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Problematic behavior of web.AddSupportedUILanguage(int lcid) in SharePoint 2013 and 2016

Every now and then, an API or a method call comes along, that you need to be very careful with. “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web.AddSupportedUILanguage()” seems to be one of them. In this post, I’ll try and document my findings and workarounds for said method!  Issues and solutions Posts Related to “Problematic behavior of…Continue reading Problematic behavior of web.AddSupportedUILanguage(int lcid) in SharePoint 2013 and 2016

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How to fix Twitter embed in SharePoint

Twitter embed has a stupid, built-in failure condition: if the User Agent contains IE10 or older, the embed script will not load. This causes SharePoint embeds to fail. This post describes how to fix that.

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How to show a Classic SharePoint page in dialog mode (without SharePoint’s full-blown chrome)

Classic SharePoint actually has a very handy piece of functionality, using which you can hide most of the SharePoint chrome (like header and navigation), and hence make the page a lot sleeker. This is especially useful for showing the contents in a dialog window – which SharePoint also supports natively…Continue reading How to show a Classic SharePoint page in dialog mode (without SharePoint’s full-blown chrome)

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Using “DetectedLanguage” to return only localized results from SharePoint Search index

Localization and targeting of content in multilingual SharePoint installations is always an issue. SharePoint offers a multitude of ways to profile content based on user language (or other properties), but none of the solutions are foolproof. This post describes how to fetch only localized results from the SharePoint Search index,…Continue reading Using “DetectedLanguage” to return only localized results from SharePoint Search index

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Alternative Languages in SharePoint forcing the (cumbersome) use of localized Managed Properties

Localization and multilingual environments in SharePoint are an endless source of interesting issues and blog post topics. In one case, we had a tenant created originally in English, and a site collection created in Finnish. In this particular case, SharePoint somehow messed up the language settings and ended up requiring…Continue reading Alternative Languages in SharePoint forcing the (cumbersome) use of localized Managed Properties