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How would you like to have a nice pretty web part on the home page of each of your sites, showing a dynamic list of the people who are in the owners group for that site? This is a great idea, because it gives the site users a quick reference list so that they know who to contact if they
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STOP USING INFOPATH In business forms, a common requirement is to pre-populate a people picker control, such as to default to the name of the currently logged in user, which would then allow them to pick someone else if needed. For example, a secretary could fill out a travel request for her boss, and in the “Traveler” people picker, she
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In my latest post called Your Site’s Most Popular Content: Web Analytics Web Part, I introduced the Web Analytics web part, and went over the basic settings. In this post, I’ll show you how to take that same set of results, and personalize it so that it applies to the person currently viewing the page, using SharePoint Designer 2010. Caveat:
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STOP USING INFOPATH This applies to SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, and Office 365 In InfoPath, there’s a way to create a button that will create a new SharePoint site. First I’ll go through the steps on how to do it, and then the WHY, and how it could be useful. Open a new form in design mode. In the Fields
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In SharePoint 2010, you may have noticed the button at the top right corner of all of the pages, called “I Like It”. This button basically just adds a tag (I Like It) to the item, but it’s not readily apparent WHY you would want to use that button. You can go to your My Site profile, and click the
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