Ideas that work
In one of my recent projects we faced the issue of showing documents and links together using a Content Search Webpart. The results had to be sorted alphabetically on the Title property. Nothing fancy, so you think, I thought so … Read More »
When you see the following message displayed in search related webparts or in the search centre: Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists Please contact your administrator Correlation ID: Or in Dutch: … Read More »
Recently I worked on a SharePoint 2013 VM for development purposes. This cloned VM contained 16 GB of memory which isn’t a lot for a SP2013 environment. To be able to work with the VM at a certain speed the … Read More »
Sometimes you need a nice clean development environment. And you need it now! With a Microsoft Azure subscription you can easily create a new virtual machine and set it up with SharePoint 2013, SQL Server and Visual Studio. This post … Read More »
Recently I submitted my first SharePoint app to the Office Store. The app is called ‘Index Latency’ and it displays historical data about how long it took for new content to show up in search results in a graph. The … Read More »
When a required managed metadata (taxonomy) field is located on a pagelayout and this field is not filled with a value when publishing the page SharePoint will throw an error message in a popup with the text ‘You must fill … Read More »
In one of my posts I wrote a solution for the nasty popup error message: This post provides some background information about this issue. The ootb ribbon with its functionality is built out of the ribbon definition xml from the … Read More »
For each webapplication in a farm the account used as System Account can be set . When a user is logged in with this account ‘System Account’ is shown in the welcome menu: And when the user adds or modifies … Read More »
Recently I was fixing a bug which occurred at a custom webpart derived from the Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ContentByQueryWebPart. The custom webpart has an EditorPart where the user is able to set some properties and after configuration the webpart shows an item from … Read More »
At a client I worked on migrating content from Tridion to SharePoint 2010. Data included links that had to be migrated to links in a SummaryLinks webpart. For another feature of the project the outgoing links of a page were … Read More »