User Information List

To see a site collection's hidden user information list append /_catalogs/users/simple.aspx onto the end of the site collection url.

Example:

http://sp2010:80/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx

Or you can change the MembershipGroupId to 0 to get all the users.

Customize sharepoint notification bar

Sharepoint 2010 site provides an area called notification bar. This bar appears when you open Edit control box. Using sharepoint client side API, you can use it. Just paste the below code in content editor web part.

<script type="text/javascript">

var notifyid;

function CreateNotification() {

notifyid = SP.UI.Notify.addNotification(" My HTML Notification ", true, "My Tooltip", "HelloWorld");

alert("Notification id: " + notifyid);

}

function RemoveNotification() {

SP.UI.Notify.removeNotification(notifyid);

}

</script><input onclick="CreateNotification()" type="button" value="Create Notification"/> <br/><input onclick="RemoveNotification()" type="button" value="Remove Notification"/>

Change display name of sharepoint user

You can use below powershell command to change sharepoint user display name.


Set-SPuser -identity "User name" -DisplayName "Display Name" -web Web url


Note: for AD user username would be like domain name\username. For FBA user it would be like i:0#.f|providername|username (You can get the exact username from My Settings page.

In case you get access denied while changing the display name, run powershell as administrator/Farm admin. You can get this option by pressing shift key then right click on Sharepoint powershell management console icon.

The password supplied with the username was not correct sharepoint

Recently I encountered an error while creating web application from central admin site

"The password supplied with the username was not correct. Verify that it was entered correctly and try again".

The reason is that administrative password may have been modified but SharePoint farm is still using the old administrative credential.

To fix this issue execute below stsadm command:


stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin <domain\username> -password <newpassword>

Web Part Page Maintenance – Get rid of that broken web part (SharePoint: Tricks for web part customization)

So, what happens when you are making a web part and despite your awesome coding prowess something goes wrong that prevents the page from rendering? It is kind of hard to change a setting on the web part when you can’t get to its editor window right? Well, the smart guys at Microsoft thought of this and included a “Web Part Page Maintenance” page for just such an occasion. At this page, you get a list of every web part that is added to the page and the ability to close, delete or reset them.

To get to this page, simply type “?contents=1″ at the end of the broken page URL.

Example: http://SharePoint/site.aspx is the page with the broken web part on it. Stick “?contents=1″ at the end of the URL to get http://SharePoint/site.aspx?contents=1

(Note: This will redirect the page to the layouts folder, opening spcontnt.aspx with the URL of the requesting page being sent in the new URL as a parameter. You could open this page directly, but its a lot easier to remember contents=1)

So, you will hopefully get a page like the one shown below. Now just delete the web part that is causing the problem and you are back in business.

Trick 1: Deleting a bad web part

If you have just added a web part to a page and you get the dreaded error page as a result, add ?Contents=1 to the page’s URL.

http://……./default.aspx?Contents=1

You can now delete the offending web part.



Trick 2: Getting to web parts when there is no “Edit Page” in Site Actions

Add &ToolPaneView=2 to then end of the URL. This example will let you see the web parts on a list’s NewForm page.

http://……./NewForm.aspx?……..&ToolPaneView=2