Kanban Board in SharePoint 2013

Hey Friends,

I have a very easy way to create a Kanban Board in SharePoint.

I have tried it using SharePoint 2013

To do this Click Settings--> Add an App --> Task List. Give the list a name and url, and click Ok.
Once you have a task list, to create a few tasks - one for each status . when you are done, you should have something like this:




Next, create views for each column that will be on the Kanban Board. You many want to give some thought as to what the columns will be, but for this demo, I chose views named 'Not Started' , 'In Progress' and 'Recently Completed'. Tasks with a defered or waiting status will be considered 'In Progress', To do this, follow these steps:

Click List -> Create View -> Standard View
Enter 'Not Started' as a view name.
Uncheck all columns except for task name.
For sort, Choose Priority and the Due Date
For Filter, Check 'Show item only when the following is true'.
Set'Show items when column' status is equal t Not Started
Repeat for each view, changing the name and filters appropriately.
For the 'Recenlty Completed' view, sort by Modified instead of 'Due Date'

Create the Kanban Board

To visualize all of these in columns, create a new page and then add each view in a table.
To do this, follow these steps:

Create a New Page
Enter the Page Name and click OK
Click insert and drop down on a Table to create a 3 column table.


Click inside the first column and click insert -> Existing List
Choose the Task List you created (or the default one) and clicking 'Add'
Drop down on the web part menu and choose 'Edit Web part'
Choose The 'Not Started' view and click 'Ok'
Enter 'Not Started' for the Task Name
Repeat for each column , choosing the appropriate view.
For In Progress and Completed, also choose 'No Toolbar'
At the End you have something that looks somewhat like this

How Crawl and Indexing works in SharePoint?

Remember - For Search to work, SharePoint would first Index the Content Sources.

Main thing is that it can index, it can crawl anything stored in a server, in any format PDF, Zip, word, excel , txt, HTML, RTF, MS-Office etc. But to index the content other than office or Microsoft the index process is little more complicated but interesting. But the initial or the process is same for all. So let’s have a look on it.

1) When the scheduler for the crawl or index run, it will search for every place you have defined or what you called it a content source.

2) When it find a file in that, it will look on it extension. It will check in SharePoint SSP whether the type is defined to be indexed or not.

3) Now when the SharePoint confirms of file type it will look for a software/Ifilter to read this file. Ifilter is a software which will read a file. Every file need its own ifilter.

4) If SharePoint finds a ifilter for it. It will start opening this file and start scanning the file. It will remove certain words that are not required in search or not need to be indexed ex: 1 ,2 numerals etc.

5) After scanning the whole file it will index the content in index file with the pointer of name and location of the file.

6) Once a file is completed with full process. It will start for next file and with the same process as above.

Now to search or index any file of our use like PDF etc. we need to install the ifilter of every such types, which do not come by default. We can also put the images of such file type in SharePoint images file(12 hive) so that in search document come with their images. 

- Blog Credit
Ashish Banga

How Search Works in the Back End

Hey Friends, 

Very Basic, yet very Important Blog..

How Search Works?

a) When a user enter any query in the search column of a page. Web service of a web server will get this request.

b) Web server will send this request to search server/service. If in a farm webserver and search server lies in same server. Web service will send request to search service in same server itself.

c) Search server will look for that query in it index files.

Note: Index files are propagated to searc*h server after the indexing/crawl done by index server and propagated to search server at this default location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Data\Office Server\Applications. It can be changed acc to requirement.

Indexing/crawling concept can be check at my blog: How crawl works in SharePoint-how indexing work-basic concept

d) If search server get the result of the query in the index file.

e) It will pick the result of documents ,images etc. from the SQL , NAS etc.

f) Stream of result are provided in XML format to the Web service(web server).

g) Web service will convert the xml to html and return the result back to the client.