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About Bernado

Based in Australia, I am a freelance SharePoint and Dynamics CRM developer. I love developing innovative solutions that address business and everyday problems. Feel free to contact me if you think I can help you with your SharePoint or CRM implementation.

New version of CRMQuickDeploy adds tighter integration with CRM Developer Toolkit and productivity shortcut

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Bernado

I have released version 2.5 of CRMQuickDeploy (previously known as BNH.CRM.Debugging). This version adds tighter integration with CRM Developer Toolkit projects and a new productivity shortcut. Download it now! You can download the latest version of CRMQuickDeploy from the Visual … Continue reading →

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Correcting available lookup views when restricting lookup types via JavaScript in CRM

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Bernado

Although unsupported, in CRM you can use JavaScript to restrict the available lookup types for a lookup field on the form. For example, on the Email form I’d like to restrict the Regarding field to be able to lookup Client … Continue reading →

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Programmatically setting toolbar type for list view web part [SharePoint]

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Bernado

If you ever tried to programmatically set the toolbar type for a list view web part then you will find that this is not at all straightforward. There are actually quite a lot of posts about this on the net, and … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013 | 3 Comments

Publishing deployment package with SPClientSideDeployment 1.1

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Bernado

With SPClientSideDeployment you can point Visual Studio to any environment and deploy your files to that environment. This is fine for development, but typically is not good practice for higher environments. Most organisations dictate that a package is given to IT Ops, … Continue reading →

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Ghost content types after restoring Content Type Hub database [SharePoint]

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Bernado

Recently we attempted to sync the Content Type Hub (CTH) from environment EnvA to environment EnvB. We took a DB backup of the source CTH site collection and restored that to EnvB. We republished the content types and observed that they were pushed … Continue reading →

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SPClientSideDeployment: a new productivity Visual Studio extension for SharePoint developers

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Bernado

New in 3.3: Added option to publish on deployment New in 3.2: Added support for deploying assemblies to GAC (On-Prem only) New in 3.1: Added support for minified JS/CSS and seamless dev-prod transitioning New in 3.0: Auto-deploy on save option and … Continue reading →

Posted in SharePoint 2013, SPClientSideDeployment | 14 Comments

Search query to find pages in current site and all sub-sites [SharePoint]

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Bernado

I was given a challenge to develop a mechanism to list all pages in the current site and its sub-sites. Why not do it using Content By Search Web Part was my initial thought. In the end I managed to achieve this, … Continue reading →

Posted in Search, SharePoint | 1 Comment

‘An unexpected error has occurred’ when cancelling from creating a new page [SharePoint]

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Bernado

On SharePoint 2013 we had an issue where the user was getting the error message below when cancelling from creating a new page in the Pages library. Sorry, something went wrong An unexpected error has occurred. The correlation ID for this … Continue reading →

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No log entries in ULS Viewer for real-time monitoring mode [SharePoint]

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Bernado

Recently we found that if you are using the updated ULS Viewer (16.0.3129.1000) from Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=44020), and you have changed the default logging path in Central Admin, then you may find that the real-time monitoring in ULS Viewer does not show … Continue reading →

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Custom workflow activity to process multiple related records [CRM]

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Bernado

We often need to process multiple records in a workflow, particular those related to the current target record. Think notifying all bookings when an event is rescheduled, or cancelling all orders when a product is cancelled. Unfortunately the OOTB CRM workflow designer … Continue reading →

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