Sep27
Every so often I get asked about creating a corporate phonebook or mobile phonebook for SharePoint. I have been doing a lot of planning sessions this week and needed something creative to do, so here's something fun.
I decided to create a lightweight people search page for mobile devices.
I created the page starting with an regular ASPX page. After adding a web part zone I dropped a Peopl...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 27 Sep 2008 09:00.
Sep1
Introduction
This is Part 4 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. In Part 2 I installed the XMP IFilter and demo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 1 Sep 2008 05:00.
Aug31
Introduction
This is Part 3 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. In Part 2 I installed the XMP IFilter and demo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 31 Aug 2008 04:40.
Aug30
Introduction
This is Part 2 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. We concluded the post with an issue: images st...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 30 Aug 2008 12:00.
Aug28
Introduction
After working on several search projects it is clear that the out of the box search experience for images is, well, less than optimal. I mean look at how cool the Microsoft Live Search Images interface is, then, hover over an image and look at how cool the property display is!
How about the results in SharePoint…
OK, I know, SharePoint is a document centric application ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 09:24.
Aug28
I have been working on a couple search projects lately and have found it very helpful to create a XML Results page in my Search Center.
It is easy enough to do.
In the Search Center choose Site Actions | Create Page.
Create a new Search Results page and call it XMLResults.aspx
Once the page is created, set the "Target search results page URL" property of the Search...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 09:14.
Aug27
Thanks again to my hosts at the San Antonio SharePoint User Group. I had a great time. You can download my deck and the samples that I demonstrated from my SharePoint Conference post. I have not added the information on image search that I presented last night. I am working on a three part post that will pull all of the necessary information together.
Thanks again to Rackspace, our gracious h...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008 06:29.
May19
I'll be the first to tell you that Alternate Access Mapping confuses the heck out of me. It does not do what I think it should do and it affects things I think it should not affect. I guess my main complaint is the name and not the function. Anyway, here is a fix to a problem that I have seen in several implementations that use an extended web application.
The configuration is a common one for...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 19 May 2008 05:43.
Apr6
I have created a project on CodePlex for sharing the XSL samples I have created in my search demonstrations. I have ideas for other samples that I will post as I have time to develop them. If anyone out there is interested in participating just download a sample so you can review how I documented the samples and then send me an example. If you have ideas but no time...I totally understand! Let me...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 6 Apr 2008 08:21.
Mar11
My second presentation at SPC2008 was Advanced Search Configuration and Management. I presented in "the BIG room" and what a thrill that was. The AV folks were true professionals, the stage was amazing, and the audience (though a bit small due to the early hour on the last day..) was very receptive and kind.
After the session I fired up the VPC to determine what went wrong with the ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 11 Mar 2008 05:52.