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In SharePoint 2013 and Office 365, there is no more design view in SharePoint Designer, and of course InfoPath is slowly being depreciated between now and 2023. Without these tools, how do we go about creating business solutions easily like we have been doing for years? I’m not a programmer, and I know that most of my audience here… you’re
In SharePoint 2013 and Office 365, there are a couple of pretty useful new web part properties that I would like to point out. When inserting an “app part” on a page (a list or library web part), there is a Miscellaneous section in the web part property toolpane. Insert a list or library (app) as a web part on
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Every Wednesday at 11 AM Central time, some colleagues from Rackspace and I do a live YouTube / Google Hangout broadcast called SharePoint Power Hour. Recently, I did a series of videos where I outline a single business process in detail. I decided that a New Hire Onboarding process is a very common scenario, so that’s what I decided to
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Finally! It can be done with a SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow! This is something that I’ve been wanting to be able to do for YEARS, and now it’s possible… and I’m just now blogging about it. No, this can’t be done in any previous versions unless you go buy a 3rd party tool or get a dev to write something
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Back in 2011, I wrote a post Click to Copy List Item to New. I’ve had several requests for a re-write of this for 2013. Actually, this method I’m going to show you can be done in 2010, 2013 and Office 365. In this concept, I’ll show you how to create a workflow that simply creates a new item and
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Someone recently had a question on one of my workflow blog posts. The goal is to set a deadline of the 14th of the month for one document type, and the 29th of the month for another type. This is going to entail using a workflow to figure out what the create date is, and then assign a due date
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On April 17th, I presented Seven Pro Tips to Become a Workflow Rock Star at the live 24 hour conference called SP24. This conference is now planning an encore performance called “SP24 Rewound”, which will take place on May 14-15, in reverse order from the original. The whole session agenda is here. My session will be at 3PM central on
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