Posts Tagged ‘portal’

separated into two phases: action phase and render phase. Normally, we can control the process in render phase by setting render parameters in action phase. Unfortunately, the render parameters can only be of String type. The ModelMap provided by Spring can be used to break this limitation. At the end of the process of action […]

Last time we talked about three possible areas of improving SharePoint Search:   Define Content Authority Sources – allowing users to concentrate their search Content Promotion – managing content and where it goes Content Metadata and Ratings – aspects that allow users to refine search results Now let’s dig a little deeper into the three areas. […]

Congratulations to the Perficient Sitecore team on being awarded the Sitecore Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) certification! This recognition goes to Sitecore Certified Solution Partners who have displayed exceptional knowledge and experience in one of six Specializations. In particular, Perficient earned the CEP certification for using Sitecore’s CEP – an integrated platform for marketing engagement, automation […]

Want to see just how beautiful a SharePoint 2013 website can look? Want to see such a beautiful website that’s functional too? If you’re like me, your answers are “yes” and “yes”, so I’d strongly suggest you surf on over to http://www.marshfieldclinic.org on your PC, Mac, phone or tablet.  For a real kick, try it […]

In honor of our upcoming SharePoint as a Social Social Business Platform webinar with Forrester’s Rob Koplowitz and our own Rich Wood, we’ll be hearing from some Social Business Thought Leaders from the SharePoint Community over the coming weeks.  First up is AvePoint’s Jeremy Thake. In addition to being a Microsoft MVP and AvePoint’s  Chief […]

I have had a number of clients share with me that SharePoint Search does not work.  I find it interesting, since some clients implement SharePoint specifically for search.  When we dig a little deeper, we typically find the problem is not SharePoint.  The problem is actually the volume and relevancy of content returned in the […]

Not the right effect? Very short and sweet this time, hopefully will help those who happen on this page for this common issue. In the Query Builder, you can create a query using using fields or managed properties. A common field that users will use for creating a fielded search is Content Type. However, as […]

This is a quickie, but can be useful for those accessing SharePoint Managed Metadata from the Client Side. Often when you’re pulling back data from SharePoint lists, you’ll get a full-fledged object back rather than a single field value (and yes I ran into this while working on some fancy calls in a Display Template). […]

Today, Perficient announced that Jamie Stump, a senior Sitecore consultant for Perficient, was named a 2013 Sitecore Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Jamie was one of only 15 people in the United States recognized for active participation in the Sitecore community, and for sharing knowledge and expertise with other Sitecore partners and clients. From the press […]

Do you have something going on in SharePoint that you want to tie into NewsGator activity feed? In some cases an event receiver is what you want. See my blog on custom NG activities if you want to use an event receiver. But there are cases where SharePoint shamelessly writes things to its databases and […]

Back in 2012, Gartner included Salesforce.com in their Horizontal Portal Magic Quadrant as a Visionary.  Since that time, many people have scratched their head wondering how is a CRM system a horizontal portal?   In fact, Michael Porter recently blogged about Virgin Airline’s new employee portal built on Salesforce.  But the real story behind Salesforce […]

Let’s say you do something fancy with your publishing site that changes the page hierarchy and would like the Bread Crumbs to account for those changes. You could create your own Bread Crumbs control but there is a quicker and more supported way that will allow your changes to affect the OOB Bread Crumbs control. […]