Category: SharePoint 2010
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Juice up your SharePoint with SharePoint Cool Buttons
When working with customers one often hears the following complaint: “Wow, this SharePoint is sooo ugly…”. I personally think SharePoint 2010 has very nice nice and professional design, but since customer is always right, from time to time I need to make it look more pretty. For some customers the “fix” is very simple, just…
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Walkthrough: Add tabs for custom scopes in Enterprise Search Center
When configuring SharePoint Search for customers I often help them configure their SharePoint Enterprise Search center. Companies usually index various content: SharePoint, Web Sites, File Shares, and it’s always good to divide different content sources with tabs, just as popular Search Engines like Google and Bing do. So what do you need to do to…
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Localizing CoreSearchResults Web Part with XSLT
I recently had to create a custom formatting via XSLT for SharePoint CoreSearchResults Web Part. This is not very complicated, and has been around since SharePoint 2007 (Customizing Enterprise Search Results). This time, however, we had to localize the XSLT transformation so that it displays different labels based on SharePoint UI language selected. A colleague of mine,…
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Use case: Managing Job Applications with SharePoint
I recently hired two employees for my company. The process is usually simple, an opening is posted on local jobs site and all the job applications are received via email. As we always require applicants to submit some additional forms and to complete a small writing or code development task it’s sometimes hard to track…
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SharePoint installation and maintenance slide decks from Windays 2012
This week I delivered a SharePoint session at Microsoft Windays 2012 Conference in Rovinj, Croatia. The session was on SharePoint 2010 – Installation and maintenance – best practices. If you are a novice SharePoint admin this could be good staring material for your SharePoint project. SharePoint 2010 – Installation and maintenance – best practices View…
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Search with auto suggest for SharePoint lists – new version
Two years ago, while SharePoint 2010 was still in beta, I released Search Suggest for SharePoint 2010 lists. A number of people contacted me with various bug reports and feature suggestions. Finally, I found some time and refactored this old code to accommodate your suggestions. Changes Improvement: You can now define list columns (fields) to be queried…
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Add a user to the SharePoint_Shell_Access role for all SharePoint 2010 content databases
In order to use Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Products, a user must be a member of the SharePoint_Shell_Access, and you can do that via Add-SPShellAdmin cmdlet. However if user needs to work with a lot of content databases then you need to repeat this procedure over and over. Here is a simple script that…
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How to enable alternate languages in Office365
Yesterday Microsoft announced Office365 (trial) availability in 22 additional countries (including Croatia :)). This blog post explains what you need to do in order to enable additional languages for the SharePoint site hosted in the Office365 environment: Open your team site via browser. Click on the Site Actions > Site Settings. Navigate to the Site Administration >…
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Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Slide decks
Two weeks ago I had a privilege to present at SharePoint Days 2010 at Bled, Slovenia. I delivered two presentations on Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Here are my slides: Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Part 1 View more presentations from Toni Frankola Building business forms…
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SharePoint Days 2011, Slovenia
For third year in a row, I will be speaking at SharePoint Conference Slovenia. This time we are heading to beautiful alpine lake Bled. I will have two sessions: Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Part1 and Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Part 2. Full schedule…