Monthly Archives: May 2013

Making sub-sites inherit managed navigation settings of root site in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2013 when creating sub-sites (at least through the UI), and you set the new sub-site to inherit the global nav from the parent site, and the parent site uses managed navigation, you will find that the global nav … Continue reading

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Strange PowerShell behaviour when getting list content type’s ID

For some reasons when retrieving the ID of a content type at the list level in PowerShell, the ID of the parent content type (i.e. the one at the site level) is always returned. Below is my script: Running the … Continue reading

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Differences between Enterprise Wiki and Wiki Page Library in SharePoint 2013

In SP2013 you can create a Wiki site/sub-site (using the Enterprise Wiki site template) or create a Wiki Page Library in an existing site. What are the functionality differences between these two options? Below is what I have found so … Continue reading

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Visitors can’t access ribbon on publishing pages in SharePoint 2013

OOTB Visitors with Read permission can’t access the ribbon on publishing pages in SP2013. This is true for March 2013 Public Update. This is bad because some of the functionality that are useful for Visitors can only be accessed from … Continue reading

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