SharePoint Online – InfoPath Attachment Size Limit

26th of February, 2014 / / No Comments

In an on premise environment, there are guidelines around working with attachments in InfoPath and farm admin would be able to change the attachment size limit in the machine.config / web.config. However, the idea is to keep minimal attachments within the form, and make sure the InfoPath file size as a whole is within the file size limit as configured in your farm.

In SharePoint Online, there is a hard limit on the total attachment size to the InfoPath forms you create and store in Forms Library:

http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/154/p/79149/305640.aspx… [Keep reading] “SharePoint Online – InfoPath Attachment Size Limit”

Office 365 Sharepoint – Search Results web part returning incorrect results for sites

26th of June, 2013 / / 1 Comment

I have been using Search Results Web Part (SRWP) in previous version of SP and it is a convenient way to display results filtered by content type, URL…etc without worrying about user permissions as it is taken care by SP Search.

In SP13 Online I came across a problem where the results returned from SRWP are incorrect when filtered on sites:

Results Preview display correct results – total of 12:

preview results

Results displayed on SRWP – total of 10:

webpart results

This issue is due to “trim duplicates” setting in the web part.… [Keep reading] “Office 365 Sharepoint – Search Results web part returning incorrect results for sites”

SharePoint Online 2013 – Setting Default Account for Organization Browser

6th of April, 2013 / / 26 Comments

Earlier this week I have received a requirement to make use of the SharePoint OOTB Organization Browser that needs to set the default root account to be a specific user…well, there are plenty of blogs on using custom JS in MOSS or Sharepint 2010 for this purpose – glad that this hasn’t changed in SharePoint 2013. But this is SharePoint Online which adds some challenges:

  • The username is no longer in the format of Domain/LoginName
  • It is using claims based authentication through ADFS

Below are the steps you can follow to set the default account on the SharePoint Organization Browser.… [Keep reading] “SharePoint Online 2013 – Setting Default Account for Organization Browser”