The New "SPField.JSLink" property in SharePoint 2013

A New property "JSLink" of SPField has been Introduced in SharePoint 2013 with which you can now Control the Rendering (the presentation and validation) of any SPField (Custom or Out-of-box). 

You can Control the Rendering of any field in the List form and in the Views simply via assiging Custom JavaScript to the SPField.JSLink property of the that field."SPField.JSLink" property lets you specify any external JS file Containing any Client Rendering logic for a field type.

This property is available for Out-of-box Listview\Dataview webparts Where you simply set the property without modifying the webpart in SharePoint designer.So In addition to “Xsl Link” (Used to apply an external XSL to the listview webpart) that was available in Webpart properties in previous versions of SharePoint, you now have another option called “Js Link” where you can refer External JavaScript file to be used for the listview webpart. Just to be clear by external I mean a separate file not within the listview webpart. This can be uploaded to your Site asserts library or anywhere in your SharePoint site.

Edit the Listview Webpart's properties with “Edit Web Part” as shown in picture below.



Next in Webpart properties on right expand the last section “Miscellaneous” and scroll down. You would find “Js Link” as last option in Miscellaneous section.

What happened to SharePoint workspaces in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint workspaces is depreciaded but not Dead! You can Continue using it to sync SharePoint libraries and lists, including content hosted on SharePoint 2013 servers.

SharePoint 2013 sites don't provide direct access to SharePoint Workspace. There's no Site Actions menu, or Sync to SharePoint Workspace buttons on the ribbon. As a result, to create a SharePoint workspace from one of these sites, you must start in the SharePoint Workspace Launchbar, and directly reference the URL of the document library.

Additionally, because of a design change in SharePoint Server 2013 libraries, you must also install a SharePoint Workspace 2010 Update in order to sync these libraries in a SharePoint workspace.

To learn more about creating SharePoint workspaces from the SharePoint Workspace Launchbar, see Creating a SharePoint Workspace. 

You must know that SkyDrive Pro 2013 is the new Microsoft Office standard for syncing your SharePoint SkyDrive and SharePoint 2013 libraries to your computer.Start getting use to it.

New Features in SharePoint 2013 Developer Dashboard

In SharePoint 2013 there is an Interactive addition in the new Developer Dashboard with which you can now View ULS logs (under a dedicated tab) for particular request.No more running around the admin teams or getting to SharePoint servers for ULS logs that you need.

Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2013 improved to provide more information in more accurate way to track and debug issues with page rendering time.

• Running in separate window to avoid affecting rendering of actual page
• Detailed request information per page with chant view
• Dedicated tab for ULS log entries for particular request
• Additional detailed information included for request analyzing
• Works by using dedicated WCF service (diagnosticsdata.svc)
• You can enable (On) it or disable it (Off) by using  Powershell [Ondemand option is deprecated in SharePoint 2013]
• Turn Off by default
• Depends on "Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application" so make sure this service is created [Make sure Its job Timers are running]

List of SharePoint 2013 Service Applications

• SharePoint 2013 - Service Applications
  • Access Services
  • Access Services 2010
  • App Management Service
  • Business Data Connectivity Service
  • Excel Services Application
  • Machine Translation Service
  • PerformancePoint Service Application
  • Managed Metadata Service Application
  • Search Service Application
  • Secure Store Service
  • User Profile Service Application
  • Visio graphics Service
  • Word Automation Services
  • Work Management Service Application

Web Analytics in SharePoint 2013

The new Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 runs different analytics jobs to analyze content in the search index and user actions that were performed on a site to identify items that users perceive as more relevant than others.

The new functionality for displaying content recommendations based on usage patterns uses the information from the analyses. By including recommendations on a page, you can guide users to other content that may be relevant for them. For example, you can guide users to popular items in a category or let them know that users who viewed this item also viewed another item.

The search recommendations framework works in the following way:

* User actions produce usage events. When users interact with a SharePoint Server 2013 website — for example, when they click a link, press a button, or view a document — their actions are stored as usage events.

* Usage events are counted and analyzed. The recommendations algorithm in the Analytics Processing Component counts and analyzes the usage events.

*  Information is added to the index. After processing in the Analytics Processing Component, the information is added to the search index and the Reporting database.

You can use search recommendations to do the following:

Add Recommended Items and Popular Items Web Parts to a site. In SharePoint Server 2013, you can display recommendations on a site by adding one or more Recommended Items Web Parts. You can configure the Web Part to display recommendations for the document or item that a user is viewing. For example, these recommendations can be displayed under the heading Users who viewed this document also viewed.

You can use the Popular Items Web Part to display the most popular items that satisfy a set of criteria. For example, these recommendations can be displayed under the heading
Most popular items in this category.
Get insights through reports. Information about usage events is displayed in Excel reports. You can use the reports to view user statistics to understand the traffic pattern on a website.

Act on insights. Based on the information in the reports, you can make decisions about how to fine-tune the website.



Monitor changes. The reports are updated based on the changes that are made, and you can monitor the effect of the changes.

Refiners and Faceted navigation SharePoint 2013

Refiners and Faceted Navigation
 
Refiners are based on managed properties from the search index. Managed properties represent the specifications of the items in the catalog-enabled library or list — for example, Author, Date, Color, or Product Category. In a catalog scenario, you can add a Refinement Panel Web Part to a category page so that users can narrow the content as they browse through different pages.For example, in an Internet business scenario in which a catalog of mobile telephones is displayed, the managed property Color is set as a refiner. When a user views all mobile telephones in the catalog, all available colors are displayed in the Refinement Panel Web Part. When a user clicks a specific color, such as Gray, only mobile telephones with the color Gray are displayed. Similarly, in the scenario in which company events are displayed, the managed property Date is set as a refiner. In the Refinement Panel Web Part, users can see for which dates events are scheduled. When they click a particular date, they refine the results so that only events scheduled to occur on that date appear.

By using faceted navigation, you can configure different refiners for different terms in a term set. For example, in an Internet business scenario in which a product catalog is displayed, you can set the managed property Screen size as refiner for the term Computer, and the managed property Megapixels as refiner for the term Cameras. The faceted navigation guides users to content that is relevant for each specific category, and makes it easier and faster to browse through catalog content.

List of New WebParts Introduced in SharePoint 2013

Serach WebParts
- Content Search Web Part (CSWP)
- Articles
- Catalog-Item Reuse
- Items from a Catalog
- Items Matching a Tag
- Pictures
- Popular Items
- Recently Changed Items
- Recommended Items

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