Microsoft is recommending that developers stop using SharePoint’s Feature framework and list, web, and site templates in their solutions. Now, instead of defining SharePoint content in CAML, Microsoft wants everyone to start creating content programmatically using the remote provisioning pattern.
Category Archives: Development
Office 365 News – Newly Introduced security feature in SPO hides the Web Designer Galleries
Latest API updates in Client Side Object Model (Dec 2014 CU for SP2013)
PowerView vs. PowerPivot vs. Power BI
PowerView vs. PowerPivot vs. Power BI…not to mention PowerPivot Models, Power BI Sites, Power Query, Power Map, Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) Language, Natural Language Search…
OK, I am lost!
Then I find out that some of these are in Excel 2010/2013, some are Add-Ins to Excel 2010/2013, some are in SQL Server Reporting Services 2012, some are in SharePoint 2010/2013, some will only work in SharePoint 2013, some are only in Office 365…ahh
What the hell Microsoft!!!
Finally an article that explains this in understandable terms…
http://www.microsofttrends.com/2014/02/15/powerview-vs-powerpivot-vs-power-bi/
Creating a Power View report in the document library using shared data source
Document downloads URL
This can be achieved by manipulating the link and prefix the location of the document with:
/_layouts/download.aspx?SourceUrl=
This is also a good technique to avoid login prompts to open/download documents as well.