After installing a languagepack help contents should be available when you create a site collection in that language. Sometimes however SharePoint gives you a message that the files have not been installed when you click the help button or go to the Help-settings page for your sitecollection. You can force SharePoint to install the files [...]
When you use the out-of-the box components for searching for people, a generic search with a keyword that is included in an added Profile property will not give the results you might expect. This is especially a problem with the out-of-the-box webpart that shows information about a person: When you click on one of the [...]
SharePoint 2010 introduces the concept of Ranking Models. These models allow you to control the ranking of search results. But how do you tell the search web parts to use your custom ranking model, once you specified it? As far as I can tell there’s 2 options: Pass in the id of the model through [...]
Today I was trying to fix an error in a custom webpart that performs a query on the SharePoint farm. The goal was to retreive the records within a site though the search system. First I added a metadata property ItemDeclaredRecord that is mapped to ows__vti_ItemDeclaredRecord (DateTime). Then I tried the following query (using Steve [...]
One of the standard Ribbon buttons in SharePoint 2010 allows you to mail a link to a document. Unfortunately the dev team at Microsoft didn’t update the functionality of this button to use one of the enhanced UI features: multiple selection. When you select 2 or more items, the button is automatically disabled. To bypass [...]
At a customer we created a few custom site templates by configuring them and then saving them as template. When creating new sites based on this template, we had the strange issue that the contents of the Alternate CSS (AlternateCSSUrl) were included and showing in the header on layouts pages in the sites. It appears [...]
The new version of SharePoint offers more capabilities in the keyword syntax to enhance the search experience. While in the previous version you had to resort to FullText SQL queries, a lot of things can now be accomplished with keyword syntax. For instance if you would like to filter on a date, you could use [...]
In some situations, such as metadata inheritance from web properties, you’ll want to set the default value of a field from code. Because the DefaultValue property of a SPField is a string, you will need to know the correct format to set the value of a Managed Metadata column. The easiest way to retreive this [...]
When you don’t see the Term Store Management option in your site collection settings: A hidden web application feature is probably not activated. You can activate it through PowerShell or stsadm: Enable-SPFeature -id “73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C” -Url <Site-URL> stsadm -o activatefeature -id 73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C -url http://<url> -force Bookmark to:web design
When you’ve got Office 2010 64-bit installed you can only install the 64-bit version of SharePoint Designer. Sadly this version has some integration issues. Main ones I’ve noticed is not being able to use the “Edit in SharePoint designer” link in the context menu and not being able to edit page layouts in SharePoint Designer. [...]