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I have been working with the new Office 365 Groups feature a little bit and I wanted to see how I could surface them from a regular SharePoint Online site.  In my example today, I have created two public groups and three private groups. My first...
The Content Enrichment Web Service (CEWS) allows you to extend the functionality of SharePoint 2013 Search.  Using CEWS, a developer can send the values of managed properties to an external web service and return new or modified managed properties...
With the display templates feature in SharePoint 2013, you can highly customize the look of search using HTML, JavaScript, and jQuery.  It turns out there are a lot of helper functions to make your life easier in the out-of-the-box scripts. ...
Today at SharePoint Conference 2014 in session #SPC3000 on Display Templates , I showed how to format your search results as a grid when using the Content Search web part. As promised, this blog post has gone live that walks you through the exact same...
In preparing for my SharePoint Display Templates talk ( #SPC3000 ) at SPC14, you'll be seeing a lot of posts from me in the coming weeks about the components that make up my demos.  Today, I wanted to talk briefly about using jQuery with display...
I’m excited to be returning to SharePoint Conference this year to deliver another exciting session.  I’m getting back to my roots this year and I’ll be delivering a session on Search.  If you have survived until Thursday be sure and check out...
For many versions of SharePoint, you have been able to configure the number of days the new indicator shows up on a document in a library.  For example, here is how a new document is indicated in a document library. I’ve worked with a number of user...
Last week, I posted on how to query items matching a hashtag .  Today, I want to extend that concept further and talk about how to determine which tags are trending.  What I am specifically talking about today is the functionality in the “Trending...
I’ve been digging deeper into the SharePoint 2013 social API a bit more lately and I was particularly interested in social tags (hashtags).  In particular I wanted to find a way to see what social feed items have been tagged to a given hashtag similar...
As an administrator or developer, there may be times when you really want to see everything in the search index.  It’s great for troubleshooting.  Unfortunately, the way you do this seems to vary between SharePoint versions.  I wrote on...
I’m excited to be back in Boston next week for SPTechCon Boston 2013.  It’s been more than two years since I have presented at an SPTechCon and I am really looking forward to this year more than ever!  This year I am speaking on two search related...
When it comes to SharePoint search, managed properties have always had a special place in my heart.  After all they are what lets you do all of the cool stuff in SharePoint search when it comes to querying, refining, and displaying information. ...
One less publicized change in the April 2013 CU for SharePoint 2013 is the ability to change the maximum number of characters indexed of a given file.  By default, SharePoint indexes 512 KB of the body of a document.  Anything after that isn...
Result Sources in SharePoint 2013 are quite powerful.  However to make use of them in your queries, you have to know the Id which you pass to the SourceId parameter of a query.  For out-of-the-box result sources, the Ids are static.  When...
I’ve had yet another fun week up here in Canada.  I gave a brand new talk about the new ways to query search in SharePoint 2013.  I had a room full of developers that asked a lot of great questions.  As promised, my slide deck is below...
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