Microsoft Flow Virtual Conference
Microsoft’s virtual conference is tomorrow, 12/12! And it’s all about Microsoft Flow!
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Business Solution: New Hire Onboarding
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
Read moreInfoPath– Getting the “Signature”
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
Read moreWorkflow–How to Set Task Fields
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
Read moreVideo Demos of My InfoPath Approval Process and Workflow
STOP USING INFOPATH You may have seen my webinars or presentations about approval processes in SharePoint, or my rants about the difference between assigning tasks and sending emails. On our weekly SharePoint Shop Talk conference call, I did a couple of demos recently, showing the way I create an approval workflow using InfoPath and a SharePoint Designer workflow. Each of
Read moreSharePoint Designer Workflow Tasks and InfoPath 2010
This post applies to SharePoint enterprise version and Office 365. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article for the The Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog. Some of you may have heard my rants about how keeping the approval process inside InfoPath is a better method than assigning task through workflows, because then your data is all over the
Read moreFree Webcast–What Type of Approval Process to Use?
In two weeks, on July 20th, I’ll be doing a free online webcast with Idera! The gist is that I’ll show several different methods of approval ranging from InfoPath forms to inserting signatures, and will talk about their pros and cons. The presentation is called: Form Approval Process: Best Practices July 20, 2011, 12pm CST In your company, forms are
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