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Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.

Grouping search results with display templates for the CSWP

This post was something that has been on my to-do list for quite some time, and was also requested by a couple of people. So finally I found the time to work this out. Back in SharePoint 2010 and 2007 we could easily group the results in the Content Query Web Part, but this functionality isn’t included in the Content Search Web Part.

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Problem with the SharePoint 2013 & Office 365 blog post publication action

A client of mine is currently undergoing a migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2013. An important part of their migration is a blog site. This blog is used all over the company to spread news to the colleagues. Everything went fine during the migration process of the blog, but from the moment they started testing the functionality they saw some weird behaviour.

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Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Netherlands 2014

At the last moment, I was asked to speak on the SharePoint Saturday Netherlands. Someone canceled his speakers slot, and that way this opened up a place for me. This will also be my first SPSNL that I’ll attend, the previous years I always had a personal appointment planned (this year also but was cancelled, that was why my submission was a bit too late).

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European SharePoint Conference 2014 #ESPC14

The ESPC this year was a blast, there were a couple of very good sessions, but the main reason was to meet some people in real life. There were a couple of very good after parties, like the AvePoint Red Part and the BIWUG SharePint we organised on Wednesday evening.

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Ultimate diagnostic display template

For my SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2014 session: “Sorry, something went wrong. How to start debugging your Display Templates”, I created the ultimate diagnostic display template. With this display template you’re able to retrieve all the available properties for your result. Show image Content Search Web Part Configuration When you configure the Content Search Web Part as shown above, it will output the property name, type and its corresponding value for the current result.

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Automatically update / refresh results in display templates

During the creation process of a demo for my SharePoint Saturday Belgium session this year, I suddenly came up with the idea to automatically update or refresh results of a Content Search Web Part. This could be useful when you have dashboard pages and you want to keep showing the latest items retrieved from search.

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