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I mentioned last week that I was starting a travel blog. With SharePoint Conference ( #SPC14 ) just around the corner, I thought this was the perfect time to launch it. With people coming from all over the world, I thought it would be a great...
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With the display templates feature in SharePoint 2013, you can highly customize the look of search using HTML, JavaScript, and jQuery. It turns out there are a lot of helper functions to make your life easier in the out-of-the-box scripts. ...
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If you have been following twitter at all today, you'll find plenty of details about Service Pack 1 for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013. I applied the update to my Surface 2, Surface RT, laptop running Office Professional Plus 2013 and Microsoft...
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I started doing SharePoint Conference readiness checklists back at SPC11 and I wanted to continue the tradition with #SPC14. Mark Freeman ( @SPHotShot ) has continued the tradition of beating me to it and has already put out a great guide and I...
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Today at SharePoint Conference 2014 in session #SPC3000 on Display Templates , I showed how to format your search results as a grid when using the Content Search web part. As promised, this blog post has gone live that walks you through the exact same...
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SharePoint Designer is quite useful in the development cycle of display templates. It's on the of the quickest ways to make changes. Design Manager is probably one of the better routes, but if you have issues using it, SPD is not a bad...
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Next week, I will be launching a new off-topic travel blog in the wake of the start of SharePoint Conference 2014. There I'll cover tips and tricks that I have picked up in my days of travel. Many of you I know are already seasoned experts...
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In preparing for my SharePoint Display Templates talk ( #SPC3000 ) at SPC14, you'll be seeing a lot of posts from me in the coming weeks about the components that make up my demos. Today, I wanted to talk briefly about using jQuery with display...
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Last week, I was faced with the challenge of determining the URL to the site (web) when I knew the URL to a document in SharePoint. I also happened to know the URL to the site collection, but I wanted to reliably get the URL to a web so I could...
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I did a quick poll about doing ShareHofbrau again on twitter and got an overwhelming response indicating “YES!”. Therefore, I’m pleased to announce, that we’re doing #ShareHofbrau again at Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas on Thursday March 6th at 3:30 pm. ...
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I’m excited to be returning to SharePoint Conference this year to deliver another exciting session. I’m getting back to my roots this year and I’ll be delivering a session on Search. If you have survived until Thursday be sure and check out...
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I was creating some new site collections recently and I noticed a new site template under the Enterprise tab of the new site collection interface labeled Team Site – SharePoint Online configuration . I was curious so I provisioned a new site collection...
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As a developer, I have to admit I have always had a love / hate relationship with InfoPath. It worked well for some things but once you reached that point where you needed more, you had to scrap your entire solution and start over with something...
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I’ve been doing some content analysis with PowerShell lately and I thought it would be useful if I could query SharePoint search. With the addition of Search to the Managed Client Object Model this task is pretty easily. I have already written...
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In the last few months, I have noticed some new acronyms creep up in the SharePoint community. What is it? Well as a developer, it’s stuff you’re probably already doing. You take a search in your favorite search engine and you won’t...