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 #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 #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 #13: Beware of Lookups
Lookup fields are the equivalent of foreign keys if you consider SharePoint lists as tables of a relational data base. When creating a lookup site column, you just need to choose which list and...
SharePoint Tip #6: Conteúdo de um campo do tipo MultiChoice
O SharePoint permite configurar um campo do tipo Choice para aceitar a selecção de múltiplas alternativas, passando a ser do tipo MultiChoice (SPFieldMultiChoice). Uma vez que se trata apenas...
SharePoint Tip #17: Testing if an Office Document is Open
In a Document Library, when you create a new document using the New button (or edit one that already exists), SharePoint will open the proper client application (if it...
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 #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...
Performing broker migrations on your Kafka consumers
When using Kafka for communication between systems, you may find yourself having to change your consumer configuration. This may happen due to the publisher changing topic, or a new...