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SharePoint Tip – How To Change the Url of a SharePoint Library

Kent Chen — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:40:37 +0000

You can easily change the name of a library through the List Settings but it’s not so easy changing the Url of an existing library using the same way. You will need SharePoint Designer to do the job for you unless you are ok with creating the library from the scratch.

open SharePoint Designer, navigator to All Files, find your library, right-click on it and choose Rename.

Type in the new Url, and done.

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SharePoint Tip – How To Set Word Wrapping on List Column Headers

Kent Chen — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:23:24 +0000

I have a list in SharePoint that has numbers of columns with very long headers and I’d like to wrap these long headers so that I can have more columns shown on the screen. By default, I couldn’t. But with a little nice trick, I can.

The reason why I couldn’t by default because the default CSS style sheet the list uses has white-space: nowrap in place that prevents anything from wrapping. If we want the header wrapped we need to find a way to overwrite the white-space style with normal instead.

So here is how I did it, inspired by Ryan here.

Go to my list, select Site Actions and choose Edit Page.

Click Add a web part, then select Media and Content and Content Editor, and click Add to add the selected web part to the current page.

Select the newly added web part, and select HTML → Edit HTML Source from the ribbon.

And paste in the following style codes.

Click OK to save the change. Refresh the page and done.

It’s a very nice and useful trick in SharePoint because, with this added style web part, I can actually customize the style sheet to have the list displaying in a way I really wanted.

You can also accomplish the same with SharePoint Designer if you have one handy.

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Force PDF open in browser on SharePoint 2010

Kent Chen — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:22:13 +0000

SharePoint by default turns on a security feature that prevents people from opening PDF files directly in the browser. Need to open and read a PDF file from SharePoint website you need to download and save it to your local computer first, which is annoying. While I understand the necessity of this feature turned on at a large scaled public SharePoint site I don’t see it makes too much sense on an internal Intranet.

So, at my work, I turned it off. And here is how:

1. Go to SharePoint Central Administration, either remotely or locally on SharePoint server.

2. Go to Manage Web Applications.

3. Select the row of the application that points to the site you want to make change, and click General Settings at the Ribbon bar.

4. Scroll the page a little to locate the section called Browser File Handling, and check the option Permissive.

5. Click OK to save the settings, and done.

The option Strict adds headers that force the browser to download certain types of files while the option Permissive doesn’t.

The limitation of changing the option to "Permissive" is that SharePoint then allows all types of documents be opened in the browser. There is no "out-of-box" option to allow this option for PDF files only. To find more how to get around with it, check out this post.

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