Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
In my last two blog posts I talked about how you could add sorting, and how to find out if a managed property is sortable. These two posts were created during the creating time of a table layout display template. Of course there are a couple of table layout templates already, but none had the option to sort the results.
Read moreIn my previous post I talked about how you could add managed property sorting in a display templates. The problem with this is that you need to know that the managed property is sortable. If the managed property isn’t sortable, it won’t work. Unfortunately if you’re going to sort on an unsortable managed property, this will result in a web part with an error:
Read moreAn idea where I’m currently working on involves sorting of the search results in display templates. So I thought it would be interesting to share this information already. You will see that enabling sorting, won’t involve a lot of code. You just need to know what you need to do, before you can start sorting the results.
Read moreThis post was something that has been on my to-do list for quite some time, and was also requested by a couple of people. So finally I found the time to work this out. Back in SharePoint 2010 and 2007 we could easily group the results in the Content Query Web Part, but this functionality isn’t included in the Content Search Web Part.
Read moreA client of mine is currently undergoing a migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2013. An important part of their migration is a blog site. This blog is used all over the company to spread news to the colleagues. Everything went fine during the migration process of the blog, but from the moment they started testing the functionality they saw some weird behaviour.
Read moreAt the last moment, I was asked to speak on the SharePoint Saturday Netherlands. Someone canceled his speakers slot, and that way this opened up a place for me. This will also be my first SPSNL that I’ll attend, the previous years I always had a personal appointment planned (this year also but was cancelled, that was why my submission was a bit too late).
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