User profiles in SharePoint can be used for more than just finding people based on general information. You can include more specific details and turn ‘People Search’ into a skills or resourcing database. The image above shows my demo, where someone can search for assistance with customer queries, filtering by product, role and location. Here’s [...]
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A popular question I have often been asked is how to display additional properties in SharePoint search results. The more relevant information you can provide in the results, the greater the confidence in picking the right result to display. Or sometimes, even providing enough information in the results to not have to click anything at [...]
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Note: This post is a set-up for a follow-on post: Displaying more properties in search results SharePoint 2010 includes the User Profile Service that manages individual profiles and ‘My Sites’. A bunch of properties are included by default, such as name, job title, department, location, phone number, email, ‘about me’, skills, interests etc. It is [...]
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You play around with a technology for 13 years and it still surprises you… This issue cropped up today with a client’s installation of SharePoint 2010 Server Enterprise Edition. The scenario: A wiki site was created for capturing and sharing knowledge within a tech support team. A key requirement was the ability to quickly search [...]
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This post builds on a couple of previous ones that you may also want to refer to: SharePoint Managed Metadata Overview SharePoint Taxonomy Limits In SharePoint lists and libraries, you create columns to contain different types of data that help describe the item or document being stored in said list or library. Three in particular [...]
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This is a follow on post to Taxonomy in MOSS (SharePoint Server 2007). Not everyone knows that you can manage columns at the site collection level and then re-use them across libraries. Also, whilst SharePoint doesn’t really do taxonomy management, you can use lists to perform some lightweight management, such as controlling what values are [...]
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