How to display file extension in document library for SharePoint 2010 site

We have 'Type' column in document library which will display respective document ICON in a view, but there is no direct OOTB way to display file extension in any of the SharePoint column.

e.g. I have uploaded 'abc' word document and I want to display 'abc.doc' in one of the SharePoint column.

Though I have found below articles which talks about how to display file extension in SharePoint 2007 site by using SharePoint Designer 2007 and converting list view to XLST data view web part, but as of now I haven't find any good articles which point me to right direction for SharePoint 2010 site.

Reference links for how to display file extension for SharePoint 2007 site:

http://anylookup.com/to-show-file-extension-in-sharepoint-document-library

http://sharepointlearn.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-show-file-extension-within.html

I have played around with display form in SharePoint Designer 2010 and somehow I am able to display file extension in document library, now if someone asks me to perform same steps into other site then again I have to look more deeply for exact steps J

At last, we need to make changes in list display form with below XSL tag which will display file extension in document library.

<xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@FileLeafRef.Name" />.<xsl:value-of select="$thisNode/@File_x0020_Type" />

Hope above information will help!

How to lock down SharePoint Designer 2010

As we all know – SharePoint Designer is free tool from Microsoft, so any users in the organization can download designer and start using tool to make the changes directly to any SharePoint sites if they have designer access, Challenges comes in governance part of the SharePoint Designer usage. In SharePoint 2010 – admin have more control over what are the SharePoint Designer functionalities lock down and on which level of the site (web application, site collection level)

Here are some good reference links which talks about how to lock down designer access from SharePoint 2010.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mcsnoiwb/archive/2010/07/01/locking-down-sharepoint-designer-2010.aspx

http://www.thesanitypoint.com/archive/2011/09/22/governing-sharepoint-designer.aspx  

Different new features into SharePoint Designer 2010: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/EUSP2010/2010/03/19/introduction-to-sharepoint-designer-2010/

Visio 2010 Premium Edition - SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 workflow templates are available only in new version of Visio 2010 Premium Edition, not in other edition of Visio 2010. With workflow templates user can create Visio diagram/workflow which can be exported to SharePoint designer 2010 for further implementation. This new feature is good for end business users who are creating business process diagram in Visio. Hopefully it is saving some of the developer time/effort (atleast developer can take Visio 2010 workflow to start with their development activities)

Here is good link which talks about comparison between all editions of Visio 2010: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/visio-edition-comparison-FX101838162.aspx

Microsoft Visio 2010 – SharePoint 2010

Here I have tried to give some basic explanation about Visio 2010 and how it’s being use in new SharePoint 2010 world.

• Visio 2010 has its own template called “Microsoft Sharepoint Workflow”
• Visio 2010 has its own SharePoint workflow activities i.e. Actions, conditions, terminators
• We can check Visio diagram for validation errors.
• After completing Visio workflow, we can export workflow to “Visio workflow interchange” format to import the same workflow into Sharepoint Designer 2010.
• We can import Visio workflow to designer, than we need to assign/attach workflow to any of the content types in site like document, item.
• For workflow activities, we need to change/modify from designer like collect data activity.
• We can publish workflow to globally or list level.
• From workflow settings page, we can have option to see workflow visualization on status page, this is new feature added in SharePoint 2010 from which we can actually see and visual workflow current stage.
• After publishing workflow, system will generate association, initialization and data collection InfoPath forms which used by workflow
• From SharePoint site, we can go into any list and select content type to attach workflow to list level. (we can have workflow at content type level too)
• We can see workflow status in workflow visualization section and also able to open same Visio diagram and changed into it.
• We can save workflow as "template" and use same template into visual studio projects.
• In Visio we can only make the actual design of the workflow, not the configuration which is done in SharePoint Designer 2010

Reference Link:

Part 1:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2009/11/23/sharepoint-workflow-authoring-in-visio-premium-2010-part-1.aspx

Part 2:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2010/01/19/sharepoint-workflow-authoring-in-visio-premium-2010-part-2.aspx  

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2009/09/08/diagram-validation-in-visio-2010.aspx