Today I am Posting a quick tip about How to Hide CallOuts in a SharePoint 2013 Task List.
CallOuts by default, are displayed on “Task Name” field in a typical SharePoint 2013 Tasks List.See the screen below.

To disable or hide these CallOuts Permanently, you would need to modify the CalloutMenu & CalloutMenuAllowed Properties of this Column or use a Custom Column with CalloutMenuAllowed set to disabled.Read more about this at Here.

For a quick and dirty fix to remove CallOuts from a “Task Name” Field and display the regular ECB (Edit Control Block) menu you can simply Create a Custom View with a different style (other than default). Lets look at the Steps -

1. Navigate to your ListView WebPart or Task List.
2. Select the List Tab and select “Create View”

3. Next in the Create New View Page add a name for your view and scroll down to the “Style” section. Select “Newsletter, no lines” in View Style: and save the View.(See below)

With the new View the List View looks like below –

Enjoy the new View.

You might also be Interested in :
Disable CallOut Popup for a Field or Column in SharePoint 2013 List

Also See the Complete tutorial on CallOut Popups at SharePoint 2013 CallOut Popups Tutorials for examples on Creating CallOuts, CallOut Actions and more..

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Like earlier versions of Office, the new Word 2013 also has a new cool feature that would allow you to Publish Word Documents directly to your SharePoint 2013 Blog. Lets look at the Steps in detail.

Steps –

1. Open a Word 2013 document and select the Files tab.

2. Under “Share” select “Post to Blog”

3. Next you would be presented by a Popup to Register your SharePoint 2013 Blog. Select “Register Now”.

4. Next Select the SharePoint blog in the New Blog Account Popup.

5. Next add the SharePoint Blog Url and select Ok. Wait for the Word to Create the Connection.

Once done you would see the Success message as below.

6. Now add some Content in your Document. Add the Title of your Post and Content below it.
Once done Publish the blog Post using the Publish button.

7. Verify if the new blog post has been Published by Navigating to your Blog.

The Images added to the Word Doc is added to the default Photo Library that exist in the SharePoint 2013 blog.

Also see : How to Embed a Word document in your SharePoint 2013 site

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Yesterday we talked about how by default all the Users that gets added to a default Members group gets Capabilities to “add, edit and delete lists” in your SharePoint 2013 Site. Read the entire findings at SharePoint 2013 – Adding Users to default Members group? Change the “Edit” Permission level first!. So now that we Identified that we have a problem here, lets look at How to Change the default Permission Level for this Members group in SharePoint 2013 “Contribute”.

Firstly, not all Members group(that are Created by default) has “Edit” permission level by default.It depends on the Site Template that you have used to Create a Site. But if it is Edit, you must Change it to Contribute to avoid users deleting the entire List or Libraries.

Steps –

1. Navigate to Navigate to Site Settings -> “Site Permissions” (under Users and Permissions).

2.Next, Look for the group that you need to Change the Permission level for. In our case we need to edit “Team Site Members” group’s permission level to Contribute.

3. Once you find the group, select it using the Checkbox available right next to it.Next in Ribbon select “Edit User Permissions”

4.In Edit Permissions page uncheck “Edit” permission level and select “Contribute”. Click Ok once done.

5. Lastly, Verify that default Members group now has “Contribute” permission level assigned to it.

At some point, as a SharePoint Site Admin, you must have added users into the default “Members” group of your SharePoint site.As seen in earlier SharePoint Versions, this “Members” group (that gets Created with your Site) by default, has Contribute Permission level assigned to it.Typically, the Contribute permission level provides users added to the Members group with “view, add, update, and delete list items and documents” capabilities.This is all right because in the normal SharePoint world this is what we expect Site Members to do – but only in earlier SharePoint Versions.In SharePoint 2013, the permission level to default “Members” group was enhanced to Provide users with add, edit and delete Capabilities for the list.

The default Members group In SharePoint 2013 now has a new Permission level called “Edit”.

Navigate to Site Settings -> “Site Permissions” and look for the “Team Site Members” group.See the permission level “Edit”.

Please Note - Members group Can also have Contribute permission level by default.It depends on the Site Template that you have used to Create a Site.

With Edit Permission level, In addition to the Typical Contribute Permission users are now able to “add, edit and delete lists in your SharePoint 2013 Site.

Edit Permission level – “Can add, edit and delete lists; can view, add, update and delete list items and documents.”. The Screen below shows difference between Contribute & Edit Permissions.

