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The Perfect Responsive FREE eCommerce Solution

So you're building a website for someone, and you've bought the domain name and found a nice reliable company to host it.  Nice work.  Now what? There is a plethora of options out there, so to save you a little bit of time, here's the solution I went with that is pretty ace. Firstly, there were a few prerequisites that I needed to tick off.  The site had to: Be Responsive (look sexy on all devices) Be Free (client was a low budget business and it wasn't worth paying for templates, etc) Have a shopping cart system Sit on a CMS (Content Management System - so the client could update content themselves) Be easy to navigate and manage Here's the setup I decided upon which works a treat: CMS: WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin: WooCommerce Shopping Cart Add-in: Weight-Based Shipping (For basing shipping cost on weight of bundled items) WooCommerce Theme: Travelify Installing each of these is an absolute breeze, and within 10 minutes the site w...

Freenas - Setting up the Transmission Plugin on Freenas with Guest Permissions

Follow the guide here by Supa, there's not much to it: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/newbie-guide-to-freenas-plex-couchpotato-sickbeard-and-transmission.19043/ For the linux noobs like myself, these are the two steps you need to complete in order to set up Transmission so that any files it downloads are read/writeable by all users. Go to your jails tab again and enter into the Transmission Command-Line Shell: Type: edit /usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home/settings.json and just change the field unmask to "unmask = 0". Once finished, hit esc, leave, and save the changes. If your settings.json file is not located there you will need to go back to Freenas and click on Plugins > Transmission on the sidebar and review the location of configuration directory.  Then you can input that into the Command Line. On newer versions of Transmission the setting Unmask has been renamed to Umask.

InfoPath XMLWriter - Adding Rows in a Repeating Table That Contain a Boolean Field

Came across an issue today with an InfoPath form I am working on. In the form there is a Repeating Table that contains within it both String and Boolean Fields. In order to make the form prettier we have created custom buttons to add a row to the Repeating Table.  These button use an XMLWriter to add a new row. For any new fields (String or Boolean) the writer does the following to create a blank Field: writer.WriteElementString("fieldname", myNamespace, ""); The problem I had was that if you created Boolean fields like the line above, and then tried to Submit the form to SharePoint, you receive a validation error "Some rules were not applied.  InfoPath cannot submit the form" Turns out the Boolean Fields were failing to validate with the empty string value.   This was solved by putting in a value that isn't used in the form for the Boolean Field: writer.WriteElementString("fieldname", myNamespace, " 0 ...

SharePoint 2010 - Export to Spreadsheet Action Missing on Survey Overview Page

Most people can't find the 'Export to Spreadsheet' option from the Action drop-down menu due to not being on the Overview.aspx page. But if you've modified the Overview page via SharePoint Designer, then you've probably lost the Overview menu completely The solution is to create a New List View via SharePoint Designer and set it as Default (crucial!). Done. If you don't set the new view as the default page, then the Export option will still be missing.

Photoshop - How To Make Lovely Rounded Corners

Select a square using Marquee tool Select > Modify > Smooth Choose radius on the corners I've always been frustrated with the damn Feather option (right click your selected square > Feather) not making a hard corner. Thank you - http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/photoshop/shapes/rounded-corners.html 

SharePoint - Field type [FieldName] is not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete this field.

Sorry, something went wrong Field type [FieldName]  is not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete this field.   This is caused when a FieldType has been created usually via a custom solution (WSP), and has been used somewhere, then uninstalled while still being used somewhere on the Site Collection.  This error message is similar on all versions of SharePoint 2007/2010/2013. Usually you will have one or more Site Columns that are using the FieldType, and possibly one or more Content Types that are using that Site Column, and then most likely one or more Lists/Librarires using the Site Columns or Site Content Types. If you want to remove the Field Type Completely, steps to resolve are as follows: Try to delete the Site Column or Content Type from every list it is being used on.  If you can't delete the Content Type from the list, you will have to delete the list. Delete the Content Types using the Site Column (Site Actions >...

SharePoint 2010 - Access List / Library Data Across Web Applications

We can do this using jQuery.js and SPServices.js Only issue is that you will most likely be forced to receive a notification every time the page loads: "this page is accessing information that is not under its control" I found that although it's possible the solution was not ideal, but have not yet found an alternative.  However I thought I would provide it in case anyone else has a need for it. The code below will retrieve the list item information from the Page library at http://intranet.  CAML query retrieves the most recent 4 articles from the Page library and the last line appends the HTML statement to the page. The HTML statement that is created grabs the value of the FileRef Field and places it inside a div. ---------------------------------------------- $(document).ready(function() {   $().SPServices({     operation: "GetListItems",     async: false,     webURL: "http://intranet",     listName: "Pages", ...