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Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 15: Miscellaneous – Field / Node Functions
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=oITYnKcuWJs:T5NvxYbO108:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/oITYnKcuWJs" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: about 12 hours ago. |
Beware the Ides of March: Live Online Chat with the SharePoint MVP Experts
End User SharePoint
The following MVPs will be sharing their time and expertise with the SharePoint community for our first of what we hope will be several chats: Andrew Connell, Becky Bertram, Brendon Schwartz, Dan Attis, Daniel Larson, Darrin Bishop, John Ross, Matthew McDermott, Mike Oryzak, Paul Galvin, Paul Schaeflein, Randy Drisgill, and Rob Foster.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=wYA_JwaJems:H8083oXiZXk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndU [read].
Posted: about 15 hours ago. |
SharePoint – [Me] = Easy Item Level Security
End User SharePoint
Ever wanted item level security in SharePoint without the headaches? It’s easier than you might think.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=pcSnhG5ud8Q:jLBjzD5h6yk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/pcSnhG5ud8Q" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: 1 day ago. |
Anonymous Access and Security in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
I have a browser-enabled infopath form that needs to allow anonymous submission. Permissions for form libraries do not allow anonymous add only view rights.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=Tfb2Ley3aT8:w95BWorso80:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/Tfb2Ley3aT8" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: 1 day ago. |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 14: Miscellaneous – ddwrt Namespace Functions
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=a89oXynYQMU:tJfN4JPeQec:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/a89oXynYQMU" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 9th '10 |
8 Things to Consider when Implementing SharePoint with Another ECM engine
End User SharePoint
If implementing SharePoint with another ECM solution, it is important to truly identify what role SharePoint will have in the organization to ensure proper planning for the implementation.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=_xJOASTwyLM:uOXGe7V2Pxw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/_xJOASTwyLM" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 8th '10 |
MOSS2007, CSS and you, the Non-Developer – Part 2: the Quicklaunch
End User SharePoint
I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box, generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=_TgBEEUKJMg:xKcA2GBIhUE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/_TgBEEUKJMg" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 8th '10 |
8 More Things You Need to Know about SharePoint
End User SharePoint
You already knew this, but strong user preferences for SharePoint sites translate into value in many ways.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=4LVN_0FNCeQ:XBWRP-XhNOE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/4LVN_0FNCeQ" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday is Coming to Michigan!
End User SharePoint
Our keynote is being given by Rob Collie. He is a Microsoft Program Manager for PowerPivot. He also happens to live in Cleveland. Mark, this guy created PowerPivot! We are indeed lucky.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=p7n_23A2ZhA:P0kN2ODg67k:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/p7n_23A2ZhA" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10 |
The Value of SharePoint – Introduction
End User SharePoint
The value of SharePoint is often best broken down and contextualized by organization, division and department.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=ekGfesBlPLI:rUq28GqKWdI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/ekGfesBlPLI" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10 |
Basic, Beginner Level Content for SharePoint Users
End User SharePoint
I got a question in from Keith this afternoon and it kind of threw me. Here's the question and I'll follow with my response:div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=vv0n7hf2FIY:m90QFZ7-sgg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/vv0n7hf2FIY" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10 |
Best Practices in SharePoint User Management
End User SharePoint
Dux Raymond Sy, author of SharePoint for Project Management, is giving a free webcast next week on “Best Practices in SharePoint User Management“.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=azxcXxNHNMM:HyLRguz9g10:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/azxcXxNHNMM" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 13: Miscellaneous – String Functions
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=4m87oS_-vfw:3kYO7t3xggQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/4m87oS_-vfw" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10 |
Data View Web Part QA
End User SharePoint
There may be a couple of ways to accomplish what you need in your scenario, but the “List Relationships” is not one of them, unfortunately.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=a2oWKQSItb4:IaeHcN3Qe-Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/a2oWKQSItb4" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10 |
jQuery Starter Kit for SharePoint
End User SharePoint
Christophe Humbert and I have been working together for a year, developing and demonstrating ways to enhance the SharePoint interface with jQuery. We have taken the ideas behind those solutions and created an EUSP Live Online Workshop Series: jQuery Starter Kit for SharePoint.
As Christophe says, if you#8217;ve been sitting on the sidelides watching all this [...]div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=w3V4H7hHoCQ:adCCJrqrBts:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http:// [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10 |
SharePoint 2007, CSS and you, the Non-Developer – the Intro
End User SharePoint
I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box, generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=qqSYjlcsNZ4:2jJjhPy1fe8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/qqSYjlcsNZ4" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10 |
Sharepoint Dashboard Filtering Multiple Pivot Tables on Multiple Sheets within One Workbook
End User SharePoint
We needed a SharePoint Dashboard that the end user could select filter criteria once and it would be pushed to all pivot tables on multiple sheets within one workbookdiv class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=RUt4NoXKFss:3JN2JKuyub0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/RUt4NoXKFss" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 3rd '10 |
SharePoint: “Funny how that works, eh?”
End User SharePoint
I gave a presentation to the New York Smalltalk User Group at whichdiv class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=Nl5xLFYFzsU:vg3FY3cwuZU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/Nl5xLFYFzsU" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 3rd '10 |
Final Call: Default Workflows in SharePoint 2007
End User SharePoint
This workshop, Default Workflows in SharePoint 2007, gives you hands-on experience in creating Three-State Workflows and managing Approval/Feedback workflows in SharePoint 2007.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=547coJ9X0Pk:VEfDyMoJXfg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/547coJ9X0Pk" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 3rd '10 |
Live near Seattle? Want some free hardware/software from Microsoft?
End User SharePoint
About this time last year I receive a request form the Usability Study Group at Microsoft to help find people to be part of their usability study. Looks like it’s that time of year again.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=1DZ-yv8D1Vw:SxliTZZtvGU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/1DZ-yv8D1Vw" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 12: Miscellaneous – Person or Group Columns
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=kCCMQM1COhA:84JrswE6VUc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/kCCMQM1COhA" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
How to Motivate Information Workers to Use SharePoint
End User SharePoint
What am I providing in my SharePoint site that will be so enticing, so useful, so exciting, that my potential audience HAS to use my site or they feel they are missing something. What is the incentive for them to use SharePoint?div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=5y_0-M9xrj0:lGxo_MK24Jo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~ [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
Why would you want to use Publishing Sites?
End User SharePoint
The most popular type of site template used in most SharePoint 2007 deployments is the Team Site template.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=3SAmQKLsPiE:72r_jlc2idg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/3SAmQKLsPiE" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
Final Call: Just for SharePoint Site Managers
End User SharePoint
On Tuesday, March 2 at 1:00pm, I am delivering a three session series of EUSP Live Online Workshops, Just for SharePoint Site Managers.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=R0s3cQ7oUfE:pbats9w2ono:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/R0s3cQ7oUfE" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 1st '10 |
Is SharePoint 2010 Relevant?
End User SharePoint
Again, my aim wasn’t to list every possible reason a SharePoint shop would want to upgrade from 2007 to 2010, but simply wet your whistle with an overview of SharePoint 2010’s superior feature set. I highly encourage any organization currently invested in SharePoint 2007 to start considering SharePoint 2010 specifically in respect to their organizations current pain points with 2007. What they will find is that 2010 will address those points nearly line for line.div class="feedflare"
a href= [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 1st '10 |
8 Things SharePoint 2010 Needs to Be a True ECM System
End User SharePoint
The hype cycle has started for the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 and I’m certainly not the only one to get caught up in itdiv class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=I40leiaQFuw:08uRw3Gde3c:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/I40leiaQFuw" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 1st '10 |
Final Call: Manage SharePoint 2007 Site Permissions, Live Online Workshop
End User SharePoint
Our first EUSP Live Online Workshop of the week , Manage SharePoint 2007 Site Permissions, starts Monday at 1:00pm EST. Sharon Richardson, former technical lead for Microsoft in the UK and Europe, will be running a live, hands-on session for beginning and intermediate SharePoint site managers who need a deep dive on configuring security settings [...]div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=AEZpz6q5BQs:QoxzwgK2tUg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedbur [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 28th '10 |
SharePoint Hardball: IE6
End User SharePoint
John Ross, Scott Singleton and I had a twitter thread on IE6 earlier this week. We agreed to have a round table, live online discussion, but that won't happen until next week. In the meantime, I've recreated a portion of the dialog in this video. Have a listen and then register to attend the EUSP Live Online Roundtable on IE6 and SharePoint.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=XAeBpm6evQM:72QyXXzGCjU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 27th '10 |
Thank You EUSP Sponsors, Authors and Supporters
End User SharePoint
A lot of people consider me "Mr. EndUserSharePoint.com", when actually there's a lot more going on behind the scene that you might not think about. I'd like to take a couple minutes to say thank you to the people that really make this site what it is.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=Awu25rXFKr0:pOX0RPHHZ9I:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 26th '10 |
Notes on Running a SharePoint Live Online Event
End User SharePoint
It’s been a month since SharePoint Saturday EMEA and I see more people have “taken the bait” and want to put together their own event. I know two, specifically that are scheduled: Live Online SharePoint Saturday Arabia, March 27th, and Live Online SharePoint Saturday India, April 24th.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=HZDblEMjgn8:PEi2YuC4vRI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 26th '10 |
Download: 2 Hour Demo of SharePoint Interface Enhancements
End User SharePoint
Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint and I co-presented an EUSP Live Online session today, demo-ing dozens of interface enhancements that we will be providing in our EUSP Live Online Workshops, starting next Monday.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=sb55wH3fHTk:VeRpJYaATTA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/sb55w [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 26th '10 |
8 Things You Need to Know about SharePoint Governance
End User SharePoint
A SharePoint Governance model has the following components put in place to guide the development and use of a solution based on SharePointdiv class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=DGBWMMdwG7w:JRguz1rN6MA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/DGBWMMdwG7w" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 26th '10 |
Fabian Williams will Code for Food
End User SharePoint
Ok Fabian, I can help you there. Anyone looking for a SharePoint dev will little to no experience, but who likes to talk a lot at SharePoint conferences, SharePoint Saturday’s or local SharePints, please contact Fabian directly.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=nxpnTFZ75tA:jWa6G_12VTo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 26th '10 |
Login Instructions: Overview of EUSP Workshop Solutions
End User SharePoint
On Friday, February 26, 2010 starting at 12:00 noon, EST, Christophe Humbert and I will be giving a free, EUSP Live Online demo of the solutions we will be presenting in upcoming workshops, Just for SharePoint Site Managers, jQuery Starter Kit for SharePoint and Inline Graphs, Dynamic Charts and Enhanced Gantt Views. I hope you’ll join us just to see what we’re working on.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=YNkWhfwq-ow:sXeDf4JwopE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 26th '10 |
Five Live Online SharePoint Workshops: March 1st – 5th
End User SharePoint
Next week we crank up the EUSP Live Online Workshop Series. It starts on Monday with ‘Manage SharePoint 2007 Site Permissions‘, followed by three days of ‘Just for SharePoint Site Managers‘ , and ending on Friday with Laura Roger’s first session on ‘Make the Most of Data View Web Parts‘.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=O7IGUCxRtIo:J3U_HAN3SGA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 25th '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 11: xsl:value-of
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=kV4Qygnt3so:e3Gx3cb4ZFs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/kV4Qygnt3so" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 25th '10 |
SharePoint Media Center Additional Play Functionality
End User SharePoint
setting up a way to host training related FLV video files on SharePoint and provide a SharePoint list which utilizes sorting, filtering, and grouping on metadata.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=0Rh34BT_OJU:4srAeJMON2U:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/0Rh34BT_OJU" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 24th '10 |
Is SharePoint 2010 Relevant?
End User SharePoint
I’ve stated it publically and I’ll say it again here: I think that most people should keep their head down and concentrate on the 2007 environment.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=FPF3uW3XFNY:w3K6_G3RiZw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/FPF3uW3XFNY" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 23rd '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 10: xsl:choose
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=WfvIGGvAbaM:f8BvS0dhs6Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/WfvIGGvAbaM" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 23rd '10 |
Just for SharePoint Site Managers: Live Online Workshop Series
End User SharePoint
In this series, ‘Just for SharePoint Site Manager’, we’ll give you three hands-on sessions that will implement solutions that can make an immediate difference in your site and how users interact with the information on your site.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=ZlMBentNVc8:zQCHI1eLA_8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserShare [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 23rd '10 |
Free Live Online This Friday: Overview of EUSP Workshop Solutions
End User SharePoint
In preparation for our upcoming EUSP Live Online Workshop Series that starts next week, we’re going to be giving free overview workshops to demo the solutions that will be provided to workshop participants.div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Tue, Feb 23rd '10 |
SharePoint Identity Crisis – Part 4
End User SharePoint
In my experience once you start filling in this role you’ll soon find yourself at the center of attention and all sorts of questions about how SharePoint is going to sure all the organization’s woediv class="feedflare"
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Posted: Mon, Feb 22nd '10 |
The SharePoint Fantasy League
End User SharePoint
I’ve been wracking my brain for a week now and I need your help. If I were to put together a SharePoint Conference and you could see ANYONE in the world talk at the conference, who would it be? No geographic boundries or limitations on travel.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=wQgpHRkipjY:NrcbRA4b3Bw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/En [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 21st '10 |
I love IE6 and here’s why.
End User SharePoint
I started laughing just now as I told my wife what a firestorm a discussion of IE6 brings up. I saw this tweet a couple minutes ago:div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=51mPjXJTcbE:-2g9KXS42Pk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/51mPjXJTcbE" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 20th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday EMEA – 20 Hours of Recordings Available
End User SharePoint
Here it is: all of the recorded sessions from SharePoint Saturday SEMEA are available for download.
They are stored in a .zip format. Extract each recording into a folder on your harddrive. I personally have one called #8220;SPSEMEA#8221;, but you can put them whereever you want. After extracting, move into the top level of each recording [...]div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=NS4VRzFyG6s:alXDTeukekg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 19th '10 |
Adding Custom Actions to the Ribbon UI in SharePoint 2010 Using SharePoint Designer 2010
End User SharePoint
This article is going to group the rest of the options within our Custom Actions drop-down in SharePoint Designer 2010 together, as they are all basically doing the same thing, adding an item to the Ribbon UI, just for different forms (View, Edit, New, and Display).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=kAFvpM0WuQU:SaS7YlORDnY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 19th '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 9: xsl:if
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=lUvaZlItDQI:ucB8yjfqE_Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/lUvaZlItDQI" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 18th '10 |
SharePoint Identity Crisis – Part 3
End User SharePoint
We took the initial step to actually admit there is a crisis. Then we asked of ourselves and our organizations and realized that in concept and in SharePoint terms we can call this person the Business Super User or Super End User for the moment.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=Fy188cCuURw:SMC1_f_xHGc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/En [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 17th '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 8: xsl:sort
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=hv0szwtej7w:5Lqxj-qX3sY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/hv0szwtej7w" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 16th '10 |
A jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (WSS 3.0 and MOSS): Part 5 – the SPArrangeChoices Function
End User SharePoint
You know how the radio buttons or checkboxes on a Choice column in SharePoint always are displayed vertically? You know how much that annoys everyone? Well, I decided to do something about it.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=eMgPFgP97Bg:uB45cPh7APk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/eMgPFgP97Bg" height="1" width="1 [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 12th '10 |
Recordings from SPSEMEA – Marwan Tarek and Ayman El-Hattab
End User SharePoint
His session was done in Arabic, so making it available now is a good warmup for SharePoint Saturday Arabia, coming on March 27, 2010. Also included for download is Marwan Tarek’s session on SharePoint 2010.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=ss0jSHpaLaM:efJRmOASRBQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/ss0jSHpaLaM" heigh [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 12th '10 |
Download from SPTechCon: Create a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center
End User SharePoint
The ‘Create a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center’ session Christophe Humbert and I delivered at SPTechCon yesterday was a fun session. The recording of our session is available for download if you are interested in watching.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=QLxEVysG1Qw:0lUS5Kn00wQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 12th '10 |
SharePoint Identity Crisis – Part 2
End User SharePoint
But as "SharePoint as a Platform" resonates more and more into the business and IT consciousness this role’s name will grow along with all other projections of SharePoint growth.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=u20Ur5T-EEM:68qmXnpleTk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/u20Ur5T-EEM" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 11th '10 |
Quick! Join us for a free online workshop, live from SPTechCon
End User SharePoint
We will start the presentation at 11:30am PST, sharp. You are welcome to attend the session for free. Use the login link below and you be good to go.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=qLliH0ibcw0:OSU_x3w8q7M:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/qLliH0ibcw0" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 11th '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 7: xsl:for-each
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=uC7VRk2FpsE:vtQwL6D7iL0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/uC7VRk2FpsE" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 11th '10 |
Why I participate in SharePoint Saturday
End User SharePoint
I had an interesting conversation this weekend at SharePoint Saturday Indy (for more on that experience see my blog here) the conversation was about me being a "vendor" and actually delivering a presentation that was not vendor focused in nature.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=VR83_ttFyZU:UwXVHN2Vk-k:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 10th '10 |
Free Download: SharePoint 2007 Site Planning Worksheet from SPTechCon
End User SharePoint
I am making the EUSP Site Planning Worksheet available for download. Just because you can’t attend the sessions doesn’t mean you can’t have the resources.div class="feedflare"
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/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/mGsgqnFswsU" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 10th '10 |
Live Blogging from SPTechCon
End User SharePoint
The EUSP Live Twitter Tracker and three channels for live blogging have been activated. You can follow all of the action from the sessions by choosing one or all of the panels to view.
The EUSP Live Twitter Tracker picks up all tweets that include the #SPTechCon hash.
There are three live blogging channels to [...]div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=S4SEKj0y3eM:6FV5JBKv8d8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 10th '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 6: xsl:variable
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=bxoWx308OSA:sYazHiookMI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/bxoWx308OSA" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
Thank you SPTechCon Live Bloggers
End User SharePoint
Once again the SharePoint Community has stepped up when it comes to helping those who can't participate. The live blogging at SPTechCon is done by volunteers who are attending the sessions and want to help those who couldn't come to the conference.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=69xDZbRrEtQ:KU-wKZhji_I:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
My Four Sessions at SPTechCon San Francisco
End User SharePoint
I’m currently in the air, flying to San Francisco for SPTechCon 2010. In addition to coordinating the live blogging sessions, here’s my schedule for the rest of the week. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.div class="feedflare"
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/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/v2Te5Y4Ga7 [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
Recordings from Channel 3 of SharePoint Saturday EMEA Available
End User SharePoint
I was having difficulty getting access to the recordings. When Michael heard, he jumped in, found the recordings and moved them up to public access on the SPSEMEA site.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=-cpyIRl2FTo:G61USTXPXbI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/-cpyIRl2FTo" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
Live from SPTechCon in San Francisco, it’s the EUSP Twitter Tracker!
