SharePoint Organization Chart with Presence

Here's a little script that - depending on your setup - will enable you to get presence icons on your Org Chart looking like this:

The Org Chart links to the users SharePoint profile page with a url like the below:
http://company.com/Person.aspx?accountname=DOMAIN\Username

In our company we all have an email address that looks like this:
username@company.com (for internal use only)

Our usernames has a fixed length, so using the scripts substr function I grap the username from the end of the url and adds the company email trail to it. It's no magic and the script is small.

You can find the script here. You'll need to modify these two variables:
   // Please modify these two variables to fit your company settings
   var companyEmail = "@yourcompany.com";
   var lenghtOfUsername = 8;

You will then need to add the script to the HTML Source portion of a Content Editor web part. Please refer to sections 11 to 16 on this blog post to see how you do that. Also note that the script refers to jQuery and SPService using external CDN's and it is highly recommended that you download these scripts and refer to them locally.

Who created this list or library?

How do you find out who created a particular list or library in SharePoint? It doesn’t say anywhere! Only option is to use PowerShell and that requires that you have access to the SharePoint server.

So I baked together a little script that will give you the answer.

You can find the script here. You will need to add the script to the HTML Source portion of a Content Editor web part. Please refer to sections 11 to 16 on this blog post to see how you do that. Also note that the script refers to jQuery and SPService using external CDN's and it is highly recommended that you download these scripts and refer to them locally.

Once the script has been successfully added to your page it should look similar to this

Here’s how you use it:

1. First you need to copy the url or address of the list or library. If you have the list open you can get it from the addressbar by pressing the F6 key followed by Ctrl + C. If you are looking at the All Site Content overview, you can simply right – click it and select Copy Shortcut.
2. Next go back to your WhoCreatedThisList page.
3. Paste the url into the textbox by pressing Ctrl+V and then click the Search button
4. Allow the script to work for a few seconds
5. A dialog box will appear with the owner information
   
6. If you need to save the information you can copy it to the clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C while the dialog box is in focus.

Embed video in SharePoint 2010 blog posts - the easy way

2nd Edit: Added a link to the script file as copying from this page introduces illegal characters
NEW source file supporting multiple browsers!

Edit: Added some more explanation around the Content Editor and the script.

Embedding videos to the Body of a blog post in SharePoint has always required some tricks and coding.
If you Google the internet you may come accross posts like Embedding Flash Video in SharePoint Blogs by Kirk Evans and the ERTE project on Codeplex by Boris Gomiunik.

I've taken some inspiration in both these approaches, but wanted a solution that didn't include adding code to masterpages or installing solutions. Simplicity should be the key word. So my solution makes it possible to paste the embed code directly into the body text and hit Publish.And get the video working. To do this you simply add a Content Editor web part (CEWP) to the bottom of your page.

To edit the HTLM source of the CEWP (click Edit page and) click in the Editor part of the web part

Now in the ribbon locate the HTML icon, click the dropdown arrow and click on Edit HTML Source

Once in the HTML Source editor add the below script and click OK:

You can find the script file here: EmbedVideo.txt

Once the HTML Source editor is closed, click Page, Stop Editing.

After you done this the script should NOT show up on the page, if it does, then is has not been successfully entered into the HTML Source, examine it for any illegal characters that might occur from copying it from this page.

Once the script is successfully entered into the HTML of the CEWP you should be ready to move on!

Now you can paste the embed code directly into body text or you can even include embedded videos to items on a custom list or wherever you want...

And the result:

Or even in a custom list or as here a Link list using a Enhanced Rich Text field:

So, happy embedding :)

Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista x64 SP1

I'm installing SharePoint 2010 on a Windows Vista x64 SP1 and is getting the 'allowInsecureTransport' error on the create sample data pass of the configuration wizard. Unfortunately the fix won't install and I'm getting the 'The update does not apply to your system'. Maybe there's missing an fix for Vista x64?


However I managed to complete the wizard by removing the two allowInsecureTransport="true" sentences (remember not to remove the closing tag :)) from the client.config found at "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Profile" thanks to a tip from http://www.mcpblog.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=8f2497f6%2De77b%2D4e70%2D8400%2De020b292165c&ID=61. Note that you don't have to uninstall SharePoint, only remove the two lines.

Jesper Simonsen