Enabling the edit in Manage User Properties page in IE 11

I was asked to hide some of the fields from appearing in the edit profile page. I knew where exactly to go to(CA->Application Management->Manage Service Application->User Profile Synchronization->Manage User Properties) change it but the page didn't show up any link for that field to edit it. In IE 11 you have do some settings to be able to make the Edit link available.


Follow the steps below to do the same.


- Open you manage user properties page in IE.
- Click on the gear icon on the top right.

- Select "Compatibility View Settings".
- Click Add.

Sign in as another user in SharePoint 2013

If you have logged into a server using a farm account and want to test your user profile page there is no OOB Sign in as different user option in SP2013. OR if you want to open CA from your local machine using Farm account, follow the below quick step.

Solution: To the URL append _layouts/closeconnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true

Ex: http://Centraladmin:5555/_layouts/closeconnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true

Setting Hyperlink column with the URL and Description text from SharePoint Designer

My scenario was to provide a hyperlink to the task form from a SharePoint list.

Solution: Created a hyperlink column in a SharePoint list. Since we cannot have a URL to task form until the task is assigned. I have to set the hyperlink field inside my workflow. The challenge was to set both description and link to the form.

Follow the steps below to achieve this in SharePoint workflow designer.

- Set the hyperlink column as below. URL followed by a comma and a description text.


- You will see the column look as below.