End User SharePoint
If you missed all the live blogging fun and excitement at SharePoint Conference 2009, we're going to do the same thing at SPTechCon this week. We've got a bunch of people who who will be live blogging the sessions directly from the conference sessions.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=0Bm2tTE87FU:MCT2Vp0Ey3M:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.co [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
Managing SharePoint 2007 Site Permission: Video Download
End User SharePoint
Sharon Richardson of JoiningDots.net delivered a lively EUSP Live Online session this morning on Managing SharePoint 2007 Site Permissions. If you weren’t able to attend the session, we are making it available for download as a live meeting presentation. Download the package and expand it on your local harddrive for viewing.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=-uI057lJZhg:7o-EURwp1M4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharep [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Adoption Tip 8 of 8: Implement SharePoint ‘In the Flow’ of Business
End User SharePoint
Implementing SharePoint in the flow of business means that SharePoint’s capabilities and your user’s needs meet at right time and the right place.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=4hEN7qhUrAU:oGhZ5RyIRUc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/4hEN7qhUrAU" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
SharePoint: Making the Most of Content Types (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
In this screencast, Laura Rogers explains a unique way of using SharePoint content types to function as status levels for list items. This solution does not involve any custom code, and the concept is useful in WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=rEaG0E2Rrk4:F91qIZQDQoU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 5th '10 |
Make Your SharePoint Site More Intuitive
End User SharePoint
One of the indicators of a successful SharePoint implementation is high user adoption and conversion rates. Driving these metrics up is the goal of many a SharePoint team. One of the ways to do this is to make your site more intuitive.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=j9ZHDF2Ean4:Ca2FPDcmagA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserShare [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 5th '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 5: xsl:param
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=54wPrhFibhc:KZNSWV2GZug:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/54wPrhFibhc" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 4th '10 |
Birthday Gifts for my Extended SharePoint Family
End User SharePoint
A friend of mine, Michael Cortez, introduced me to a birthday tradition he has in his family where the person having the birthday gives out gifts to everyone else in the family. I really like that a lot. Since today is my birthday, I’ve got a little gift for you, my extended SharePoint family.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=yg2yyIJ4-ys:jEzfI3hXr54:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/i [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 3rd '10 |
Avatar, the Movie: SharePoint Navigation Re-creation – Part 1
End User SharePoint
In this article I will show you how to re-create the scrolling boxes (without content) using jQuery Tools JavaScript library.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=I7roOLzbNis:YnXKD-MZmfk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/I7roOLzbNis" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 3rd '10 |
SharePoint Saturday EMEA Recording: Intro and Keynote
End User SharePoint
I’ve been having difficulty getting the SharePoint Saturday EMEA recordings to play over an http connection, so I’m going to make them available for download so that you can play them locally.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=53EwJEJc004:O-AixwJowhM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/53EwJEJc004" height="1" width= [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 3rd '10 |
Adoption Tip 7 of 8: Define What Collaboration Looks Like
End User SharePoint
Take time before your SharePoint project starts and discuss what collaboration means within your organization.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=_4moewVIuYg:jNvP4g_Wl6U:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/_4moewVIuYg" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 3rd '10 |
Upcoming Live Online SharePoint Workshops by EndUserSharePoint.com
End User SharePoint
I've spent the past week working with the live online workshop presenters to confirm a schedule for upcoming workshops. We will be offering the workshops as a discounted package or series of workshops this time because of numerous requests.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=roKkodw7OPo:f1QQu9Cw6a0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUser [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 2nd '10 |
Adding Custom Actions to the List Item Menu in SharePoint 2010 Using SharePoint Designer 2010
End User SharePoint
In SharePoint 2010, it is easier than ever to add custom actions that are scoped to a specific list using SharePoint Designer 2010.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=FA28BUzTzT0:SiahdSoA21s:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/FA28BUzTzT0" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 2nd '10 |
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 4: xsl:with-param
End User SharePoint
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=zW9QdfNKvgU:JnAK9CzNGE8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/zW9QdfNKvgU" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 2nd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – External Lists
End User SharePoint
SharePoint 2010 has introduced a new type of List called the External List. The External List is used for displaying content that comes from Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Enterprise content types. Business Connectivity Services is the replacement in SharePoint 2010 for The Business Data Catalog (BDC) in SharePoint 2007.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=mlK2xlkvmTg:_0hNQToJOao:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharep [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 1st '10 |
jQuery Blogging Part Deux
End User SharePoint
The first effect I wanted to achieve was to create a scrolling list of recent blog posts. In order to achieve this I used the Content Query Web Part along with the Scrollable plugin from jQuery Tools. The vertical scrolling requires the HTML to be output in the following structurediv class="feedflare"
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/divimg sr [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 1st '10 |
How to Manage SharePoint Site Permissions
End User SharePoint
Sharon and I have been talking about working together for a while now, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity to get started. EndUserSharePoint.com will sponsor a free, half hour live online talk, as Sharon walks through her slidedeck on SharePoint permissions, taking Q#038;A in the process.div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=TpIKPwi2MN8:fVXuHKfgXlQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/im [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 31st '10 |
SharePoint Image library, overlay effect with Lightbox 2
End User SharePoint
So how do you do that if you want to use Lightbox 2 in SharePoint and use a central Image repository with auto thumbnails, and pull images to different pages at different sites based on some category?div class="feedflare"
a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?a=hamdCDJ2SPo:ENoVGw7vOg0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EndUserSharepoint?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a
/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EndUserSharepoint/~4/hamdCDJ2SPo" height="1" wi [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
Governance for SharePoint: Site Creation Rights
End User SharePoint
One of the things I rail against in my book SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration, is the belief that governance is just about optimizing technical settings in SharePoint. It's not! It's about so much more than that, and while the optimization of technical settings -- the number of site collections, database sizes, page load times, and so on -- is important within a particular context, successfully leveraging the technology of SharePoint to enhance business operations requires a more expansive vi [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
Style a Page using the Content Editor Web Part and CSS
End User SharePoint
Do you have pages that look bland that you want to add some color to? Perhaps you would like some a background behind your web part titles. Maybe you want to hide the recycle bin on one page, but not another. Using the Content Editor Web Part you are able to add CSS to a page to customize its look and feel. This is a great alternative to modifying core.css, using SharePoint Designer or other methods (such as specifying a custom CSS file in site settings). Follow along with this quick demonstrati [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
SharePoint Folders vs. Metadata
End User SharePoint
There are many posts out there extolling the virtues of using metadata over folders for organizing information in SharePoint 2007. I certainly believe that metadata is a great tool for for classifying information, but it is incorrect to ask whether to use folders or metadata to organize information. Rather, it is more appropriate to ask when to use folders and when to use metadata.div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
The Anatomy of a SharePoint Event: Opening the Doors at SPSEMEA
End User SharePoint
This is the second article in a series of articles on how the EUSP team coordinated and produced SharePoint Saturday EMEA. The first article walked through the runup to the event. This article talks about what happened during the event. All time stamps are from January 23, 2010.div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
The Anatomy of a SharePoint Event: SPSEMEA Post Mortem
End User SharePoint
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Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
Free Training: The New SharePoint 2010 User Interface
End User SharePoint
The Microsoft Office Online Training crew is already busy getting the pieces together to make it easier for SharePoint End Users to get a handle on what’s coming. They have just release a new training session, Make the Switch to the New SharePoint 2010 User Interface, free online.div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
Feedback: The Basics of Content Types, Live Online Workshop
End User SharePoint
We just finished today’s live online workshop, The Basics of Content Types. This is the area were people who participated in the session can leave their feedback. Let’s see what they have to say… [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 27th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Live Online Workshop Schedule
End User SharePoint
October 27 , 2009
I was in Las Vegas for SharePoint Conference 2009 last week and grabbed a bunch of Digital Swag for you. I’ll be organizing it into a usable form for next week’s newsletter. For this week, what follows is a list of workshops in November and December. Clicking on the links will send you to the description of the workshop, and offer you the chance to register.
Thank you for your continuing support. I look forward to seeing you at a workshop or two. ̵ [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 27th '09 |
Live Online SharePoint Saturday – Europe
End User SharePoint
At SharePoint Conference 2009, there was a lot of talk about how much and how fast the SharePoint Saturday series has grown. There are so many well known presenters, it’s relatively easy to put together a group of a dozen or so speakers for any given Saturday, speakers who are normally located all around the world.
All the talk got me so excited, I decided to help coordinate a live online, SharePoint Saturday Europe event with the help of some of my European friends: Toni Frankola and Isaa [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
Visualizing Information in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
From a SharePoint End User’s perspective, it’s hard trying to figure out the best ways to expose information through graphics in SharePoint. SharePoint lists don’t offer color coding and other visualization effects. Sure, you can use Excel Services and KPIs if you’ve spent the big bucks for the Enterprise version to do a little graphic enhancement, but what about those of us who still need more complex visualization capabilities?
HTML Calculated Columns to the rescue! Ch [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
Manage Input with Dynamic Feedback Forms in SharePoint (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
SharePoint 911
Join Laura on October 30th as she presents “Manage Input with Dynamic Feedback Forms in SharePoint“.
Looking for feedback from your end users, or questions from them about your department or company? In this workshop, Laura Rogers will teach you a no-code approach to this business solution.
Using SharePoint Designer and your very own WSS sandbox, you will learn how to create a data view web part that will be placed on the welcome [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
Conditional Upload of jQuery: Paul Grenier and Christophe Humbert
End User SharePoint
My two favorite jQuery gurus Paul Grenier and Christophe Humbert had a quick email exchange regarding how to include conditional jQuery uploading in their scripts. I thought it would be enlightening for Power Users who have been following jQuery for Everyone and Path to SharePoint to see the discussion.
Here’s the exchange:
Christophe Humbert:
As workshop users want to include several Web Parts on the same page, I am looking for a way to include conditional jQuery loading. The most common [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
New Markets and the Future of SharePoint
End User SharePoint
I received an email from Brian Cornelius, one of the EndUserSharePoint.com live bloggers, right after the completion of the SharePoint conference:
The last session I went to yesterday was on End User Adoption. I think it was pretty much everything I already knew. In any case the presenter was answering questions at the end and a lady wanted to know when his book was going to be translated into Dutch. He made a comment about it being a small market, etc. but did say the only non-English translati [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
SharePoint: Preventing the Use of Edit in Datasheet
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Doug Ware
Elumenotion, LLC
Sometimes you may do some serious customization to a list’s forms and build related business logic that precludes the use of the ‘Edit in Datasheet’ feature that comes with every list. Unfortunately, there isn’t an ‘Allow Edit in Datasheet’ checkbox anywhere on the List Settings page. Fortunately, there are a couple of ways to handle this requirement that are fairly simple.
Option 1 – House of Straw with Java [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 23rd '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Referencing a Multiple Lines of Text Column With Append Text: Part 3
End User SharePoint
In Part 1 and Part 2 Dessie showed us the first 9 steps in “How to reference a ‘Multiple Lines of Text’ column in a ‘Calculated Column’ to display a complete list of appended changes to all items on a list as a group – in 10 Easy Steps”. Now he finishes up…and cleans up.
Step 10: Cleanup
One thing you’ll notice is that the order of the versions listed always starts with the most recent version first, then foll [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 23rd '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Referencing a Multiple Lines of Text Column With Append Text: Part 2
End User SharePoint
In Part 1, Dessie gave us the first six steps "How to reference a ‘Multiple Lines of Text’ column in a ‘Calculated Column’ to display a complete list of appended changes to all items on a list as a group – in 10 Easy Steps”. Now we pick up where he left off with Step 7:
Step 7: The “Magic” URL
In order to be able to view the complete list of versions in an items history, you needn’t look any further than t [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 22nd '09 |
Assigning dynamic ids to HTML and Script elements – Client Side!
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Einar Otto Stangvik
Will Code for Nuts
This question popped up on Twitter yesterday:
How do you usually handle duplicate IDs for html elements and scripts in SharePoint Web Parts, scripts and controls?
Which is a natural concern, with all the different web parts and scripts that’s being injected SharePoint portals these days. To end Monday off (in my neck of the woods anyway), I thought I’d make a quick post on what I do in my projects.
Script naming convention
For sc [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 22nd '09 |
jQuery for Everyone: The SharePoint Game Changer
End User SharePoint
I can’t tell you the number of people who have come up to me at SharePoint Conference 2009 to talk about Paul Grenier’s jQuery for Everyone Series. That set of articles really opened the doors of jQuery for a lot of people. I’m including the series as a set of links below for those who haven’t had a chance to look at it.
jQuery for Everyone is a game changer.
Thank you Paul. Your contributions to the SharePoint community have been tremendous and I just wish you were here [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 22nd '09 |
Digital Swag from SPC09: Excel Add-In for SharePoint
End User SharePoint
One of the problems people encounter when moving from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 is that the ability to manage SharePoint lists from within Excel has been deprecated. That functionality has been moved into MS Access. That really doesn’t help when people already have all of the data in Excel, use it as their main analytical tool for that data, and have been comfortable in that environment for years.
I found a small vendor called “EBAX” at a booth in isle 700 at SharePoint Conferenc [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 22nd '09 |
Taming the Elusive Calculated Column – Referencing a Multiple Lines of Text Column With Append Text: Part 1
End User SharePoint
As a follow-up to a previous article I wrote on “Referencing Multiple Lines of Text” in a calculated column, and to address an issue brought up on the STP forums regarding how to use this technique with a “Multiple lines of Text” column that is set to “Append Changes to Existing Text” and how to view all of the versions (appended changes) in a regular list, I give you the following:
“How to reference a ‘Multiple Line [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
SharePoint: A View to a Kill
End User SharePoint
SharePoint can be a nagging fellow, especially if you begin to stray from any “out of the box” solution. The crux of the problem is usually that you are asked to go out of the box to create columns, content types and views. A wide range of SharePoint experts will always say, “If you can do without coding or SharePoint Designer you are saving yourself possible headaches down the road.”
Here is an example of a SharePoint Headache that came up recently and it [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
Connecting SharePoint UI Elements: SPDrag and the DropBox
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Einar Otto Stangvik
Will Code for Nuts
So the last few posts have focused on some of my core javascript libraries. Nothing of the fancy stuff, just basic paper and glue type things. To make it all come together, I’ll bring back up something I mentioned on Twitter about a month ago, but haven’t spoken much of since: Two libraries of mine called SPDrag and DropBox.
SPDrag
The first of the two essentially makes standard SharePoint ui elements, such as files, list items a [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
Today in SharePoint with Michael Gannotti: Live broadcast from SPC09 “Ask the SharePoint Samuri”
End User SharePoint
At 10:30am, PST, Michael Gannotti, aka the SharePoint Samuri, and I will be broadcasting live from the SharePoint Conference 2009 exhibit floor.
We will be at Booth 714, talking, answering questions and just having a good time. If you are at the conference, please stop by, say hello, grab an 18×24 inch SharePoint 2010 Team Site Poster, and talk with us about anything SharePoint. If you aren’t able to come, we’ll have a twitter panel open where you can ask us questions and parti [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
Digital Swag from SPC09: SharePoint 2010 Team Site Poster
End User SharePoint
I’m on the prowl for Digital Swag you can download if you aren’t available to join us in Las Vegas for SharePoint Conference 2009.
If you enjoyed the SharePoint 2007 Team Site Poster from last week, you’ll love this one: SharePoint 2010 Team Site Poster. We’re handing out printed copies here at the conference, but you can download a .pdf version to either print (18×24 inches) or use as a reference to the objects in a default 2010 team site.
MetaVis Technologies is o [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
SharePoint Quick Tip: Remove Outlook Connection to SharePoint
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Brian Hughes
Hugheser’s IT Blog
The is the first in hopefully many Quick Tips. I would like to make this a weekly thing but we’ll have to wait and see how that goes.
One of the most asked questions I get from End Users about SharePoint is “How do I remove the connection from Outlook?” This is usually requested because they are receiving an excessive number of authentication prompts in Outlook due to not having their machine configured corre [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
Digital Swag from SPC09: Compare and Synchronize Sites
End User SharePoint
I’m on the hunt for the small vendors who are doing really cool stuff at SharePoint Conference 2009. This is the first of what I hope will be about a dozen downloads for you, directly from the conference.
Definitions first, though. What is Digital Swag? Digital Swag is a term I invented for product demo’d at conferences that you can download for free. Usually only people who go to the conferences have access to that info, so I’m acting as your eyes and ears to find the cool stu [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
Pieces of my core javascript library: The Lambda Framework
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Einar Otto Stangvik
Will Code for Nuts
Following up on my previous post, about the Script Loader piece of my core library, here’s a couple more central pieces for the stuff I’m about to tell about in posts to follow.
On the spot in this post is the lambda library. Simply put, a lambda here means an expression with placeholders for parameters to come. As such, it’s not unlike the closures we already have in javascript, but this does up the stakes a little bit.
Cl [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
Executive buy-in and Governance for SharePoint
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Brian Hughes
Hugheser’s IT Blog
Sorry for the absence in posting. Those of you that followed the old blog are probably used to it. Things have been incredibly nutty around here lately. But there is something on my mind I wanted to write a quick post about. Hopefully this will push me to write something a little more in depth in the future.
Having SharePoint governance is more than just a recommendation. Having governance in place is a necessity. They say that if you [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
A Brutal Flaw with SP Workflows
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Jason MacKenzie
Intelligence Among Us
Everyone with an intermediate level of knowledge with SharePoint knows that there are 3 ways to create workflows that act on SharePoint lists/libraries. In ascending order of complexity and flexibility they are: OOTB SharePoint workflows, SharePoint designer workflows and custom developed Visual Studio workflows.
Imagine the folllowing scenario with which I have been faced. Working with a user to implement a mission-critical business process [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
Pieces of my core javascript library: The Script Loader
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Einar Otto Stangvik
Will Code for Nuts
I’m about to release a few more open source SharePoint solutions, including a core javascript library feature. The CoreJS is a required feature for the hierarchical navigation component, which will also be properly released as OSS on CodePlex before long.
A central piece of the CoreJS library and activation feature, is the Script Loader. This is in fact the only piece of the library which is automatically injected (as a delegate control [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
Live Bloggers at SPC09: Follow your favorites
End User SharePoint
Here’s the list of live bloggers who have logged into the live blogging platform and confirmed their participation in SharePoint Conference 2009. The people marked as “Producers” have the ability to add special content to the stream, such as images and video. They can also approve comments as they come into the stream.
You can view all of the individual groups in a single page with 8 panels, or have them all consolidated into a single view where you can flip back and forth.
At [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 18th '09 |
Keep it Simple. Get it Done. Best Practices for SharePoint List Creation & Management
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Allan P. Spina
Originally posted at Infonomics Magazine
Leverage existing assets, extend provided templates, create new lists
One of the key value statements for the use of SharePoint is that “users” can take control of many aspects of defining, as well as creating, the types of information that they need, when they need it. This is always a double-edged sword, balancing the flexibility that is inherently provided in the SharePoint environment, with the ability [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 17th '09 |
2009-10-16 Today in SharePoint with Michael Gannotti
End User SharePoint
Michael and I did our final recording today before heading off to SPC09 for the week. It’s an interesting one in that we expand on the video he did this morning on public perceptions of people through live social media. It’s critical to understand because of the exposure SPC09 is going to give to the live bloggers at the conference.
