Ideas that work
One of the out-of-the-box workflows in SharePoint is the Collect signatures workflow. When you are assigned to a task from this workflow, you’ll receive an email with an ‘Open this task’ action button. Click the button: Select ‘Open Document’, Word … Read More »
Paste In Command Prompt or PowerShell windows you can paste by right-clicking. But not always… Why? Right-click the top bar and select properties. Select the Options tab and make sure the edit option ‘QuickEdit Mode’ is selected. Now the right-click … Read More »
In one of my previous posts I wrote about extending the content processing pipeline by developing a custom content enrichment service to modify the managed properties of the crawled items before they are added to the search index. This post … Read More »
Some webparts can’t be exported by the UI to get the XML representation of it. Listview webparts are one of them. To get the XML anyway there are three options to do so: Use javascript from the Export option Use the … Read More »
Files stored in Office 365 or SharePoint Server 2013 can be shared with other people. Although this isn’t new, it is a great feature and never has been easier to use. Governance-wise sharing can be a challenge, because you’re unable … Read More »
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 »