Selectively preventing the ‘inconvenient’ context ribbon. Quite often I use list views to display summary data to the end users. This data often takes many forms from either a simple single list item displaying information about a site (I use this quite often in project sites.), to a full featured kpi display from multiple list …
Category Archive: SharePoint 2010
May 04
Useful Technique – Gooey SharePoint Scripting
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 23
SharePoint Evolutions Conference 2013–It’s a wrap!
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 …
Feb 01
SUGUK London Session & Slides on SharePoint Search Fine Tuning
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 …
Jan 16
Performance issues when using “Save Site As Template” option with content in SharePoint 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 …
Dec 09
SharePoint Saturday UK 2012–Roundup
With the appearance of December on the calendars, also saw the return of SharePoint Saturday UK for another year. As professionally run as always, the Id-Live/Lightning Tools team and their sponsors did a smashing job of organising and running the event. For me it was extra special as it was my first time presenting at …
Dec 03
Confirmed – Speaking at #SPEvo 2013!
Late last week I submitted a session for the SharePoint Evolutions conference in April next year a mere 24 hours before the deadline of submissions to the Global Community track! If you’ve not heard of this conference.. Why not? It’s only the largest independent SharePoint conference outside of North America! Take a trip to http://www.sharepointevolutionconference.com/ …
Dec 01
Automagic Managed Properties in SharePoint 2013 search.
The ability to map crawled properties to Managed Properties in SharePoint search has been around for a long time, This enabled you to take those custom fields you created in your content types, and make use of them in your search results XSLT rendering.The big change in SharePoint 2013 is that this can happen automatically …
Oct 30
Looking forward to #SPC12
With the release of SharePoint 2013 just around the corner thoughts are turning to the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 12-15th and I’m really pleased that I shall be attending my third MS SharePoint conference. Of course the main reason for attending is the amazing content that is going to be available, the …
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