Take a listen. Take it to heart. See you in a couple days.
Mark
Download this recording
Name: 2009-10-16-MichaelGannotti.wmv
File Size: 5.9 megs
Loc [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th '09 |
Feedback: Killer SharePoint Calendar Solutions – live online workshop
End User SharePoint
Christophe Humbert and I just completed the first session of “Killer SharePoint Calendar Solutions“. I hadn’t seen some of the solutions before the workshop and was floored. I’m going to create a few screencasts from the workshop material to give you a close look at Christophe’s solutions.
I’ll let the participants tell you about it. This area is for comments from the people who attended the event.
We will definitely be running this one again in the near futu [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th '09 |
Where to eat in Las Vegas: A local’s perspective
End User SharePoint
I’m working with The Queensboro Shirt Company to get the EUSP shirts delivered in time for SharePoint Conference 2009. There was a glitch at UPS, so Donna at Queensboro is helping track it down.
As a PS to her followup confirming they’ve got me covered, she included this:
I lived in Henderson, NV for a little over a year, so here’s my ex-local’s 2 cents. The Pharoah’s buffet at the Luxor is not great; The Rio is much better for cost+selection (Sunday brunch rocks) a [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th '09 |
Create your own live media dashboard for SPC09
End User SharePoint
As I go about setting up the media streams and deciding how to distribute all the content that’s going to be coming out of the SharePoint Conference 2009, I came up with the idea of letting everyone, and that means you, decide how they’d like to view all the live blogging streams. A little background here for those that are just coming to the party.
Next week, me and my 7000 of my closest friends are going to have a party in Las Vegas to celebrate the introduction of SharePoint 2010. [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th '09 |
SharePoint versus file shares. When to use SharePoint and when to use a traditional file share?
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Vishal Seth
VishalSeth.com
I get asked this question a lot. If an enterprise adopts SharePoint internally, does SharePoint replace file shares?
My short answer is, no – SharePoint and file shares are not the same thing and they are not meant to be thought about or used in the same way.
Firstly SharePoint has limitations on the content that it is able to effectively store based on its type, its size, its numbers and its use. You can use a file share to store anything a [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Date and Time – Part 7
End User SharePoint
Moving it all Back
Now that we’ve successfully ran the logic to find out what the serial number is for a given date, and used individual functions to parse out the individual pieces of what’s needed to get the serial number itself, we’re going to look at the process required to take the serial number and convert it back into an actual date.
The process itself is actually rather simple, but I want to go over three different approaches that help to illustrate the logi [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th '09 |
SPC09: First attempt at creating a session schedule
End User SharePoint
Here’s version .01 of my session schedule for SharePoint Conference 2009. It’s going to take a little more work, since I can’t be in five sessions at once. [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th '09 |
A jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (WSS 3.0 and MOSS): Why and Why Now?
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Marc D. Anderson
Sympraxis Consulting LLC
Even back in the old days (late 2006) when I first started working with SharePoint 2007, I was surprised how little interactivity there was within pages. Sure the drag and drop way to add Web Parts to pages and move them around had some “wow factor”, but most users wouldn’t even get to see that.
In general, the UI for the average user was a do-something-and-watch-the-page-refresh affair. There were good co [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Date and Time – Part 6
End User SharePoint
In his continuing series, Taming the Elusive "Calculated Column" – Date and Time, Dessie explores using the date formula within separate columns.
The List
For this, I’m using a custom list that I’ve added a new calculated column to called “Serial Number”. So, once you have your list, create a new calculated column, and give it the following formula:
=DATE(1971,9,15)
Note that although, I have my column set with a return type of “Number [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th '09 |
Calculated Time Left Columns in SharePoint with jQuery
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Bil Simser
Site: Fear and Loathing
A current project I’m working on in SharePoint is an online auction. I’ll post more info about this and maybe some code and web parts later but for now I wanted to share a simple enhancement we did with a little jQuery to display the time left for each item.
Just like eBay, I wanted to display the time remaining on auction items. I figured this would be a calculated field (based on a date the user chose for when the auction f [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 14th '09 |
Setting a default duration for new Calender Events
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Ryan Wheeler
www.pentalogic.net
Tristan asked in another post: “When a calendar event is being created, I want the end date/time to automatically populate to 1.5 hours after the start date/time. Seems simple, but haven’t found a formula for this yet.“
Sounds like a pretty reasonable suggestion and the Calendar lists NewForm.asx already sets the Start time to the current time – shouldn’t be too hard, right?…
Using the Defau [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 14th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Date and Time – Part 5
End User SharePoint
Overview
In continuance of the series on the “Date and Time” set of functions that I wrote about back at the end of May (that darn “Work” always getting in the way), I’d like to discuss the actual “DATE” function itself in order to help address some of the more frequent questions regarding how to deal with dates in SharePoint.
The Function
DATE: this returns the “sequential” serial number that represents a [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 14th '09 |
2009-10-13 Today in SharePoint with Joel Oleson
End User SharePoint
Joel and I tried a new audio setup this week and it didn’t work as well as we would have liked. There’s a little audio clipping and breakup. It got worse as the discussion continued, so we hung up and connected again over a land line. There’s a little break in continuity in the middle of the recording. That’s where I’ve spliced it together.
That said, there is some very interesting stuff today, including “Win a day with Joel”. Check it out at minute mark [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 13th '09 |
First Digital Swag for SPC09: 18×24 inch SharePoint 2010 Team Site Poster
End User SharePoint
On Wednesday morning, I am going to send out the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter. This is something you won’t want to miss. As part of the newsletter, I am including a download of an 18×24 inch poster of a SharePoint 2007 Team Site. That might not sound like much, but checkout the teaser images below and then decide.
This is a complete diagram of all of the objects in a default, SharePoint 2007 Team Site. When I first started working with SharePoint and needed to understand h [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 12th '09 |
Creating mailing lists for SharePoint sites and blogs [No Code Required] – Part 3 : More Customizations to the subscription form using DataFormWebPart
End User SharePoint
This is the third article in a multipart series that is intended to help you creating mailing lists for your SharePoint sites or blogs without writing a single line of .NET Code. In the introductory article, I have listed the project initiatives, requirements, and objectives. In Part 1, I created a secured backend where we will store the subscribers’ contacts. In Part 2, I have configured the ‘Contact’ content type, created a subscription form for the mailing list a [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 12th '09 |
SPC09 Live Bloggers: Please pick up your site badges
End User SharePoint
For the 100 or so of you who are live blogging SharePoint Conference 2009 for EndUserSharePoint.com, I’ve created a media badge you can put on your site. This badge will point people to the live streaming media page where your blog posts will be displayed and help give you credit for your contribution to the information flow from the conference.
There are two ways to put the badge on your site. You can right mouse click the badge shown in the top left corner, choose “Save target as& [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 11th '09 |
Even it you can’t join us, please join us for SharePoint Conference 2009!
End User SharePoint
By now you’ve heard the news: SharePoint Conference 2009 is sold out. If you don’t have a ticket, what are the alternatives?
Every convention has it’s own swag. What we intend to do is let those who can’t attend, partake in the swagfest. I’ll be searching for downloadable swag at the conference and will make it available to anyone who registers for the “Live Blog Follower” ticket on the live blog registration page. No charge. Just register and I’l [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 10th '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 is Sold Out
End User SharePoint
The title says it all: if you haven’t purchased your ticket, you’re out of luck. Haven’t heard the official total yet, but will update. Rumour has it 7000 people will be attending. That’s twice the amount of last year’s conference and that was a madhouse.
Hold onto your hats. This is going to be a wild one. [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 9th '09 |
Tips When Asking For SharePoint Help
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Mark Rackley
The SharePoint Hillbilly
One of the cool things about not being a total moron in SharePoint anymore is that I actually have the ability to help people. I’m always happy to lend a hand when I can, and it’s actually a great way for me to learn even more. However, sometimes it can be hard for me to give the proper advice/help because I don’t exactly know what a person is asking.
There are so many different parameters that can affect any ad [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 9th '09 |
Killer Calendars in SharePoint: Change Views with No Page Refresh
End User SharePoint
Christophe Humbert is refining the solutions he will provide in next week’s “Killer Calendars in SharePoint“, live online workshop. The screencast below is the first in a series of screencasts to show you the solutions provided as part of the workshop.
In this 2 minute demo, we show a tweak to the SharePoint calendar interface that allows users to switch between week and month views without reloading the page. Everything shown in the demo is contained within Content Editor Web [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 9th '09 |
2009-10-08 Today in SharePoint with Michael Gannotti
End User SharePoint
Welcome to another installment of Today in SharePoint. Michael and I had a fun time talking about What About Bob and the Karate Kid as the ultimate IT and Business movies, respectively. Along the way, we talk about Microsoft/SharePoint bashing as well as Fast ESP as a content delivery system.
Don’t miss Michael’s response to “Who are you looking forward to meeting in person at SharePoint Conference 2009?”
I hope you find these recordings useful and enjoyable. We apprecia [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 8th '09 |
Happy 2nd Anniversary, EndUserSharePoint.com!
End User SharePoint
Well, it’s been two years since I posted the first article on EndUserSharePoint.com, End User SharePoint 2007 – Just the FAQs, and boy how things have changed! From writing for myself and hoping a few friends would listen in, the site has grown to over 600,000 page views a month, with thousands of people logging in each day. We now have an archive of over 1100 articles and 7300 comments, not including Stump the Panel, and blocked almost 59,000 comment spams.
As I’ve been saying for [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 8th '09 |
Filtering a SharePoint Data View – Part 3
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: David Severn
Following directly on from part 2 we will now hook up the two user interface controls.
Hover your mouse over the top right hand corner of the data view to display a small right facing arrow.
Press this to display the Common Data View Tasks menu.
Select Filter.
Click add new clause and select Category in the ‘field name’ drop down list.
Click on the * in the Value Field drop down to display.
Select create new parameter and make selections [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 8th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 for End Users
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Veronique Palmer
Site: Let’s Collaborate
Everyone has heard about the new version, but as an average end user you probably would not have seen it yet or know much about it. It may also be a couple of years before your company decides to upgrade to the new version. So why should you care and what does this mean for you, especially when you are battling to get the current version under the belt? I’m probably the last person to write anything on the new version, but h [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 8th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Top User Rated Product by SharePointReviews.com
End User SharePoint
I received a nice little surprise in my email box this morning. Evidently people have been saying nice things about EndUserSharePoint.com in the training company review section at SharePointReviews.com. EUSP has won the “Top User Rated Product Award” for October.
Nice. Wasn’t expecting that at all. [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 8th '09 |
Yes, believe it! – SharePoint Drag and Drop Accordian Interface
End User SharePoint
In Christophe Humbert’s live online workshop, “Easy Tabs Interface – Simple Navigation for Complex Information“, he provides a Content Editor Web Part that automagically creates an accordian style menu from any web parts within the current web zone.
The two minute demo below is exciting to watch for nothing more than the simplicity of the solution. If you like what you see, I hope you join us for the workshop.
Download the screencast: Easy Tabs Accordian Web Part
File [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 7th '09 |
Setting SharePoint Form Fields Using JavaScript
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Mark Rackley
The SharePoint Hillbilly
In a few of my previous blog posts I have used JavaScript to set SharePoint form fields in NewForm.aspx. Using JavaScript to set these fields comes in really handy whether you are setting fields based upon query string variables (see previous posts) or setting a field to some other value.
So, I’m going to quickly breakdown the JavaScript I used to set those fields and hopefully make it a little more understandable. Again, I did not & [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 7th '09 |
Filtering a SharePoint Data View – Part 2
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: David Severn
Following on from my previous post we will now add the view of the ToDo List data.
Open the site (if not already open) in SharePoint Designer.
Open the ToDoByCategory.aspx page.
Click with the mouse after the existing drop down list.
Open the Data Source Library Task Pane.
Expand the Lists section then hover your mouse over the ToDo List to display the drop down menu.
Select Show Data.
This will display data from the list as follows:
De-Select Content Type an [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 7th '09 |
Feedback: Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar!
End User SharePoint
Paul Grenier and I led a sold out, live online session today, “Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar!” This is the area where we ask for participant feedback to see how the session went.
The SuperStar! live online workshop includes enhancements to the SharePoint interface, such as expandable/collapsible lists, a preview pane, mouse over display of metadata and other cool tricks.
Let’s see what the participants have to say… [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 7th '09 |
Use OneNote & SharePoint for small project documentation and collaboration
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Sherri Amstutz
Accelerated Knowledge
I was working with a client on a relatively small project where they asked that I come up with a project oversight and documentation solution that worked well but didn’t require all the overhead of their typical enterprise tools used to track tasks and accumulate and manage project documentation. The team never needed to directly access the SharePoint site, we worked entirely within the context of OneNote.
I’m a huge OneNo [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 6th '09 |
Who do you want to meet at SharePoint Conference 2009?
End User SharePoint
As the twitter stream for #SPC09 heats up to the point where it will spontaneously combust with news, events and meetups for SharePoint Conference 2009, I thought it would be interesting to see who you will be most looking forward to meeting at the conference. I’ve got my old stand-bys from SharePoint Saturday, SPTechCon and Best Practices Conference, but there are some people I still haven’t met.
Here’s the list of people I’m looking to say hi to. If I missed anyone, it& [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 6th '09 |
Filtering a SharePoint Data View – Part 1
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: David Severn
This comes up in the forums from time to time and I have been asked by students and clients how to do this. I have seen it on videos but will simply list the steps here for anyone who needs to easily create a filtered view of a grid of data.
This post will show how to set up the ASP.Net drop down using a SharePoint list as its data source.
The example I will use is a simple categorized to do list.
There will be a ToDo list and a Categories list.
The ToDo list will ha [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 6th '09 |
Heath Care Case Management in SharePoint Workshop (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
SharePoint 911
Join Laura on October 9 as she presents “Health Care Case Management Solutions in SharePoint“. In this three hour, live online, hands-on workshop, you’ll implement a full solution for Health Care Case Management in SharePoint. The scenario used is one to manage a new patient check in at a hospital.
When a new patient arrives in the hospital, there are phases that the patient goes through in their hospital admittance process. In t [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
Yes, believe it: The SharePoint Easy Tabs Interface Web Part
End User SharePoint
Christophe Humbert’s Easy Tabs Interface CEWP is so easy to use, most people don’t believe it when they first see it. Even the people who took his live online workshop two weeks ago were asking questions like “Does it display ANY web part? What about a DVWP? What about a CQWP? What about a…” You get the picture.
In this short screencast, I will show a web page without the Easy Tabs Interface, with the Easy Tabs Interface, the same page with a web part removed from t [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
New Articles Publication Schedule: EndUserSharePoint.com
End User SharePoint
It’s going to be a busy week. I want to put out the publication schedule so you’ll know what’s headed your way during the next couple of days.
Three part series on Filtering a SharePoint Data View – David Severn
SharePoint 2010 for End Users – Veronique Palmer
Use OneNote & SharePoint for small project documentation and collaboration – Sherri Amstutz
Today in SharePoint with Joel Oleson (Recording)
Today in SharePoint with Michael Gannotti (Recording)
Ea [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
Make SharePoint 2007 Act Like SharePoint 2010, Updated
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Jan Tielens
In my previous post I introduced a small script to extend the Edit Control Block (ECB) of list items and documents. The added menu items in the ECB allow users to update certain metadata fields for that item or document.
The cool thing is that everything is happening in the background with the help of jQuery, even the actual updating of the data. The result: no postbacks or full page loads, pure AJAX goodness just like showcased in the SharePoint 2010 sneak peek videos. [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
This Week at EndUserSharePoint.com: Live Online Workshops
End User SharePoint
Time to put the teaching chops back on after a week of leading “Train the Trainer”. We’ve got three live online workshops this week, including two of our most popular and a brand new solution by Laura Rogers.
Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar! : Paul Grenier
Easy Tabs Interface – Simple Navigation for Complex Information : Christophe Humbert
Business Solution – Heath Care Case Management : Laura Rogers
Each of these session is fully hands-on. You ge [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
New CSS Tool for SharePoint Users at SharePointCanvas.com
End User SharePoint
As we were going through the process of customizing a template for our SharePoint intranet, one question kept popping up. How do I make an item on the template go away?
Here are some common items, on the default template, that people have asked to hide:
The Left Navigation
The “View All Site Content” tab on the left nav
The My Sites Tab
The Global Bread Crumb
The Search Box
The Help Icon
And so on….
Figuring out how to hide elements on the Default SharePoint Tem [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
Passing Multiple Query String Variables Using SPD – Follow Up on Creating Parent / Child List Relationships
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Mark Rackley
How’s that for a long blog title? Well, by far my most popular blog post has been about creating a Parent / Child relationship in SharePoint Designer and one question keeps getting asked over and over again: “How do I pass multiple values to the new item screen for the Child?” So, I thought it was about time I actually told you how. Are you ready?
As stated before, this blog is a direct continuation of a previous blog post Creating [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
Creating a SharePoint List Parent / Child Relationship – Out of the Box
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Mark Rackley
First Things First
Okay, first off, my development blogs will fall into one of two categories “Out of the Box” or “Custom”. My definition for “Out of the Box” is anything that can be done in SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, or InfoPath. Another way to look at it is if you can do it “Out of the Box” you can do it remotely without having to use a VM or any sort of Remote Desktop Connection [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 2nd '09 |
SharePoint: To Blog or Not to Blog – That is the Question (to Blog About)
End User SharePoint
A few weeks ago I had the chance to speak at SharePoint Saturday in New York. Once again, a tremendous event. This time, I spoke about “learning SharePoint” – a very broad topic. During the presentation (which you can get here), I talked about a variety of techniques for “learning” SharePoint, including stuff like book learning, class room training, creating your own VM and most importantly (to me), community participation. One way to participate [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 2nd '09 |
2009-10-01 Today in SharePoint with Michael Gannotti (Recording)
End User SharePoint
Michael Gannotti and I had our weekly conversation this morning and it ran about double our usual time, but I found it more than worth the extra few minutes. I am working with MetaVis Technologies at SharePoint Conference 2009 to coordinate over 100 live bloggers and project their live, streaming content onto a 100 inch display. In our conversation, Michael and I talk about the different technologies available for streaming content, the various encoding types available for providing media conte [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09 |
Let’s Get This Party Started! SharePoint Conference 2009
End User SharePoint
Time to get the ball rolling on this SharePoint Conference 2009 thing. I’ve activated the live twitter tracker. If you bookmark it, you can pull it up and see all the tweets in real time, with an archive of the previous tweets. As the date gets closer I’ll be adding panels for each of the major tracks with live bloggers adding content.
I’ve got over ninety people registered for live blogging, so there’s going to be MASSIVE information flow coming at you during the confere [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09 |
“You guys are amazing, no question. BUT….”
End User SharePoint
I just received this in my inbox this morning. I’m not sure what to do. Your input and feedback on a possible solution is appreciated — Mark
“You guys are amazing, no question. BUT….
“We in Southern Africa have massive bandwidth issues. We have an enormous SharePoint community, and this site is the first place we send end users. But since you have taken the screencast / video route, we have not been able to use it much anymore.
“With our lack of bandwidth, it [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09 |
Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 08 (Video)
End User SharePoint
Last week I wrote an article and did a short screencast on using visually based slides for presentations as opposed to the standard bullet point presentations. One of the comments left on that article was about using slides to show details to the people who receive the slidedeck but couldn’t attend the presentation.
My response was that details don’t belong in the slides, they belong in the notes section. Slides are used to present a visual overview of information, not the detailed i [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09 |
Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 07 (Video)
End User SharePoint
Continuing with our presentation series this week, I am highlighting the work of Slide:ology by Nancy Durante. In today’s discussion, Nancy is joined by Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen.
In this segment, Guy and Nancy discuss the ever elusive question, “How many slide should be in my presentation?”
From Guy:
“People do have a schema for watching visuals, but but not reading lots of text because that’s a different channel. We can look at a quantitative disp [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 30th '09 |
SharePoint: Open Links in a New Browser Window (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
SharePoint 911
In SharePoint, the default behavior of a links list is to open each link in the same browser window. Sometimes it becomes necessary to create a list of links that, when clicked, will each open up in a new browser window. Usually this type of functionality is requested when the links are to external web sites, that are outside of the SharePoint environment. We don’t want users to accidentally navigate away from SharePoint and not k [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 30th '09 |
Back by Popular Request: SharePoint Easy Tabs Interface
End User SharePoint
A couple of weeks ago, Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint presented a live online workshops, Easy Tabs Interface, to rave reviews. We’ve had numerous requests to run this one again, so we found a slot on October 8 at 1:00pm EST for him to deliver another session.
Christophe is spending time touching up the solutions and expanding on the context in which the solutions can be used, so we are extending this session to two hours.
If you are one of those who requested the workshop, plea [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 29th '09 |
SharePoint Date Filter: Filtering a List by Greater Than or Equal to Date
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Mark Rackley
So, I was doing some playing around with mashups in SharePoint. I was seeing what I could do to create pages a little more useful than you get using vanilla SharePoint without having to crack open Visual Studio.
One of the things I wanted to do was display a SharePoint list on the screen and add a filter to the screen that would allow a user to filter the list with a date field value greater than or equal to whatever a user entered. Sound’s simple right? S [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 29th '09 |
Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 06 (Video)
End User SharePoint
Yesterday I talked a little about Nancy Durante and Slide:ology, a paradigm shift in thinking about how to present information. In today’s installment, I’ve chosen one of her quick demo talks on the “Presentation Landscape” diagram she used in the previous video. You can download the document from the original article, Don’t Get Discouraged , Fight for What’s Right!
From Nancy
“If you’ve created a document, call it a document, treat it like itR [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 29th '09 |
SharePoint Document Generator – Part 2: Picking default columns values from a related list
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Mindaugas Bliudzius
In my last post I showed one way to establish parent – child relations in SharePoint. Sometimes there is a need to pickup default columns values from a related list. For example in my Sales Orders Management application I want to choose Product from a list when creating new a Order or Invoice. But I can’t just have a lookup column to the chosen Product because over time Product prices and names can change. I need to have price and Product name fixed as [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 28th '09 |
Creating mailing lists for SharePoint sites and blogs [No Code Required] – Part 2: Creating a custom subscription form
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Ayman El-Hattab
This is the second article in a multipart series that is intended to help you create mailing lists for your SharePoint sites or blogs without writing a single line of .NET Code. In the introductory article, I listed the project initiatives, requirements, and objectives. In Part 1, I created a secured backend where we store the subscribers’ contacts. In this article, we will continue our journey, let’s carry on!
In the previous article, I made use [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 28th '09 |
Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 05 (Video)
End User SharePoint
This week I’m giving a live online Train the Trainer Workshop Series. There are a few resources I speak about during the series, including Nancy Duarte’s theory of presentations as demonstrated in her book Slide:ology.
Creating a presentation that gets participants, especially online participants, emotionally involved is not usually given much through for technical presentations. If you’ve been following my series on developing SharePoint presentation materials, I think youR [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 28th '09 |
Interview with Steve Ballmer: Part 01 (Video)
End User SharePoint
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on September 24, 2009. This is the first segment of the interview, which lasted for over an hour. I’m interested in following the series to see if SharePoint pops up in the discussion. [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 26th '09 |
Document Tracking System in SharePoint: First Discussions
End User SharePoint
I’m working on a project to develop a document tracking system for a client. After the initial interviews for discovery, I started sketching out a few ideas. When I had a mental image of what needed to be done, I called Pat Iovanella and Paul Galvin of SharePoint Shop Talk to ask for some input.
What you hear in the recording below is our phone conversation to talk about the functionality and process flow for the first beta of the system. This is raw, off the cuff thought processing, espec [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 25th '09 |
Live Online: Train the SharePoint Trainer Series – Starts Monday
End User SharePoint
On Monday, we start the 5 day, live online Train the Trainer Series.
This set of five, two hour sessions, teaches you the skills for developing and delivering training for SharePoint Information Workers. You are given slidedecks that you can use immediately for delivering in-house training on SharePoint Lists and Libraries, SharePoint Blogs and Wikis, SharePoint and Excel, SharePoint and Word, SharePoint and Outlook.
I have been a teacher for over 30 years. In these sessions I impart to you how [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 25th '09 |
SharePoint Document Generator – Part 1: How to establish a parent – child relationship in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Mindaugas Bliudzius
I want to show you one of the ways to quickly establish a parent – child relationship in SharePoint.
By using this, you will be able to add child items on the parent item view page as shown in the image below:
The idea of adding a new child item form is borrowed from the OOTB SharePoint Blog application template. By investigating how comments are implemented on the Post.aspx page I was able to reuse OOTB SharePoint:SubmitCommentButton control which is used [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 25th '09 |
2009-09-25 Today in SharePoint with Joel Oleson (Recording)
End User SharePoint
Today’s recording is a little different from the previous ones. Joel’s on a trip through India and we got caught up in a discussion of the places and things he’s seen along the way. There’s not much about SharePoint here, but the travel adventures with Michael Noel riding shotgun are an entertaining listen.
Hope you enjoy it. [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 25th '09 |
2009-09-24 Today in SharePoint with Michael Gannotti
End User SharePoint
A lot of times you can follow someone on their blog or on twitter and never really get a feel for who they are. In this segment of Today in SharePoint, I talk with Michael a little about his family history and the story behind his name. Fun stuff…
Locations within the recording (minutes:seconds)
00:00 – What’s behind the “Gannotti” name?
05:16 – Live blogging at SharePoint Conference 2009
07:33 – SharePoint in the Eastern Block Countries
08:30 – [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 24th '09 |
Feedback: Live online Easy Tabs Interface for SharePoint
End User SharePoint
Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint just completed delivering a tremendous session on how to utilize his Easy Tabs Interface. Instead of me sounding like an infomercial, I’ll let the participants tell you about it.
If what you hear from them gets you excited, leave a comment and we’ll book another session very soon. What follows is unedited comments from the participants. [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 23rd '09 |
Time for another SharePoint Saturday: Philly on Nov 7
End User SharePoint
Hey, we all need a little brotherly love once in a while, so I’m headed over to Philly on Nov 7 to participate in SharePoint Saturday. This will be my sixth or seventh one, but I never get tired of them.
This is a great chance to put together a presentation and deliver it to a very appreciative audience. Speaker submission closes on September 26, so download a request form and get yourself signed up.
They are expecting 250 to 300 people, with registration opening on October 7. Mark the da [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 23rd '09 |
Workshop Feedback: Excel and SharePoint – I didn’t know you could do that!
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers and I just completed delivering the live online workshop, Excel and SharePoint – I didn’t know you could do that! We look forward to participant feedback from the session.
Let’s see what they have to say… [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 22nd '09 |
Easy Tabs Interface – Demo 02 (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
I’m really impressed with the work Christophe Humbert has been putting into tweaking out the solutions for his live online workshop, Easy Tabs Interface – Simple SharePoint Navigation for Complex Information.
In the screencast below, I poke around his demo a little to see the types of things he is implementing: display of information without reloading the page, rounded corners on a tabbed interface, intuitive navigation for changing items in a calendar, pulling of live data from a tw [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 22nd '09 |
2009-09-21 Today in SharePoint (Links)
End User SharePoint
I don’t usually act as a link farm, but there’s just too much coming in this morning to pass on as individual reviews and articles. As a suggestion, get setup on Twitter, start following some SharePoint people and you’ll get a great set of filtered links on all things SharePoint everyday. I hardly, if ever, look at my RSS anymore.
Every one of these is worth a read. Pick and choose what’s relevant for you.
Patch a SharePoint Farm Without Downtime (sort of)
Tag based arch [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 21st '09 |
Recorded Demo: Using the Easy Tabs Interface
End User SharePoint
Christophe Humpert created an impressive demo for his upcoming live online workshop, Easy Tabs Interface – Simple SharePoint Navigation for Complex information. It takes a little time for the demo to download, but definitely worth it when you see what he has done.
If you haven’t been following Christophe on Path to SharePoint, you’re missing out on a tremendous resource for adding no-code solutions to your SharePoint site. Easy Tabs Interface is the first of a series of live on [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 21st '09 |
Excel and SharePoint: I didn’t know you could do that!
End User SharePoint
Excel integration with SharePoint is so deep, a lot of people only touch on the capabilities. During the Excel and SharePoint: I didn’t know you could do that! workshop, when Laura Rogers shows how to use a little known fly-out panel in a SharePoint list to create pivot tables and graphs, you can almost hear the jaws drop.
We’re going to run the live online workshop again tomorrow. One of the points that we stress is: Store your data in SharePoint. Use Excel to analyze that data. Lau [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 21st '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Two Live Online Workshops Next Week
End User SharePoint
We’re putting the finishing touches on next week’s live online workshops.
The first is on Tuesday, with Laura Rogers: Excel and SharePoint: I didn’t know you could do that! This is a popular workshop because it reaches an audience between basic Information Workers and Power Users. Using hands-on labs, Laura shows you the tricks and traps of using Excel to its best advantages with SharePoint.
Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint is presenting his first workshop with us, &# [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 18th '09 |
2009-09-18 Today in SharePoint with Michael Gannotti (Recording)
End User SharePoint
This is the inaugural recording for Michael Gannotti’s new series on EndUserSharePoint.com. It’s along the same lines as “Today in SharePoint with Joel Oleson“, where we discuss whatever comes to mind in the world of SharePoint, Social Media and anything else we want to talk about.
We’re looking for suggestions or observations for next week, so if you have a recommendation please leave a comment and we’ll take a look at it.
As always, your feedback is apprecia [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 18th '09 |
A Brief History of SharePoint (From a Relative Newcomer’s Perspective)
End User SharePoint
SharePoint has evolved a great deal since its early days as sort of an incubation technology at Microsoft –it’s evolved almost like a horror movie, where the mad scientist’s creation takes on a life of its own, breaking free of its creator’s expectations and rules. The technical evolution is obvious – the WSS 3.0 object model is richer and more complex than WSS 2.0, which was itself an improvement over earlier versions. The next version will no dou [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 18th '09 |
Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 04 (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
In this fourth installment of the Presentation Materials Series, I want to do a direct comparison with a bulletpoint centric slidedeck vs one utilizing the techniques demonstrated in the the first three screencasts of this series.
Take a look and give me some feedback. I’ll respond through another screencast to clarify any of the concepts talked about here.
If you like what you see, consider joining us for the live online Train the Trainer Workshop Series that starts at the end of this mon [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 17th '09 |
2009-09-17 Today in SharePoint with Joel Oleson (Recording)
End User SharePoint
Joel is at the bottom of the world this week. I caught up with him in Singapore, we both ignored the 12 hour time difference and had a nice discussion about all things SharePoint.
For those of you who follow this series, you might notice the name has changed from “This Week in SharePoint” to “Today in SharePoint”. I’m in the process of adding other people to talk to each week. Tomorrow I’ll be publishing the first of a set of weekly recordings with Michael Gan [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 17th '09 |
Custom Form – Edit Fields Based on Permission Levels in SharePoint (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
SharePoint 911
This webcast shows how to create conditional formatting in a custom list form, in order to hide or display fields based on the logged in user’s permission level.
The supporting document is here on my blog. Also, this is the link to Ian’s blog that I referenced. The prerequisite to this webcast, is last week’s Customize Form Pages in SharePoint.
Embed this screencast on your site
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Join Laura on Oc [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 17th '09 |
This Thursday, Live Online: SharePoint Shop Talk
End User SharePoint
From Paul Galvin: The next SharePoint Shop Talk takes place this Thursday, 09/17 at 12:30PM EDT.
What is SharePoint Shop Talk? It’s a one hour conference call where a panel of SharePoint pro’s answer questions. Send your questions to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com, leave a comment here or just ask them out loud on the call.
The panel tries to offer several different approaches to solving the underlying problem behind the question and just generally provide unbiased expert advice. This week [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 16th '09 |
Aggregating across SharePoint Site Collections
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Brett Lonsdale
Sometimes with SharePoint you will find yourself in a Chicken and Egg situation! Many SharePoint specialists consider it a best practice to use many site collections in their environments than to have one big site collection. Each site collection can be assigned its own content database and therefore makes backup and restoration of SharePoint data more efficient than try to back up one huge database. This can however cause you other problems such as isolated conten [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 16th '09 |
SharePoint: How can I save a custom view and reuse it in another document
End User SharePoint
I saw the question come up over on Mark Miller’s site about how to save a custom View for use in another document library, so I decided to play around with it some to see what I could come up with for a solution to this.
Basically, what I’ve found is that there appears to be two ways to approach this:
First, you can do the “Save library as a template” option which will copy over any custom views you have…which sounds simple enough for creating any new l [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 15th '09 |
Importance of Building a SharePoint Team
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Peter Baddeley
Last Weekend I went to an Airshow at the Imperial War Musuem at Duxford. The show rounded off with a display from the Red Arrows (Below) and this example of a near perfect team got me thinking about building a successful SharePoint Team.
A successful team is perhaps won of the most critical aspects to a successful SharePoint project, because without the right people you can’t make it happen. The first thing to say is that building a successful team is [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 15th '09 |
Am I the Oldest Man in SharePoint?
End User SharePoint
At the SharePoint Saturday speaker get-together last Friday night in New York City I was approached by a young man asking if I was Mark Miller from EndUserSharePoint.com. Because of the visibility of the site in the past year, this is pretty common at events like this. People want to stop and tell me they are a fan of the site and how one of the articles saved them a ton of time… stuff like that.
This time, it was a little differerent.
“Man, you’re OLD!” he said. When I [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 15th '09 |
Make SharePoint 2007 Act Like SharePoint 2010 (sort of …)
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Jan Tielens
I’m pretty sure every SharePoint enthusiast has seen those great Sneak Peek videos Microsoft released some time ago. And I’m sure that lots of the new features shown were very exciting for lots of you. Since SharePoint 2010 is still quite far away in the future, let’s try to bring some of the 2010 stuff to SharePoint 2007!
In the overview video, Tom Rizzo showed some new user interface functionality, pretty much all of it was heavily using asynchronous [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 14th '09 |
A SharePoint Case Study – Switching on the right light bulbs…
End User SharePoint
Introduction
I had been engaged to work with a Welsh government inspectorate on their vision for the Microsoft SharePoint platform and how it can transform their business processes and internal\external stakeholder engagements.
The organisation had seen a demonstration of a records management solution implemented at a central government department that my organisation had been involved in and felt that it met their needs for an intuitive, pragmatic approach to records management.
I was asked to [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 14th '09 |
SharePoint Saturday NYC – Recorded Presentation on Charts and Graphs
End User SharePoint
During my presentation on “Charts and Graphs in WSS” at SharePoint Saturday this weekend, I turned on Camtasia and recorded the hour long presentation.
Instead of embedding it the way I normally do, I’m making it available for download since it’s over 40 megs. Right click the link and choose “Save target as…”. This will place the recording on your harddrive so you can listen at your convenience.
In some places in the recording, my voice seems to fade ou [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 14th '09 |
Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 03 (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
My six year old son watched SharePoint Presentation Materials Part 02 and had a few comments for me.
The first was that the Q&A slide looked too much like the main talking point slides and people could get confused. The second was that if you start a screencast with a talking headshot, you should close the segment with a talking headshot.
Ahhh, from the mouth of babes.
Watch how I update the slide deck and then conclude the present screencast. Thanks Orion. How do you like this one?
If yo [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 11th '09 |
My Apologies – Worst SharePoint Presentation Ever
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Doug Ware
I just got done with a Live Learning Web cast for AppDev on User Profiles and My Sites and it’s hard to imagine how it could possibly have been worse. I had serious machine issues for the first 30 minutes and couldn’t get my profile import configuration to save. I kept getting an error message about connecting to the database on the profile configuration screen. This was very strange as everything else seemed to be working – I’d expect the Shared S [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 11th '09 |
Customize Form Pages in SharePoint (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
SharePoint 911
When absolutely necessary, forms can be customized in SharePoint Designer. Here’s a way to do it that won’t break your list.
Join Laura on October 9 as she presents “Health Care Case Management Solutions in SharePoint“. In this three hour, live online, hands-on workshop, you’ll implement a full solution for Health Care Case Management in SharePoint. The scenario used is one to manage a new patient check in at a hosp [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 11th '09 |
Uncustomized vs Customized Pages in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Susan Henry
In SharePoint 2003 the concept of Ghosting and Unghosting described what happened to your files when they were modified or customized. With SharePoint 2007 that terminology and the process by which customizations are handled has changed drastically. Instead SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 are built on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and use the Virtual Page Parser. Thus, the process has changed and so has the name. With the next version of SharePoint right around the corner it&rsquo [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 11th '09 |
What is SharePoint?
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Jon Strickler
I hear many businesses that are interested in ‘doing something with SharePoint.’ That is kind of like saying I’d like to deploy a Swiss army knife. Depending on what the goals of the business are, SharePoint can be a lot of different things. This post tries to explore what those are.
First, let’s start with a few definitions for SharePoint:
An integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effecti [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 10th '09 |
Quiet on the Set: 160+ SharePoint Videos
End User SharePoint
Here at End User SharePoint I have been working hard to create and collect SharePoint videos for your viewing pleasure. The goal is to have an organized repository for publicly accessible SharePoint screencasts and videos.
We’re averaging about five per day so make sure to check back often.
If you find a screencast that you like, there’s a form on the SharePoint Video Aggregator where you can contribute a link. For those of you creating screencasts and videos, make sure there is an e [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 10th '09 |
Missing metadata with Office 2003 – yet another “duh” moment…
End User SharePoint
I had a problem this week that got resolved with something quite obvious, but I learned a lot in the process, so I am detailing it here.
Symptoms: Using MOSS 2007 SP2 and Office 2003 SP3, users complained that metadata on documents went missing. Consider the scenario below where we have a sample document library.
