Archive for March 2015

Making columns searchable for the list or library searchbox

March 31, 2015

One of the handiest features that were added to a list or library is the in-place searchbox. The in-place searchbox allows you to quickly search for items or documents while staying in the list or library context (in previous versions you were redirected to a search page). When you have used this list or library searchbox, you may have experienced some problems like not been able to retrieve the items you needed or even retrieving no items at all.

Sorting search results by managed metadata properties

March 24, 2015

Most of the SharePoint environments these days make use of managed metadata. If you do so and want to use the managed properties within your search web parts, you could experience some strange behaviour when sorting your results based on these managed metadata properties. When using the auto-created managed properties linked to your managed metadata column for sorting, a disorder of your results can occur.

SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2015 is coming!

March 19, 2015

Show image SharePoint Saturday Belgium The BIWUG board is proud to announce the fifth edition of SharePoint Saturday Belgium. The event takes place on Saturday April 18th and will be held at a new venue: ALM Antwerp http://www.almantwerpen.be/en/, Filip Williotstraat 9 - 2600 Berchem. The event is completly sold out, but you can still put yourself on the waiting list - SPSBE Waiting list.

Three useful managed properties for working with Office Web Apps

March 18, 2015

When working in Office 365 / SharePoint on-premises you probably already used Office Web Apps (OWA) to create or modify your documents. The power of OWA is also leveraged inside a SharePoint Search Center to show the content of the document inside the hover panel. Show image Document preview This kind of functionality is very helpful for finding the document you are searching for.

Filtering results on predefined set of values in your display template

March 9, 2015

For one of my clients I investigated the possibility to include result filtering or refinement into a display template for the Content Search Web Part. The reason to include this filtering functionality into a display template is to make it easier to fit into the corporate design. Another reason is to minimum the amount of display templates that get loaded on your page.