For my current project, our site collections had each their own vanity URLs. See here for the definition of a Vanity URL. In our case, we had a set of site collections URLs, each pointing to a product such as: ProductA.company.com ProductB.company.com ProductC.company.com In SharePoint 2007, using vanity URLs most of the time meant that […]
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Small tool to delete documents from FAST ESP index
I have been manipulating a lot of content recently working on FAST search as I had to delete from or load to the FAST index frequently. There is no way to delete multiple documents from the FAST index using the FAST admin UI (though you can delete one document at a time.) It’s possible to […]
Test your queries with FAST
To quickly and easily test FAST queries, you can use the Search Front End UI and its advanced options to create queries against your content without having to debug queries through code. This is a very useful feature, especially if you have worked on SharePoint Search projects where testing queries consisted of building your own […]
Content Organizer in SharePoint 2010
A great new feature in SharePoint 2010 is the content organizer. In SharePoint 2007, the only way to manage your documents was to use the Record Center Site template which didn’t really provide flexibility. Now in SharePoint 2010, the routing engine and supporting settings are encapsulated in a feature that can be activated in […]
Retreiving Recurring Events from a SharePoint Calendar list
I thought it would be useful to post an entry on how to retrieve recurring events from a calendar list. If you ever had to display recurring events, you probably noticed no list items are created for those events in the calendar list. In order to display those items, I had to do a bit […]
SPWeb.AvailableContentTypes – READ ONLY PROPERTY!
Maybe you have wondered what is the difference between the SPWeb.AvailableContentTypes and SPWeb.ContentType, I know I did. Reading intellisence, I couldn’t really tell which one to use, they both seem close to being identical: I decided to work with SPWeb.AvailableContentTypes but ran into problems when trying to update my content as I was continually getting […]
Helpful SharePoint Designer tools and resources
FPCleaner If you are working with SharePoint Designer, you will most likely notice some annoyances here and there related to cache. FPCleaner is a pretty useful little tool that I found that helped me clear quickly temporary files and other cache files that are most of the times the root of those inconveniences. Some of […]
Results count and custom paging
Be cautious when using the results table count if you are planning to build a paging control to wrap around your results. After a query gets executed, a results table gets returned back. The count of the results table should be helpful in theory in order to build your paging feature so that user can […]
Sharepoint Search Service tool
If you are working with fulltextsql queries, be sure to get Sharepoint Search Service tool. It is a very helpful tool that will help you create and test your queries. Download here:http://www.codeplex.com/SharePointSearchServ
The Highlighting Keyword Feature Limitation “By Design”
If you have been working with SharePoint Search, you might have noticed a weird behavior with the highlighting search string feature. We discovered that we were unable to consistently get the highlighted keyword in the search results summary. Sometimes it would show up, sometimes not… and this would happen especially with items containing a lot […]
Turning auditing on and possible problems it implies
When working on a project, my team and I ran into problems with the SharePoint auditing feature. The issue wasn’t so much about the feature itself but more about the data it was generating and the consequences it implied. In our case, less than an hundred users accessed and worked on the site but the […]