Amol Ajgaonkar

I presented at the SharePointFest Chicago in October 2013. During my presentations, I mentioned that I would upload my PowerPoint presentations. Session 1: Search Customizations This session covered customizations for search in SharePoint 2013. 1. Display Templates 2. Server side search web parts. 3. Boosting and segmentation Here is the link : http://www.slideshare.net/perficientinc/search-customizations Session 2: […]

Scenario: While building a search based application in SharePoint 2013, I observed a behavior which I thought was quirky. A page on a publishing site had a Search Results web part and a Content by Search web part. While configuring them, I set them to have the same query and result source. Expected result would’ve […]

Here is a good article on Display Templates and Result Sets in SharePoint 2013. jQuery comes to mind when you think of the most common framework people use to manipulate and display content on the client side. There are a huge number of plugins that transform your HTML structure into a visually appealing format. These […]

Scenario: In your organization you are using SharePoint to manage your projects. Tasks are created in each project site and assigned to you. To keep track of your tasks, you have to go each project site to view, edit those tasks. If you are involved in multiple projects then it can certainly become a time […]

In all the previous releases, creating master pages and layouts was definitely not easy for a designer considering the technical aspects of it. The designers would have to understand SharePoint and what components are mandatory on the master page and how they render to make their designs come alive. In SharePoint 2013, there is a […]

In all the previous versions of SharePoint, the traditional way of retrieving content was using CAML queries and displaying them using your custom UI or use one of the OOTB web parts like Content Query Web Parts or List web parts. Search was not used that often or effectively. When CAML queries are not created […]

In one of my earlier blog posts, I showed how term sets can be translated manually using XLIFF files. This post will step through the process of setting up machine translations for a term set. Process: 1. Go to Central Administration and create a SharePoint Translation Service application if it’s not already setup.

In my previous blog post, I described how the mobile panels work and what their shortcomings are. This blog will outline the solution that will solve the problems that the OOTB panel has. Problem Definition: The Out Of The Box mobile panel when added to the layout has the following issues: 1. To author content […]

SharePoint 2013 has a new component called the Mobile Panel. The purpose of this panel is to enable the content authors to target different content to different device channels or render same content differently based on how the site is accessed. My earlier post on Mobility shows how to setup a device channel and explains […]

Mobility support has always been a sore point in the earlier versions of SharePoint. In the new version, mobility has a decent support OOTB. Now you can define channels for different user agents which can render a different page structure based on the user agent. Simply put, you can configure different Master Pages for different […]

Rendering & Cache Part 1 of this post describes where the definitions for the image renditions are stored and how versioning is handled. This post will describe how those renditions are applied to an image and how those images are stored. If you are the curious kind and always want to know what goes on […]

My last post introduced Image Renditions and how to setup and use them. This post will dive a little deeper in the inner working of the feature. Storage and Maintenance Creating a image rendition definition: Click on Site Settings->Image Renditions. You will see all the existing (if any) renditions that have been defined. Initial impression […]