Editing the results page of a enterprise search centre

Today i was tasked with editing the search results page in our enterprise search centre.  I'd noticed before that the results page doesn't contain a ribbon or even the site actions menu.  I didnt really take any notice before as i hadnt any need for either.  However when i came to edit this page i was stumped.  how can i get the page into edit mode so i can make changes to the search results web part.

A quick google search provided me with the solution.  Simply append the following value to the url of the search results page

?ToolPaneView=2

so your url might look something like this

http://somedomain.com/SearchCentre/Pages/peopleresults.aspx?ToolPaneView=2

Hope this helps someone.

Changing the Title Column to something more relevant in a content type

Today i was tasked with creating a custom content type for a calibration system we are putting together.  I didnt want the default Title column so i decided to rename it to something more relevant.  I needed to rename the column to Company Name.  After some research it seems this is possible. Simply reference the column (s) in your custom content type



<FieldRef Name="LinkTitle" ID="{82642ec8-ef9b-478f-acf9-31f7d45fbc31}" DisplayName="Link Company Name" Sealed="TRUE"/>

<FieldRef Name="LinkTitleNoMenu" ID="{bc91a437-52e7-49e1-8c4e-4698904b2b6d}" DisplayName="Link No Menu Company Name" Sealed="TRUE"/>

<FieldRef Name="Title" ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" DisplayName="Company Name" Sealed="TRUE"/>

One thing to remember is to set the inherit property of the custom content type to false


<ContentType ID="0x0100a6669fd796344f1c8e02cbc9a42e7b37"
               Name="Calibration Equipment Contact"
               Group="Custom Content Types"
               Description="Contact type used for the calibration system"
               Inherits="FALSE"
               Version="0">

Add CSS / JavaScript to custom Publishing Page layout

Ever wondered how to add css / Javascript into a custom publishing page layout.  I did!!!!  Just add the PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead content placeholder tag and voila!!!!


<asp:Content ContentPlaceholderID="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server">
<style type="text/css">
  //some css
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
 //some js
</script>
</asp:Content>

Invalid Associated Content Type

Recently I have been working on a project creating custom publishing page content types and layouts in Visual Studio.  All seemed fine, the deployment went as expected and off I went to create my new page based on the custom content type / page layout I had created. After selecting the content type from the menu I was redirected to the create page when i noticed that the page layout option was preceded with the words "(invalid Associated Content Type)".  Having never seen this before I was at a lost.  I did a quick retract and deploy to see if something had gone wrong during the deploy to no avail.  Being a bit lost at this point i fired up chrome and copied the error message into google.  A quick scan of a few websites revealed my problem.  It seems you need to reference the content type in the content type like so:-

<FieldRef ID="{c042a256-787d-4a6f-8a8a-cf6ab767f12d}" Name="ContentType" />

A quick redeploy and test verified that this did indeed solve my problem.  Don't ask me why!!!!!!