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STOP USING INFOPATH Do you want people to be able to quickly fill in a form on your site, over and over again? One option for this has always been datasheet view, but sometimes you have a more complex form. In this post, I’ll show how you can create a button that will save the current record and immediately go
Thought I’d kick the tires on PerformancePoint in SharePoint 2013 today, and share with you the steps I had to take to make it usable. In Central Administration, in the list of service applications, click on the PerformancePoint Service application. (assuming you already installed this service app) Click PerformancePoint Service Application Settings – type your unattended service account, in my
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If you’re not aware yet, the upcoming version of SharePoint (2013) does not include a design view in SharePoint Designer anymore, which means no more no-code data view web parts. SSRS reports are a great replacement for the data view web part in many cases. In this post, I’ll show you how to create a conditionally formatted list of tasks
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STOP USING INFOPATH You can add real digital certificates to your InfoPath forms, but there are a few problems with them: They are not compatible with browser-based forms They don’t collect any real data that you can do anything with. So, for most clients I work with, they don’t need to have “real” certificates involved, and simply need to capture
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Jennifer Mason and I created a series of videos for beginners, to explain permissions in SharePoint. Now that the series is complete, here are all of the links to our posts. Understanding Permissions in Office 365: The Basics – by Jennifer Video 1: An Overview Of Permissions Video 2: Creating New Users And Granting Them Access Video 3: Introduction To
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How would you like to have a nice pretty web part on the home page of each of your sites, showing a dynamic list of the people who are in the owners group for that site? This is a great idea, because it gives the site users a quick reference list so that they know who to contact if they
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The basis for today’s blog post is regarding some work I’ve been doing with a client and the Microsoft Productivity Hub (here’s a description of it). The Productivity Hub is great because it gives the enterprise users a one stop place to go to for self-service training on many different Microsoft products. The client wanted to provide end users a
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