Once you move an organization beyond the basic search configuration, you will at some point begin to use managed properties to enhance and improve the search experience. One of the more common uses of managed properties in search is to include more information in your search results. Only those crawled properties that you explicitly map […]
Dave Scheele
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It Is More Relevant to Catalog Content in SharePoint with a Content Type
I had a conversation with a colleague recently about the use of content types and site columns for cataloging content (tagging) in SharePoint. We both agreed that cataloging content improved the search relevance of content over not cataloging at all. The point of disagreement was whether or not it is better to use site columns […]
Microsoft Team Blogs that you should know about
Brandong LeBlanc at the Microsoft Vista Team Blog has posted a listing of Microsoft team blogs.
Data Mining, proof of concept
In this article I would like to share my experience exploring SQL 2005 Data Mining (DM). I used different mining algorithms against a test database, trying to predict some of the values in a test dataset using values from correlated fields. I used Visual Studio 2005 (BI development studio) and Data Mining Add Ins (DM […]
Wrap Your Content Type Feature in a SharePoint Solution
Features are a great way to package and manage the modules that you write for SharePoint; however, they are not the best mechanism for deploying your modules into SharePoint. To deploy a feature, you must copy its content into the 12 hive, install it with stsadm commands, recycle your IIS pools, and then activate the […]
A good article on customizing styles in SharePoint
I had to figure out how to put a style in the Style dropdown for the rich text editor and I found this article: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms551040.aspx Worked like a charm…
Adding table headers and/or footers to a Content Query Web Part Layout
Intro Ah the Content Query Web Part (CQWP)… This little guy is a pretty powerful mechanism for displaying different views of the data within your MOSS 2007 installation. The problem I had to solve today was how do I get properly formatting table where there is a table header row with column headings and then […]
How do I customize the look and feel of the out of the box RSS viewer?
Today I was trying to figure out how I could customize the look and feel of the out of the box SharePoint RSS feed. There are two ways to do this. The first is to edit the XSL right in the web part by clicking on the "XSL Editor…" button within the web part and […]
Implement a Site Actions button using only CSS with no images
Problem I recently implemented a site actions menu that has the appearance of a button with a roll-over effect. The original specification called for the use of two images, one for regular state and another for roll-over state. The problem that I had was that I could not easily get rid of the text or […]
Content Query Web Part and Security Trimming
The more I use the Content Query Web Part (aka CQWP or CQW), the more I love it. The sheer power of this web part coupled with some great articles on how to customize the look and feel of the web part (Heather Solomon Article and the Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Article) make […]
Setup a Visual Studio project for easier SharePoint Feature development
Problem You want to use Visual Studio to develop and deploy your SharePoint feature. Solution 1.) Create a class library project in Visual Studio.NET 2.) Delete the Class1.cs file because you will not need it for feature development 3.) Right-click on the references folder and select add reference. In the add reference dialog box, add […]
Create a custom content type that inherits from PageLayout using a SharePoint feature
Problem You want to create your own content type that inherits from PageLayout. This will allow you to define your own meta-data for pages that are created in your sites. Assumptions This post assumes that you are using Visual Studio to develop and deploy your SharePoint feature. Solution 1.) Locate the ID of the parent […]