Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
The ESPC this year was a blast, there were a couple of very good sessions, but the main reason was to meet some people in real life. There were a couple of very good after parties, like the AvePoint Red Part and the BIWUG SharePint we organised on Wednesday evening.
Read moreFor my SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2014 session: “Sorry, something went wrong. How to start debugging your Display Templates”, I created the ultimate diagnostic display template. With this display template you’re able to retrieve all the available properties for your result. Show image Content Search Web Part Configuration When you configure the Content Search Web Part as shown above, it will output the property name, type and its corresponding value for the current result.
Read moreDuring the creation process of a demo for my SharePoint Saturday Belgium session this year, I suddenly came up with the idea to automatically update or refresh results of a Content Search Web Part. This could be useful when you have dashboard pages and you want to keep showing the latest items retrieved from search.
Read moreSome time ago I wrote a post about the missing Apps you can add zone (Missing the Apps you can add Zone When Adding a New App). The problem with it was that this zone becomes available once a particular element is found on the page. The element was placed on the page via the PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea content placeholder.
Read moreXSLT and SharePoint 2013, didn’t thought I was going to use it now that we have display templates. Almost everything can be done with display templates and JavaScript these days, but you need to be careful that you don’t build everything with JavaScript, because it could slow down the client experience.
Read moreWorking with cross-site publishing in SharePoint can be fun, but it can also give you some headaches. One of the things were it can go wrong is the permissions, it all seems very simple just some clicking in the UI and you’re all set. That is correct, but what happens if it goes wrong?
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