Genotec Hosted SharePoint 2010: SharePoint prompts for login credentials

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

If you use a Hosted SharePoint 2010 and you try to open a Word Document or try to open a Document Library with Explorer SharePoint prompts for login credentials even you are already logged in. To stop this behavior in Internet Explorer you can simply add your SharePoint Site to the Local Intranet Zone.

This is because SharePoint uses Windows Authentication. We deiced to use Windows Authentication because only Windows Authentication allows you to easily use the full feature set of SharePoint Foundation 2010.

Open Internet options and click on the Security tab and choose Local Intranet
Now click on Sites. On the first Windows choose Advanced
Now add your SharePoint Site URL
Restart Internet Explorer

SharePoint 2010 Workflow states are grayed out

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

When you try to create a three-state workflow in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010, the state fields are maybe grayed out like in this screenshot below.

The reason for this is that there is no column to show the states for the documents of the document library. You can simply solve this issue, by adding the “choice” column to the document library.

Choose the document library in which you wanna create the workflow and click on the Library button in the Ribbon
Click on create Column
Choose the type “Choice” and make sure you add three states
Now these states are available in the three-state workflow.