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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.

SharePoint Saturday UK wrap-up

The past weekend I went to the my second SharePoint Saturday UK. This year I was also presenting about how to take your display template skills to the next level. Apart from the wifi at the venue, everything was great. I heard that some speakers could not do their demo’s due to the internet connection.

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How to add multi-sorting of managed properties in your display templates

Last week I had an internal event where I did one of my new sessions: take your display template skills to the next level. One of the topics that I discuss during this session is how you can add sorting in your display templates. Note: this is something I blogged about a couple of months ago (How to add sorting in display templates and Table layout display template with managed property sorting).

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Combining multiple Office Apps into one global add-in

The first thing when you create a new Office App is that you have to choose which type of app you want to create. You have the following app shape types you can choose of: Task pane Content Mail Show image Office App shapes Each of these app shape types is designed for a specific application.

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Things you need to know when implementing Azure AD in your Office add-ins

Some time ago I wrote a sample Office app made use of Azure Active Directory to get access to SharePoint resources. I experienced some different behaviour in my Office App between the online client (Outlook Web App) and the rich client. This post describes the behaviour I noticed when implementing Azure AD authentication in my Office App.

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Find out in which Office rich client your Office APP is opened

Some time ago I posted an article about how you can check in which context your mail APP has been opened in OWA or the Outlook rich client (read the post here). I needed that solution for a proof of concept mail app. The mail app is finished, so I wanted to go a step further and I also made the APP work in the other Office applications.

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Retrieve the web URL for a search result via a managed property

These days a lot of my work is done in Office 365, but I have customers that are still working on an on-premises environment. Sometimes when switching back to an on-premises environment you could be surprised by things that are not (yet) available. This week I wanted to implement a link which goes directly to the site on which the search result item is located.

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