Our user opens the “Memo to Council re Convenor” document into Word 2003, makes a change and saves it. Note the difference. Where’s my metadata?
I as [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 10th '09 |
Danger! Do not implement SharePoint in your Organization!
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Fred Yeomans
This column I want to deliver a warning to all of you out there – do not implement SharePoint in your organization! If you ignore this warning, and implement SharePoint anyway, beware. You run the risk of any number of problems, including:
User dissatisfaction
Maintainability and support issues
Data silos, making information hard to find, hard to share, and hard to maintain
Lots of rework
General chaos
Projects that take 10 times longer than you had planned, [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 10th '09 |
Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 02 (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
In a previous screencast, I talked about creating a PowerPoint template that chunks information into groups of three, making it easier for your participants to consume the information. I am following up that screencast with this one to show a fully fleshed out slidedeck that I use for presenting Lists and Libraries information to Information Workers. Take a look and see what you think.
If you like what you see, consider joining us for the live online Train the Trainer Workshop Series that starts [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
SharePoint Shop Talk: Live Q&A with the SharePoint “Fix It” Crew
End User SharePoint
Paul and Natalya from Arcovis are hosting their weekly live Q&A broadcast: SharePoint Shop Talk starting tomorrow, Thursday at 12:30pm EST.
This is your chance to hit up a couple of SharePoint MVPs with the tough questions like “How do I load documents into a library?” or “What is the GAC and why should I care?”.
It’s a freebie so crash the live online party. All SharePoint questions at all levels are welcome. Paul and Natalya aren’t as funny as the fat [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
SharePoint: A Case Study in “Ask the Expert”
End User SharePoint
Sometimes, when you’re working as a consultant, you can find yourself living in an Onion story. The Onion has a series of articles called “Ask an [expert] about [some problem]”. This follows the famous “Dear Abby” format where a concerned person is asking for personal advice. The onion’s “expert”, however, is so focused on his/her area of expertise and current problems that the expert ignores the question entirely [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
URL Shortening in SharePoint with bit.ly
End User SharePoint
In my two previous posts about customizing the Edit Control Block (or ECB for short) with Javascript, I showed some basic examples of what can be accomplished with this technique. Now it’s time to build a real life example instead of menu items which show Hello World dialog boxes.
I’m pretty sure everybody who is using SharePoint has sent a link to a document in a Document Library to somebody else (in an email message for example). So you probably know that links to documents [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
SharePoint Train the Trainer: Q&A
End User SharePoint
Registration for the live online Train the Trainer Series is going well. I’ve been getting a few repeat questions about the series, so I thought I’d handle them here to spread the word a little easier.
> Will you cover best practices and My Site?
Definitely best practices, but not My Sites. My Sites have very specific uses with different companies, plus you have to be running MOSS, so it is hard to generalize. However, we will be covering, in depth, ways to create your own conten [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 8th '09 |
2009-09-09 This Week in SharePoint with Joel Oleson
End User SharePoint
Joel Oleson and I got a chance to catch up today. We’re back on track to continue with our weekly series of broadcasts. We hadn’t spoken for a while, so there is a wide diversity of subjects covered. We did run 5 minutes over our usual 15 minute limit, but I think it was well worth it.
There are the time markers and the content titles for those in a hurry. We appreciate your comments and input.
Regards,
Mark and Joel
00:13 – Introduction
01:45 – SharePoint 2010
03:20 & [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 8th '09 |
SharePoint: Will the pain ever stop?
End User SharePoint
My six year old son got his figure caught in an expandable/collapsable step stool this weekend… the kind that has the exposed metal hinges, right where you want to put your hand to close the thing. Stupid design.
After the initial shock of pain, he gasped for breath and started crying, “Will the pain EVER go away?” That was an epiphany for me. We, as individuals, have to learn what is eternal and what “goes away”, as he said. I looked at his figure, saw there was no [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 8th '09 |
What is the future of SharePoint?
End User SharePoint
There is a lot of excitement going around as we head towards SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. It’s at this event that the public will get a chance to see what the next version of SharePoint will look like. That’s all well and good, but really, where is SharePoint headed, what’s the future vision for this platform?
I remember reading an article a long time back about Sony and how it plans for the future… not 5 years, 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, but 250 years in a [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
@WonderLaura and Her SharePoint Magic Wand
End User SharePoint
I’ve added this one to the SharePoint Video Aggregator, even though it is in Russian and I can’t understand a word it says. The graphics are perfect… reminds me of @WonderLaura flying around in her SharePoint cape. [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
Develop SharePoint Presentation Materials: Part 01 (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
Delivering SharePoint presentations to End Users, whether Information Workers, Power Users or Site Administrators, can be dry and boring as hell. Not only that, with the amount of information that most people try to transfer to the participants, it’s a wonder they can absorb anything.
I’ve been at conferences with 3500 people in one room and have not been able to read the slide deck from the sixth row because the font was set small enough to accommodate 16 bullet points. You’ve [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
Binary Free SharePoint Twitter Search Web Part
End User SharePoint
No Assembly (or C#, or VB) Required
Searching Twitter from SharePoint has become all the rage since I originally posted my Twitter Search Federation articles (Part 1, Part 2). Federation is great if you have Search Server, or the Infrastructure Updates. But what if you are only using WSS? Or what if you just want to drop a Twitter search into any old SharePoint page, rather than a full Results page? And more critical - what if you don’t have direct access to the SharePoint server in order [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 3rd '09 |
Connecting to Line of Business Data from within the Browser
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Brett Lonsdale
www.brettlonsdale.com
Have you explored what can be done with the Business Data Catalog (BDC) yet? The BDC is no longer brand new, but is still very misunderstood and extremely powerful.
Many consider it to be yet another way of displaying data in web parts, well yes, but as well as that you can search your Line of Business data (LOB), use it within SharePoint lists and Libraries from a special type of lookup column, aggregate user profile information from LOB s [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 3rd '09 |
Tabbed Interfaces, SharePoint Calendars and Color Coded Columns
End User SharePoint
Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint is working on the labs for the live online workshops he will be delivering for us starting at the end of this month. He setup a demo page that incorporates many of the solutions he will be presenting in the workshops.
The first workshop, Easy Tabs Interface - Simple SharePoint Navigation for Complex Information, shows how to present complex information is a simple, tabbed interface. On the demo page, look at the calendar. It is embedded in a tabbed inte [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 2nd '09 |
SharePoint Dashboard Trick: Drive Multiple Excel Worksheet and Pivot Table Reports
End User SharePoint
Contributing author Laura Rogers recently received the following note from Tim Stadler regarding his solution to a SharePoint problem. We thought it was such a neat trick that we wanted to post for everyone to see.
Laura,
I first would like to thank you for taking the time to show interest in my find. It will be interesting to see if you knew this one or if you would be willing to work with me to get it out to the masses. I first would like to give you a brief description of what it was ou [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 2nd '09 |
Crossing Over – Tales of a SharePoint Psychic
End User SharePoint
Paul Culmsee
www.sevensigma.com.au
Often as a SharePoint consultant, you are faced with the situation where you can see plainly that a client who is new to SharePoint, is a high risk of condemning their organisation to a path that will end in tears. There are countless ways that this can happen, but the common thread amongst them all is that the client is usually making a decision from the perspective of unconscious incompetence – training speak for “you don’t kno [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 2nd '09 |
SharePoint On Line // BPOS – Some Hands On Experience
End User SharePoint
Paul Galvin, Microsoft MVP - SharePoint
Web site: Paul Galvin’s SharePoint Space
I had a chance to really dig into Microsoft Online’s offering earlier this year and specifically the business productivity online suite (BPOS). This came along before I even had a firm plan to set out on my own at Arcovis. I immediately saw, however, that BPOS could be a key part of my company’s internal infrastructure and over time, it has become exactly that. Arcovis, uses it on [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 1st '09 |
Get it Together: Groups and Totals in the Data View Web Part (Screencast)
End User SharePoint
Author: Laura Rogers
Live Online Workshop Presenter
Stump the Panel, Moderator
SharePoint 911
When creating a regular list view in SharePoint, it is easy to set up grouping and totals, right out of the box. Unfortunately, when trying to achieve the same effect in a data view web part, there are some tricks to it. In this 5 minute screencast, Laura Rogers shows how to set up grouping and totals within a data view web part. Yes, there is a *tiny* bit of code involved, but it’s not too pai [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 1st '09 |
The Case for/against SharePoint
End User SharePoint
On August 7th, Ashlee Vance of the New York Times published an article, Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession, on how SharePoint is thriving in one of the largest economic depressions since the 1920s.
Reading the comments to the article, I couldn’t help but leave my own on the NYT site. The Microsoft/SharePoint bashing is in full force, especially from those who have never used the platform. What gives here? The denial that SharePoint is a valid platform just because it is mad [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 1st '09 |
Who said SharePoint web parts can’t be sexy?
End User SharePoint
I spent the week with John Anderson from Bamboo Nation last week and he never told me there were pop stars and schlock web part salesmen on the other side of the fence. Would you work with a company that has the confidence in their products to put out these promo videos?
I don’t know about you, but I would… [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 31st '09 |
Fall Schedule for SharePoint Live Online Workshops from EndUserSharePoint.com
End User SharePoint
August 31 , 2009
I’ve spent the past two weeks setting up 23 live online workshops for this fall. I’m very excited to include Christophe Humber of Path to SharePoint and Jim Bob Howard from Stump the Panel as presenters. Laura Rogers and Paul Grenier will also be returning with new and improved solutions for their workshops.
What follows is a list of workshops in September and October. I’ll be publishing the November and December schedule in the coming weeks. Clic [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 31st '09 |
List/Libraries vs RSS for data feeds
End User SharePoint
I have been working with Christophe Humbert, Path to SharePoint, to deliver some live online workshops using his work Easy Tabs and dynamically generated color coding based upon the HTML calculated column. We were discussing different ways to access information to be displayed in charts.
I thought it would be interesting to open up a topic based upon Christophe’s response to the use of RSS feeds for data.
From Christophe:
In our last call, we had a short discussion about getting SharePo [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 31st '09 |
Creating mailing lists for SharePoint sites and blogs [No Code Required] – Part 1: Creating a secured backend
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Ayman El-Hattab
This multi-part series of posts is intended to help you create mailing lists for your SharePoint sites or blogs without writing a single line of .NET Code. In the introductory article, I listed the project initiatives, requirements, and objectives. If you have not read it yet, I would encourage you to do that first.
As per the requirements listed in the introductory part, we need to create a back-end where we will store the subscribers’ contacts and infor [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 31st '09 |
Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Web Parts
End User SharePoint
Todd Bleeker gave an extended presentation at Best Practices Conference this week on “Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Web Parts”. I slapped together a quick down and dirty web cam recording with UStream, embedded below.
Todd was kind enough to send me the entire slidedeck along with the resources from his presentation. Crank up the recording to top volume, open the .pdf slidedeck and follow along. This isn’t basic, End User stuff, but there’s a lot to be learned [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 29th '09 |
Train the Trainer: Live online workshop series from EndUserSharePoint.com
End User SharePoint
Testimonial
“As a certified expert in these tools, even I came away with some new integration tips! These courses are essential for any trainer who is new to SharePoint or Office 2007 as well as seasoned veterans of stand-up, hands-on delivery that want a refresher on new techniques they can use to ‘wow’ their audiences.” — Previous Participant in Train the Trainer
From Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com: I have so many requests for a rerun of [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 28th '09 |
Add instant IM to your SharePoint site… no code required.
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Chris Quick
I was playing with Meebo (www.meebo.com) and discovered that I can set up instant messaging from SharePoint to my Meebo account.
Here are the steps:
1) Create a meebo account a www.meebo.com
2) After your account is created, click on preferences > meebo me widgets
3) Click Add New Widget
4) Give it a name and select a size (super-size works well in the default team site)
5) Click Create
6) Click on the Widget Embed and copy all of the text (ctrl-c or right-clic [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 28th '09 |
Admit it. Take the hit. Somebody did something stupid.
End User SharePoint
One of the things I find sorely lacking in the SharePoint Community is opinionated op-ed pieces. I want to know why something sucks, why one product is objectively better than another, why SharePoint implementations crash and burn. I don’t want this one anymore: “SharePoint sucks because… (choose your poison)”. SharePoint does what it does. Who made the decisions to deploy this thing without a proper game plan, anyway?
I hear it every single day on blogs, twitter, article [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 28th '09 |
Live blog/tweets/videos from Best Practices available as archive
End User SharePoint
The streaming media page from Best Practices Conference received tons of compliments from people attending the event. We had seven people live blogging from sessions, adding pictures to the stream and helping manage the media table.
The content from the streams are archived so that you can review the sessions and the notes taken in each. If you followed the live stream, I’d appreciate comments to the authors who participated so that they know what they provided is of value to people who c [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 27th '09 |
Creating mailing lists for SharePoint sites and blogs [No Code Required] – Introduction
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Ayman El-Hattab
Last week, I worked on creating a mailing list for a public facing SharePoint site. I really had some constraints because I was only allowed to use SharePoint Designer and the browser. I’m not used to these situations because I am mainly a software engineer. However, it was a very nice experience. I applied lots of knowledge and I worked around the constraints. I decided to put the experience and workarounds together into an educational series of articles to h [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 26th '09 |
Live from Best Practices Conference 2009: Free online sessions
End User SharePoint
We’ve got the streaming media page for all the tweets and live blogging coming out of Best Practices 2009, but on Wednesday, we’re going to add something major to the mix.
We’re going to stick a web cam in a couple of the sessions and stream them live, so you won’t feel so left out. Here’s the list of what we’re going to try to stream:
8:30am - 9:40am
10 things you wish they told you about SharePoint 2007
Sahil Malik
9:55am - 11:05am
Best Practices for Dev [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 26th '09 |
SharePoint: A Case Study in Content Organization
End User SharePoint
One of my company’s more unusual clients is a New York City doctor who is a leader in his particular field of medicine (eye care). Like many doctors, he has a strong interest in research. He wanted to do some research on a rare eye disorder that affects a relatively small number of people in the U.S. and Canada. I don’t know the number, but it’s really too small for a large pharmaceutical company to invest its own private funds with an eye toward eventual commercial success. I’m [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 25th '09 |
Live from Washington, D.C…. it’s Best Practices Conference, Day 2
End User SharePoint
Ok, sports fans. We’re cranked up for the live feeds for day two from Best Practices Conference. Looking forward to your participation and comments.
[read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 25th '09 |
Do SharePoint right before SharePoint does you wrong
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Tony Byrne
I recently advised a global consumer goods firm about how to integrate their various Social Software implementations and where to place SharePoint in that mix. This was that rare company who had not yet implemented SharePoint hardly at all, beyond a few WSS pilots. In other words, that mythical "greenfield" environment that consultants can dream about, but rarely exist in real life.
The firm is considering expanding their investment, including licensing MOSS. We discuss [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 24th '09 |
Live, from Washington, D.C…. it’s Best Practices Conference 2009
End User SharePoint
The slide decks are done. The rooms are setup. The media booth is ready… time to kickoff Best Practices Conference 2009.
The live streams are setup. There are a couple ways to view them. Go to the Live Media Streams page. There are four panels. You can activate all panels, or choose only the ones you’d like to view. Here’s how they are setup.
Panel 1 - Live stream of all tweets coming out of the conference.
Panel 2 - Live blogging of SQL Server Developer Track, SQL Server Busi [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 24th '09 |
Introduction: SharePoint - The Basics
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Geoff Varosky
In the coming weeks I will be releasing a series of articles here on EndUserSharePoint, discussing some basics around HTML and CSS. For a lot of you, this will be material you may already know extremely well.
However, there are a vast majority of people I see working with SharePoint, that can copy and paste in HTML or CSS code into, say, everybody’s favorite, the Content Editor Web Part, but do nothing more to it from there. They do not understand the basic [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 24th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: 23 New Live Online Workshops
End User SharePoint
Fasten your seatbelts. On Monday, August 24th, our Weekly Newsletter will be listing 23 live online workshops we will be delivering from September through December of this year. We’ve got some new presenters such as Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint, Jim Bob Howard from Stump the Panel, as well as Laura Rogers and Paul Grenier, “faces” well known around here if you’ve been reading for a while.
The Weekly Newsletter subscribers will receive advanced notice of all [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 21st '09 |
PhoneBook Search – No code required
End User SharePoint
Contributing Author: Toni Frankola, SharePoint Use Cases
Over the last few years I’ve worked with many clients in different industries. Every company I worked with had one application in common: a centralized phonebook. These apps are usually written by some IT rookie that had a desire to show how good he is at "3 letter acronym" technology (ASP, PHP…)
Phonebooks are being used when an employee needs to call a coworker on an office number or when a receptionist wants to inform you th [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 21st '09 |
SharePoint Training in Atlanta
End User SharePoint
Choosing a training vendor is a tough proposition. You’ve got to spend a boatload of money to get someone to standup in front of a critical audience for three days to five days, deliver the goods and then verify that what was given will be useful immediately in the work environment. Like I said, tough choice to make.
At EndUserSharePoint.com, we deliver live online training about a dozen times per month, helping to fill the gap in cost and timeframe when you need a specific solution right [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Top 10 SharePoint Sites for End Users
End User SharePoint
Last week I published an article, Get People to Come to Your SharePoint Site, that talked about the three levels of End Users as we define them on this site. Along that line, I’m going to give a subjective list of the SharePoint sites that I use on a regular basis.
The sites I’ve chosen are ones that consistently have great content for End Users, from Information Workers through Site Collection Admin. Of course I’d like to include EndUserSharePoint.com and Stump the Panel, but [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09 |
SharePoint Shop Talk - Weekly Live Online Q&A Broadcast
End User SharePoint
We are pleased to support a new live online webinar series for everything SharePoint. Paul Galvin, a frequent contributor to EndUserSharePoint.com, is hosting “SharePoint Shop Talk“, a weekly broadcast, every Thursday from 12:30 to 1:30 EDT
It’s a project still in the making but the forum will tackle any and all questions related to SharePoint. The panel regularly includes Paul, Microsoft MVP Natalya Voskresenskaya, Harry Jones and a variety of guest members each week. The pane [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Top 10 Commented Posts
End User SharePoint
Continuing with the Top 10 series in the celebration of our 1000th article, let’s take a look at the top ten most commented posts on EndUserSharePoint.com. These are subjects that either generated a ton of discussion or were used to help refine a specific solution through feedback from the readers.
For those of you who have been with us for a while, this will be a nice walk down memory lane. Those new to the site will find some interesting solutions here, along with intriguing discussions [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 19th '09 |
Bad Practice #1: Not using Solutions for deploying artifacts to the server(s)
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Benjamin Curry, SharePoint MVP
I remember Steve Ballmer screaming ‘developers, developers, developers’ back at TechEd (I think it was TechEd, don’t remember the year). That’s what I feel like when I meet with clients talking about Best Practices - SOLUTIONS, SOLUTIONS, SOLUTIONS!! Just say yes to solutions. Maybe I can get Todd Bleeker to do the SOLUTIONS rant and record it! That would be awesome
So if solutions (WSP = SharePoint Solution [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 19th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Top 10 Subscribed Posts
End User SharePoint
One of the indications of the value of a specific article on EndUserSharePoint.com is the number of people who subscribe to be notified if a comment is placed on a specific article.
All of the articles on the site have a subscription box on them where you can ask to be notified, even if you have not placed a comment. Our authors subscribe to their own posts, so it’s the best way to communicate with them on a specific subject, along with tracking answers on Stump the Panel.
Here are the Top [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 18th '09 |
Bad Practice #2: No Governance Plan
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Benjamin Curry, SharePoint MVP
So, I’m going straight to the bad practice #2 because of conversations with some peers yesterday here in the UK. We see lots of blogs and articles about SharePoint Governance, and they are all very lengthy and probably applicable to most organizations. But, what I’ve seen is the average SharePoint administrator is the Exchange Admin, firewall admin, and sometimes the accountant! The point is - many folks don’t have time to go throug [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 18th '09 |
Using Excel’s AutoRepublishing to Create SharePoint Charts & Dashboards
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: William Hakos
Most organizations have been using Excel to do analysis, create charts and design dashboards for years, yet there is a lot of functionality in Excel that is not easily accessed in SharePoint, sometimes even for those with Excel Services. The question becomes, how does one translate their work from Excel to SharePoint? This means more than linking to an Excel workbook in a Document Library; rather, it requires displaying the charts and dashboards directly within ShareP [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 17th '09 |
Site Managers and End User Expectations, Roles and Responsibilities
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Richard Harbridge
A challenge with SharePoint for site managers, site administrators, or site owners is understanding their own role, it’s responsibilities, and what expectations come with being a ‘site owner, manager, or administrator’.
Before I go into what you can do from a Governance perspective, and related challenges I would like to use a quote from Mark Miller (from this article on user adoption and the success of this site ) that I think perfec [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 11th '09 |
Get People to Come to Your SharePoint Site
End User SharePoint
This week, EndUserSharePoint.com is celebrating the publication of its 1000th article on SharePoint. Mark Miller, Founder and Editor, talks about how the site was created, how it become one of the largest SharePoint communities on the internet, and how you might use those lessons on your own SharePoint site.
Overview
I get questions every week about how EndUserSharePoint.com has grown so fast. In less than 2 years, we have about 350,000 to 400,000 page views a month. The unique visitor count is [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 10th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Going… going… gone
End User SharePoint
This is the week I traditionally take my family camping in Northern California, so it’s going to be kind of slow around here on the site. @TeamESUP will be monitoring the site, so there will be occasional updates. I have also prepublished a couple of articles that will magically appear during the week, but don’t let that fool you. I’m completely off the grid.
I hope your summer/winter is going well. I’ll be back to full speed next week, refreshed and ready for another go [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 9th '09 |
Displaying Default Icons in SharePoint: Library of Images
End User SharePoint
During Laura Roger’s live online workshop today, Susan Lennon reminded me that Peter Allen at Bits of SharePoint has a very useful library of all of the default icons supplied with SharePoint.
When you are building dashboards and need images and icons, no need to go hunting for them. They are all available as thumbnails, with names and locations, on Peter’s site.
Wonderful community resource. Thanks Peter. [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 7th '09 |
This Week in SharePoint with Joel (and Eric)
End User SharePoint
Joel has been on the road with Eric for the past two weeks, so we haven’t had a chance to do our weekly recordings. Howevever, they’ve been very good at documenting their travels with pictures from various outings.
Shark Diving
Cape Town, South Africa
Kruger Park [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 7th '09 |
Bullet Proof Ways to Increase End User Buy-in: Communication Channels
End User SharePoint
The Web 2.0 Social Media moniker has been getting way too much play, but when they tools are used well, they can collectively be an extremely powerful force in communication, offering contact with your core audience through monitoring and feedback.
Stop thinking ‘Campaigns’. Start thinking ‘Conversations’. — Mart Kagan
Marta Kagan from Brand Infiltration has posted an engaging slidedeck to help you start the process of communicating with your audience as opposed to [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 7th '09 |
Feedback: Build a Site Permissions Dashboard
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers has delivered her live online workshop, Build a Site Permissions Dashboards. This is the feedback area for the workshop. Let’s see what the participants have to say… [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 7th '09 |
Best Practices Conference: Ticket Giveaways on Twitter
End User SharePoint
I just received a message from Mark Elgersma, conference director for the Best Practices Conference. Pretty interesting promotion… he’s randomly giving away tickets on twitter. The giveaway is pretty simple. Follow @bpconference on twitter for details.
Here’s a quote from Mark: “Yeah, I know it is crazy to give out seats, but what I really want to do is make sure people understand the Best Practices about SQL Server and SharePoint. I have done my job by bringing together [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 7th '09 |
Live Blogging: Best Practices Conference, Washington, D.C.
End User SharePoint
We’re 17 days away from the Best Practices Conference. Time to put on your journalist hat and blog live from the conference floor.
If you are going to the conference and will be twittering, please register for the live twitter feed we’ll be pushing directly from the conference. For those bringing laptops to take notes, please consider adding your name as a live blogger. You won’t be limited to 140 characters, plus you’ll be able to include images and videos in the live s [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 7th '09 |
Ode to EUSP
End User SharePoint
A note from Mark Miller: As part of passing the milestone of 1000 articles on EndUserSharePoint.com, I’ve asked the contributing authors to send an article or a little story about any topic of their choice. This one is from Laura Rogers, moderator on Stump the Panel, and live online workshop presenter.
Author: Laura Rogers,
Ode? No, I’m not going to be that formal. This is just a brief synopsis of how I met Mark Miller and started writing for the EUSP site.
Back around March of [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 7th '09 |
SharePoint Security: Through the Looking Glass
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Dave Pileggi
Here are the first few minutes of the presentation I will be giving at the Best Practice Conference. Trust me, it gets even better, but you have to attend to get the rest!
The Cast
Active Directory (AD): Cheshire Cat. AD is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. To the end users AD is absolutely no where. They know they signed onto their computer to get to their applications, but if you ask them what AD was, they would look at you with the wide eyed bewilderme [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 6th '09 |
Calculated Column Formula Tips - Aggregating Calculations Over 1000
End User SharePoint
Contributing Author: Jim Bob Howard
Aggregating data with a DVWP and a Linked Data Source can really save you lots of time and make your SharePoint lists do some great online reporting.
I was recently working on a Mileage Reimbursement application and was able to use some tricks I learned from Laura Rogers in her screen cast, 4 Minute Screencast: Join View of SharePoint Lists, to link data from different lists. Her techniques gave me the direction I needed to display all of the mileage records f [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 6th '09 |
Live Online Workshop: Build a SharePoint Site Permissions Dashboard - No Code Required!
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers is putting the finishing touches on this Friday’s live online workshop, “Build a Site Permissions Dashboard - No Code Required!” The workshop is a step-by-step process for creating a dashboard panel to view and manage site permissions.
This is the final workshop of the summer, so if you’ve been saving your nickels and dimes to choose a workshop, this is the one. Check out the demo screencast below, then register for this Friday.
See you there.
Laura and Mark [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 6th '09 |
The Office 2010 Synchronization Center
End User SharePoint
Contributing Author: Woody Windischman
As I play around with the Office 2010 client applications, naturally I’m finding some things are the same, while others are different. Today I’m going to talk about how Office 2010 saves files to a SharePoint site.
Reminder: Because SharePoint 2010 is still "under wraps", I’m only talking about using Office 2010 to access a SharePoint 2007 (or WSS 3.0) site in this article. Interaction with SharePoint 2010 may be very different. Also, bec [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 5th '09 |
SharePoint Planning: A Labyrinth of Choices 2 (blockquote format)
End User SharePoint
The first few minutes of my presentation, I will be doing at the Best Practice Conference. Trust me, it gets even better, but you have to attend to get the rest!
Back in the day, a literary Labyrinth was called a Choose your Own Adventure Book. I actually have somewhere in my parents house the very same book that is pictured above. Reading these was an adventure. Did you choose the right path? Putting your finger(s) in multiple pages, just in case you did not choose the right path.
Plann [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 4th '09 |
KPI Dashboard for WSS: Part 1 - No code required
End User SharePoint
A few weeks ago Chris posted the following problem on Stump the panel:
We want to display KPI indicators with each item (green if we met the target, yellow almost, red not even close). I’ve been using Visual Indicators for the Masses: KPIs in WSS. So I setup different lists for each one, So in financial the target/actual is set to currency. In customer loyalty it’s a number etc. This was working fine until today, when I got to see more of the real data. I learned under financial tha [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 3rd '09 |
Feedback: Enhance the SharePoint Interface - 8 No Code Solutions
End User SharePoint
This is the feedback area for the Enhance the SharePoint Interface - 8 No Code Solutions, live online workshop. In the workshop, we go over 8 solutions that can be placed on your SharePoint site without recourse to accessing the server.
The feedback here is from the participants of the most recent workshop, July 31, 2009 at 1:00pm EST. Let’s see what they have to say. [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 31st '09 |
4 Free Videos - Best Practices Conference Sessions
End User SharePoint
As part of our ongoing media coverage of the August Best Practices Conference, Bamboo Nation and EndUserSharePoint.com are providing full length videos of previous conference sessions. Each video is about an hour. What you see is an entire session from the inaugural Best Practices SharePoint Conference, filmed in front of a live audience.
There’s more on the way, but these four should keep you busy for a while.
Best Practices for Web Content Management Development
Presented by Paul Stork [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 31st '09 |
Bad Practice #2: No Governance Plan
End User SharePoint
Author: Ben Curry, SharePoint MVP
So, I’m going straight to the bad practice #2 because of conversations with some peers yesterday here in the UK.
We see lots of blogs and articles about SharePoint Governance, and they are all very lengthy and probably applicable to most organizations. But, what I’ve seen is the average SharePoint administrator is the Exchange Admin, firewall admin, and sometimes the accountant!
The point is - many folks don’t have time to go through a length [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 31st '09 |
View Permissions Across Sites through a Site Permissions Dashboard
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers is putting the finishing touches on her “SharePoint Site Permissions Dashboard” solution. In this screencast, she shows how you can setup the dashboard to show permissions levels on multiple sites, access the permissions management screen, and have direct access to each group or person to manage their settings.
If you like what you see here, Laura is moderating a live on line workshop, “SharePoint Site Permissions Dashboard“, on August 7th. Hope to see you th [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 30th '09 |
A SharePoint Best Practices Parable
End User SharePoint
Peter Serzo will be speaking at the Best Practices Conference in Washington, D.C. at the end of August. He sent me a little recorded parable that I thought you might find of interest.
Peter Serzo (MCSD .Net, MCP, MCTS) brings a fresh perspective to each of his engagements and the clients he represents. Each session he presents is told in story mode in order to engage and educate. This type of communications presents SharePoint technology in an understandable format, including best practices th [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 30th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Exclusive Preview and 2009 Government 2.0 Symposium
End User SharePoint
As a media sponsor of the Best Practices Conference , we are pleased to announce the latest additions to the conference: Arpan Shah’s SharePoint 2010 Exclusive Preview of SharePoint 2010 and the 2009 Government 2.0 Symposium.
The keynote abstract by Arpan includes:
This keynote will give you insight into how SharePoint has evolved over the years from an application to an enterprise platform. Attendees will also get an exclusive sneak peek into SharePoint 2010: the Business Collaboration fo [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 29th '09 |
Build a Site Permissions Dashboard - No Code Required!
End User SharePoint
Usually in SharePoint, when you look at your site’s lists and libraries, there is no way to quickly see which ones have their own separate permissions. To get to those permissions pages entails drilling down to the library, to “Document Library Settings”, and then “permissions for this document library”.
In this workshop, “Build a Site Permissions Dashboard - No Code Required!“, Laura Rogers, aka @WonderLaura, will walk through the process of creating a per [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 29th '09 |
Enhance Your SharePoint Interface: 8 No Code Solutions
End User SharePoint
On Friday, I am moderating a live online workshop, Enhance Your SharePoint Interface: 8 No Code Solutions. Here are the details…
Overview
You can enhance the interface to SharePoint without access to the server! The Content Editor Web Part is an extremely powerful tool for WSS and MOSS site managers. Using simple javascripts, css and jQuery code, improvements to the interface can be added without having to resort to programming.
In Enhance Your SharePoint Interface: 8 No Code Solutions, yo [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 27th '09 |
Bullet Proof Ways to Increase End User Buy-in: Rock the Rollout!
End User SharePoint
When I first saw the video that I’m linking to below, I almost jumped out of my chair, I was so excited. These people know how to do a rollout.
After watching, think about what it took to pull this off and you’ll see it is very similiar to trying to get End User buy-in for your project. Look at the people’s faces right before everything starts. Watch closely as they figure out… “Oh, oh. This isn’t going to be normal!” Then watch as the enthusiasm and th [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 27th '09 |
Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar! Live Online Workshop
End User SharePoint
Tomorrow we are running our most popular live online workshop, Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar!.
Here are a few things you will be able to do at the conclusion of this hour and a half workshop:
Control the Quick Launch display… tweak, collapse and hide
Expand and contract all groups in a list
Create a preview pane to display metadata on a mouseover
Fix the Gantt view so that it’s actually usable
Setup mouseovers in a calendar to expose event information
Display de [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 27th '09 |
Adoption Tip 1 of 7: Use SharePoint’s Flexibility for Success
End User SharePoint
SharePoint’s flexibility is both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The capabilities of SharePoint far exceed those that user communities are accustomed to receiving in a software solution. Given this, when they are first exposed to these capabilities your users may feel intimidated by SharePoint’s complexity and frustrated by its menus and cryptic options. Here are some ideas about how best to use SharePoint’s flexibility to gain greater adoption of th [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 27th '09 |
Pictures from SharePoint Saturday, Baltimore
End User SharePoint
SharePoint Saturday Baltimore was one of the best organized events I’ve participated in for a while. Eric and his team did a tremendous job making the day flow seamlessly. I look forward to going back when he sponsors another event. Enjoy the pictures (Flash 9.1+). — Mark
If you don’t have the latest version of Flash, you might not be able to view the deck, but you can get the originals off SharePoint Saturday Baltimore group account at Flickr. Please feel free to add p [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 26th '09 |
jQuery to the Rescue - Default Text Based on Radio Button Click
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Jim Bob Howard
Moderator, Stump the Panel
I had a user request to automatically fill in text to a required field based on the selection of a radio button on the page. The form that is being filled out is used by a hiring manager to document the decision process for a certain recruit. Since each position will only have one person hired, but typically more than one applying, the answer to the question: “Was this person hired?” will be “No” way more than it wi [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 24th '09 |
SharePoint Best Practices: Back to Basics
End User SharePoint
Best Practices: Back to Basics
Author: Ben Curry, SharePoint MVP
I’ve received many emails from people wondering what I’ve been up to and where I’ve been. If you didn’t know, I run the Best Practices® conference company and consult with Summit 7 Systems. Both of these are in addition to teaching with Mindsharp. So, needless to say, I’ve been busy. 2009 has been an interesting year because I haven’t uncovered as many ‘ [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 24th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Autopopulate a Lookup Column
End User SharePoint
Eric Alexander, Moderator, Stump the Panel
Author: Employee Training Templates
Over the past 2 days there has been a repeated question over on Stump the Panel about having a choice column that will auto update with values users manually enter. Out of the box there isn’t anything that can be done to update the values of the choice column to include the specified value.
However, there is an alternative using a lookup list, a single line of text column and a workflow to mimic that. In th [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 24th '09 |
Last Day for SharePoint Best Practices Conference Ticket Giveaway
End User SharePoint
If you haven’t put your name in the hat for a full access pass to the Best Practices Conference in Washington, D.C., time is running short. You’ve got a little over 12 hours from the time I post this. You can read the details on how it works, or I’ll make it easy for you. Register below.
Please note: This does NOT register you for the conference. You are registering to have a chance to win a full access pass to the conference and to be on the conference email notification lis [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 24th '09 |
SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration: Now Available
End User SharePoint
Author: Michael Sampson
SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration is the indispensable guide for IT and business people wanting to use SharePoint to enhance business collaboration. The roadmap focuses on the business and human side of SharePoint, rather than the technology.
SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration is written by Michael Sampson (also the author of Seamless Teamwork), and published by The Michael Sampson Company.
There are 8 chapters in SharePoint Roadmap, along with the foreword by Peter [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 24th '09 |
4 Minute Screencast: Join View of SharePoint Lists
End User SharePoint
Have you noticed that in SharePoint, there is no obvious way to join two lists or libraries, using a common field? For those of you who have ever used Microsoft Access or any other database, you know that you can just create queries to display joined tables. In this screencast, I show an example of how you can show data from 2 different lists, as ONE.
There is a contact list of vendors on your site, and there is a list of appointments that you have with those vendors. You want to display a li [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 23rd '09 |
Charts and Graphs in SharePoint - Multiple Chart Teaser Image
End User SharePoint
Paul Grenier and I are putting the finishing touches on tomorrow’s SharePoint Charts and Graphs without Excel Services live online workshop. I’m showing a teaser image here so you can see the type of dynamic charts that can be achieved in WSS without recourse to 3rd party web parts or Excel Services. Notice there is more than one chart on the page…
Solutions we’ll be covering:
Dynamic Images Maps
Google Charts API
Yahoo Charts
Fusion Charts
If you need charts and graph [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 23rd '09 |
URL Source= for Thank You on Submit
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Jeff Jones, SharePoint on a String
Jeff Jones is a SharePoint developer and administrator in Chicago, IL. He enjoys whiteboarding, peer coding, and being creative with software. He has over 6 years of SharePoint experience and holds MCSE and MCTS certifications.
From Jeff Jones: Many times I’ve been asked to adjust the NewForm.aspx (add record) experience for users to display a custom message after submit. A “Thank You” page for a survey is a gr [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 23rd '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations
End User SharePoint
I think anyone in the SharePoint branding business will agree that Heather Solomon holds the “Queen of Theme” crown. (Thanks to Matt Passannante for that little moniker). However, a series contenter is arising with Diantha van Marion’s series on SharePointMagazine.net.
In a remarkable series of extremely well written articles, Diantha has started a comprehensive breakdown of the CSS model driving the interface of SharePoint pages. If you are a designer, responsible for handling [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 23rd '09 |
SharePoint IT “Speak” vs Information Worker “Speak”
End User SharePoint
If you’d like to “hear” what a typical Information Worker “hears” when IT talks about SharePoint, watch this and weep… [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
This Week in SharePoint with Joel - Week 06
End User SharePoint
After a little break from recording, Joel and I are back at it. In this week’s segment we cover everything from the controversy created by the release of 2010 information to the plethora of babys being born to SharePoint geeks. Have a listen…
Embed this screencast on your site.
Topics covered in this screencast:
- First virtual user group meeting : 00:10
Link to resource
- 2010 Update : 01:59
Link to resource
- Controversy on release of 2010 information : 3:12
- Co [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
Employee Training Templates by Eric Alexander, official release!
