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Get in touchThe blog post about how to dynamically change the result sources in a search center was based on a solution that I created to show the duplicated results in a search center with JavaScript. A standard Search Center in SharePoint 2013 doesn’t show the duplicated results by default. You have two options to view the duplicates:
Read moreAlmost two months ago Pascal Van Vlaenderen asked a question on twitter if there’s a way to specify the Result Source in the QueryString (https://twitter.com/VanVlaenderenP/status/392920559853383680). Since that time, this question was on my to-do list to check this out. What I proposed back then, was to change the result source in the data provider object with JavaScript.
Read moreThis is an extra post for the search refiner control series. In this post I’ll explain how you could build a search refiner control that makes use of ranges. The range operator can be used for the following search data types: DateTime Decimal Integer The out-of-the-box refiner controls use this range operator for its slider controls, but it can easily be used within your custom refiner.
Read moreOn the 25th of January 2014, I’ll be speaking at the first SharePoint Saturday Stockholm (SPSSTHLM). This will also my first foreign speaker opportunity. Therefore, I would like to thank Hannah Swain, Matthias Einig, and Erwin van Hunen for giving me this opportunity by accepting my submission. The speakers line-up is amazing, it will be hard to choose which sessions to follow.
Read moreA question I received a couple of days ago was if it would be possible to display the share action on a page like the action in the context menu of that page. Show image Share Action Solution The solution for this is really simple, all you need to do is creating a hyperlink on the page layout and use a JavaScript function call in the href attribute for the click event.
Read moreI’m currently working on a migration project at a client. It’s a migration from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, which involves some re-development and branding. For the branding part, where this post focusses on, a couple of new page layouts needed to be created. The purpose of these page layouts is to replace the old versions, and to move from five almost completely the same page layouts to only one page layout.
Read moreThis post focusses on the creation process for a multi-value search refiner control. This control will be very much the same as the default multi-value refiner, but has a bit more flexibility, and gives you a good starting point for applying your own customizations. Default Multi-Value Refinement Control First let me tell you how the default multi-value search refiner control works.
Read moreIn previous posts I showed you how you to build your own Search Control Refiners. This post will focus on the JavaScript methods that can be used for refinement. There are a couple of them, but when do you need to use which refiner method? I’ll split this post up in sections to describe the actions that can be achieved.
Read moreIn this blog post part of the search refiner control series, I’ll show how to create a dropdown search refiner control. To make it a bit special, I’ve added the functionality of showing the filters that were available before the results were refined. Show image Mockup Note: for this post I start with the file I created in part 2 of this series.
Read moreIn the previous posts I explained how to create a new refiner control, but there is one search data type that needs some special attention. The search data type that will be explained in this post is the FileType. In this post I’ll show you the things that are so special about working with filetypes.
Read moreIn the previous post I explained how to create your first search refiner control template. The template that was created wasn’t that useful, because it missed the refinement actions. In this post I explain how to add these refinement actions to your template and what to do once results are refined.
Read moreIn the first part of this blog post series about custom search refiner controls, I’ll describe what is minimal needed to create a clean refiner control display template. This template can later be used as a starter’s template for the creation of other refinement controls. Create a New Search Refiner Control Template The first thing you’ll need to do, is creating a new HTML file in the Master Page Gallery.
Read moreAs you may already know and seen, there has been quite a lot of improvements to create or change UI elements from SharePoint 2013, especially UI objects of search. A topic that I wanted to blog about for quite some time now (first time I started this post was in April) will show you how to create your own custom refiner display templates.
Read moreYesterday we had the first Biwug Quiz. One of the questions was the following: Display Templates require one of the following options: HTML JavaScript JavaScript & HTML XSL Everyone has answered that you need the JavaScript and HTML file, but this isn’t correct. The correct one was number two JavaScript. To clarify the answer I will show you why you don’t need the HTML file.
Read moreThe SharePoint 2013 rating system slightly changed a bit. In SharePoint 2013 you can now choose to use likes or star ratings. This functionality can be turned on via the Rating settings in the list. Show image List Rating Settings Styling the SharePoint 2013 star rating involves some work. The only “quick” option you have is to apply a composed look to your site.
