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Inconvenient Remote Event Receivers and Apps for SharePoint
Remote Event Receivers allow you to integrate your apps with SharePoint by handling events that occur in SharePoint. There are however a few things you should keep in mind before you start working with...
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Update for Mavention Anniversaries and Mavention Birthdays
In our continuing effort to improve the Mavention apps we released new versions of the Mavention Anniversaries and the Mavention Birthdays. In this new version there is support for the Lync presence...
View ArticleUpdate of Mavention Profile Completeness in the Office Store
We just released a new update on the Mavention Profile Completeness app. In this new version it it is now possible to configure the app part so that it will show display names for properties instead of...
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Inconvenient Managed Properties and getting a list of all custom Managed...
When working with search-driven solutions there are scenarios that require creating custom Managed Properties. Unfortunately SharePoint doesn’t offer an easy way of keeping track of those custom...
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Office 365 and Profile Pictures not showing
When you are using a user field or some custom code to display user information with in Office 365 you might have encountered some problems with the user profile pictures. Whether you run your app in...
View ArticleUsing SharePoint REST API in provider-hosted apps
Although the Client-Side Object Model offers you rich capabilities, there are scenarios when you might need to leverage the SharePoint REST API instead. Find out how to leverage SharePoint REST API in...
View ArticlePresence information in the Mavention Apps on Office 365
We recently released new version of the Mavention Anniversaries and the Mavention Birthdays Apps. In this version we aimed to support Lync Presence integration to help your users reach out to their...
View ArticleUpdate Web Part definitions in the Web Part Gallery
SharePoint offers some great web parts out of the box. And most of these web parts are configured with a set of default values allowing end users to easily add and configure these web parts on their...
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Inconvenient exporting calendar items in SharePoint 2013
Within the calendar functionality of SharePoint 2013 it is possible to export an calendar item to Outlook. You can either connect the complete calendar to Outlook but there is also an option to export...
View ArticleUpdate for Mavention Last Modified Documents available
Not that long ago we released the first version of the Mavention Last Modified Documents. The Mavention Last Modified Documents will retrieve all the sites the user is following and use them to...
View ArticleAnother update for Mavention Birthdays
Shortly after releasing a new update for the Mavention Birthdays that supports presence information we just released another update. This time with a few design updates. To make it easier to identify...
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Inconvenient getting a specific item using SharePoint 2013 Search
SharePoint 2013 Search contains rich capabilities that help you find the relevant content. What if however you already know what you are looking for and just want to get a link to it?More than just...
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Lambda expression include error
While working on a SharePoint 2013 provider hosted app I was tasked to implement functionality to add and modify taxonomy fields in a SharePoint site from the provider hosted app. This functionality...
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Unconfigurable Profile Info web part
With SharePoint 2013 every user has a One Drive for business where they can find an ‘About me’ page. If you visit this page you will see the activities of the person you are visiting and will see some...
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Inconvenient recommendations for pages with Friendly URLs stored in subwebs
Content recommendations are a great way of increasing exposure of your content. And although they just work out of the box, there is a little inconvenience when using them on a website with...
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Debugging content recommendations in SharePoint 2013
Content recommendations in SharePoint 2013 are a powerful mechanism that can help you expand the reach of your content and increase the conversion from your website. The process of gathering and...
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Removing unwanted user related search results for SharePoint 2013 websites
SharePoint Search by default crawls the contents of all site columns so that they are available for search queries. While most would consider that to be a good attribute there are times when it can be...
View ArticleInconvenient Managed Properties: when strings are numbers
Recently I wrote a blog post on how standard Managed Properties are not enough for supporting particular scenarios. For example, when building content aggregations sorted on dates or numbers you would...
View ArticleInconvenient copying Host Named Site Collections with multiple SPSiteUrls
Copying Site Collections in SharePoint 2013 is trivial, except if you are trying to copy a Host Named Site Collection with multiple SPSiteUrls.Copying Site Collections in SharePoint 2013There are many...
View ArticleExecute actions in PowerShell against a browser object
Using PowerShell as a warm up script can be a handy way to hit pages once every while. And as pointed out in a blog on using PowerShell Warmup script with a browser object, there are a few different...
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