SharePoint – Page 7 – Thomas Maeder

As the SharePoint 2010 social features are limited, either custom code or a 3rd party add-on is necessary. Here a nice post about Extending SharePoint 2010 Social Features with custom code.

People Search, Search, SharePoint

The number of results shown in the SharePoint search refinement panel can be configured through the accuracy index

In some cases the default settings for the refinement panel are not suitable. This is also true for the accuracy index which basically defines how many results are considered for the filter options in the refinement panel. Find out how the customize the accuracy index here:

http://www.sharepointanalysthq.com/2011/05/search-refinement-accuracy-index-in-sharepoint-2010/

Activity Feed, SharePoint

Extending the SharePoint activity feed with custom activities

The out of the box activity feed of SharePoint can be extended with custom activities. These activities will then also show up in the My Newsfeed on the My Site.

http://weshackett.com/2011/06/extending-the-activity-feed-with-enterprise-content/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff426881.aspx

http://www.nerdonarock.com/2011/11/03/adding-custom-activityevents-to-the-newsfeed-with-activitymanager-and-event-receivers-in-sharepoint-2010-mysites/

http://bramdejager.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/extending-the-my-site-activity-feed-with-external-blog-posts-bram-de-jager-sharepoint-saturday-2012.pptx