000 items.…
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Find users activity in sharepoint

I need to find the user activity in a SharePoint 2007 site such as viewing or downloading the document. How shall I do it?
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error XMLHttpRequest: Network Error 0x80070005

I'm using REST API tp get the SPusers , this is the function : function getSiteUser(url,complete) { $.ajax({ url: url + "_api/web/siteUsers?$select=LoginName", method: "GET", contentType: "application/json;…
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How to round the KPI values to 1 or 2 decimal or a whole number?

I created a "Status List", which take a SharePoint list as Source, I need to show the "Average" of the "% Completed" column. All other status record shows a normal looking value like "80%", "100%", but this one row, it has an average of value…
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