Archive for the ‘Deployment’ Category

I just like to start by saying that this post is not ground breaking. However, when I tried to do this it did take me a while to find the answer, so I thought I’d just blog to add it to the grey matter. As I’m sure you are all aware you can provision multiple [...]

Okay, before anyone comments on the simplicity of this posting. It merely t allow me to get the script easily in the future.  What’s the purpose of it? It basically retracts a solution and waits until its fully retracted, then deletes it, adds it in again and redeploys it. Not rocket science, but handy.  #Set [...]

Scenario: You want to us the inherited title field in your list definition,but you don’t want it to be called title.  To override what is displayed in the new/edit form is straight forward enough. You just add the DisplayName attribute to your Title FieldRef with the ID of {fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247} in the Content Type. Overriding Title [...]

Short one:  A bit of a vague error, “Failed to do column assignments for list”, found in the SharePoint logs after trying to deploy as solution. The solution contained many list definitions, instances and content types and when deployed it was notice that one of the list was missing. I’m sure there could be many [...]