Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
Back in August 2012 I wrote a post about how you could create your own font scheme for SharePoint 2013 (you can find the post here). In the post I included an example font scheme with the required elements. One thing I did not cover in that post was how you could add your own custom web fonts into your font scheme.
Read moreToday I launched the new design of the BIWUG website and the great thing is, it just runs on SharePoint public website of Office365. Which was quite challenging, because you do not have all the features available which you have in a normal publishing site. A couple of thing have been changed:
Read moreFor one of our company events later this month, I developed a demo OWA app which could add attachments to a mail. I used the following MSDN article to achieve this: Add and remove attachments to an item in a compose form in Outlook. In the article they give a good overview, but there is one little problem with the example code.
Read moreHover panels are one of the things that make the search experience in SharePoint 2013 a lot better, you instantly retrieve a more information about a search result. Like every other display template, the hover panel templates are easy to create. The difference with a hover panel templates is that they get referenced from within an item display template.
Read moreToday I saw a lag in the loading of the new suite bar colors on one of my SharePoint site in Office 365. Show image Default suite bar Show image Default suite bar with a composed look applied The suite bar uses the O365ShellCore.css to do the styling. It turns out that when you apply a composed look to your site, the new colors are set by a new theme engine of the suite bar on the fly.
Read moreA couple of days ago I was talking with Mikael Svenson, he asked me what the $setResultItem function does. Because there is no information to be found on the internet, I wanted to share this information with everyone. This function can completly change the behaviour of your search center, so it is important to know what it does in your display templates.
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