{"id":19,"date":"2008-02-14T15:03:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T07:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharepoint.bryanfriedman.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/14\/a-couple-of-things-i-learned-early\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T19:10:47","slug":"a-couple-of-things-i-learned-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/2008\/02\/14\/a-couple-of-things-i-learned-early\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Things I Learned Early"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are two posts from my internal company blog that I felt were worth sharing publicly.<\/p>\n

Deleting Master Pages from the Master Page Gallery<\/h2>\n

It’s not as easy to delete a master page from a site’s master page gallery as you might think. Simply clicking the “Delete” option from the drop down menu doesn’t work because you will almost always get this error:<\/p>\n

This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages.<\/em><\/p>\n

You could spend a lot of time trying to find the pages that reference this master page, but you won’t find them because it’s highly possible that there are none<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Thankfully, SPD comes to the rescue (for once) allowing you to delete the master page using a fun workaround we found on this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just use SPD to open the site in question and find the master page gallery (under _catalogs\/masterpage). Create a folder in here called “deleteme” and move the master page that you’d like to delete into the folder. Then delete the folder. Voila! It’s gone. Thanks SPD!<\/p>\n

Getting the Account Name from a “Person or Group” Field<\/h2>\n

We actually found something useful in the Community Content section of an MSDN page<\/a>. This doesn’t only apply to Workflow Task Properties either. Basically, this code snippet will convert the underlying string value of a “Person or Group” type field in a SharePoint list(which looks something like “12345#;Some Name”) into the correct account name in the form of “<Domain>\\<Username>”.<\/p>\n

SPFieldUserValue userValue = new SPFieldUserValue(workflowProperties.Web, retrievedFieldValue);
\nstring userName = userValue.User.LoginName;<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this case the SPWeb is coming from the workflowProperties, but I think it just needs the one that the SPList lives in. Any SPWeb may even work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are two posts from my internal company blog that I felt were worth sharing publicly. Deleting Master Pages from the Master Page Gallery It’s not as easy to delete a master page from a site’s master page gallery as you might think. Simply clicking the “Delete” option from the drop down menu doesn’t work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/sharepoint\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}