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SiteCore 8.1- Not able to add file in layout folder using Sitecore Rocks

When i tried to add aspx file in the layout folder using Sitecore Rocks, getting below error

Issue:-

Resolution:-

Open Bin folder of your webRoot (e.g. C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Website\bin)
If the assembly is not in Bin folder, Go to "c:\Users[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\Extensions\" folder. Then, there would be some folders and find the assembly in one of folders.
Copy ”Sitecore.Rocks.TemplateWizard.dll” and paste it to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies”

VS 2013 Edition Path:-

Open Bin folder of your webRoot (e.g. C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Website\bin)
If the assembly is not in Bin folder, Go to "C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Extensions\3fb0b2i1.enx" folder. Then, there would be some folders and find the assembly in one of folders.
Copy ”Sitecore.Rocks.TemplateWizard.dll” and paste it to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies”.

Happy Coding

File Explorer Missing in Sitecore 8.1

File Explore didn't find in site core 8. It seems like missing

Alternative:-

The File explorer can be opened up in site core 8 using below url:-

http://[site core instance]/sitecore/shell/default.aspx?xmlcontrol=fileexplorer

KB article:-http://www.newguid.net/sitecore/2015/sitecore-8-enable-developer-center-xpath-builder-file-explorer/

Happy Coding

CSS failed to load in Sitecore window 10

I installed SiteCore 8.1 in window 10 machine. After completing all configuration.

1. .Net Framework4.5
2. IIS 7
3. SQL Server
4. Site Core

SiteCore site start browsing but it seems like CSS didn't load. I tried in multiple browser and with all default script setting - All setting was ok.

I followed below steps and working fine:-

1. Enable the Static Content feature of iis.
Go to Control panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows feature On or Off ->

2. Expand IIS -> World Wide Web Services
Enable or select Default Document, Direct Browsing, HTTP Errors, Static Content.

Click ok and wait for update.
Browse the site - It start working fine.

Happy Coding.

SharePoint 2013 Search Modify the Item Display Template

SharePoint 2013 Search Add Managed Property in Item Display Template

Item display template can be modified using Managed Property - We can add or remove the managed property and modify as per requirement.

How to access the Item Display Template , I explained in my earlier post here

Each Search display template contains default managed properties. They appear in the <mso:ManagedPropertyMapping> tag at the top of each template:

Each Template have one-one mapping of property like:-

Take the copies of the templates or modifying existing ones
To add a new managed property, simply add another entry. For example, if I had a managed property named "Country", I would add 'CountryOWSText':'CountryOWSText', to the <mso:ManagedPropertyMapping> tag:
If you have uploading the template to different site - Remember to change the url also.

Use the Managed Property, where you want to change the display the Template like below:-

Save the changes and upload the template in Display Template -> search folder and refer the same file in Search Result Web Part.

Click Ok and publish the page and Search Result web part will start appearing as per our design.

Happy Coding..

Custom Refiner in SharePoint 2013 Search

This article describe - How to add custom refiner in SharePoint 2013 Search, How to make the enrich search.

OOTB search result page with OOTB refiners:-

Refiners work with Manager Property, All above property i.e. Result Type, Author & Modified Date are Managed Property.

Refiner is also a search refiner web part - through which we can existing managed property - Follow the below steps for adding more properties:-

Step 1:- Edit the Page and Edit the Right hand side refiner web part.

Step 2 :- Edit the Web Part and click the choose refiner

Step 3:- Select the managed property from LHS list box and add to RHS like Region, Country, Site

By default standard or naming convention of managed property Site Column Name + OWS + Data Type. I have created the Region, Country, Site as site column with Single line of text.
Similarly we can rename the Display Name , apply the template, sort the property etc.

Step 4 :- How to get the managed property - Go to Site Setting -> Site Collection Adminsitration -> Search Schema.

Step 5:- By Default Managed Property select - Search for Site Column i.e. region as highlighted below, I got the managed property i.e. RegionOWSText and Edit the property and set Query, Search, Refine if not selected as shown below:-

Step 6 :- After step 4 just click ok and save the page - you will get custom refiner in your search result page-

Happy Coding

Deployment Steps For InfoPath Form During Migration

Checklist

SharePoint Enterprise Edition 2013
Microsoft InfoPath Designer 2013
An account to access the SharePoint 2013 Site as Site Collection Administrator
Visual Studio 2012

Step 1 :- Open InfoPath Form:

Open the 2007 InfoPath template (XSN file) with InfoPath Designer 2013

Step 2 :- Go to Form Options:

File->Options->Form Options

Step 3:-Set Full trust for the form Security and Trust

Step 4:-Set Code path and Target Version for InfoPath.

In Our case we had a code behind for the InfoPath form, so set the project file under Programming.

Target of the Form should be InfoPath in the Target dropdown.

Step 5 :- Change Compatibility

Change the Form type from Web Browser Form (InfoPath 2007) to Web Browser Form and set the Url of the site.

Step 6:- File -> Publish-> SharePoint server

Step 7:- Give the URL of the site where this form needs to be published.

