FireFox and Certificate authentication

When I visit a SharePoint site which is secured with PKI certificate authentication, I usually get certificate selection prompts properly in Internet Explorer and Chrome. Both IE and Chrome are smart enough to show me list of certificates available in my Personal Certificates store.

But when I browse the same PKI secured site in Firefox, I didn't get the certificate selection page and thought of poking around that issue for a solution today. The solution is Firefox is not looking in your personal certificates store. So even though you've imported your certificates to Personal certificates, you should also import them to Firefox certificate store too.

First export you soft key to a folder from your personal certificates.

Open FireFox, navigate to Tools->Options->Advanced->Certificates->View Certificates

After this setting, you'll be shown a certificate selection dialog box every time you browse a site authenticated with a certificate.

Hide a SharePoint ECB menu

 There was a requirement to hide a  menu item in  a  document library. The specific menu item is "Compliance Details".

After poking around JavaScript for sometime and the CSS fix looks elegant because of the CSS selectors.

Add a script editor web part and add the below

<style>
li.ms-core-menu-item[text="Compliance Details"]
 {display: none !important;}
</style>

This is actually find all "li" with class "ms-core-menu-item" where the attribute "text" value is "Compliance details" then assign the new style.

CSS selectors allow us to match any menu item by matching them with a display text of the menu.

Site Collections Size report

Wanted to quick script to get all site collections size along with their last modified dates, visits. PowerShell is cool enough to do that in two lines.

Get-SPSite -limit All | select url, @{label="Size in MB";Expression={"{0:N2}" -f ($_.Usage.Storage/1000000)}},@{label="ContentDB";Expression={$_.ContentDatabase.Name}},@{label="Visits";Expression={$_.usage.Visits}},@{label="lastmodified";Expression={$_.RootWeb.LastItemModifiedDate}}  | epcsv SiteReport.csv -NoTypeInformation

Reviving datasheet view in SharePoint 2013 for selective sites

 In SharePoint 2013 the datasheet view is deprecated by Microsoft and Quick edit was promoted. Datasheet view is an ActiveX component which has tight dependency with Internet Explorer and Quick Edit is based on HTML 5, CSS and JS achieving cross platform and cross browser compatibility.

                Datasheet view in legacy platform is ideal for doing bulk row edits and inserts without facing performance issues with few caveats.

How Data Sheet view works?

Datasheet view is an ActiveX component called ListNet from STSList.Dll which accept the below parameters to work properly

• ListName
• ViewGuid
• RootFolder
• ListWeb
• ListData
• ViewSchema
• ListSchema

Pros and Cons

 Pros

•  Users will get the legacy control to work in the same fashion without the need of exporting to excel.

Cons

• Document Center is not supported.
• Managed metadata is not supported.
• Cross browser and Cross platform incompatible.