Enable Barcodes in SharePoint 2013

Bar codes are part of SharePoint Information Management Policies (IMP) feature. If you need bar codes for your document, here are the steps to enable bar codes on SharePoint document library.

Steps to enable bar code in SharePoint:
In SharePoint 2013 enabling barcode is a simple two-step process.

Approach 1:

Create New Document Library and Enable the bar code from IMP feature.

Browse the Document Library and Navigate to Library Settings.

Click on Information management policy and click on document content type.

Check the Enable Bar Code check box.

Click save and navigate to document library and start uploading the document in library. Now it will look as below.

Approach 2:

Create new content type and enable bar code through Information Management Policies.

Create new content type:

Navigate to Site Settings > Click on "Site Content Types" ->Create

Click Ok and select Information management policy settings

Select Enable Bar Code Value

Allow Content Type in Library.

Add above created content type

Select created Content Type

Browse the document library and naving to library settings and select content type and then select Bar Code and Bar Code Value

Click Ok and start uploading document in document library

column 'publishing page layout' does not exist. it may have been deleted by another user

This issue occur , if user is not using correct refernce in their custom aspx page layout.

Usually Error occured

If you check custom page layout .aspx file

Correct One:-

How to delete a Page layout in Master page and layouts library in SharePoint 2010/2013

On activating a feature, a new page layout will be deployed to the Master page and layouts library. On the other way, when I deactivate the feature the solution should delete the deployed page layout and associated content types etc so that I can ensure that no turds are left in the farm.

But to my surprise I was not able to delete the page layouts I created either through code or manually in the document library. It was throwing a very misguiding error "Server error: This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages".. After spending a hour or so I figured that there is no page in my site referencing this Page Layout.

Deletion Approach:-

If you have created any custom pages using above created custom page layout. Then before deleting custom publishing page layout. Delete all create pages then it will allow to delete custom page layout.

Alternative Trick…

But how do I delete it then?. There is a trick to do it.
1. Open the Master page gallery in windows explorer mode.
2. Create a subfolder and name it 'Delete' (you can give any name to it).
3. Cut and paste your layout.aspx page to the folder.
4. Delete the folder now.

So we confirmed that manually we were able to delete the page layouts. Lets try it programmatically.

SPWeb web=properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb;
SPSite sitecollection= web.site;

PublishingWeb web=PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web);

SPFolderCollection folders=web.Lists["Master Page Gallery"].RootFolder.SubFolders;

SPFolder folder =folder.add("Delete");

PublishingSite psite=new PublishingSite(sitecollection);

SPContentType ctype=psite.ContentTypes["SampleCType"];

PageLayoutCollection pagelayouts=psite.GetPageLayouts(ctype,true);

PageLayout layout=pagelayouts["/_catalogs/masterpage/SampleLayout.aspx"];

layout.ListItem.File.MoveTo(folder.url+"/SampleLayout.aspx");

folder.Delete();

SharePoint Page layout error: Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls

I created a new custom page layout using Visual studio and created a new page based on the page layout. When I deploy my custom solution. Its deployed fine , As I create new page using my custom page layout, Page created successfullu but not able to browse the page amd my publishing page was throwing a error " Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls". and showed some html elements in the error message which is placed outside of the content place holder.

I went back to my page layout design and after much analysis i could figure out the culprit. Its the case sensitive of contentplaceholder tag.

My code was like this which is actually fine and should work.

<asp:contentplaceholderId="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server"></asp:content>

I changed the 'c' in the contentplaceholder tag to upper case like this

<asp:ContentPlaceholderID="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server"></asp:Content>.

Redeployed the solution and it did the trick. It was working fine. So the lower case of the content place holder tag has actually inserted some html markups to my page which in turn has caused me the error.

Step by step creating News Page Layout using Content Type in SharePoint 2013

Step 1- Open Visual studio 2013 and create new project of type SharePoint Solutions…”SharePoint 2013 Empty Project”.

Step 2- As we will deploy our solution as a farm solution in our local farm on our local machine.

Step 3- Our solution will be as the picture blew and we will add a three folder for “SiteColumns”, “ContentTypes”, “PageLayouts” and "Resources" .

Step 4: - Starting by adding a new item to “SiteColumns” folder.

Step 5 - After we adding a new site column and renaming it. Add the following columns as we need to make the news layout NewsTitle, NewsBody,NewsBrief,NewsDate and NewsImage.

then add the blew fields and you will note that I use Resources in the DisplayName and the Group.

