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Hello SharePointers ;), Here is another quick finding which I just thought should be shared to save someone precious time. If you are dealing with SharePoint 2013 search and Result sources, you must try to test the query template before saving it. If you are not able to see any results instead just a red error saying below text don't get scared I have quick solution for you. “The Search display templates are not present on this site collection. To add them, you need to activate the “Search Server Web Parts and Templates” feature on the Site Collection Features page. Display Error: The display template had an error. You can correct it by fixing the template or by changing the display template used in either the Web Part properties or Result Types. Template ‘~sitecollection/_Catalogs/masterpage/DisplayTemplates/System/Control_QueryBuilderPreview.js’ not found or has sytax errors. (Load Template: ) ” You must get frustrated because your search is properly configured, its crawling the ...

Hi Guys, If you are searching for a tag icon which can be used to show few keywords on any page. Then this is the place where you can find a very simple trick to generate it with in few minutes. The icon created using this CSS trick has feature that it can take dynamic width based upon the text width. Below image is the example how it will rendered:     Click here for the Demo . Basics: Pure CSS post tags uses at least 2 CSS tricks such as CSS triangles and CSS circles . For CSS triangles you need to manipulate borders of an element that has zero height and width. CSS circle is simpler. All you need is a square element with rounded corners set to at least half the size of the element. The border radius will then merge into a circle. HTML I usually markup tags with unordered list. So the markup is fairly simple: <ul class="tags"> <li>CSS</li> <li>HTML</li> <li>Mohit</li> <li>Vashishtha</li> <li>SharePo...

Hi Guys, It was really interesting to work with my latest client. They had an very interesting and innovated idea to automate their manual file approval process.  The requirement was to create a multistage state machine workflow where users have privilege to approve and reject documents with some comments. It was very interesting to work with end client(as they them self don't know what they actually want). I will not go deep into the workflow but surly will come back with another post explaining it. This post is more about a requirement which I faced during the development of the workflow. Just wanted to share the design of the Workflow: Requirement:   As a user, I should have receive an email from workflow with custom subject having document name embedded to the subject where I can directly do some action like approve/reject or comment on the document. I should see a button in email "Open this task" which will redirect me to the page where I can take actions. It looks b...