How to edit source in Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint 2010

In SharePoint 2010 Editing content Editor Web Part is kind of tricky.  I was unable to find the source and HTML Text editor in content Editor Web Part Property section in SharePoint 2010.
From Format Text Tab on the ribbon toolbar, I saw the HTML drop down list and selected to edit HTML source but the source I insert is not going into the SharePoint 2010 content editor web part at all.

After playing around for while, I came to know how to edit the content editor web part.  I hope this  will help someone who is having issues with SharePoint 2010 Content Editor Web Part.

Adding Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint 2010 

Editing Tools | Insert | Web Part

Under categories go to media and content to add SharePoint 2010 content Editor web part

Categories | Media and Content |  Content Editor

Click Add to insert Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint 2010 page

Your web part will say “ Edit this web part to add content to your page”  Click on Content Editor Menu and go to Edit Web Part 

As soon as you click on Edit Web Part, the message in Content Editor web part changes to “ Click here to add content” 
Now you can click on HTML under Format Text and click on Edit HTML Source

Editing HTML Source in SharePoint 2010 content Editor Web Part

In HTML Source Editor you can input your HTML source.  This is how you edit Content Editor Web Part to add html source in SharePoint 2010

Enable to activate a SharePoint Server Publishing feature in siteCollection and subsites.

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Solution.

Go to the Top level site of the Site Collection and choose

Site Actions > Site Settings. On the Site Settings page in the Site Collection Administration column choose Site Collection Features. 

Activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure Feature

Note: After activate a feature You resolved this issue.

How to Hide the Ribbon from Anonymous Users and Users without Edit Privileges

As such I often have to remove it from the UI.  I have found that the best way to do this is through the CSS style sheets and a little SPSecurityTrimmedControl magic in the site Master Page.  Here are the steps to quickly and easily remove this bar for people who are not authoring on the site:

1. Open your SharePoint master page
2. Locate this line:<div id="s4-ribbonrow" class="s4-pr s4-ribbonrowhidetitle">
3. Change it to:<div id="s4-ribbonrow" class="s4-pr s4-ribbonrowhidetitle" style="display:none">
4. Now find the end of the “s4-ribbonrow” tag and add following block right after it:

   <Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl ID="SPSecurityTrimmedControl2" runat="server" PermissionsString="AddAndCustomizePages"> 
   
   <script type="text/javascript"> 
   document.getElementById("s4-ribbonrow").style.display = "block";
   </script>
   
   </Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>

5. Save the new master page and publish

And as simple as that, the ribbon bar is now hidden from all visitors who don’t have the ability to edit pages, including those who are coming in Anonymously.

Turn on Anonymous Access in Sharepoint 2010.

Two different ways to enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2010.

As a SharePoint administrator, you should be familiar with SharePoint Central Administration. So you can use the following 10 steps to set up anonymous access in SharePoint 2010.

1. Open the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

2. On the Central Administration home page, under Application Management, click on the Manage web applications. Then you see the list of web applications. (Figure 1)

Figure 1

3. Select a Web Application which you want to enable anonymous access, and then click Authentication Providers ribbon button.

4. On the Authentication Providers dialog box, click the Default zone. And then show the Edit Authentication dialog box.

5. Under Edit Authentication dialog box, check Enable anonymous access and click save. (Figure 2)

Figure 2

6. Go back to the Web Application Management and click Anonymous Policy ribbon button to set up Anonymous Access Restrictions. (Figure 3)

Figure 3

7. Under the Anonymous Access Restrictions dialog box, set up anonymous user policy for specified zone.

8. Once the above steps have been done. You selected Web Application will allow anonymous access. But until you finish the following steps, anonymous users cannot access any sites at a site collection. So you should go to the Site Permissions of the site which you want to enable anonymous access.

9. On the Site Permissions page, click Anonymous Access ribbon button. (Figure 4 and Figure 5)

Figure 4

Figure 5

10. Under the Anonymous Access dialog box, set permission for anonymous users. You can select Entire Web site and save it. (Figure 6)

Figure 6

Done, you can have a try to access your site without login on to make sure it has been enabled Anonymous Access successfully.

