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In my earlier article, I wrote about column level validation in SharePoint 2010.

List level validation will trigger before saving the content. The validation should return TRUE to save the content.

Library Information List:

I have created sample list Library Information with the following columns.

Validation Scenario:

Due date should be greater than Issue Date.

Validation Settings:

Go to List Settings and [...]

I encountered the following error while running Configuration wizard for SharePoint 2010.

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Error in Log File:

01/09/2010 13:20:05 17 ERR An exception of type Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException was thrown. Additional exception information: Unrecognized attribute ‘allowInsecureTransport’. Note that attribute [...]

Most of the developers faced issues with column validations in SharePoint 2003/2007.

It is really painful to write the validation using custom approach like javascript or jquery.

SharePoint 2010 provides the following validations in Out of the Box.

Column Level Validation

List Level Validation

Column Level Validation

While creating new column in list, click on the column validation node.

Specify your validation [...]