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SharePoint Saturday 2013 Belgium – Farewell XSL, Welcome Display Templates

estruyf — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:56:32 +0000

The SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2013 is over, so that means we need to wait a whole year for the next one. This was again a successful edition, and want to thank everyone for making this event possible, especially the Biwug organisation. Here are my slides from this years session: Biwug presenation-spsbe33 from estruyf Files Here

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Sorting Not Working in the Search Results Web Part with Predefined Query in SharePoint 2013

estruyf — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:20:39 +0000

This blog post describes how you to allow your search results being sorted when using a predefined query in the Search Result Web Part of SharePoint 2013.

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Transform the “SharePoint” Suite Bar Text into a Breadcrumb with PowerShell

estruyf — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:18:49 +0000

Where is the breadcrumb in SharePoint 2013? There isn't one out-of-the-box, but this post helps you to get one back. The out-of-the-box Seattle or Oslo master pages don't have a breadcrumb located in their HTML markup. That makes navigating from sub-sites to their parent site difficult, if you have not set a good global navigation structure.

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Provisioning Site Columns and Content Types via a SharePoint App

estruyf — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:28:32 +0000

Now that sandbox solutions are deprecated in SharePoint 2013, we need to find new ways to provision content types and site columns to a site. In this post I'll describe how you could provision them via a SharePoint app.

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How to Provision Display Templates in SharePoint 2013

estruyf — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:47:53 +0000

In this blog post I'll explain my first experiences with provisioning Display Templates in SharePoint 2013.

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Display the Title Row (Top Navigation) in the Search Centers of SharePoint 2013

estruyf — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:45:56 +0000

The first thing you mostly did when branding a SharePoint 2010 site, was creating a search center were the top navigation was shown (because it used the minimal master page it was not visible). When you did this for the first time, it was quite some work and effort. In SharePoint 2013 this process is a bit easier, because the search center isn't using the minimal master page anymore, and the correct content placeholders are referenced. Read this post to find out how to show the title row so the top navigation is available again.

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Hiding the Social Actions (Follow / Share) from the Document Libraries in SharePoint 2013

estruyf — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:51:21 +0000

SharePoint 2013 got very social, everything can be tagged, followed, shared. But these new social features require some user adoption, and it could be that your client does not want to have this functionality. This is exactly what a client of us requested, they did not want to have the Follow and Share actions on

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How to Provision Your Design Files in SharePoint 2013

estruyf — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:43:55 +0000

When upgrading my clients' page layouts from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, I stumbled on something annoying. The content of my page layouts was not being updated when I deployed a new version of my page layout solution. Everything seemed to be correct, because the file itself was correctly provisioned the first time. But when I

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Sticky Footer Solution for SharePoint 2013

estruyf — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:30:21 +0000

Footers and SharePoint that was the starting point of this blog. Back in August 2010, I blogged about how to create a sticky footer for your SharePoint 2010 sites (blog post can be found here and here). Now it is time to upgrade this sticky footer solution to SharePoint 2013. For this sticky footer solution

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Search Hover Panel Positioning Bug in non IE Browsers (SharePoint 2013)

estruyf — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:54:18 +0000

New SharePoint versions can be challenging, especially when it comes to branding your sites. When you are in a migration process like me, you will probably have to re-do the branding to support the new functionalities. Assuming that everything will work like before can be really disappointing. There are a lot of new functionalities, which

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