FAST Search Tip #1: Enabling Stemming in PowerShell
Recently, I’ve been working with FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 and, although it’s a great search platform with pretty impressive features, I believe there are still too many manual...
SharePoint Tip #27: Choice Columns and DataSheet Views
Using features to create Choice site columns is pretty straightforward (check this post for additional information). See below a sample feature element for that purpose. <Field ...
SharePoint Tip #26: Comments in Content Type Definition
There is an issue with SharePoint 2010’s CAML parser that causes SharePoint to ignore fields in a Content Type definition. When defining a Content Type feature element, avoid placing...
SharePoint Tips #25: Beware of User Profile Import
Among SharePoint 2007’s User Profile features, one of the most useful is the Profile Import. This feature allows you to import existing user accounts from Active Directory, an LDAP...
SharePoint Tip #24: Changing a Web Site’s Navigation Settings
Changing a web site's navigation settings is pretty easy using the SharePoint user interface. You just click the Site Actions button, select the Site Settings option, and click on...
SharePoint Tip #23: Creating a Personal Site
The User Profile is the central concept behind the personalization features of SharePoint (MOSS only). In addition to the User Profile, each user can have a My Site. A...
SharePoint Tip #22: Create a User Profile
The best way to create SharePoint User Profiles is to import them from somewhere (Active Directory for instance). This is specially true if you want to create a lot...
SharePoint Tip #21: Importing User Profiles
One of the best things of SharePoint's User Profiles, is that the profile data can be imported from several data sources (Active Directory or other LDAP directories, Databases and...
SharePoint Tip #20: Get User Profile
User Profiles are a central concept to Office SharePoint Server 2007. They store all the information about the SharePoint users in a central location, the User Profile Store, allowing...
SharePoint Tip #19: Using JavaScript in Body OnLoad Event
When developing web parts or other controls that use JavaScript, it's quite common to need to call some function on the Body OnLoad event of the web page. The...