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Fast Search for SharePoint provides four great possibilities to influence the sort order of your resultset that was returned: Sort by Managed property Sort by Rank Sort by Formula Sort in Random order When I was working on my presentaion and demo for the diwug (Dutch Information Worker User Group) last...
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Waldek Mastykarz posted a superb post about one of those hidden SharePoint gems: the SharePoint scenario framework for multi-page forms. As Waldek showed off, this framework enables us to create some flows, but I was wondering if branched flows (for example, an easy yes/no) were possible. And it seems...
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Recently I had a few colleagues (and myself) who tried to install FAST search for SharePoint on their development workstation. Despite the well written installation guidelines on MSDN , they had several problems, and sadly enough, they all faced different problems. These problems varied from not able...
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Recently I found out that, my Fast Search Center was not available from the “New Site” menu. Both the english as well the dutch fast search template was not available. As I saw this happen before, I checked out the site collection features overview, to enable the “SharePoint Server...
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At the company i work for, we do have around 30(?!) different labels and we decided that all websites of those labels, should be hosted on one platform: SharePoint 2010. This consolidation to one platform should really decrease costs, because we now have one generic way of developing, one platform to...
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When migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, it might be possible that your navigation is broken. The error I encountered was the following, but it can occur in more functions within the Navigation namespace. Object Reference not set to an instance of an object. Stacktrace: at Microsoft.SharePoint...
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Lately I was working on a project that required to make use of scopes and some managed metadata properties in those scopes. For some reason, those managed metadata properties didnt show up in my scope selection dropdownlist, but I was sure that this metadata property was available in my Fast Managed...
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Lately, I installed Fast locally on my machine for development purposes, and it was working as intended. Crawled a lot of local (and external) content, but suddenly, my Enterprise crawler was not working. nctrl status showed me that the Enterprise crawler was Dead but WHY it was dead? I had no idea at...
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On the Dutch Microsoft DevDays (or Techdays, as they were called), I had a session about SharePoint 2010 and Fast. It was recorded and is now published on Channel 9. It's pretty weird to see and hear yourself presenting. If you are interested in: Fast Architecture Fast OOTB capabilities Fast configuration...
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Recently I was working on a sandboxes solution, which included a WebTemplate ( Vesa "Vesku" Juvonen wrote a really nice post about it), but I couldn't deploy it, the followin error was displayed into Visual Studio 2010: Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Exception...
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Today I was working with some collegues on some xsl within SharePoint, and we wanted to know where the following template came from: < xsl:apply-template select = " . " mode = " RenderView " > After some digging through the xsl templates in the SharePoint root, we found %SharePointRoot...
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A collegue of mine had the following problem: he wanted to write a console application to test some SharePoint code, but whenever he opened a new SPSite, the following File Not Found Exception was thrown: after being triggered about a possible problem with the wrong Target Framework, as Visual Studio...
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This blogpost describes the problems that could have come up when upgrading sandbox solutions to fulltrust solutions and how i Tested it. Read the conclusion in the end for the pitfalls that have to be taken care of. At the insurance company that I work, Achmea, one the responsibilities that I have include...
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In SharePoint 2007 it is possible to create site templates based on an existing site. A template can be used to create new site collections and subsites based on that template. When you export a site template, it creates a .stp file for you. Copying this .stp file over to an other evironment gives you...
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In this zip file you can find the sample code of the demo’s that Ton Stegeman and I did ( weblog and Twitter ) It is 1 Visual Studio solution that contains these projects: SDC.Demo.ManagedMetadata Sample for creating a managed metadata field from a feature. Associate the managed metadata column...