Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
This week I noticed something strange when configuring a Search Results Web Part with a predefined query. The results were retrieved perfectly, but the sorting configuration was not doing what I defined. The search result web part was configured to get the documents from a specific site and sort them by the creation date.
Read moreWhere is the breadcrumb in SharePoint 2013? There isn’t one out-of-the-box, but this post helps you to get one back. The out-of-the-box Seattle or Oslo master pages don’t have a breadcrumb located in their HTML markup. That makes navigating from sub-sites to their parent site difficult, if you have not set a good global navigation structure.
Read moreNow that sandbox solutions with code behind are deprecated in SharePoint 2013, we need to find new ways to provision content types and site columns to a site. One way to do it is to provision them via a PowerShell script, which is not a bad idea. Another way could be to provision them via a SharePoint app.
Read morePutting HTML design files in the SharePoint Master Page Gallery feels a bit like adding them into a mysterious black box, you don’t know exactly what is going to happen with them. This blog post covers my first experiences with provisioning Display Templates to the Master Page Gallery. The process of provisioning your design files is a bit trial and error when you are not using the design manager.
Read moreWhen working with the new search centers in SharePoint 2013, the first thing that you will notice is that the title row is different compared with for example a standard Team Site. Show image Standard SharePoint 2013 Title Row Show image Search Center Heading - Title Row is Hidden As you can see, the title row (red box) where the top navigation should be, is replaced by the search icon and search box (orange box).
Read moreSharePoint 2013 got very social, everything can be tagged, followed, shared. But these new social features require some user adoption, and it could be that your client does not want to have this functionality. This is exactly what a client of us requested, they did not want to have the Follow and Share actions on their site and document libraries.
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