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We like to give people the freedom to add content to SharePoint as they wish in most cases, and we like them to be able to add announcements on their site whenever they need to. Do you ever cringe when you look at a SharePoint site, because of some crazy font or ugly colors that were used in the announcements
Forms and security. It is a common requirement to have a form that can be filled out, and when it is submitted, it goes to a location that the form submitter does not have access to. This is tricky because the users need to have contribute access to a list or library in order to create new items in it,
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Yes, it’s sometimes tedious installing and setting up SQL Server Reporting Services on your SharePoint server… but that’s not what this presentation is about. In this presentation at the Birmingham SharePoint user group meeting, I showed that once SSRS is in place, it is easy to create reports based off of SharePoint list data. Here is the list of demos
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STOP USING INFOPATH There are a couple of buttons in InfoPath forms by default called “Save” and “Save As”. I never ever (ever) like to use these, and immediately disable them. I don’t like these buttons because it gives the end users the freedom to save the form with any filename at all, which can make a big mess of
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To wrap up 2011, here are the most popular posts on my blog site. These posts were not necessarily written this year, but they are the ones that received the most comments in 2011. With a total of 865 comments this year, here are the top 10 blog posts: Display a Sub-Site List on a Top Level Site (56) Workflow:
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Last month, our new book hit the shelves! It is called Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step. The book is geared toward beginners, and has very detailed instructions for all of the walk-through steps in the book. Even if you’re not a beginner, there are many tips and tricks that you’ll learn along the
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When assigning tasks in SharePoint workflows, you may have noticed that each task that gets assigned has one field that associates it with the original list or library item where the workflow task came from. You may have noticed the “Related Content” column in a task list. It is just a hyperlink field that links you back to that original
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