Monday, June 15, 2020

SharePoint - Global Related Words


The following are SharePoint Dictionary Words of the Day Related to Global:

Global master pages

Central master pages that are utilized by sites, regardless of which site definition the site is created from.



Globally reusable workflow

Workflow that most commonly is utilized as a workflow template that is reusable for all the sites in a site collection.

SharePoint - Ghosting Related Words


The following are SharePoint Dictionary of the Day Words Related to Ghosting:

Ghosted

Document whose content is stored in a location other than a content database. When a document is ghosted, the front-end web server determines the location of the content utilizing the setuppath value for the document.



Ghosting pages

Known as uncustomized pages, while unghosted pages are known as customized pages. Modifying any ghosted page, will show a message such as saving the changes will customize the page so that it is no longer based on the site definition.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

SharePoint - Feature Related Words


The following are SharePoint Dictionary Words of the Day Related to Feature:

Feature

Functionality which can be activated or deactivated at a site, site collection, web application and farm level.



Feature definition

XML fragment which defines a feature and attributes.



Feature identifier

A GUID which identifies a feature that is available in an environment.



Feature property

Property which is associated with an active feature at a particular scope.



Feature scope

Scope at which a feature can be activated or deactivated.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

SharePoint - Full Text Related Words


The following are SharePoint Dictionary Words of the Day Related to Full Text:

Full crawl

Crawl process that indexes all items in a given content source even if the item hasn’t been modified.



Full-text index catalog

Collection of data that is needed to perform queries as the full-text index components and other files are organized in a specific directory structure.



Full-text index component

Set of files which contain index keys which are extracted from a set of items.



Full-text index propagation

Process of propagating a full-text index component.

SharePoint - Federated Related Words


The following are SharePoint Dictionary Words of the Day Related to Federated:

Federated location

A source which returns search results for a given query. The source can from a local search catalog or an Opensearch compliant search engine.



Federated location definition

Configuration settings which describe how to issue a query for a given federated location and then display the search results.



Federation

Issues a query to multiple federated locations designated by federated location definitions which ar utilized to return the results in a single search results page.