One of the things that I’ve heard people complain over the
years after the release of SharePoint 2010 is the disappearance of Drag &
Drop web parts capability. This feature was useful because it allowed the page
designer to add as many web parts on a page without having to click add and repeating
the process all over again.
This feature is available on SharePoint 2010 with a little manipulation
of the site URL of the page that you want to modify by adding the “?toolpaneview=2”
If your URL is http://sharepoint_portal/pages/default.aspx,
replace it with http://sharepoint_portal/pages/?toolpaneview=2
By making this small change, the “Add Web Parts” zone is
displayed on the right hand side of the page similar to what was available in
SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 and from here on you can happily drag and drop. v
Recently
a colleague of mine encountered the error below and wanted to know how to get
past itRecently
a colleague of mine encountered the error below and wanted to know how to get
past it.
When configuring SharePoint 2010 Publish Portal you encounter
the following error
“The form cannot be rendered. This may be due
to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For
more information, contact your server administrator. “
This issue is caused by lack of Session State Service
To fix this issue power up your PowerShell and run the
following commands
PS C:\Users\farmsvc> $serviceApp =
New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name "State Service"
PS C:\Users\farmsvc> New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name
"StateServiceDatabase" -ServiceApplication $serviceApp
n
This command creates a database
Name
Id
Type
StateServiceDatabase
4d968d46-28f4-4306-b9ff-8e2908cb31fe Microsoft.Office....
PS C:\Users\farmsvc> New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy
-Name "State Service" -ServiceApplication $serviceApp
-DefultProxyGroup
DisplayName
TypeName Id
State Service
State Service Proxy 8b155590-3be3-443a-9f10-4b303a01c450v