<Field

ID="{9fd593c1-75d6-4c23-8ce1-4e5de0d97545}"

Name="NewsTitle"

DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsTitle;"

Type="Text"

Required="TRUE"

Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;">

</Field>

<Field

ID="{fcd9f32e-e2e0-4d00-8793-cfd2abf8ef4d}"

Name="NewsBrief"

DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsBrief;"

Type="Note"

Required="FALSE"

Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;">

</Field>

<Field

ID="{FF268335-35E7-4306-B60F-E3666E5DDC07}"

Name="NewsBody"

DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsBody;"

Type="HTML"

Required="TRUE"

RichText="TRUE"

RichTextMode="FullHtml"

Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;">

</Field>

<Field

ID="{FCA0BBA0-870C-4D42-A34A-41A69749F963}"

Name="NewsDate"

DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsDate;"

Type="DateTime"

Required="TRUE"

Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;">

</Field>

<Field

ID="{8218A8D9-912C-47E7-AAD2-12AA10B42BE3}"

Name="NewsImage"

DisplayName="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsImage;"

Required="FALSE"

Type="Image"

RichText="TRUE"

RichTextMode="ThemeHtml"

Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;">

</Field>

Step 6 : - Creating Content Type, we will adding new Content Type to the folder ContentTypes.

Step 7- We must make sure to select the base of the content type “Page”.

Step 8- Open the content type and adding our new columns to it.

Step 9 - Open the elements file of the content type and make sure it will look like this the code blew.

Note: we use Resources in the Name, Description and the group of the content type.

<ContentType ID="0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39007A5224C9C2804A46B028C4F78283A2CB"

Name="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsContentType;"

Group="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsGroup;"

Description="$Resources:SPWorld_News,NewsContentTypeDesc;"

Inherits="TRUE" Version="0">

</FieldRefs>

</ContentType>

Step 10- Add new Module to the PageLayouts folder after that we will find sample.txt file then rename it “NewsPageLayout.aspx”.

Step 11- Adding the the code blew to this “NewsPageLayout.aspx”.

<%@ Page language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=15.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePointWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingNavigation" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<asp:Content ContentPlaceholderID="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">

<SharePointWebControls:FieldValue id="FieldValue1" FieldName="Title" runat="server"/>

</asp:Content>

<asp:Content ContentPlaceholderID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">

</asp:Content>

Step 12- Adding the following code to the elements file of the “NewsPageLayouts” module.

</File>

</Module>

Step 13- Don’t forget to add the Resources Folder then adding the resource file with the name “SPWorld_News.resx” as we used it the previous steps and adding the blew keys to it.

News News

NewsBody News Body

NewsBrief News Brief

NewsContentType News Content Type

NewsContentTypeDesc News Content Type Desc.

NewsDate News Date

NewsGroup News

NewsImage News Image

NewsPageLayout News Page Layout

NewsTitle News Title

Step 14- Finally Deploying the solution.

Step 15- The next steps will explain how we add the “news content type” to the page layout through SharePoint wizard we will do these steps pragmatically in the next article.

A- Go to Site Contents then Pages , Library, Library Settings

B-Add the news content type to the page layout.

c- Then

D- Go to Pages Library , Files , New Document select News Content Type.

E- Write the page title.

F- Open the page to edit it.

G- Now We can see the page Layout after we adding the title, Body, Brief,date and image finally click Save the news.

Note: Make sure that the site is publishing site to be able to proceed.

How to enable Blank Site Template for Site Collection or Sub Site in SharePoint 2013

I was trying to create a Blank Site Collection on SharePoint 2013. To do that,Let us go to the Central Administration -> Create Site Collections.

But I could not see any of the template called a Blank Site Collection was listed on the Create Site Collection Page.

Then later Identified that the Blank Site Collection template, by default will not be listed here.

To make it listed, we need to do the following steps.

1. Go to the following location.

a. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\1033\XML

2. Open the WebTemp.xml.

3. Identify the below tag.

a. <Configuration ID="1" Title="Blank Site" Hidden="TRUE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/15/images/stbs.png?rev=23" Description="A blank site for you to customize based on your requirements." DisplayCategory="Collaboration" AllowGlobalFeatureAssociations="False" > </Configuration>

4. Change the Hidden Attribute to False. i.e., the tag will be

a. <Configuration ID="1" Title="Blank Site" Hidden="FALSE" ImageUrl="/_layouts/15/images/stbs.png?rev=23" Description="A blank site for you to customize based on your requirements." DisplayCategory="Collaboration" AllowGlobalFeatureAssociations="False" > </Configuration>

b. Do an IISRESET

5. Now, come back to the Central Administration. Do a Refresh. You can see the Template.

If you don’t want to change the xml or don’t have access, then the only other way is to go with the powershell. The Script to get the available templates and create a site collection/subsite is as follows.

Hence, the complete script would be