End User SharePoint
Eric Alexander is a contributing author at EndUserSharePoint.com as well as a moderator on Stump the Panel. We were going to post his article on the work he has done with the Employee Training Template, but have decided to point directly to his site so that you can get the latest updates as he continues to tweak the templates.
If you have a training department, this is a “must see” set of templates for managing internal registrations for employee training. Eric has been working to ge [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
A bullet proof way to get qualified SharePoint job applicants
End User SharePoint
Have you got what it takes to boss these guys around? I seriously doubt it, but if you think you can handle Andrew Coates and Michael Kordahi, give it a shot. They are looking to interview a new boss. Watch the video and get in touch. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
InfoPath: Part 1 - Starter Template
End User SharePoint
I’ve been working a great deal with InfoPath in the last month or two and I’ve realized that I follow a certain pattern with all of my forms. I think that this pattern is widely followed, at least for certain kinds of forms, so I decided to put this in place as a “Starter” template. It includes all the common bits that a form ought to have as well as some structure for the data elements of the form.
Template features:
Naming convention for views.
Sta [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
SharePoint Job Listings: Interesting…
End User SharePoint
I opened up my email this morning and had over 30 job listings coming in from LinkedIn. Holy Smokes! Is the job market really that desperate for SharePoint people?
Here’s the list. Take a look and see what’s there. I haven’t drilled down to see how many are just recruiters kicking tires, but with this number of positions being listed, something’s up.
Multiple SharePoint Developers / Architects / Support Admins Required (Downtown Vancouver), BC.
Posted by Matt Beeg [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
Making the Most of the Out-of-the-Box Web Parts
End User SharePoint
Tonight, June 21st, at 8PM EST, SharePoint Nation presents Laura Rogers!
With Mark Miller as the host, Laura Rogers will demonstrate just how flexible and useful the Out-of-the-Box Web Parts are in MOSS. She will take a detailed look at the Filter, KPI, Excel Web Access, Outlook Web Access, Business Data Catalog, and Data View Web Parts. She will then look at how to customize some of these web parts using SharePoint Designer while still adhering to the Industry Best Practices. All of this i [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
Last Chance - Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center, Live Online Workshop
End User SharePoint
Today, July 21 at 1:00pm EST, I am leading a live online workshop, Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center. Registration closes one hour before the event, so if you plan on attending, please register right away.
I’ve included a short screencast below, to show the architecture of the completed project. Complete information about the workshop is on the registration page.
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Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
This Week on EndUserSharePoint.com
End User SharePoint
I’m playing Monday Morning Catch Up, so I want to layout the game plan for the week to give you an idea of what’s coming.
First things first: you’ve still got time to enter the $10,000 all access pass giveaway for tickets to the Best Practices Conference in August. The giveaway ends on Friday, so get your name in the pot, pronto.
Recorded, audio interviews
I’ve started working on an plan for getting recordings of interviews with people doing interesting projects with Sha [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
SharePoint Saturday, Baltimore - Live Blog and Tweet Stream
End User SharePoint
I’m getting everything setup for the SharePoint Saturday, Baltimore dog and pony show by Eric Harlan and crew. We are looking for more live bloggers… people attending the event who would like to be a journalist for the day.
If you can’t attend the event, bookmark this page or send yourself a reminder using the form below. We’ll be providing a live stream in this space, including videos, pictures, live blogging and all the tweets coming out of the conference. You can see [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
We Have Authors Standing By
End User SharePoint
Our old fried Lee Reed sent us this Friday funny. Does the photo feel familiar…sigh…
"Those first few months…the ones just after the rollout. Those were the days when everything was new, like a spring rain. Late nights spent at the office learning the CQWP, mastering new curse-word combinations after using Designer on your site’s pages. And don’t forget that awesome web part you created and then applied an audience to? Gold, my friend! Pure Gold! What happened? Now [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
Pictures from SharePoint Saturday, Ozarks (Laura Rogers)
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers walked around SharePoint Saturday, Ozarks all weekend and took pictures of herself with a bunch of different people Laura, the one I’m missing is when Becky and Eric switched hats. Did that ever happen?
If you don’t have the latest version of Flash, you might not be able to view the deck, but you can get the originals off Laura’s account at Flickr. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
What is EndUserSharePoint.com
End User SharePoint
On my daily walk along the Hudson River this morning, I started thinking about the next phase for EndUserSharePoint.com. That’s a tough one. Within the past hour I received a request for a company description. Here’s what I sent, describing the current state of EndUserSharePoint.com:
“EndUserSharePoint.com is one of SharePoint’s largest, community based sites. It is an online resource for the beginning SharePoint End User, Information Worker and Power User. Our mission is [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
Ok, I admit it… I’m a Pimp
End User SharePoint
I just received this in an email, so I guess the word is out: yes, I’m a Pimp.
I try to be objective when it comes to third party solutions and tools, truly I do. But sometimes a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. So, if any of you third party vendors, and you know who you are, want to throw a couple hundred grand my way for me to pimp your product, I’m willing to listen.
Mark, the Pimp, Miller
Founder and Editor [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 17th '09 |
Live Blog and Twitter Feed from SharePoint Saturday, Ozarks
End User SharePoint
Mark Rackley assures me they have electricity, as well as internet connectivity at SharePoint Saturday, Ozarks. With that assurance, I am sitting up the live feed for those of you who can’t attend.
If you haven’t seen this work before, we’ve got about a dozen people who will be live blogging from the conference. It will all go into a single, live stream, showing up in the window below. Anyone who tweets using the #SPSOzarks hash will see their tweet in the stream. The live blog [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 17th '09 |
Bamboo makes “an offer you can’t refuse”
End User SharePoint
I saw a tweet about this earlier this evening and just confirmed it. Bamboo Solutions is making their entire catalog of SharePoint products available to user groups at no cost.
What? Are you kidding me?
Nope, check out how it works. If I was running a user group, I’d be all over this one.
Sure, it’s a marketing ploy, why else would they do it? But it’s really smart marketing. Bamboo will have direct contact with all the major SharePoint user groups in the world. The main cons [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 17th '09 |
SharePoint Multi-Media Center: Dynamically Generate a “Click to View” Button
End User SharePoint
The Multi-Media Center concept I’ve worked out depends upon the ability to dynamically create a clickable link to activate the playback of a screencast or video. In the screencast below, I show how I use a calculated column to display the image of a playback button which, when clicked, opens a screencast.
If you find this solution interesting and useful, please register for the upcoming, live online workshop, “Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center“.
Embed this screencas [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 17th '09 |
Why would I attend the Best Practices Conference?
End User SharePoint
A note from Mark Miller: As a media sponsor for the Best Practices Conference this August, we will be talking a lot with the people speaking at the conference and what you can expect to see. In this article, Bill English tells us why you should consider going to the conference.
As a reminder, you can receive a free pass to the conference. Read the details, get your list together and I hope to see you there. — Mark
From Bill English: When we take a long step back, there are an increasing n [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 16th '09 |
Create Charts and Graphs for SharePoint Dashboards
End User SharePoint
Claudio Cabaleyro wrote a series of articles for us on using the Google Charts API to expose charts and graphs in SharePoint without recourse deployment or server installation. We have put together a live, online workshop, SharePoint Charts and Graphs without Excel Services, that utilizes some of Claudio’s solutions.
In this three minute screencast, I show how data from a simple SharePoint list can be pulled into a Content Editor Web Part to dynamically generate a bar chart. The cut-and-pa [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 16th '09 |
Dynamically Show/Hide Multiple Web Parts
End User SharePoint
Bryon Wyly writes Codeless Solutions for SharePoint. In this article he’s written a really fun script, demonstrating how to show or hide multiple lists and web parts. It’s like a magic trick - now you see it, now you don’t. And the solution is very easy. Thanks Bryon!
You have 4 web parts on the page but when the page loads you only see the first web part, ‘Overdue Tasks’. A dynamically created menu of all the task web parts is on the left.
When [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 16th '09 |
Dealing with SharePoint Spam Comments
End User SharePoint
Joel Oleson has published an article on dealing with SharePoint spam comments. If you have a public facing site with a SharePoint blog receiving comments, this is a must read. The last time I checked, my comment spam blocker on this site caught over 40,000 pieces of junk.
Here are a couple of tips I found useful. You can read the entire article on his site, SharePoint Joel.
“I learned that all other views, other than dataview are a pain to delete items, and even editing large quantities of [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 16th '09 |
Bullet Proof Ways to Increase End User Buy-in: Dynamic Image Presenter
End User SharePoint
I had a discussion with one of the contributing authors for EndUserSharePoint.com this morning. I was stressing the importance of developing solutions to common business problems, not talking about the functionality of SharePoint. Your End Users don’t care that they are using SharePoint! Your End Users don’t care what it can do! They want a solution to a problem.
Your job as a SharePoint administrator includes putting on the marketing hat. If I say you shouldn’t talk about Shar [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 16th '09 |
Protected: Test
End User SharePoint
This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:
Password: [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 15th '09 |
SharePoint Information Worker Track at the Best Practices Conference
End User SharePoint
The Best Practices Conference, Washington, D.C. in August has a track just for SharePoint Information Workers. Check out the sessions and speakers. This thing’s fully loaded.
IW105, Welcome to PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint, Peter Serzo
PerformancePoint Server has now merged with SharePoint Server Enterprise edition to become PerformancePoint Services. This is now a free component to licensed SharePoint Enterprise users. This is the Microsofts BI delivery tool that contains scor [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 14th '09 |
2 Minute Screencast: Embed a clickable map into your SharePoint page
End User SharePoint
I had a request this week from Murray Coble asking if it was possible to embed a clickable map of the United States into a SharePoint site. It sounded like a quick, fun project, so I jumped over to the US Geographical Survey site and found a little topo map. It had image map coordinates attached, so I embedded it into a Content Editor Web Part.
The “official” name for this web part is the “Clickable Image Map” web part, if you must give it a title. You can download it fr [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 14th '09 |
2 Minute Screencast: Permissions Dashboard
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers
How do you tell if a list or library has inherited its permission structure from its parent? Can you tell just by looking? How about seeing all of your list and library inheritance information in one place! Out of all the things I’ve done in the Data View Web Part, this is the one that is most useful to me.
And best yet, there is no code required!
If you are interested in the different uses of the Data View Web Part, register to receive an announcement of my next, live online [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 14th '09 |
SharePoint Multi-Media Center: Content Architecture
End User SharePoint
Last week I did a screencast on how to dynamically generate a URL string for use in a link to trigger LyteBox. In today’s screencast, I walk through the architecture of the media center solution, show what resources and relationships are needed in order to make the solution work.
If you find this solution interesting and useful, please register for the upcoming, live online workshop, “Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center“.
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Posted: Tue, Jul 14th '09 |
Bullet Proof Ways to Increase End User Buy-in: Analytics
End User SharePoint
I am putting together a presentation called “5 Absolutely Bullet Proof Ways to Increase End User Buy-in“. As my research is progressing, it becomes more and more apparent that what we perceive as a SharePoint problem, is really a universally recognized marketing issue. Why will people use your site?
There is a theory of web site analytics driven by Avinash Kaushik that I’ve been following for the past few months. His book, Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, is at the the top of my r [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Live, From WPC 2009 - It’s the Twitter Stream!
End User SharePoint
It’s too hard to keep up with all the content flowing into tweedeck from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, so I’ve setup a live twitter feed using the conference’s main hash.
If you’d like your tweets included, use #wpc09 in the tweet or leave a comment below with your twitter handle. When I get a chance, I’ll embed videos and images as they become available.
View the live feed by clicking the image below.
Live, from WPC [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
SharePoint and the FAST Enterprise Search Platform
End User SharePoint
A note from Mark Miller: This is our first article by Microsoft SharePoint MVP Natalya Voskresenskaya. Her expertise is in developing portal solutions, now almost exclusively in SharePoint. In this article, Natalya gives an overview of the current state of search in SharePoint and how it will be affected when FAST is added to the mix. Welcome, Natalya.
Since the early days of 2000, companies have come to realize how important it is to collect and store information, whether their own or their cus [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery
End User SharePoint
Note from Mark Miller: I’ve been watching Jan Tielens’ work with jQuery for a while now and am in complete awe of some of the things he has accomplished. I’m very pleased to be able to cross-post his article on the “Search-as-You-Type” web part.
Guest Author: Jan Tielens
Already since a long time I’ve been thinking about a web part that would search-as-you-type using SharePoint’s search engine. The idea behind this concept is that while you&r [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 10th '09 |
No Code Solutions: MOTD and Status Messages
End User SharePoint
A lot is being done with third party web parts that could possibly be done with simple, no code solutions. This screencast is the first in a series of 8 that will show you some solutions you might find useful.
A message of the day (MOTD) or status report web part is useful when trying to spread information through multiple sites. In this screencast, I’ll show how to architect an MOTD or status report web part.
This solution is part of the live online “Enhance Your SharePoint Interfac [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 9th '09 |
Clippy’s Return: You’ve been warned
End User SharePoint
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Posted: Thu, Jul 9th '09 |
SharePoint Multi-Media Center: Dynamically generate a URL string
End User SharePoint
One of the annoyances of trying to use a file name in a calculated column is that the “Name” column can not be used in a calculation. This limits the ability to create a dynamically generated link when trying to trigger LyteBox or build a URL string.
In this screencast, I’ll show a manual way to handle this when entering the metadata information for an item. Tomorrow, I’ll show a technique for using workflow to generate the column entry so there will be less chance of err [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 9th '09 |
Editing Themes with SharePoint Designer
End User SharePoint
A Matter of Style
By now, you are probably aware that SharePoint is a heavy user of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the look of your site. Hopefully, you are also aware that SharePoint Designer has (among other things) a great array of CSS editing tools. In Professional SharePoint Designer, we go into great detail on how these tools work, and many of the style elements used in a SharePoint theme. You can also find breakdowns of the classes used by SharePoint themes on Heather SolomonR [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 9th '09 |
Live blogging at SPS Baltimore, Best Practices Conference and SharePoint Conference 2009
End User SharePoint
I’m setting up accounts for live bloggers at SharePoint Saturday, Baltimore, Best Practices Conference, D.C. and SharePoint Conference 2009, Las Vegas. I am looking for people who want to blog and tweet the events as live, on the floor reporters.
Below are three sign up forms. Choose the events you are going to be attending and register as a blogger or a tweeter. I will provide the platform for blogging. You just have to be able to type. I’ll be posting screencasts and tips over the [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 9th '09 |
2009-07-09 Today’s Quick Hits
End User SharePoint
Lot’s of things coming out this morning. Here’s what grabbed my attention and sucked up my first hour at work:
HTML Calculated Column – Updated script
Setting SharePoint Form Fields Using JavaScript
Be Very Afraid
SharePoint User Groups - In Australia
Mashable Mind Map: What is the Future of Blogging?
Free is not a business model
How Community Arts Organizations Are Using Social Media [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 9th '09 |
Upcoming, Live Online Workshops from EndUserSharePoint.com
End User SharePoint
A note from Mark Miller: We’ve been working on some fun things to get through July. Here’s a list of four workshops we have scheduled. Please plan on joining us.
Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center
In this live online workshop, you create a multi-media management center that stores your screencasts and allows easy access through the SharePoint interface. This solution works in WSS as well as MOSS. Along the way, we’ll talk about how to store large video files and a [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 8th '09 |
Free Download - USP Journal Bonus Issue on Workflow
End User SharePoint
A note from Mark Miller: For the 7500 of you who received this week’s newsletter, there’s a typo in the link for the download of the USP Journal Bonus Issue. I am reprinting that section here. For those of you who are not subscribers, this is just one example of the type of content we make available through the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter.
Registration is free. Please join us. — Mark
July 8, 2009 Weekly Newsletter
Bjørn Furuknap provided us with [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 8th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Merging SharePoint Document Libraries
End User SharePoint
In my experience participating in SharePoint discussion boards, I noticed that people frequently ask how documents from multiple libraries can be displayed together.
In the screencast below, I show the basic concept behind merging data sources. The goal is to display documents from several libraries on a site, all in one list.
Data view web part to the rescue again!
The supporting document is a blog I wrote a few months ago, called Ways to Display Multiple Document Libraries. My blog post goe [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 8th '09 |
Configure Item Level Permissions for Document Libraries
End User SharePoint
Contributing Author: Toni Frankola
SharePoint Use Cases
A few weeks ago Duncun commented on one of my posts: “Still hunting for the holy grail of a solution that ONLY allows users to view or edit documents they have created themselves.”
The problem
As you probably know, there is an item-level permissions feature that can be a solution to this problem BUT it’s only available for lists, not Document Libraries. Please remember this before you make a promise you cannot deliver.
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Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
5 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Web Services for Non-Developers
End User SharePoint
This screencast is a brief demonstration of how to connect to a SharePoint web service, using SharePoint Designer and the data view web part. The goal in this example is to display a list of all document libraries in the site. This method can be used as an alternate to displaying items in the Quick Launch or manually creating links in a link list.
The supporting document is a blog post that I wrote a few months ago, called I Love the SiteData.asmx Web Service.
If you are interested in the diff [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
Speaking at Baltimore SharePoint Saturday: On what?
End User SharePoint
Eric Harlan, coordinator of SharePoint Saturday in Baltimore, just confirmed that I will be one of the presenters on July 25th. Good news… but now what? What should I talk about?
Here are three topics I think are extremely interesting. Which one would you like to hear me talk about and demo? Leave a comment and then I’ll record my hour long presentation so you’ll get a chance to see it if you can’t attend.
5 Absolutely Bullet Proof Ways to Get End User Buy-in
Charts, Gra [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
Netbooks and Load Time: Windows 7 vs XP
End User SharePoint
Over the 4th of July weekend, I read an article in Technology Review, Light, but not Light Weight, that convinced me it is time to seriously consider the purchase of a NetBook. Mike Herrity at NetBooks in Education put up a 16 second video to demo the load time of Windows 7 vs Windows XP. With SharePoint being browser based, this is an interesting alternative to lugging around a massive machine to give demos and deliver training.
To quote Mike: “The difference was simply staggering with th [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th '09 |
Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center
End User SharePoint
I’ve had over 50 requests in the past two weeks asking for the “Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center” live online workshop, so I’ve scheduled one for July 21st.
In this live online workshop, you create a multi-media management center that stores your screencasts and allows easy access through the SharePoint interface. This solution works in WSS as well as MOSS. Along the way, we’ll talk about how to store large video files and access them through a custo [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: How To Use This Site
End User SharePoint
EndUserSharePoint.com started less than two years ago as a simple way for me to keep track of ideas I came across while working with SharePoint. Over time, it has grown way beyond what I originally anticipated. As a result of publishing over 900 articles and hundreds of screencasts, the site has gotten a little more complicated to navigate.
In this short screencast, I demonstrate the easiest ways to find content on the site.
