Friday, July 8, 2011

SharePoint 2010: "The feature failed to activate because a list at 'Pages' already exists in this site" when trying to activate SharePoint Server Publishing feature on a Meeting Workspace site

When attempting to activate the SharePoint Server Publishing feature on a Meeting Workspace site in SharePoint 2010, you receive the following error message:


Workaround

Open the Meeting Workspace site in SharePoint Designer 2010. Select the All Files folder in the left navigation menu. Rename the pages folder to something like "sitepages".


to


Should be able to successfully activate the SharePoint Server Publishing feature now.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Add Quick Launch menu to a Web Part Page in SharePoint 2010

If you want to show the Quick Launch menu (from parent) in a Web Part Page, follow these steps:

1) Open your site in SharePoint Designer 2010.

2) Select the All Files folder (at the bottom of the navigation menu), and then select the document library that holds your web part page(s).

3) Click on the appropriate web part page, and choose to Edit file. Select Advanced Mode in the ribbon to enable editing of the file.

4) Remove the following from your web part page:

 
and
 
 
5) Save the file.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Using the Microsoft Translator Widget for manual language translation of SharePoint sites

Here's a cool and easy way of adding "on the fly" manual language translation to your SharePoint site using the Microsoft Translator Widget.

1) Go to http://www.microsofttranslator.com/Widget/

2) Enter a site address and site language. (If you are translating from English, you can use http://www.google.com/)

3) Select the desired color and width for your widget, and then select the desired language for translation.

4) Agree to terms and select to generate code. Copy the code displayed in the output box.

5) Paste the code in a Content Editor Web Part on your site.

6) Select the button in the Widget to execute language translation.

English Version:


Spanish Version: