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A lot of standard SharePoint webparts have the ability to use audience targeting. Audience targeting can be used to promote content to specific audiences across the site using Microsoft Entra ID groups (formerly knows as Azure Active Directory groups). This … Read More »
This is the continuation of a previous post called ‘Sentiment of comments given on a SharePoint page‘. The scenario: The sentiment of the comments of the page is analyzed and updated in the list (previous post) A webhook is triggered … Read More »
The other day I was creating a SharePoint webhook using an Azure Function. I like to develop and debug Azure Functions locally on my machine. A publicly accessible URL is necessary to create a webhook subscription , so I fired … 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Because of a question on http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/14325/created-connectable-webparts-but-the-connections-menu-item-is-not-showing I decided to create a provider consumer webpart in his most simple form. Create an empty SharePoint project in Visual studio. Add two Visual WebParts: ProviderVisualWebpart ConsumerVisualWebpart In this most simple form of a provider … Read More »
In this series: Search Refiners part 1 – Expanding the OOTB search Refinement Panel Search Refiners part 2 – Use of CustomFilters Search Refiners part 3 – Chart based (this post) Search Refiners part 4 – User selection based … Read More »
It is not always appropriate to enable custom buttons on the ribbon all the time. Sometimes one or multiple conditions have to be met to enable the button. As showed in one of my previous posts ‘A better user experience … Read More »