SharePoint 2013
Search Query Suggestions for anonymous users in SharePoint 2013 with Mavention Query Suggestions
SharePoint 2013 ships with a rich search experience. One part of that experience is providing search query suggestions. Unfortunately those suggestions are not available for anonymous users. So what to do if you want query suggestions on your public facing website?
Inconvenient backup and restore of Sites with Catalog Connections to different URLs
Using Catalog Connections in SharePoint 2013 offers great flexibility with regard to content reuse within as well as across Farms. Unfortunately, as Catalog Connections are based on URLs, they break if you restore your Site Collections to different URLs. So is rebuilding Catalog Connections the only option or is there a better way to work with Catalog Connections and backup and restore of Site Collections to different URLs?
“The item has been truncated in the index because it exceeds the maximum size”
When crawling content with SharePoint Search you might stumble upon the following warning “The item has been truncated in the index because it exceeds the maximum size.”. So what is it and, what’s more important, how to get rid of it?
Inconvenient Images By Search in SharePoint 2013
Content By Search is the new publishing model in SharePoint 2013. And although crawling and retrieving content is straight-forward, what about images?
Inconvenient Catalog Item Reuse Web Part and displaying content from Managed Properties
Catalog Item Reuse Web Part is the control that you have to use to display data from Managed Properties on your pages in search-driven publishing scenarios. And while everything might seem okay at first, it’s just the matter of time until you see your content rendered as plain-text.