Monthly Archives: February 2015

Speaking at SharePoint Evolution Conference

This April, I’m very excited to be invited again to speak at the SharePoint Evolution Conference in London.  This is the largest SharePoint conference in the world in 2015! There really is no conference like this one.  Besides the fact that it’s just awesome and it brings together the top experts in the world, the conference also provides attendees with

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Content Search Web Part with Query String

In many SharePoint solutions, Query String URLs are very useful in being able to create something like a page or dashboard that displays different content depending on a value used in the URL of the page.  I decided that I wanted to create a web part on each customer site on our internal SharePoint site, to show all documents related

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Rackspace Sponsoring SharePint at SPTechCon

This evening, February 10, Rackspace will sponsor a party! Here’s how it’s going to work… At 6:45, there will be an local (Austin, San Antonio, Houston) SharePoint User Group meeting with an Ask the Experts Panel, in the Wedgewood Ballroom here at the conference hotel.  Everyone is invited. During this meeting, Rackspace will be handing out SIXTY (60) “Golden Tickets”. 

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Mimicking Column Security

One of the most common questions I’ve ever gotten in my ten years using SharePoint is: “How can I set a certain permission on a specific view or column (field)?” In this blog post, I will start with a couple of very simple ways to do this, which can easily ramp up to some more fancy / tricky ways.  This

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