So, now that you know your Members by default have Capabilities to edit and delete a list, you should Change the default Permission level of Members group to Contribute before adding users into it. See Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Change default Permission Level for a group in SharePoint 2013 (from ‘Edit’ to ‘Contribute’)

Back in November I wrote an article about How to Save Site as Template in SharePoint 2013. The article is a huge hit (I guess a lot of people are Interested in Saving a Site As Template) but there is one question that popups up every now and then in our SharePoint Forums. It is about Missing “Save Site As Template” Option in Sites with Publishing feature enabled.

One of the old and well known workarounds for this was to directly navigate to “_layouts/savetmpl.aspx” application page and save the site Template. This workaround however does not work as expected in SharePoint 2013 sites.
In a Typical SharePoint 2013 Publishing Site, if you try to navigate to “_layouts/savetmpl.aspx” you would get the below error -

“The “Save site as template” action is not supported on this site.”

The url “_layouts/savetmpl.aspx” failed on the Publishing site because by default, in at Typical Publishing Site in SharePoint 2013, “SaveSiteAsTemplateEnabled” is set as “false”. Setting this switch as true would re-enable us to use “_layouts/savetmpl.aspx” to save a Typical Publishing Site in SharePoint 2013.

The easiest way to set SaveSiteAsTemplateEnabled as true is by using Site options in SharePoint Designer 2013.
Lets look the Steps -

1. Open you Team Site in SharePoint Designer 2013.

2. In SharePoint Designer, under Sites tab select “Site Options” (see screen below)

3. Find “SaveSiteAsTemplateEnabled” in Site Properties (see below).

4. Next change this setting to “true”.

Apply the Setting once done.

5. Now in your Publishing site navigate to “http://sitename/_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx” and you would see the old Save Site as Template Page as expected.

Next Follow How to Save Site as Template in SharePoint 2013


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In SharePoint 2013 you can edit an existing Master Page to add Company Logo or to Hide Top Suite Links (SkyDrive,NewsFeed) etc.It is always preferred that you make a copy of your Master Page before modifying it.Below are the Steps that you need to follow to Create a Copy of an existing Master page, edit the Master Page and re-upload it to be used in the Site.

1. Download a Copy of existing “Seattle.master from the Master Page gallery.

2. Next, Open  “Custom_Seattle.master” file in the editor of your Choice. You can use Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer or Notepad to open and edit it.

In the Designer or Notepad Change the Following -

To Remove the Text “SharePoint” in the top left bar (SuiteBarBrandingDelegate) look for - 
<SharePoint:DelegateControl id=”ID_SuiteBarBrandingDelegate” ControlId=”SuiteBarBrandingDelegate” runat=”server” />Delete or Comment out the above line to remove “SharePoint” text that is displayed in Top left blue bar.

3. Once you are done with the Changes upload the new “Custom_Seattle.master” in Master Page Gallery as ASP NET Master Page File.

4. Next Publish this new “Custom_Seattle.master” it as a Major Version.

5. Once done, set this new Master Page as Primary master page of your site.Navigate to Site settings -> Master Page (under Look and Feel) and select the Master Page that you Created.

Resulting Master Page-

See Related Post – SharePoint 2013 Design Manager Tutorials

I got a very Interesting question in one of the SharePoint Forums today. The Question was about how to Change the Default Page Layout for Pages that are Created using “Add a Page” option in Site Actions of your SharePoint 2013 site.

By Default, When you use “Add a Page” option in Site Actions to Create a Page, a Page using Article Page Layout gets Created.Just to make it clear we are talking about “Add a Page” option that is in the screen below.

To Change the default Layout (for this “Add a Page”) to your Custom Layout or to a WebPart Page Layout, you can use “Page layouts and site templates” feature that is available in Site Settings of your Publishing sites.

Lets look the Steps on how to do this -

1. Firstly, navigate to Site Settings using the Settings wheel or Site Actions in your SharePoint 2013 site.

2. Under “Look and Feel” Select “Page layouts and site templates”. Make Sure you have Publishing feature enabled to see this option.

3. In Page layouts and site templates page in “New Page Default Settings” section Select the page Layout that you need to set as default in “Select the default page layout:” list.

Once you have set this option, when you Create a new Page using “Add a Page”, a new WebPart Page will be Created.

Create a Page using “Add a Page” for testing purposes.

Resulting Page –

The above page has Title and Page Content Fields added by default.You can Ignore these Fields and use WebPart Zones Instead.