Step 8 :- Click on next and select Administrator-approved form template

Step 9 :- Click Next, Configure the path where the form needs to be published

Step 10:- Click Next

Note: User can modify the InfoPath fields here, if required.

Step 11:- Click Publish

Step 12:- After its successfully published, click Close

Command to deploy the form to central admin (as earlier it was deployed to central admin)

Install-SPInfoPathFormTemplate -Path "Path of the xsn file"

Enable-SPInfoPathFormTemplate -Identity "Agreement Form.xsn" -Site "SiteCollectionUrl"

If you want to re-deploy in the same farm, follow these commands:

Disable-SPInfoPathFormTemplate -Identity "Formname.xsn" -Site "SiteCollectionUrl"
Uninstall-SPInfoPathFormTemplate -Identity "Formname.xsn"
Install-SPInfoPathFormTemplate -Path "Path of the xsn file"
Enable-SPInfoPathFormTemplate -Identity "Agreement Form.xsn" -Site "SiteCollectionUrl"

Form will be deployed to Central Admin.

Challenges faced during InfoPath form Migration from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013

Challenge 1:

During Migration from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013 - all old infopath forms that exists in Form/Document library were opening /working with new InfoPath 2013 form, but People picker does not contain any value.

Note:-

This is due to schema structure of People Picker control has changed from Moss2007 to SharePoint 2013.

Resolution:

Since the people picker in InfoPath 2013 is changed, we had to add extra namespace to all people picker tags in the InfoPath xml files in the library.

Example: Project manager people picker was not having any value in the form.

Before adding namespace

<my:project_manager>

<my:Person>

<my:DisplayName>xyz</my:DisplayName>

<my:AccountId>domain\xyz</my:AccountId>

<my:AccountType>User</my:AccountType>

</my:Person>

</my:project_manager>

After adding namespace

<my:project_manager>

<pc:Personxmlns:pc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2007/PartnerControls">

<pc:DisplayName>USer Dispaly Name</pc:DisplayName>

<pc:AccountId>Domain\user</pc:AccountId>

<pc:AccountType>User</pc:AccountType>

</pc:Person>

</my:project_manager>

Once the above change has been done to all old xml files using PowerShell script, People Picker started working fine.

Challenge 2:

In continuation of above Custom Migration from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013 article:-

I need to deploy the custom workflow which was associated with Info Path Form. As I migrated info path and workflow successfully. It was not working as expected.

After doing lots of R&D, I got the solution and explained below:-

Resolution:

In the Nutshell :- Custom Workflow code was using an entity class file auto generated for InfoPath XSD file. As People Picker control scheme has changed from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013. So I need to update the entity class accordingly.

Generating new entity class

To generate the entity class for .xsd file we need to use the XML Schema definition tool (Xsd.exe)

Reference links:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6c1kb0s(v=vs.110).aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yojoshi/archive/2011/05/14/xml-serialization-and-deserialization-entity-classes-with-xsd-exe.aspx

Once you have the SDK Installed(either Manually, or with Visual Studio), you'll find it in the following directories:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools

Run the command as

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools>xsd.exe

/c /l:cs myschema.xsd BuiltInActiveXControls.xsd

Note: myschema.xsd is file name of InfoPath and BuiltInActiveControls.xsd was needed for new people picker in InfoPath 2013

This will generate the entity class for the .xsd file of InfoPath. Then replaced this with old entity class carefully and check if only people picker classes has changed and deployed the solution.

Now workflow started working as expected.

Note:

Resolving Issue with People Picker In InfoPath Form

Since picker schema in InfoPath 2013 has changed, so we have to remove existing people picker and add new people picker from InfoPath 2013 also.

Error occurred in deployment step Add Solution

Issue Occurred while deploying the WSP using Power Shell getting below error:-

Power shell Error Message :: Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.

Most of the article suggest below solution and which solved their issues also but No Luck –

Restart "SharePoint Timer Service" on all the servers.
Deployment Solution with –Force parameter
Set "Active deployment Configuration" - as "No Activation"

ULS Log Message :: The timer service could not initialize its configuration, please check the configuration database

Most of the article suggest below solution and which solved their issues also but No Luck –

Clear the Config Cache from each Server Location of the file:- C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\<guid>\
Stop the Administration and Timer service from each server one by one.
Delete all XML files in the folder at defined location C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\<guid>\ (not the folder itself only files)
Open “Cache.ini” and write the number 1 instead of the existing number (you might want to make a note of it).
Start the Administration and Timer service from each server one by one.
Wait for a minute or two and see if the folder starts to fill up with xml files. Xml files should start appearing.

Resolution:-

Actually Issue - Folder was missing from the location:- C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config - which only consist Cache.ini file .

Stop the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service on ALL servers in the farm.
On the server configured for Indexing, browse to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config.
Open the Registry editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\15.0\Secure\ConfigDB.
Take a note of the Guid value for the Id item as shown below
Re-create the cache folder giving it the title matching the Guid value retrieved from the Registry.
You can now re-start the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service on the current server. You should see xml files appear in the folder shortly after the service starts.
Repeat all the steps above for all other servers in your farm.

Happy Coding..