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Whenever you are building an intranet solution there is usually a part where you are providing some sort of news solution. Most news solutions will provide some sort of roll-up with the latest news, and they out of the box search capabilities will help you achieving that goal. And whether you are rolling-up news or some other type of pages the odds are you are required to display the article date. ...

As pointed out in my previous post about the Mavention Birthdays building apps are really addicting. So while the Mavention Birthdays app was queued for approval I figured we could extend its functionality a bit by not only showing birthdays but also anniversaries. As SharePoint is providing us with a HireDate field that could (or should) be filled with the hire date for each employee we could use that information to write a query to retrieve all the anniversaries. ...

We just released a new update on the Mavention Profile Completeness app. In this new version it it is now possible to configure the app part so that it will show display names for properties instead of internal names. By displaying the display name of a property it is easier for users to update their profile, as the edit profile page will also show the display values. ...