Read moreA couple of weeks / months ago I wrote a blog post about how to you could hide the default social actions in the callout menu of a document library (blog post). The trick to remove these actions was to override the footer template rendering of the callout. This week I had the opposite question, how can you add a custom action to the callout with preserving the default actions.
Read moreShowing alternating rows can be done in various ways, you can do it via jQuery or even with CSS. Another way is to add an alternating class to the item via the Item Display Control. I’ll explain the last method in this post. Note: here are the references to the jQuery and CSS methods: jQuery Odd Selector - CSS Even and Odd
Read moreThe next blog post describes how you can create a Load More Results link as the name itself describes, loads more results. The solution is created to be used in a Content Search WebPart. For this solution you will need to create a new Control Display Template (or you can append it to an existing one).
Read moreThe purpose of this post is to show you how you could use the Search Results WebPart to visualize dynamic data like the Content Search WebPart (CSWP). To help you in this process I created some cleaned up display templates so that it becomes a bit easier to create your own HTML markup in them.
Read moreFor my next blog post I needed to investigate how to use a custom Group Display Template for the Search Results WebPart. Unfortunately you can only set the Control Display Template and the Item Display Template in the Search Results WebPart properties. Show image Display Template Settings Search Results WebPart If you want to specify the group display template, you have two options:
Read moreA few days ago a clever reader of my blog has informed me about a problem with the Create a “% Complete” Progress Bar with JS Link in SharePoint 2013 solution. He told me that when you apply the JS Link JavaScript to the web part, the checkboxes task checkboxes are rendered as Yes / No values.
Read moreWhen examining the JS Link problem that was described in my previous blog post, I found a nifty piece of code. The code allows you to do an Ajax refresh for a single item row or for the item rows in the current view. This piece of code comes in handy when you have a custom actions that does an item update and only want to update the current item or the list of items.
Read moreIn SharePoint 2013 you have the functionality to create renditions for your images. This allows you to use the same image but with different dimensions in your design. Most of the information you find about this topic is most about using it for different devices, so that you can use a smaller version for a mobile device, and the default one for a desktop.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreWhen working with the new search centers in SharePoint 2013, the first thing that you will notice is that the title row is different compared with for example a standard Team Site. Show image Standard SharePoint 2013 Title Row Show image Search Center Heading - Title Row is Hidden As you can see, the title row (red box) where the top navigation should be, is replaced by the search icon and search box (orange box).
Read moreSharePoint 2013 got very social, everything can be tagged, followed, shared. But these new social features require some user adoption, and it could be that your client does not want to have this functionality. This is exactly what a client of us requested, they did not want to have the Follow and Share actions on their site and document libraries.
Read moreWhen upgrading my clients’ page layouts from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, I stumbled on something annoying. The content of my page layouts was not being updated when I deployed a new version of my page layout solution. Everything seemed to be correct, because the file itself was correctly provisioned the first time.
Read moreFooters and SharePoint that was the starting point of this blog. Back in August 2010, I blogged about how to create a sticky footer for your SharePoint 2010 sites (blog post can be found here and here). Now it is time to upgrade this sticky footer solution to SharePoint 2013.
Read moreNew SharePoint versions can be challenging, especially when it comes to branding your sites. When you are in a migration process like me, you will probably have to re-do the branding to support the new functionalities. Assuming that everything will work like before can be really disappointing. There are a lot of new functionalities, which means that your design will also need to support these functionalities.
Read moreBy default search suggestions are enabled on the default search boxes in SharePoint 2013. Show image Search Suggestions Server administrators are still able to manually add search suggestions via PowerShell, but the commands have been changed a little. Check out the following blog post how to do it in SharePoint 2010.
Read moreSince SharePoint 2013 introduced the display templates, branding elements has been made a lot easier. Like for instance when you want to brand the search box on your site. In the previous versions you mostly started the job by overriding the standard CSS of SharePoint. This approach will still work, but there is now an easier way.
Read moreThis week I started with a branding upgrade project from 2010 to 2013. Throughout this upgrade process I needed to customize the OOTB small search input box (the search box that is shown at the top right of the site). The requirements were the following: Changing the default text (change the “search this site” text); Allow query suggestions (this is enabled by default in 2013); Change the result page address.
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