2013 - Page 2 of 2 - Blog of an overweight SharePoint addict

May 04

Useful Technique – Gooey SharePoint Scripting

By Cimares in Automation, Content Types, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, Testing, Uncategorized

Automating the SharePoint GUI using Scripting. My colleague Alex and I have been working on the same client project during the last 6 months and we recently hit an issue that required us to republish 150 content types in the content type hub. Due to an issue with the PowerShell publish commands not working previously, …

Apr 30

Managed Metadata Columns fail to sync from Office Client apps and SharePoint

By Cimares in Managed Metadata, Office 2010, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Testing

On a few occasions now I’ve dealt with clients that are having problems syncing Managed Metadata Columns between the Office 2010 client applications and SharePoint. It’s unclear how this problem has come about, and due to the fact that a lot of people don’t seem to use the Document Information Panel unless doing heavy Enterprise …

Apr 23

SharePoint Evolutions Conference 2013–It’s a wrap!

By Cimares in Conferences, Office 2010, Office 2013, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Evolution 2013, Speaking, SUGUK

SharePoint Evolution 2013 – IW411 – Session Slides So last week saw another awesome conference from the folks at Combined Knowledge. Yes it was the London SharePoint Evolution 2013 conference and my first outing at a major conference as a speaker! I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Those of you who know …

Apr 08

Just one week until the SharePoint Evolution Conference!

By Cimares in Uncategorized

SharePoint Evolution Conference 2013 Next week sees the SharePoint Evolution Conference returning to London for 2013 and as I’ve posted before, I’m speaking this time round! As a newbie to conference speaking I’ll admit to being a little nervous as this is my first proper conference session. Even though I’ve done some large user group …

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Apr 07

WCM – Image Renditions in SharePoint 2013

By Cimares in CBSWP, CQWP, Display Templates, SharePoint 2013, XSLT

Introducing Image Renditions In SharePoint 2013. One of the great improvements in SharePoint 2013 is the introduction of Image Renditions. This feature allows content editors to upload images that are then automatically re-sized according to pre-defined rules for use within the website. These re-sized images can then be used in document roll-ups and pages, reducing …

Mar 16

How to achieve a Mega Menu using out of the box navigation in SharePoint 2013 and jQuery.

By Cimares in jQuery/Javascript, Navigation, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Designer 2013

I was looking at some requirements from a client for their new SharePoint 2013 Intranet, and one that caught my eye was desire to have Feature images on the top navigation. The requirement was to have a dynamic top navigation, controlled using the SharePoint out of the box navigation settings, but have the ability to …

Feb 01

SUGUK London Session & Slides on SharePoint Search Fine Tuning

By Cimares in Conferences, Search, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, Speaking, SUGUK

Thanks to everyone that stayed around after Dan Holmes’ most excellent Governance session last night to hear me prattle on about tuning your search environment. Just a note about Dan’s session first, I don’t really come from the ‘Business’ side of SharePoint as I’m from a mainly techy background. As a result, I sometimes find …

Search, Speaking, SUGUK
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Jan 16

Performance issues when using “Save Site As Template” option with content in SharePoint 2010

By Cimares in SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010

Scenario Description We recently hit a performance problem on a client environment when creating sites through code. These sites which had been created with the Team Site template and then saved as templates by using the “Save Site As Template” option in the UI were taking upwards of 40 seconds to deploy. During testing we …

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