In SharePoint document library there is an option in action menu i.e “open in Windows Explorer”,When we click this one we can see all the documents in a window explorer,where we can drag and drop the documents for the document library . But in case of a SharePoint generic list we don’t have this option.To […]

For each item in a SharePoint list,an ID is associated with it.This ID is automatically generated when we add a List item. It is easy to get the item id after the item is added(either programtically or by viewing the ID column of the list).But how to get the ID of the item before the […]

Sometimes we need to insert/update item using “SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate(){});” for getting the Administrator privilege.. But as a result of that we see the “System Account” as a value of “Modified By” field of that inserted/updated item, instead of the original user who actually did the modification. In this case, we need to update the “Modified By” […]

Sometimes security may be one of the major issues while writing codes. A user who has only read permission can’t add a new list item, can’t edit a list item, can’t delete a list item – In this case if we try to perform any of these operation, it will throw an exception. There may […]