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18. December 2011
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by Stefan Bauer

Centered fixed width design in SharePoint 2010 – The fast way

If you are looking for a way to create a fixed width design in SharePoint 2013 follow the white rabbit.

There are a lot of fixed width master page solutions available on the internet and I read a lot of those solutions. Some of those require JavaScript or don’t respect the ribbon, which means that the ribbon will placed inside the fixed width design. SharePoint is smart enough to handle small screen resolutions by compacting and rearrange the icons in the ribbon, but if a normal user larger screen it gets really hard to administer SharePoint and breaks the usability completely. There is a much quicker and saver ways to create a flexible master page where only certain CSS properties needs to be changed to get any fixed width design as well as centered design with border to the left and right.[Read more]

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11. December 2011
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by Stefan Bauer

Retrieve Managed Metadata using JavaScript and SPServices

In one of my last projects I ran into an interesting question regarding the taxonomy store. Will it be possible to get all taxonomy data by using pure JavaScript?

SharePoint has a great JavaScript object model for different purposes but how deep is this integration when an access to service applications like the Managed Metadata Service is required. The simple answer on this is: Not enough. Due the strict project plan we decided to use a Silverlight web part, which is capable to access the taxonomy store. This solution worked well but I wasn’t pleased by that.

Time passed by and the question left unanswered to me. At the SharePoint Conference I meet Mark D. Anderson the founder of SPServices. He told me that this Jquery library should be capable of accessing the Taxonomy Client Web Service. This was the last missing information that I needed to access the Taxonomy Store and this is my solution.[Read more]