Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
A couple of months ago I wrote some posts about provisioning design files in SharePoint 2013 (display templates, none html design files). One thing I did not described is how you can provision your HTML master page and page layout design files. Most of the research (read time) was already done when I was trying to find out the best way to provision display templates.
Read moreSharePoint Saturday Belgium 2013 is over, so that means we need to wait a whole year for the next one. This was again a successful edition, and want to thank everyone for making this event possible, especially the Biwug organisation. Here are my slides from this years session: Biwug presenation-spsbe33 from estruyf
Read moreThis 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.
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