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Sticky posts in SharePoint Discussion boards

If you have used SharePoint discussion board in your team site, then you would have wondered that there is no option to make the post as sticky.
By default SharePoint doesn't provide this facility, but it can be acheived easily with the out of box options available with the Discussion board list. After making this changes the discussion board will look like below.

Step 1 Create a Column in the list

Goto the list settings and create column.

Name the column as "Sticky", and choose as
checkbox (Yes/No). We are going to give the option to the owner of the post,
while creating the post whether it should be set as sticky or not.

Step 2 Create a View for Sticky posts

Goto the settings page and create the view and name its as "Sticky", set is as
public view

Another important thing in the Sticky view is changing the sort columns. First
sort coumn should be "Sticky", that is the intention of having the sticky posts.
Sticky posts should be always shown on the top and then followed by the Last
updated posts. So set the "Then sort by column" to Last Updated column. as indicated below.
Step 3 Selecting the Sticky view

Whereever we are showing the discussion board, that is the List View webpart.
Click on modify share webpart menu and change the selected view to "Sticky"
which we created in Step 2.

Now we have the Discussion board ready with the Sticky option.




All the posts which are marked as sticky will be shown on top always.

SharePoint object model performance tuning.

Today, I was looking into the performance tuning on our code,
I found this very useful to achieve some.
Although some of them are familiar before, its nice to recollect it.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sowmyancs/archive/2008/10/26/best-practices-sharepoint-object-model-for-performance-tuning.aspx

PPT vs PPTX Search behaviour in SharePoint

Recently, I got a mail from my collegue describing a problem in SharePoint search.

Issue : We have a portal on MOSS 2007. Documents are standard office document types to pdf etc. I have a very unique situation during a search. Find attached ppts. One is pptx, and other ppt ( 97- 2003) , content wise both are same. When searching for “Case study I” it lists both ppt’s, but when searching for autoparts (this autoparts is content within a textboxin the ppt , slide 2), it lists only pptx. I cant figure out the reason for this behavior, any suggestions.
In fact, any keyword provided from the content in slide 2 does not bring the 97-2003 format of ppt


Content Crawling

SharePoint crawling process accesses and parses content and its properties, sometimes called metadata, to build a content index from which search queries can be served.

The result of successfully crawling content is that the individual files or pieces of content that you want to make available to search queries are accessed and read by the crawler. The keywords and metadata for those files are stored in the content index, sometimes called the index. The index consists of the keywords that are stored in the file system of the index server and the metadata that is stored in the search database. The system maintains a mapping between the keywords, the metadata associated with the individual pieces of content, and the URL of the source from which the content was crawled.

Lets come to the issue ...

Crawling content is sucessful incase of PPTX since Office 2007 uses New file formt called Office XML format which has lot of benefits one among them is effective search when compared to other previous MS office formats.
Textbox content are also stored as part of XML which was not available in the previous formats.

SharePoint 2010 prelim system requirements

Do you know, SharePoint 2010 will require 64 bit OS.

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.
SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

Read more from here

Nice to read how MS folks give demo

Hide Blogger Navigation bar

I got a mail from anonymous reader how to hide the blogger navigation bar in blog site. Even though I'm feeling lazy I thought of writing reply to him.

Its very simple open the layout goto edit html then just add

#navbar-iframe { display:block }

before the "< / style>". thats it.

Hi....After long time

Well... Its quite long time since I visited blogger.
I was totally occupied with personal and professional work.
One big change in life, I'm no more single got married. Everything is different and enjoyable now.
Hope will keep posting...

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