Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
Last week I went to the SharePoint Evolution Conference, which was a great event. At the conference I attended one of Andrew Connell’s sessions about a deep dive into the SharePoint REST API. During Andrew’s session he explained the REST API batching functionality which is at the moment only available in SharePoint Online / Office 365.
Read moreI am pleased to tell you that I will be speaking at SharePoint Saturday Paris on May, 30th. This event is organised by Benoit Jester, Patrick Guimonet, and Gokan Ozcifci. These guys already did an amazing job with their personalized speaker announcements and the agenda they put together. Show image SPSParis Twittre On #SPSParis I will be talking about how to improve your SharePoint search experience and is scheduled at 15:00 - 15:45.
Read moreYesterday I received the email from Microsoft. Show image MVP email I am very happy and honored to have received this MVP award from Microsoft. My main community contributions the past years were of course my blog and the several speaking opportunities. I want to thank all the people who have given me these opportunities and the people that supported me.
Read moreToday I was creating my session for SharePoint Saturday Belgium and Paris. For my demo’s I prepared a couple of display templates that were created on Office 365 / SharePoint Online. To be sure that I had a backup plan, I moved all these display templates to my development environment on-premises.
Read moreOne 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.
Read moreMost 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.
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