Now, you’d maybe think the process is so simple, and then what is another way?

Keep on, another way is for SharePoint developer. It will enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2010 by coding. And the following is the code snippets:

using System.Web.Configuration;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

using (SPSite specifiedSite = new SPSite("You specified web url"))
{
    using (SPWeb specifiedWeb = specifiedSite.OpenWeb())
    {
        // Enable anonymous access on web application
        SPUrlZone urlZone = SPUrlZone.Default;
        SPWebApplication specifiedWebApplication = specifiedSite.WebApplication;
        SPIisSettings iisSettings = specifiedWebApplication.IisSettings[urlZone];
        iisSettings.AuthenticationMode = AuthenticationMode.Windows;
        iisSettings.AllowAnonymous = true;
        specifiedWebApplication.Update();

        // Enable anonymous access on website
        specifiedWeb.AnonymousState = SPWeb.WebAnonymousState.On;
        specifiedWeb.AnonymousPermMask64 = SPBasePermissions.Open | 
            SPBasePermissions.ViewPages | SPBasePermissions.ViewListItems;
        specifiedWeb.Update();

        // Enable anonymous acces on list
        SPList specifiedList = specifiedWeb.GetList("You specified list url");
        specifiedList.AnonymousPermMask64 = SPBasePermissions.ViewListItems | 
            SPBasePermissions.AddListItems | SPBasePermissions.EditListItems | 
            SPBasePermissions.DeleteListItems;
        specifiedList.Update();
    }
}

How to Customize Error Page, Page Not Found and Access Denied in SharePoint 2010

There are many ways to customize these pages for example you can customize by code by creating a feature at web application scope or you can do it by power shell so let’s see the simple way.

First create three pages and place them in this path
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\
Custom_Error.html
Custom_NotFound.html
Custom_AccessDenied.html

Note: if you have multilingual site you need to place these pages in their language folder for example forArabic
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1025\

Second Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell with Farm Administrator User
Now For Custom page Not Found runs the following Power Shell:

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://test 
$webApp.FileNotFoundPage = “Custom_NotFound.html” 
$webApp.Update() 

For Custom Error Page, Access Denied page,.. All pages listed in the below image

Run the following Power Shell:

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://test
$webApp.UpdateMappedPage([Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication+SPCustomPage]::Error,"/_layouts/1033/Custom_Error.html") 
$webApp.Update() 

Create SharePoint "LIST VIEW" Programmatically.

Add New View Using Existing View

In this post I’m going to describe how you can programmatically add a view to SharePoint list or Document Library. You can get this work done by usingSPViewCollection.Add Method (Microsoft.SharePoint), here is a sample code,

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public void createListView() {     SPSite site = new SPSite(""http://sp2010/test"");     SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();     SPList list = web.Lists["Tasks"];       SPViewCollection allviews = list.Views;     string viewName = "Test View";       System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection viewFields = new System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection();     viewFields.Add("Title");     viewFields.Add("Priority");       string myquery = "<Where><Gt><FieldRef Name='ID' /><Value Type='Counter'>0</Value></Gt></Where>";     allviews.Add(viewName, viewFields, myquery, 100, true, false); }

Above code creates a view in the collection with the specified name "Test View" and added view fields. Query string will return all items, because always ID is greater than 0. Row limit is 100 and the view displays items page by page. Last Boolean mean it is not the default view.

Please refer my article on CAML & SPQuery in SharePoint to find out easy way to write CAML quires used in above code.

Add New View Using Existing View

You also can create new List View with the help of existing one, this sample code will create new View which has another field using above created View.

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public void _createListView() {     SPSite site = new SPSite("http://sp2010/test");     SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();     SPList list = web.Lists["Tasks"];       SPViewCollection allviews = list.Views;     string viewName = "New Test View";       System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection viewFields = list.Views["Test View"].ViewFields.ToStringCollection();     viewFields.Add("Status");       string myquery = "<Where><Gt><FieldRef Name='ID' /><Value Type='Counter'>0</Value></Gt></Where>";     allviews.Add(viewName, viewFields, myquery, 100, true, false); }