Lucidworks App Studio
A collection of code snips using Lucidworks App Studio – a modular code framework for developing bespoke, data-anywhere search and discovery web applications.
February 16, 2019 New! Read more »
F-F-F-Fade Away Text …
My favorite way to trim a text element is to fade it away the at end instead tailing it with ellipses. . . because the approach is a more subtle invitation to click for more information and it’s simple to do without a lot of code.
January 24, 2019 Read more »
Embed WordPress blog in site with version control and automated deploy
Here’s one way to embed a WordPress blog into an existing website already managed by a version control system and a continuous deployment service workflow to a cloud server.
January 18, 2019 Read more »
Tile layout webpart for SharePoint documents
Anesthesia subject matter experts needed a good way to show SharePoint 2010 documents in a web part that re-sized with the page, looked good, could show different document groups with different colors and could easily grow or shrink with zero maintenance.
December 26, 2015 Read more »
Start Up Fusion Solr as Non-root User in CentOS 6.6
Starting up Lucidworks Fusion 2.x automatically on a single CentOS 6.6 server is tricky, because the Fusion 2.1 Users Guide assumes you are using Ubuntu Linux and Upstart scripts. On CentOS or Red Hat Linux, you’ll have to roll your own.
December 23, 2015 Read more »
Semaphore 4.x ontology model not flushing properly when published
After prototyping a Smartlogic Semaphore 4.x ontology called “Locations” in a Smartlogic Search Application Framework (SAF) web application, usability feedback resulted in a new, more refined and renamed version of the ontology called “Organizations.” When preparing for go-live, I deleted the Locations ontology and reconfigured the web application for the Organizations ontology, but for some odd reason, the SAF search dialog box continued to autosuggest the Locations terms.
December 12, 2015 Read more »
Lucidworks Fusion 2.1 datasource connector to SQL returns only one document
When working with Lucidworks Fusion 2.1 search, one of the first steps is to index content from a data source. You’ll find it can index just about anything, but when indexing a MS SQL table it might fail silently and not return all documents
December 10, 2015 Read more »
Workaround – Display Tableau dashboard in SharePoint web part
When the business needs to view Tableau dashboards or visualizations in SharePoint 2010, the most complete solution is to install the Tableau Server Service Application into the SharePoint farm. But what if it is not installed or supported on the farm?
January 29, 2013 Read more »
Remove HTML formatting from SharePoint Rich Text Editor content with JavaScript
Most business people avoid managing text in SharePoint 2010’s Rich Text and Enhanced Rich Text editors when they find out they can paste in what they just created in Word.
January 4, 2013 Read more »
Using “Append Text to Query” in Search Core Results
SharePoint Search indexes and returns as much as it can, and it depends on you to filter out what you don’t want.
May 26, 2012 Read more »
Open SharePoint List/Library Link in New Window
Why can’t a SharePoint list/library web part open links in a new window by default? There are several workarounds, but here’s one of the “easy” ones that seems to make sense to site owners.
May 20, 2012 Read more »
Calculated Columns for Cascading Drop-Downs in SharePoint Lists and Libraries
SharePoint list or library users need a simple way to enter data in one column that depends on what was entered in another, but out-of-the-box SharePoint 2007 or 2010 does not support direct cascading functionality.
May 13, 2012 Read more »
Generate a hierarchical XML file from SharePoint list
You need to get data from a SharePoint 2010 list and generate a hierarchical XML file that can be used as a data source for a Flash movie on a site., but the enterprise SharePoint Admins want their platform to stay as out of the box as possible
May 12, 2012 Read more »
Reporting Services web parts on SharePoint page
Adding Report Builder web parts to SharePoint 2010 made the page colorful and intelligent, but the UI lacked a bit. The parts that took up little horizontal space and lots of vertical space looked kind of goofy
May 4, 2012 Read more »
Automatically closing a SharePoint 2010 Edit form opened from a Reporting Services web part
SharePoint 2010 Edit and Display forms can be modified with InfoPath. This opportunity comes with a few new bugs, but the UI and functionality can be compelling.
April 28, 2012 Read more »
Using HTTP-EQUIV to refresh a page
Using an HTTP-EQUIV meta tag is a simple way to automate this thank-you and form refresh process. The InfoPath form’s meta tag just needs to contain an &Source reference back to the original page.
April 27, 2012 Read more »
Access Denied for Visitors on a SharePoint Page with Reporting Services Webpart
If you are working in SharePoint 2010 and discover that users in the Visitors group or All Authenticated Users are unable to open pages that contain a Report Services web part with an Access Denied error.
February 20, 2012 Read more »
Get the BDC Identity value from a SharePoint 2010 External List to SQL Server
Say you have a Reporting Services web part, and you want to change an indicator on the report from red to green with a single click. To do this, without relying on SharePoint Server Admins, build a Visual Studio 2010 C# Express Console Application following the Client Object Model.
February 3, 2012 Read more »