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Granting the “Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers” administration...
When working with search-driven solutions, or even if you just want to be able to search for people, SharePoint Search has to be granted access to that information in order to crawl it. Generally all...
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Inconvenient programmatically working with Managed Navigation and anonymous...
SharePoint 2013 offers rich API for interacting with Managed Navigation. Unfortunately, some additional work is required if you need to use it with anonymous users.Managed Navigation in SharePoint...
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ListViewWebPart and crashing browser
In a recent scenario we encountered some issues where the browser (Internet Explorer 9) would crash when clicking the ‘edit page’ button. Once a user would try and edit the page the browser would just...
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Azure API Management delete users
Azure API management is a great new service from Azure that is now in public beta. Azure API management allows you to expose your API’s and apply rate limits and manage users who can access them, as...
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Showing required fields when editing a page in SharePoint 2013
When editing a Publishing Page, SharePoint does not give you a visual reference to the required field(s) on this page until the moment you try to save the page. Only then SharePoint will show you which...
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Debugging setting properties in anonymous Search REST queries
Leveraging SharePoint 2013 Search REST API for anonymous users allows you to build powerful search-driven solutions. Often, particularly in the early stages of the project, queries might not work as...
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Inconvenient Search REST API for anonymous users
Leveraging the Search REST API allows you to build rich search-driven solutions. If you’re not careful however, you might get results other than intended even though everything seems to be working...
View ArticleEen nieuwe website voor Woonbedrijf
Mavention heeft voor Woonbedrijf een nieuwe website gemaakt op basis van Microsoft Sharepoint 2013. Woonbedrijf is de grootste woningcorporatie van Zuid-Nederland met circa 31.000 verhuurwoningen in...
View ArticleRemote authentication in SharePoint Online for Windows Phone apps
Remote authentication for SharePoint Online in native Windows apps is nothing new. Simply download the Remote Authentication in SharePoint Online sample from MSDN and paste the code into our own...
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Inconvenient Content Targeting with User Segments in Search REST API
Content Targeting with User Segments just works with Content Search Web Parts but some additional work is needed if you want to leverage it with the Search REST API.Content Targeting with User Segments...
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Paging not correct when XsltListViewWebParts are added on page
I was provisioning pages programmatically with XsltListViewWebParts and that worked just fine. During testing I noticed that when the webpart was using a view configured for paging, the paging controls...
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Programmatically check if SharePoint service is online
Now and then I have to retrieve information from the User Profile Service, such as user profiles. For this I use the UserProfileManager class. But, when the User Profile Service is not available for...
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Missing feature for custom action in Visual Studio
Building your Apps for SharePoint will most likely be something you will do with Visual Studio 2013. And depending on the requirements you will use either the Provider-hosted or SharePoint-Hosted...
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Updates Mavention Birthdays and Mavention Anniversaries
With the Mavention Birthdays and Mavention Anniversaries update released last month we introduced presence information as well as some other minor updates. As those updates got rolled out at other...
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New App in Town - Mavention Profile Info
In the last few months I worked on a intranet portal project together with my colleague Albert-Jan Schot (aka Appie). During this project we encountered that SharePoint’s default webpart Profile Info...
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Colleagues and the Mavention Profile Completeness
Over the course of the last few months we have seen quite some downloads of the Mavention Profile Completeness. All those downloads led us to review the app once again and we decided that it would be...
View Articlemavention.com Single Page App is live
Today I released the Single Page App version of mavention.com.This November on the SharePoint Connect 2014 conference I will be presenting a session about building SharePoint 2013 portals and...
View ArticleSorting dates without year in JavaScript
When discussing the workings of the Mavention Anniversaries update with a client we found out that the sorting just didn’t cut it. By default our query would retrieve the anniversaries for this and the...
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Updated: Mavention Profile Info App
Today an update for the Mavention Profile Info app is available in the Office Store. This version 1.1 contains the following updates: Added an app part property for hiding empty property values When...
View ArticleUpdate for Mavention Last Modified Documents available
A few days ago one of our clients reported an issue with the Mavention Last Modified Documents app for SharePoint. When opening a link in the app part using an iPad, the link was opened inside the app...
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