Mar 25
While working with a colleague on some search issues in office 365, we noticed something that seems to be a marked departure from SharePoint 2010 and the behaviours around documents tagged with Managed Metadata. In SharePoint 2010, the default search experience was to display a Tags or Keywords refiner in the refinement panel whenever a …
Mar 10
The conference is over for another year and I must say I was really glad that I decided to go to this one. The energy and enthusiasm that was missing from SPC12 seemed to be back, and whilst we didn’t have a new version to shout about, there were plenty of announcements coming throughout the …
Jan 16
One of the more powerful features of Fiddler is the ability to intercept a call to the server and replace the response with a response of its own. This becomes a very powerful tool especially when you have existing display templates that you wish to edit, without affecting the live service. This becomes especially handy …
Dec 13
A few weeks ago the speakers list was announced and sadly I wasn’t one of the lucky few to get chosen to present at SharePoint Saturday Stockholm, which wasn’t surprising given the number of submissions and vast talent and expertise that was available. Disappointed but not deterred I still booked my travel to attend and …
Nov 23
After tracing the source of my hardware failure at SharePoint Saturday UK, I found it wasn’t the SSD after all! (Chris O’Brien you’re forgiven!) As a result I’ve been able to recover all of the Display Template demos and scripts which are available for you to download here:- Display Templates for IT Pros – The …
Nov 11
Saturday 9th of November saw what i believe was the 4th UK edition of SharePoint Saturday, very ably hosted by Brett,Mark and Tony once more. This year it took place at the Hinckley Island Hotel which I have to say I preferred over the first few years venue in Nottingham, not least because it was …
Oct 09
SharePoint Saturday UK – 9 November 2013 At the Hinckley Island Hotel (Click for More info here!) I’ve been a bit slack in posting this as we were all told we’d been accepted a few weeks ago and general registration is available now. However I’m delighted to have been invited back to present at SharePoint …
Sep 02
Back at the start of August, I posted about the issues you might find using the JSLink Display Template when rendering multiple list instances on a page that all inherit from the Custom List Template. If you’re not sure what the issue is, Have a read of that post first, then come back here. The …
Aug 01
JSLink Display Template Rendering Issues One of the greatest improvements in rendering technologies in SharePoint 2013, has been the introduction of JavaScript display templates (I’m sure some will argue that point though!). These templates give us the ability to change the way that fields, list views, search results etc display, through the use of JavaScript, …
May 31
Caveat Emptor – office 365 Licensing Note: This article was written at the end of May 2013. If you are reading this anytime in the future, please make note of this as Office 365 licensing and feature availability is subject to change at Microsoft’s whim. If the Service Descriptions have changed then this information may …