From time to time you run into something on SharePoint that is a known SharePoint ‘issue’, but you wouldn’t necessarily see PowerPivot being impacted. After all SharePoint is this huge juggernaut of a product and PowerPivot is just this one small little app in the corner. Well, here is one that I ran into today. We had a bug report that the incoming email setup for a PowerPivot Gallery was missing the ‘incoming emails’ link –> after some searching, I found this interesting posting:
One of my customer had created a custom document library deriving from OOTB document library. They are able to create their document library from custom list definition properly without any issues. But when in the document library created using custom list definition, if you go to list settings page, it does not show "Incoming Email settings" link under "Communications" column. Incoming Email settings are setup properly and OOTB document library has got incoming email settings link and it is getting emails properly. Just libraries created from their custom list definition does not have Incoming Email settings link!
So what is causing the issue?
Digging into SharePoint, found that this is hard-coded and SharePoint will only show Incoming Email settings link for OOTB lists of type Announcements, Event, Document Library, Picture Library, XML Form, Discussion Board, Posts.
Now all is explained. Gallery derives from Document Library, but it is not Document Library. Remember, all things PowerPivot run through SharePoint!
Enjoy.
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