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In many SharePoint solutions, Query String URLs are very useful in being able to create something like a page or dashboard that displays different content depending on a value used in the URL of the page. I decided that I wanted to create a web part on each customer site on our internal SharePoint site, to show all documents related
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**NEW VIDEO to go with this post: The new content search web part in the SharePoint 2013 preview (enterprise) is just awesome, awesome, awesome. Remember quite a while back when I wrote a post about how to utilize the search results web part to show the logged in user a list of sites that they have access to? Well now
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There is an out of box web part in SharePoint 2010 called the Web Analytics web part, and it is part of the enterprise and standard versions of SharePoint 2010, and it is NOT available in SharePoint Online in Office 365. ** corrected 11/3 First of all, Todd’s post here is from an admin’s perspective: Todd Klindt: Using Web Analytics in SharePoint
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In many companies, there are a couple of different types of environments. There is the “intranet” and/or the public site, and both of these types of portals contain sites with mostly one way information. With these sites, pretty much everyone has access to everything in there. On the other hand, there’s the “collaboration portal”. In many cases, this is a
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I’d like to share with you a fix that I’ve found for the fact that search term stemming is not available when doing contextual searches in SharePoint. Jennifer Mason and I worked through this the other day, and the results are pretty interesting. Here’s my explanation of contextual searching: In SharePoint, when performing a search, you’ll notice that there’s a
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