Customising Office 365 icon in SharePoint 2013

While implementing an Office 365 solution, I did some quick fixes to the system (mostly branding the site) which I would like to share in this post.

Hiding the Office 365 icon on the top left of the window

Add the following lines to the CSS file

.ms-core-brandingBox {display:none;}

Editing the Office 365 icon to custom icon

If you want to show your company logo instead, add the logo to your SharePoint site and refer it in the CSS like the following:

#suiteBrandingIconBox {background-image:url(image url location)!important;
background-color:transparent;background-position:top left;background-repeat:no-repeat;height:30px; }

Hiding the Show More on person.aspx

When you implement mysites within SharePoint 2013, on the person.aspx page, there are few information available for the person like Email Address, Office Phone, Mobile and so on. This webpart comes with a Jquery link Show More and Show Less which contracts and expands on click.

I had a requirement where I had to hide this button and expand the box always so that all the values are visible to the user at all times. Here is how I implemented the solution.

• Find out the ID for the control by going to Developer tools within your browser.
• Replace it after the # sign in the example below.
• Add the whole snippet into Script Editor webpart on the person.aspx page

Override redirect using EditItemWithCheckoutAlert

On an edit item link, you want to perform some operation and redirect to a page of your choice, write a small script on your page and override the EditItemWithCheckoutAlert function.

So when you click on the edit link, the EditForm.aspx opens.

This allows you to modify the fields and delete the list item. Once you perform your desired action, the dialog box is closed and you are redirected to previous view/default view. To override this, use the script below, modify it to suit your URL and put it in a CEWP/Script Editor WP on your page.

Converting InfoPath data connections to UDCX files

While working with InfoPath 2013 and SharePoint 2013 on a Windows 2012 platform, I came across an issue where I was not able to convert the InfoPath data connections into UDCX files. I was getting the error below:

The specified location does not exist or could not be opened. Choose a data connection library on a server running Microsoft SharePoint Server and specify a valid filename.

After some read through, I found out that for this to be able to work, I would need a Windows feature installed on the server. This feature is Desktop Experience. Once I enabled this from the Server Manager, and restarted the server, I got rid of this error. Files were then getting converted to UDCX and were published to the Data Connection library.

Hope this helps someone.