Posts Tagged ‘Content Management’

SharePoint 2013 cross site publishing allows content authors to create content in a site collection, called Authoring site collection, different from the one where content is published. The clear separation of content from its presentation allows authors to write and manage content without worrying about how and where it will be published. The other obvious […]

1. Create at least two site collections – authoring site collection called ‘Authoring’ where content exists and publishing site collection called ‘publishing’ where content will be published. 2. Turn on Cross Site Collection Publishing(XSP) feature on authoring site collection. [Site Settings -> Site Collection Features -> Click Activate right next to XSP feature] 3. Go […]

In today’s world, information is fairly scattered within an organization, mostly in form of emails, documents, file share, third-party repositories and it could be a challenge for an organization and its legal teams to find relevant content in an event of legal action, litigation or simply for compliance to standards and policies. eDiscovery in SharePoint […]

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 […]

Yes, this is a continuing series.  I’ve covered a number of topics already. This is the fifth in the series. User Interface Backend Integration Search Multisite support Feel free to check them out. So what about Content? So any site these days demands serious content management capabilities.  Most companies these days want a fantastic portal […]

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 […]

SharePoint 2013 (or “Wave 15” as we unabashed Microsoft fanboys have been calling it) has been in public beta for a little over two weeks now, and we’re starting to see some more discussion of new features and functions around the web.  Our own Microsoft blog is no exception. A number of our customers have […]

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 […]