Robin's SharePoint and Website musings

Creating and applying a Composed Look: 1. Download SharePoint Designer 2013 and SharePoint Color Palette Tool. 2. Create your theme using the SharePoint Color Palette Tool and save it as a .spcolor file. Suggest that you sort the Color Slot Grouping by UI Groups. 3. Open SharePoint Designer 2013. 4. Click Open Site. 5. Enter the URL of your SharePoint page (Master Page). 6. Click on All Files under Navigation. 7. Click on _catalogs. 8. Click on theme. 9. Click on 15. 10. Click Import Files. 11. Select your .spcolor file and click ok. You should now see your template file in the 15 directory. 12. Click All Files. 13. Click images. 14. Click Import Files. 15. Select the image you want for your background image and click ok. You should now see your image file in the image directory. 16. Now open the master page that you want to add the theme to in SharePoint 2013. 17. Click on the settings icon and select Site Settings. 18. Under Web Designer Galle

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A user with admin permissions changed the URL of our WordPress site. This, of course, caused the site to be unreachable. After major frustration, and frantic searching, I asked friends on the SharePoint-Community.net for help. Was referred to this URL: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL What worked for me was a two step process: Since I had just upgraded the WordPress site the day before to the newest version (at the time 3.6.1), I had backup files on an external hard drive. I tried first doing a hack on the Functions.php file in the theme. That gave us a login prompt but nothing else. I tried editing the wp-config.php file, but at first it didn't seem to work. So I went ahead and rolled back the files from the day before. Then I tried one more time with wp-config.php as follows (from the codex.wordpress.org site above): Edit wp-config.php It is possible to set the site URL manually in the wp-config.php file. Add these two lines to your wp-config.

Every time I have to do this, I have to look up the instructions, so I thought why not write down my steps this time. So here goes: For reasons unbeknownst to me our WordPress site never allows us to apply Upgrades, apply updates to plugins or themes automatically. So I end up having to go download the needed files and remote to my server. See WordPRess's full explanations of upgrading here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress 1) Make a backup of the Wordpress and PHP directories. If you don't have an automatic backup in place of the MySQL database, back that up too. 2) Deactivate plugins that are being updated 2) Download all needed files 3) Extract needed files 4) Upload files to server 5) Copy files to appropriate directories. Remember to reactivate your plugins.

In our MOSS2007, environment we've had issues in the past with users getting the "InfoPath could not submit the form" message. Our "fix" was to uncheck the "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" on the Compatibility View Settings screen (see below). However, since yesterday, I've been trying to resolve an issue where a user could open an InfoPath form from the Form library, but got an error message when she tried to open the same form from the workflow task library. Another user in the same office was not experiencing the issue. So we began to compare settings, looking at Add-ons thinking that was the problem. However, nothing we changed in the Manage Add-ons section worked. In correcting an unrelated issue with PeopleSoft screens in the browser (items were overlapping each other), we noticed that the second user had "Display intranet site in Compatibility View". So we went back to user 1 and checked "Display in