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Have you ever wanted to have a nice pretty button, right on the row of one of your list or library items in SharePoint, and that button does something custom? Out of box, there’s a column called “Edit”, and you can add that to your view, and it gives you a quick way to get to the edit page with
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This week, I’m doing a new presentation that teaches a new way to implement a standard approval workflow in your organization, with the ability to use it for many different approval processes very easily, with little re-work each time there is a new type of request form to create. Here’s the abstract: Creating an Approval Workflow & Interface Approvals are
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Do you ever email a Word document to someone outside of your company, have them fill it in, and email it back to you? This appears to be a very common occurrence. The main problem with this, is that it’s very inefficient. When the document is emailed back, then the recipient has to spend time getting the data they need
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In the past couple of weeks, I’ve gotten various workflow questions in email and in comments on my blog. In this week’s episode, I will go over the following questions, which apply to SharePoint on-premises AND Office 365. Question 1: Is it possible to create a workflow (either out of the box or with SPDesigner) that runs monthly on the
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What is lazy approval? It is the ability to reply to an approval email with the word “Approved” or “Rejected”, without need for the approver to go to a site in SharePoint. With the mobile workforce, this is a feature that is in high demand, for people to quickly be able to read an email and approve or reject instantaneously.
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This is a topic that I’m being asked about more and more frequently, so that’s a great reason to write a post! There are issues that crop up, multiple annoying authentication prompts, and even issues and errors with MS Office (and InfoPath) integration with SharePoint. The best part about this browser setting, is that it gets rid of your authentication
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This is a very simple trick, and it can be done with any version of SharePoint such as 2007, 2010, or Office 365. I see a lot of companies send out newsletters to their employees, and sometimes they actually pay for services such as MailChimp or Constant Contact, in order to send out those newsletters. In this post, I’ll show
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