Customizing Refinement Panel

To customize Refinement Panel you need to edit the xml file stored in Filter Category Definition. Before performing the above steps make sure that you have created a new Managed Property in Metadata Properties (to the left panel) of Search Administration and mapped to the crawled property. Perform...

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SharePoint Server 2010 Versions

There are four versions of SharePoint Server 2010: >> SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Client Access License features For organizations looking to expand their business collaboration platform to enable advanced scenarios. Use the Enterprise capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external line-of-business applications, Web services, and Microsoft Office client applications;...

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Return the Current Site in an Event Receiver; the site in which event occurred.

In an ItemUpdated Event Receiver we were accessing two custom lists for reading values and for that we required to return the current site in which the event occured. Simply writing SPSite mySite = new SPSite("http://yoursitename"); does not make sense. Because you might don’t know where you need to deploy the Event Receiver, hence hard-coding the Site URL is a bad practice. The below code...

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When working with Document Panel Properties in Microsoft Word, better check out the “Look Up” field

If you have restored a site/site collection to new site/site collection and you are working with Quick Parts in Microsoft then beware of the Look Up fields. Look Up fields will not display values in your new restored site unless you delete it and create it once again. This is because the look up field internally stores the GUID of the list to which it looks up for values and when the site is restored...

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Restoring a SharePoint Site from Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition

We took a backup of MOSS 2007 (Enterprise Edition) site using SharePoint Designer 2007 and tried to restore it to a blank site (Standard Edition). At first attempt we failed to restore it because of an error – “Feature not available: Data Connection Library.” Data Connection Library is not a part of MOSS Standard Edition, it is a part of Enterprise Edition but you can install Data Connection Library...

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