Gartner recently issued their 2012 version of the Web Content Management Magic Quadrant. This year’s version looks similar to last year’s version with Oracle, SDL, SiteCore, Adobe, HP (Autonomy), Extron, and OpenText all making the Leaders quadrant. IBM and Microsoft are in the Challengers quadrant once again. You can see the entire report on Gartner’s […]
Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint 2013’
White Paper: 10 Best Practices for SharePoint Collaboration
Lately, it seems that collaboration and SharePoint are almost synonymous. Sure, the platform is leveraged for many different purposes – from intranets and extranets to workflow and business intelligence, even public-facing websites. Technicalities aside, regardless of the use, it all boils down to the same thing – collaborating with others, and in turn, working more […]
Search Engine Optimization for SharePoint 2013 Sites (Part II)
SEO features in SharePoint 2013 are bundled into a SearchEngineOptimization feature. Its feature.xml file references two element files – searchengineoptimization.xml(SEO.xml) and searchengineoptimization1.xml(SEO1.xml). SEO.xml defines elements that make up its UI by extending ribbon interface. It also registers few candidate web controls with AdditionalPageHead delegate control. Delegate control is a powerful mechanism to alter application behavior declaratively. One […]
Search Engine Optimization for SharePoint 2013 Sites (Part I)
SharePoint 2013 introduces several new WCM capabilities and one of the addition is native support for SEO(Search Engine Optimization). In absence of any native support for SEO in earlier versions, developer community relied on custom solutions. However with out-of-box SEO capabilities in SharePoint 2013, now you can Configure Canonical URLs Verify site ownership with web […]
SharePoint as a Social Business Platform (Infographic)
While doing some research I came across this great infographic from the Dachis Group. While reviewing the infographic I couldn’t help but think of it in the context of SharePoint as an enterprise social business platform. As I explored in my SharePoint Adoption & Use post, data from the infographics shared there suggested that 78% […]
SharePoint 2013 – Farm and App level ECTs in BCS
SharePoint 2013 introduces the concept of App level External Content Type(ECT) which allows model representing external entities to be packaged along with app in single unit so later it can be accessed by app to understand and integrate external data without outer dependencies. External Content Types(ECTs) and External List – BCS(Business Connectivity Services) is an […]
SharePoint 2013: Task Management in My Sites
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 […]
Client data access with OData and CSOM in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 has improved OData support. In fact, it offers full-blown OData compliant REST based interface to program against. For those who aren’t familiar with OData, OData is an open standard for querying and updating data that relies on common web standard HTTP. Read this OData primer for more details. The obvious benefits are: 1. […]
Consuming OData sources in SharePoint 2013 App step by step
SharePoint 2013 has an out-of-box supports for connecting to OData sources using BCS. You no longer are required to write .Net assembly connector to talk to external OData sources. 1. Open Visual Studio 2012 and create a new SharePoint 2013 App project. This project template is available after installing office developer tools for Visual Studio […]
App model in SharePoint 2013 puts power in the developer’s hands
About two months ago, I was pointed to an article that talked about SharePoint Apps and how some people are starting to call them “Crapps”: SharePoint 2013 Preview – Apps or Crapps? I didn’t want to add my two cents right away because I hadn’t really had a chance to play with the App Model […]
SharePoint 2013 Issues Log
Infinite authentication prompts issue when launching SharePoint 2013 on local machine After setting up on premise SharePoint 2013 environment, isolated application domain must be configured to install and run SharePoint 2013 App. Ofcourse the application domain has to be added into the bypass list and trusted sites list to avoid authentication prompts. Despite of right […]
White Paper: 8 Best Practices to Drive SharePoint User Adoption
It’s no secret that one of the biggest challenges organizations face with SharePoint is its adoption. This is due in part to SharePoint’s flexibility – its greatest strength and its greatest challenge. The platform is leveraged for various purposes, including intranets, extranets, public websites, social collaboration, and business intelligence. Often, the capabilities of SharePoint exceed […]