SharePoint URL Shortcuts

Here is the list of Quick URL Shortcuts to Frequent SharePoint Links: 

• Add web parts to any page: append  ?PageView=Shared&ToolPaneView=2
• Create New Site Content (List, Library, etc)  /_layouts/create.aspx
• Create New Site: _layouts/NewsbWeb.aspx
• List Template Gallery: _catalogs/lt/Forms/AllItems.aspx
• Master Page Gallery: _catalogs/masterpage/Forms/AllItems.aspx
• Manage your Alerts  _layouts/SubEdit.aspx 
• Create New Alert: _layouts/SubChoos.aspx
• Manage Site Collection Administrators  /_layouts/mngsiteadmin.aspx
• Manage Sites and Workspaces /_layouts/mngsubwebs.aspx
• Manage People  /_layouts/people.aspx
• All People view: /_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0
• Manage User Permissions /_layouts/user.aspx
• Modify Navigation  /_layouts/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx
• Modify Site Navigation: _layouts/SiteNavigationSettings.aspx
• Recycle Bin /_layouts/AdminRecycleBin.aspx
• Site Directory _layouts/SiteDirectorySettings.aspx
• Save Site as Template: _layouts/savetmpl.aspx
• Site Settings page: _layouts/settings.aspx
• Create New Web Part Page: _layouts/spcf.aspx
• Site Template Gallery : _catalogs/wt/Forms/Common.aspx
• Site Column Gallery  /_layouts/mngfield.aspx
• Site Content Types /_layouts/mngctype.aspx
• User Information List /_catalogs/users/simple.aspx
• Site Content and Structure Manager /_layouts/sitemanager.aspx
• Site Usage Summary /_layouts/SpUsageWeb.aspx
• User Alerts  /_layouts/sitesubs.aspx
• View All Site Content /_layouts/viewlsts.aspx
• Web Part Gallery: _catalogs/wp/Forms/AllItems.aspx
• Web part maintenance mode:  append ?contents=1 to the URL of the page
• Login as another user: /_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true
• Open the page in Edit Mode:  In Address bar, Type "javascript:MSOLayout_ToggleLayoutMode();" or "javascript:MSOTlPn_ShowToolPane(’2′);" in the Address bar 

How to increase the timeout for a SharePoint 2010 website

The default timeout for an Http Request in SharePoint Foundation 2010 is 120 seconds*.  Any Http Requests above this 120 seconds will be met with a “Request timed out” error as displayed in the SharePoint logs:

Unexpected     System.Web.HttpException: Request timed out.

Note: The SharePoint logs can be found at: 
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS

To increase this timeout you will need to modify the web.config file for the SharePoint Website.  If you are using the default SharePoint configuration, then the web.config file will be found at:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80\web.config

Open this file in Notepad and then scroll down to the system.web > httpRuntime element (about half way down the file).  To increase the timeout, add the executionTimeout attribute to the httpRuntime element with a value of the number of seconds for the timeout.  For example, to increase the timeout to 5 minutes, add an executionTimeout of 300 like this:

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="51200" executionTimeout="300" />

In the default SharePoint Foundation 2010 web.config file it will look like this:

Save the web.config file and now the timeout for HttpRequests will have been increased (Of course you need to ask why a request is taking more than 2 minutes to justify increasing the timeout in the first place… increasing the timeout to make the error go away but yet your customers have a horrible user experience is not a valid solution).

*The ASP.NET MSDN reference indicates that the default setting for the executionTimeout property is 110 seconds: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e1f13641.aspx.  But the SharePoint logs show a timeout occurring at exactly 120 seconds with the default executionTimeout setting.  I am not sure where the extra 10 seconds are coming from but I used 120 seconds in this article since that is what someone will find when investigating the SharePoint logs.

This page allows a limit of 200 controls, and that limit has been exceeded in SharePoint

This page allows a limit of 200 controls, and that limit has been exceeded in SharePoint

I was working on custom New form which I had created in Visual Studio 2012 as aspx page and attched it to the list.
I had large number of controls in the page and found this error when i tried to browse it through browser.

The solution for this error was to change a setting in web.config.

Here I am working on SharePoint 2013

So I went to

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\

Now open webapplication Eg:80 where your site is hosted

open web.config

Find the tag below in the web.config

 <SafeMode MaxControls="200" CallStack="false" DirectFileDependencies="10" TotalFileDependencies="250" AllowPageLevelTrace="false">  


by default  MaxControls="200" is set to 200.So you get the exception.

You can change this according to your requirement.

This is resolve the issue.

SharePoint 2010 Base Types, List Template and Definition IDs, and Content Types IDs

I’m often asked for a list of the IDs of the most common Base Types, List Definitions and Content Types. Especially useful if you’re writing CAML definitions of Lists, List Instances, or Content Types. Here are the lists I’ve gleaned from MSDN.

Base Types

These Base Types come from the SPBaseType enumeration.

Base Type	ID
Custom List	0
Document Library	1
Not used	2
Obsolete. Use 0 for discussion boards.	3
Surveys	4
Issues List	5

List Definitions

These List Definitions come from the SPListTemplateType enumeration.

Enumeration Name	Description	ID
InvalidType	Not used	-1
NoListTemplate	unspecified list type	0
GenericList	Custom list	100
DocumentLibrary	Document library	101
Survey	Survey	102
Links	Links	103
Announcements	Announcements	104
Contacts	Contacts	105
Events	Calendar	106
Tasks	Tasks	107
DiscussionBoard	Discussion board	108
PictureLibrary	Picture library	109
DataSources	Data sources for a site	110
WebTemplateCatalog	Site template gallery	111
UserInformation	User Information	112
WebPartCatalog	Web Part gallery	113
ListTemplateCatalog	List Template gallery	114
XMLForm	XML Form library	115
MasterPageCatalog	Master Page gallery	116
NoCodeWorkflows	No Code Workflows	117
WorkflowProcess	Custom Workflow Process	118
WebPageLibrary	Wiki Page Library	119
CustomGrid	Custom grid for a list	120
SolutionCatalog	Solutions	121
NoCodePublic	No Code Public Workflow	122
ThemeCatalog	Themes	123
DataConnectionLibrary	Data connection library for sharing information about external data connections	130
WorkflowHistory	Workflow History	140
GanttTasks	Project Tasks	150
Meetings	Meeting Series (Meeting)	200
Agenda	Agenda (Meeting)	201
MeetingUser	Attendees (Meeting)	202
Decision	Decisions (Meeting)	204
MeetingObjective	Objectives (Meeting)	207
TextBox	Text Box (Meeting)	210
ThingsToBring	Things To Bring (Meeting)	211
HomePageLibrary	Workspace Pages (Meeting)	212
Posts	Posts (Blog)	301
Comments	Comments (Blog)	302
Categories	Categories (Blog)	303
Facility	Facility	402
Whereabouts	Whereabouts	403
CallTrack	Call Track	404
Circulation	Circulation	405
Timecard	Timecard	420
Holidays	Holidays	421
IMEDic	IME (Input Method Editor) Dictionary	499
ExternalList	External	600
IssueTracking	Issue tracking	1100
AdminTasks	Administrator Tasks	1200
HealthRules	Health Rules	1220
HealthReports	Health Reports	1221

Content Types

These content types come from the Content Type ID list.

Content Type	ID
System	0x
Item	0x01
Document	0x0101
Event	0x0102
Issue	0x0103
Announcement	0x0104
Link	0x0105
Contact	0x0106
Message	0x0107
Task	0x0108
Workflow History	0x0109
Post	0x0110
Comment	0x0111
East Asia Contact	0x0116
Folder	0x0120