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Does this sound familiar? Someone at your company organized files by year, then someone else came along and reorganized everything by department. Now nobody knows which folder holds what, and everyone’s just guessing. This happens all the time with file organization, it’s one of the biggest reasons SharePoint pros like me have been pushing metadata instead of folders. But here’s
Microsoft just rolled out a brand-new column type in SharePoint Lists and Microsoft Lists called the quick steps column — and it changes everything about how end users can interact with their data. No JSON. No code. Just buttons. If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might remember my post from 2018 about creating a button in
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In SharePoint back in the old days, there used to be a way to have fields/columns that were required for documents, and when a single document was uploaded, the user was prompted to fill in those required fields. As you may have noticed, in SharePoint Online, documents can be easily uploaded and bulk uploaded without anything prompting you or preventing
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One of the most common questions I’ve ever gotten in my ten years using SharePoint is: “How can I set a certain permission on a specific view or column (field)?” In this blog post, I will start with a couple of very simple ways to do this, which can easily ramp up to some more fancy / tricky ways. This
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