Category Archives: SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 SP1 Workflow Improvements

I installed SP1 on my virtual machine. Yay.  For the workflow stuff though, there’s a bit more that you need to do.  Install KB2799752 (for Service Bus 1.0) and KB2799754 (for Workflow Manager 1.0). Andrew Connell talks all about these steps in his post here.  Also, don’t forget to run the SharePoint PowerShell command register-spworkflowservice after all that is done. 

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Workflow Requirements Gathering Presentation

During our SharePoint Power Hour a couple of weeks ago, I did a presentation on workflow requirements gathering.  Since this video has a couple of associated resources as well, I figured I’d share it with you here, with the documents: Workflow Requirements Gathering Workflow Requirements Document Template- Laura Rogers SharePoint Power Hour Episode 25: Laura Rogers & Workflow Requirements Gathering

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SharePoint 2013 Out of Box Web Parts

To carry on the tradition of my most popular post, which is the list of 2010 web parts, I figured I’d delve into documenting the list of 2013 ones as well.  Here is the extensive list, in order that the web parts are shown in SharePoint, with information about each one.  I’ve also made notes about which ones are available

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Hidden Gem: Color Coded Task Timeline

In SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online, you may have noticed on the About Me page, there is a Tasks link in the Quick Launch.  It takes you to a page that looks something like this: This list of tasks not only shows you your own personal list of tasks, it shows you all tasks from EVERYWHERE IN SHAREPOINT, all rolled

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Web Part: Manager Sees Subordinates Tasks

STOP USING INFOPATH This is an interesting solution that we figured out.  Here’s what the requirements are:  The managers need to see a list in SharePoint of all of the tasks that are assigned to their subordinates.  This is a bit tricky, because the manager field doesn’t exist in tasks.  Also, I didn’t want to do a solution that would

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Task Rollup Calendar

This blog post applies to SharePoint 2010, 2013, and Office 365.  This is enterprise, standard or foundation. This is a cool little trick that Corey Emmons figured out.  Since he doesn’t have a blog, I figured I’d at least document it so that you all can see how smart he is.  The idea is that a task rollup is needed

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Data View Web Part Performance Tuning

In this post, I will show you how to do some performance tuning and troubleshooting with the data view web part in SharePoint 2010.  Please read my previous post called SharePoint Column: Count Related Items, and I’m going to refer to this method as a “reverse lookup”. This post is based on an issue that I came across on a

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