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In PowerShell there are two ways to export functions, cmdlets, variables and aliases from a script module file for use by the calling context: 1. By using Export-ModuleMember and specify what resources need to be exported like: Export-ModuleMember -Function or … Read More »
Sometimes when hovering over a fieldvalue in the refinementpanel the tooltip displays only ‘Refine By:’ without displaying any value. While another displays an actual value: Actual term in a tree or just a ‘parent’ term Why? When the fieldvalue is … Read More »
Search refiners can contain managed metadata fields to refine the results. Sometimes the display mode of the values look a bit weird in the refinement panel. Suppose a sitecolumn of a library is a managed metadata column bound to a … Read More »
User subtypes are one of the many new and nice things in SharePoint 2010. The other day I was editing user profiles and changed the subtype for this profile in code. After changing the user subtype Commit() was called and … Read More »
You all know by now how to delete crawled properties and that you’re not able to delete a single crawled property. When deleting crawled properties, all unmapped properties from a single category get deleted. In Central Administration select ‘Manage service … Read More »
There are two variants of ‘for each’ in PowerShell: Foreach statement: iterates over a collection of objects ForEach-Object: obtains its entries from the pipeline At first they both seemed to do the job, but there are some differences. Let’s do … Read More »
Comparison between SPHttpUtility and HTTPUtility – encoding and decoding There are different ways of encoding and decoding querystring parameters, for example by using SPHttpUtility or HttpUtility. While programming SharePoint I always tend to use the SPHttpUtility class, but I didn’t … Read More »
Document set versions are slightly different than item versions. Document sets can be managed by a separate ribbon tab called Document Set and group called Manage. To create a version of a document set the action Capture Version in this … Read More »
In PowerShell multiple Write statements are available. The two statements I want to address are Write-Host and Write-Output. What do these two do? Write-Host: Writes customized output to a host Write-Output: Sends the specified objects to the next command in … Read More »
Recently I developed a CustomAction on a list with some client script in the CommandAction. Nothing fancy or new. I put a .js file in the _layouts folder and referenced the file by a CustomAction with Location ‘ScriptLink’ and ScriptSrc. … Read More »