Tuesday, September 7, 2010

View PropertyBag using SharePoint Designer

The Property Bag Settings can store any metadata as Key-Value pairs such as connection strings, server names, file paths, and other miscellaneous settings needed by your SharePoint application.

In SharePoint Designer: To view the property bag. Go to Site -> Site Settings. Then click on the Parameters tab (not sure why they didn't just call it Property Bag). On this tab, you can see the values of all of your custom property bag values (it doesn't show anything built-in). If you need to, you can also modify and remove values from the property bag here. Hopefully this tip is useful sometime in the future when you need to check the values of your property bag. It sure beats the alternative of writing code to display it or firing up the debugger.

There is also a CodePlex project that adds a page in central admin to set the property bag at various levels(server,farm, webapp, site collection)
http://pbs.codeplex.com/
This one for SP2010:
http://pbs2010.codeplex.com/

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