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 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.
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