Monthly Archives for June 2012

Juice up your SharePoint with SharePoint Cool Buttons

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - June 20, 2012

When working with customers one often hears the following complaint: “Wow, this SharePoint is sooo ugly…”. I personally think SharePoint 2010 has very nice nice and professional design, but since customer is always right, from time to time I need to make it look more pretty. For some customers the…

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Walkthrough: Add tabs for custom scopes in Enterprise Search Center

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - June 19, 2012

When configuring SharePoint Search for customers I often help them configure their SharePoint Enterprise Search center. Companies usually index various content: SharePoint, Web Sites, File Shares, and it’s always good to divide different content sources with tabs, just as popular Search Engines like Google and Bing do. So what do…

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Localizing CoreSearchResults Web Part with XSLT

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - June 10, 2012

I recently had to create a custom formatting via XSLT for SharePoint CoreSearchResults Web Part. This is not very complicated, and has been around since SharePoint 2007 (Customizing Enterprise Search Results). This time, however, we had to localize the XSLT transformation so that it displays different labels based on SharePoint…

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Use case: Managing Job Applications with SharePoint

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - June 10, 2012

I recently hired two employees for my company. The process is usually simple, an opening is posted on local jobs site and all the job applications are received via email. As we always require applicants to submit some additional forms and to complete a small writing or code development task…

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