SharePoint 2010 Translation "Gem"

We'll be releasing the FC.ImageSearch for SharePoint 2010 product also in German. While testing we recognized this very innovative translation of a list column name:
 
English: "CheckedOutUserId"
 
German: "ID des Benutzers, der das Element ausgecheckt hat"
 
Perfect down to the punctuation with the comma after "Benutzers". ROTFLMAO :-D
 
Hey, whoever translated that column name, you have a career opportunity: you should switch jobs and start writing books rather than technical documentation.

Published: Oct-27-10 | 0 Comments | Link to this post

More "Site Assets" issues

Haileselassi!
 
While we're finishing the port of our FC.ImageSearch product to SharePoint 2010 we're coming across a number of flaws with the search result mechanism and especially the "Site Assets" library, which is a new feature in the commercial version of SharePoint 2010.
 
What's wrong with this picture?
 
Site Assets search result data 
 
sitename
Well, the "Site Assets" part (marked in yellow in the screenshot above) is not a sub site but in fact the name of the library. So, the real sitename should be http://2k8r2x64sp10.
 
What's worse is that if you have a search result that is stored within a folder of a library then even the folder name will be concatenated to the sitename!
 
contentclass
As written in the previous blog post, the Site Assets library has a BaseTemplate and RegistrationID of "851". Well, that lack of better naming exists in the search result as well: while the Picture library has a proper contentclass of type "STS_ListItem_PictureLibrary", the Site Assets library is of contentclass "STS_ListItem_851".
 
picturethumbnailurl
Well, as you can see there are no thumbnails available for the images in a Site Assets library. Of course, that is wrong: as you probably noted, the Site Assets library absolutely contains the usual thumbnail and web preview images in the "_t" and "_w" folders. The links just don't get carried over to the search result.
 
 

Published: Oct-24-10 | 0 Comments | Link to this post

Site Assets library has RegistrationID 851

In case you haven't noticed: if you modify the Ribbon and think your modifications are fine by attaching to RegistrationID 101 (Document Library) then you won't have them show up for the Site Assets library, which has its own RegistrationID of 851.
 
I couldn't find the msdn entry for it. I am sure it's there as documentation is supposed to be sooo much better for SP 2010 (pun intended ;-)
 
Well, once I had the RegistrationID and did a search specifically for it I found 1 (ONE) page that had this info and also a comprehensive list for RegistrationID's: "Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes".
 
I love the SharePoint community! Otherwise half the solutions out there wouldn't exist.

Published: Oct-03-10 | 0 Comments | Link to this post