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Sharepoint 2013 SSL Certificate for Development - Self Signed

We are looking to implement CRM 2011 - SharePoint 2013 integration to leverage document management functionality in SharePoint. The recommended way is to enable SSL on both sites so I want to enable SSL on my development box SP site. There are useful and working steps on how to enable SSL on SharePoint 2013: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fabdulwahab/archive/2013/01/21/configure-ssl-for-sharepoint-2013.aspx http://griffindocs.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/sharepoint-2013-how-to-add-ssl-to-a-web-application/ However after installing certificates (also on my testing machine) I got the SSL Certificate Name Mismatch Error .  This turns out that when you create Self Signed SSL Certificate, it defaults to your machine name and you don't have the option to change the host header. The solution is to use the SelfSSL program that will allow you to create certificate that points to your site host header as mentioned in this post: http://www.robbagby.com/iis/self-signed-certificates

jQuery chart or graph printing cross browser

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Hi all, sometimes we want to produce a fancy graph or charts on our client side code. There are numerous libraries out there to assist with this requirement.  Having used jQuery, when searching for a plugin you will first notice the free jqPlot . In fact this is what has been used in the website I work with. The graph looks fine when generated. When the users asked for a printing functionality - this is where all the fun begins, the graphs screw up (either not showing or position has shifted) in certain browsers. There are three factors to look at when you encounter this issue: 1. Your print.css file 2. Whether you show your graph in a modal window (such as jQuery UI dialog) 3. Cross-browser issue Normally what we want is to just use window.print instead of specific print functionality provided by the 3rd party library if they exist. This is because we want to print other content as well and not just the chart. After searching for alternative library, I came ac