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SharePoint 2010: Managed Metadata terms containing a comma are difficult to...
Just a quick post to note that if you use Managed Metadata and have a comma in a term name/label, it will not be so easy for a user to type the full term name into a Taxonomy Field or Taxonomy Web...
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SharePoint 2010: Managed Metadata Converts Ampersand and Double Quotes to...
We have been making a lot of use of Managed Metadata lately. One use is to associate people with a team, so we have created a user profile property associated with a Teams term set. We also created a...
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SharePoint 2010 Bug: People Refinement Panel does not work properly with...
I have recently customised the People Refinement Panel by adding a set of Filter Categories which are mapped to some Managed Properties. Most of them are linked to User Profile Properties which user a...
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SharePoint 2010 Bug: Search Refinement Panel’s TaxonomyFilterGenerator...
The TaxonomyFilterGenerator is used to generate refinement filters based on taxonomy for a Refinement Panel Web Part. This is used out-of-the-box by the Tags refinement filter among others that appear...
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SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata Presentation
I presented about SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata on 2nd May 2012 where I work at Capgemini UK, and thought it worth sharing. Please note, the presentation included a live demo showing how to use...
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SharePoint 2010: PowerShell to Clear the Timer Job Cache
I have been clearing the Timer Job Cache manually when needed for years. A few months back I looked for a script to do this automatically and ended up writing one since it can be a slow and laborious...
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SharePoint 2010: Display SharePoint Groups in an InfoPath Form Drop-Down List...
This post shows the process for making a Drop-Down List Box in an InfoPath form display the SharePoint Groups that exist in the site. For this example, create a Forms Library which uses InfoPath Forms...
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SharePoint 2010: How to get the Content Type Hub URL Programmatically
If you are using a Content Type Hub, and you have code that needs to know the URL of the Content Type Hub, you can get this programmatically as shown below. This involves opening a TaxonomySession...
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SharePoint 2010: How to get the My Site Host URL or the Current User’s...
Following on from my previous post on How to get the Content Type Hub URL programmatically, here I will show how to get the My Site Host URL as well as the current user’s Personal Site URL...
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SharePoint: Extracting all User Profile Property Names and Values using the...
I recently had to migrate user profiles from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. As the new system had been rebuilt from scratch, we could not simply upgrade the content databases etc. We instead used a...
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SharePoint & Yammer: Notes from the Microsoft Social Business Roadshow
I had the opportunity to attend the Microsoft Social Business Roadshow in London on 24th January 2013 where I was able to learn a bit more about why Microsoft bought Yammer and saw a very rough...
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SharePoint 2013: Unable to make Tags on List Items appear in a Tag Cloud –...
I recently thought I would build a simple links list with an additional column to contain tags, which could be a Managed Metadata field or Enterprise Keywords, and then use the out-of-the-box Tag Cloud...
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SharePoint: How to check which Site Template was used to create a site just...
I recently needed to check which site template was used to create a site on a production system so I did not have the option to use SharePoint Manager or write some code or PowerShell to open the site...
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SharePoint: How to check the SharePoint Installation Type – Standalone or Farm
I have just been given a client’s development workstation virtual machine to deploy a full SharePoint solution to before developing some updates on it. As I needed to make extensive use of the User...
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SharePoint 2010: List View Threshold Explained
In this post I try to explain the List View Threshold that was introduced in SharePoint 2010, the benefits that it provides, the operations that are prevented when the threshold is exceeded, and...
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SharePoint 2010: How to get the My Site Host URL or the Current User’s...
Following on from my previous post on How to get the Content Type Hub URL programmatically, here I will show how to get the My Site Host URL as well as the current user’s Personal Site URL...
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SharePoint: Extracting all User Profile Property Names and Values using the...
I recently had to migrate user profiles from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. As the new system had been rebuilt from scratch, we could not simply upgrade the content databases etc. We instead used a...
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