The Open Group Event @ Austin (July 18-21, 2016)

When it comes to Enterprise Architectures, what does it mean to be "open"? In the technology industry, often we hear about things such as "open standards" or "open source" but what does open mean in each context and why are those differences important?

This event will focus on how organizations can use openness as an advantage and how the use of both open standards and open source can help enterprises support their digital business strategies. Sessions will look at the opportunities, advantages, risks and challenges of openness within organizations.

Keynote sessions will include:

The Future of Business Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities (Jeff Scott - President - Business Innovation Partners)

ArchiMate® 3.0 A New Standard for Architecture (Iver Band - Enterprise Architect - Cambia Health Solutions, Mark Lankhorst - Managing Consultant and Service Line Manager - BIZZdesign)

Driving IT Strategic Planning at ExxonMobil with IT4ITTM (Rick Solis, IT Business Architect - ExxonMobil Global Services Co. )

For details regarding fees, agenda, other information and registration, please use following URL

SharePoint 2013 - Opening Search results in new tab/window

In SharePoint 2013, we can use Search Center site to show/display SharePoint search results.

Each search result has 3 parts -

• Heading (which acts as URL/link)
• Description
• Actual URL

We can click on the heading which is actually a hyperlink to go to the search result destination. By default, the search result is opened in same window if we click on hyperlink. If you would like to open the search result in a new window, then it can be achieved by customizing the search results display template. Here are the steps for same - 

• Go to Site Settings (You should have Site Collection Administrator permission).
• Go to section Web Designer Galleries.
• Click on Master pages and page layouts.
• A document library will open. Go to folder Display Templates --> Search
• Find following file in the folder - Item_CommonItem_Body.html
• Check-out the file and edit in any text editor.
• Find following line of text - 

var titleHtml = String.format('<a clicktype="{0}" id="{1}" href="{2}" class="ms-srch-item-link" title="{3}" onfocus="{4}" {5} {6}</a>',

Add target="_blank" between {5} and {6}. After modification, it will look like this

var titleHtml = String.format('<a clicktype="{0}" id="{1}" href="{2}" class="ms-srch-item-link" title="{3}" onfocus="{4}" {5} target="_blank">{6}</a>',

• Save the file and upload it back to same location from where it was downloaded.
• Check-in and Publish the file.
• Make sure to publish as a major version. In the past, we have faced problem in this template getting applied to other users without major version being published.

Perform a search on the search center site and click on any of the search results. The hyperlinks will now open in new tab/window.

Hope this helps !!!