It’s almost a year that I have been working extensively on SharePoint Foundation 2013 (a rare opportunity at least for me). I have been given a responsibility of building an Intranet with social features (Ex: Like, rating, profiles etc.) which are not available in SharePoint Foundation 2013, this makes it clear that I had to deal with lots of customization OOB and custom development using Visual Studio.
As the development started we came across many unexpected things, I am not sure if they can be called as bugs or known issues or limitations, however In this post I would be listing down these which I feel might be helpful for others who are working on SharePoint Foundation 2013. By any chance if there are few more apart from the one listed below please feel free to leave a comments so that I can include them in list below.
Issue 1: The trial period for this product has expired or Secure Store Shared Service is not supported for this SKU.
Details: This error is related to Secure Store Service Application. When you navigate Service Application in CA and click on Secure Store Service the above message shows up. I had posted a query on the on MSDN forums here. None of the solutions worked for me
Issue 2: 0 likes in Search result page.
Details: SharePoint Foundation 2013 doesn’t support like OOB, however when you perform a search and the search result has discussions board items you will end up seeing 0 likes in the search result page as shown below.
Issue 3: Display search box property of list web parts doesn’t work.
Details: SharePoint 2013 Standard or Enterprise provides a provision for you to search with in a list using the Search Box above the list view. You can achieve this by enabling Display Search Box on the lists. This option does exist in SharePoint Foundation 2013 but doesn’t work.
Issue 4: “Cannot complete this action” – Exception during reverting back from custom view created for discussion boards to the OOB default view i.e. Subject view.
Details: Due to some scenarios we had to create default custom view for discussion boards based on OOB Subject view. During development we ended up many times reverting back to OOB Subject view as default, while performing this operation i.e. Navigate to Subject view, select the checkbox – makes this as default view and click ok and you might get an exception cannot complete this action as shown below.
Note: The above mentioned issues were noticed on SharePoint Foundation 2013 farm with Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2. Let me know if any of these are not noticed in your environment.
It would be very helpful if the experts in the community provide there opinions about the above issues.