Embed this screencast on your site. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th '09 |
jQuery to the Rescue - Automate All Day Event
End User SharePoint
Contributing Author: Jim Bob Howard
Jim Bob Howard is a web designer / web master in the healthcare industry. He has been working with SharePoint only since March 2009 and enjoys sharing what he has learned. You can email him at jimbobhoward@gmail.com.
I was working on a mileage reimbursement project that required a user to associate travel mileage with a specific date. To make things easy for the user, I wanted to use a Calendar list so they could easily choose a travel date. That would also [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th '09 |
Gone fishing…
End User SharePoint
The family and I are headed for some down time in Black Mountain, N.C., so the site’s going to be a little slow with new content for the next week. No worries… we’ll be back at it again next Monday, July 6, with a fresh batch of ideas, articles and screencasts.
Please have a safe and fun filled 4th of July.
Regards,
Mark [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 |
Item Expiration
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Eric Alexander, Moderator, Stump the Panel
This article comes about from a question from illegal operation in Stump the Panel. He writes:
I’ve been expermenting with workflows, and have one almost working the way I want. Basically what I want to do is this.
The list in question has these fields.
Staff Contact
Renewal Date
The worksflow starts when the item is created, then pauses until the renewal date. On the renewal date, it sends out an email to the staff contact remind [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 |
What I’m Working On: Christophe Humbert
End User SharePoint
As those of you who follow EndUserSharePoint.com know, I have a high regard for the work being done by Christophe Humbert at Path to SharePoint. Over the weekend, he announced what he will be working on over the next few weeks, and some of this stuff looks VERY interesting.
From Christophe Humbert:
Just a quick heads-up on what you can expect on my blog and demo site in the weeks to come:
Image rotator
Easy Tabs
Calendars
jQuery
HTML calculated column
iframes
Guest posts
All of ChristopheR [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 |
Final Call: Live Online Workshop - Create a Dashboard in WSS
End User SharePoint
Today, at 1:00pm EST, I’ll be moderating a live online workshop on how to Create a Dashboard in WSS. This is a hands-on session. We give you your own SharePoint sandbox where you can implement nine dashboard type solutions in WSS. Watch the screencast below to see the Visual Status solution and then read about the other solutions.
I look forward to seeing you there. — Mark
Visual Status Indicators in a WSS Dashboard
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Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 |
Response to negative, online reviews
End User SharePoint
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Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 |
Screencasts and Resources for Content Types, in Arabic
End User SharePoint
I have been working on a cross-cultural project with Ayman El-Hattab from the Egypt SharePoint User Group over the past month. He has put together a series of screencasts, in Arabic, regarding SharePoint Content Types. Ayman sent me a note, saying screencasts, a slidedeck and images from the most recent Egypt SharePoint User Group are available for download.
I’m really happy to be presenting these. SharePoint is a world-wide community of users and this content proves it. Thanks, Ayman. Yo [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Create support links in a SharePoint WSS Dashboard
End User SharePoint
One of the recommendations I give in all of my SharePoint Site Administration Workshops is for every site to have contact information for the site manager in the top, right corner of the entrance page to every site. In this screencast, I show how to use LyteBox functionality to open a support contact page without losing the context of the underlying page.
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Access to support pages, the use of LyteBox, and other techniques for creating dashboards in [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 |
1 Hour Screencast: Build a Project Management Dashboard w/ SharePoint
End User SharePoint
I was able to hang out with my good friend Dux Raymond Sy at SPTechCon last week. When I walked into one of his sessions, he stopped his presentation to ask “What are you doing here? You’ve seen this SO many times!” Well, Dux, it’s good stuff! So good in fact, let’s take a look at his recorded screencast to see what techniques he uses when building a Project Management Dashboard w/ SharePoint.
Visual status indicators, and other techniques for creating dashboards [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 |
4 Minute Screencast: Dashboard Indicators in SharePoint WSS
End User SharePoint
One of the limitations of WSS is the lack of KPI and visual status indicators. In this screencast, I show a technique for displaying status information as a bar graph within any SharePoint list or library. Thanks to Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint for the original idea.
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Visual status indicators, and other techniques for creating dashboards in WSS, are included in the Tuesday, June 30 live online workshop, Case Studies in SharePoint WSS [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 |
Create a user-friendly media library using Lytebox: Update
End User SharePoint
Note from Mark Miller: Last week I did a quick screencast on an idea for a multi-media library. I love it when people take my ideas and expand on them.
Keven Hughes improved the concept by making screencasts available through a dynamically generated query string. In addition, his improvements make it easy for an End User to simply upload a video or screencast and have it “discovered” as part of the library, without having to do any tweaks.
This is an excerpt from his article. You c [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 |
2 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Conference 2009 Interface Suggestion
End User SharePoint
The submissions for the SharePoint Conference 2009 interface design competition have been completed and they are now in the process of selecting a winner. I’ve created a quick, two minute screencast to show how a tabbed interface might be incorporated into the winning site design, whatever that might be.
This is a full sized screencast, 800 x 600, so you might have to scroll down a little bit to hit the start button when the page opens.
I used a WSS plain vanilla site to incorporate the ta [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 |
Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar!: Workshop Full!
End User SharePoint
Good news for us. Bad news for you. Tickets went really fast for tomorrow’s workshop. As of now there are two slots still pending for tomorrow’s live online workshop, but that’s it. If you missed the workshop registration, signup for the announcement list, beneath the screencast below, and we’ll get you advanced notice for the next session.
Don’t know what I’m talking about? Watch this quick screencast and then register to receive advanced notice.
eventbrite [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
Create a Dashboard in WSS: High Priority Indicator
End User SharePoint
One of the big limitations in analyzing data within a SharePoint site is the apparent inability to create dashboards from data within a site. In this screencast, I demonstrate how calculated columns might be used to present information in a graphical format without the need for third party web parts.
Embed this screencast on your site.
This technique was originally introduced by Christophe Humbert, Path to SharePoint. If you like what you see here, we’d like to see you at the [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
Live, from Best Practices Conference, it’s Arpan Shah!
End User SharePoint
Arpan Shah is keynoting the Best Practices® Conference in Washington, D.C.
Arpan is a Director on the SharePoint Product Management team in Redmond. He has been in the Internet business space for over 10 years and started his Microsoft career in 2001 to lead the Content Management Server (CMS) technical product management effort.
Over the last 8 years, Arpan has been involved with subsequent SharePoint releases including SharePoint Server 2007. He currently manages the team that owns audience [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
2009-06-24 SharePoint Quick Hit: 5 Resources
End User SharePoint
Spent the early morning getting the weekly newsletter ready for publication, preparing for today’s sessions at SPTechCon and looking at recommended sites on #sharepoint twitter. Here are five interesting ones that caught my attention.
O’Reilly Webcast: Build a PM Dashboard with SharePoint: Dux Raymond Sy, has a 54 minute web cast outlining a potential solution for creating a project management site in SharePoint.
Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Now Integrated With Microsoft Share [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 24th '09 |
This Week in Sharepoint with Joel - Week 05
End User SharePoint
This is week five of our weekly broadcast with Joel Oleson of SharePointJoel.com. You can also subscribe to the iTunes channel for this set of broadcasts.
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Topics covered in this screencast:
- The value of paid conferences : 00:30
- Chris O’Brien’s Checklist for Optimizing SharePoint : 04:57
Link to resource
- Top SharePoint : 05:45
Link to resource
- Zoho Office integration with SharePoint : 6:32
Link to resource
- New Social [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09 |
SPTechCon Boston Update: MetaVis
End User SharePoint
One of the companies I’ve been following for the past few months is MetaVis. They have a selection of tools that can make a SharePoint Information Architect’s life exponentially easier. Don’t take my word for it. Bob Mixon, the Information Architect Guru of SharePoint, was evaluating one of the MetaVis tools when I was talking with the team at SPTechCon. Check out Bob’s reaction at the end of the video… totally unscripted.
One of the desktop tools available, the Met [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09 |
SharePoint Governance: Putting Business Back in Control
End User SharePoint
Increasingly companies have adopted Governance as a way to control the roll out of SharePoint in their organisation. This has resulted in SharePoint Governance taking on a life of its own; with a proliferation of white papers, blogs posts, conference sessions, consultancy engagements and even training workshops dedicated to the subject.
Ask yourself, do you have a Governance Plan? How many meetings have you attended where a Governance Plan has been discussed?
The problem with Governance
The p [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09 |
2009-06-19 SharePoint Quick Hit: 5 Resources
End User SharePoint
A lot of good SharePoint stuff comes across my desk each day that’s flying under the radar. I’m going to start keeping a running list and when it gets to 5 items, I will post them as a Quick Hit. You get to see some cool stuff and I feel good about spreading the word.
Here’s the first five.
Hitender Singh, of PointSharePoint, has created a solution file with installer that handles the installation of the 10 latest SharePoint themes from Microsoft.
SharePoint Saturdays are [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09 |
SPTechCon Boston: We’re on the way!
End User SharePoint
Paul Grenier, Laura Rogers and Mark Miller are at SPTechCon for most of the week, so the publication schedule this week is going to be a little light. If you’ve every thought about getting an article published at EndUserSharePoint.com, this would be a good week to give it a try. Send a tweet to @TeamEUSP. Make sure you’re following that tweet handle, @TeamEUSP, so we can DM you with an email address to send your submission.
In the meantime, I’m going to setup a live blog feed [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 22nd '09 |
SharePoint Site Manager in Transition: From Annoyance to Acceptance
End User SharePoint
“Little did I know when I volunteered to be the site owner for our organization’s SharePoint pilot that I would also be assuming the roles of SharePoint trainer, public relations officer, and chief evangelist. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to know what SharePoint was and how my team was using it.” — Tamara Austerlade
Sound familiar? Tamara Austerlade wrote a guest post, 6 Tips for a Successful SharePoint Demo, on The Bamboo Team Blog that rings true on many levels.
If you h [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 19th '09 |
Securing SharePoint List/Document Library Views Seems (sort of) Possible with jQuery
End User SharePoint
This is another post in Paul Galvin’s on-going series on how to use jQuery with SharePoint. If you want to learn more about jQuery, I highly recommend: jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz.
One of the first things I thought, once I started to play around with jQuery, was whether we could use it to secure a SharePoint view. The answer is “no” (or at least, I’m not claiming it’s possible). However, it is certainly possible to make it dif [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 19th '09 |
This Week in SharePoint with Joel - Week 04
End User SharePoint
This is week four our weekly broadcast with Joel Oleson of SharePointJoel.com. You can also subscribe to the iTunes channel for this set of broadcasts.
We look forward to your feedback and recommendations on topics for next week’s recording.
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Topics covered in this screencast:
- SharePoint PodShow Episode 25 : 01:06
Link to resource
- SharePoint Reviews : 02:05
Link to resource
- SharePoint Ads : 04:49
Link to resource
- TunnelPoint : [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
SharePoint Out-Of-Box Content Approval
End User SharePoint
This document is based on an email that I sent out to all SharePoint site administrators at our company. We have hundreds of site collections and respective owners. I periodically send out a “Laura’s SharePoint Tip” email to them with a tidbit of information. It used to be “Tip of the Week”, and it has devolved into “Tip of the [whenever I’m inspired or get around to it]”
This particular tip is teaching them about [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
Welcome! It’s SharePoint spam Thursday, and I’m your host…
End User SharePoint
What is going on in the past couple days with the new wave of comment spam?
It looks like some spammers that got knocked out a while back have found a new service provider. I don’t know if this is a bragging point, but Akismet has now blocked over 33,000 comment spams at EndUserSharePoint.com.
Here are a couple I found mildly amusing within the past half hour, obviously without the link backs:
“We link our site to this blog - for the impotent information that it gives….”
D [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
Quick and Easy: A Better Way to Use jQuery to Hide a Text Field on a SharePoint Form
End User SharePoint
This is another post in Paul Galvin’s on-going series on how to use jQuery with SharePoint. If you want to learn more about jQuery, I highly recommend: jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz.
Previously, I wrote about how to use jQuery to locate and hide a text field on a form. I didn’t care for the specific approach (I was chaining parents – that’s simply isn’t done these days, at least in families of quality).
When I first started to [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
5 Minute Screencast: Create a Multimedia Center in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
There are several ways to Create a Media Center in SharePoint. In this screencast I show the structure of a document library that manages screencast content display, and then use a customized list to access videos stored off the SharePoint server.
All content displayed is transparent to the End User. Screencasts and videos may be stored in different locations within a site collection, even off the SharePoint server for larger video files. The End User has a single interface for access to all the [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 17th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Referencing Multiple Lines of Text Column
End User SharePoint
One of the more frustrating (albeit understandable) elements of working with calculated columns is the restrictions on what column types can be referenced in your formulas. What it all boils down to is that you can only reference fields that have a return type of “Text” and these must be in the form of a single value (i.e. “Single line of text”, “Number”, “date/Time”, etc.). What you can’t reference is th [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 17th '09 |
Quick and Easy: Use jQuery to Hide a Text Field on a SharePoint Form
End User SharePoint
This is another post in Paul Galvin’s on-going series on how to use jQuery with SharePoint. If you want to learn more about jQuery, I highly recommend: jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz.
UPDATE (already!): I did think of a better way to locate the tag I want to hide and wrote about it here. You may still find this article interesting anyway so I’m leavnig it up.
I want to hide a text field, “Hide Me!” as shown:
The following jQuery does the tr [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 17th '09 |
Laura’s 5 Minute Workflow Dujour: Email on approval or rejection
End User SharePoint
Feedback and approval workflows are not available out of the box in WSS. In this five minute screencast, Laura shows how to quickly build a workflow that emails recipients upon approval or rejection of an item.
Embed this screencast on your site
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Posted: Wed, Jun 17th '09 |
SharePoint people! Don’t feel bad about governance.
End User SharePoint
Guest Author: Paul Culmsee
www.cleverworkarounds.com
I was recently involved in facilitating discussions and debate on the topic of governance for the leadership team of a public/private/community sector consortium. It was absolutely light years away from SharePoint governance, yet they struggled with it just as much as we do – and they get paid lots more than us!
Much time was spent trying to pin down what governance actually is, and everyone had a different view, depending on thei [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
Get it right the first time! Step-by-Step SharePoint Site Planning
End User SharePoint
This short screencast shows how to utilize a worksheet for structuring information when setting up an initial SharePoint site plan.
Embed this screencast on your site.
This Friday, I will be moderating another live online SharePoint Site Planning Workshop: Simple Site Planning: Get it Right the First Time! As part of the workshop, we utilize the Site Planning Worksheet I have created to help companies organize their thoughts and resources when implementing their first SharePoint s [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
Quick and Easy: Create Your Own jQuery Sandbox for SharePoint
End User SharePoint
This is another post in Paul Galvin’s on-going series on how to use jQuery with SharePoint. If you want to learn more about jQuery, I highly recommend: jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz.
Getting started with jQuery in SharePoint is surprisingly easy (to me). (I do have serious questions about a “best practices” approach to deploying these things to production, but that’s for another day). I’ve just started playing with this technolo [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
Interview with Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com
End User SharePoint
John Anderson from SharePoint Blank at Bamboo Nation honored me by placing me on the short list of people to interview regarding SharePoint. You can read the article at his site.
More than anything else, I wanted to get across the idea that EndUserSharePoint.com is a community site, with content provided by its readers. A sincere thank you for all who have contributed to the site. If I overlooked you in the “shout out” sections, it was absolutely unintentional.
Thanks to everyone and [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
Rollout your internal SharePoint site: Announce it in a screencast… on YouTube!
End User SharePoint
Ok, this one took me by surprise. Kris Rzepkowski posted a video on YouTube, showing the features of a new, internal SharePoint rollout. What’s interesting about this is that it’s a marketing piece at two levels: the first for the company who rolled out SharePoint, the second for Kris’ marketing company. This guy doesn’t do SharePoint, he does marketing.
Think about. What better way is there to spread the word, in-house, than to do it with an experienced marketer.
Five [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009: Special Room Rate ($50.00)
End User SharePoint
I was talking with people at SharePoint Saturday in Chicago about where they are going to stay in October for the SharePoint Conference 2009. The advertised conference rate of $149.00 pushes the budget a bit… for five days that comes to over $745 plus tax and expenses.
Turns out, the Luxor, right across the street from the convention, has rooms for under $50.00. Don’t believe it? I didn’t either until I booked a room and got confirmation: five nights for a total of $250.00 plus [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 15th '09 |
Final Call: Excel and SharePoint - I didn’t know you could do that!
End User SharePoint
Why does MOSS get to have all the fun with Excel? Sure WSS doesn’t have Excel Services, but there are still a few tricks we can pull to get some kind of working relationship between Excel and SharePoint.
In this live online, hands-on workshop, Laura Rogers and Mark Miller will show you techniques that might not be so obvious when first starting to use SharePoint with Excel.
The datasheet view is your friend
Query, chart, pivot, print directly from a SharePoint list
Use the Document Inform [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 15th '09 |
Top 10 SharePoint sites according to PostRank
End User SharePoint
I was doing some catch up work after returning from SharePoint Saturday in Chicago and hit Post Rank to see how things were going. Nice surprise this week… EndUserSharePoint.com is listed as #2 for the week. Thanks for all the great help from the contributing authors. Lovin’ it.
Let’s take a look at the Top 10 SharePoint blogs according to Post Rank to see what everyone is up to.
Method ~ of ~ failed
“Hi, I’m Tim and I’m a geek. (Say it with me: Hi Tim!) I curre [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 15th '09 |
Visualizing Content Types with Canvas
End User SharePoint
This is so cool. When I saw some of the cool demos for the InfoVis toolkit, I wanted to try one out with SharePoint data.
I decided to use Content Type data since it has a parent-child relationship. If you didn’t know, all Content Types have an ID. These IDs reveal the inheritance path of the Content Type (and System begot Item who begot Document and Document begot…).
Since this was only a test, I generated a baseline of Content Type data from our test server using SPD, a Data View W [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 15th '09 |
Quick and Easy: Use jQuery to Set A Text Field’s Value on a SharePoint Form
End User SharePoint
Note: Paul Galvin has graciously allowed us to cross post, all this week, to his series on jQuery. Thanks Paul.
I started playing around with jQuery yesterday. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, ever since Paul Grenier started writing his series about jQuery for End Users at the venerable www.endusersharepoint.com web site. As I use it, I hope to add a series of “Quick and Easy” posts like this one. This post describes how to set a known text field& [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 15th '09 |
Natal and SharePoint: Something to work with?
End User SharePoint
I was intrigued when I first heard about Natal. Can it relate in some way to SharePoint? I don’t know, you tell me.
Fascinating stuff on the way…. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09 |
SharePoint Travel System Workflow Solution: Two Alternatives
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers hosts the EndUserSharePoint.com Workflow Solutions series of workshops. In last week’s workshop, she presented a solution to a Travel System Workflow created with SharePoint Designer. We invited Chris Geier from K2 to show how a third party tool would approach the same process.
Before I start getting into a flame war with people, no, we’re not pushing K2. Chris happens to be someone we trust based upon past experience. We’re not pushing the product and either is he [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09 |
Hey SharePoint Calendar, I want my space back!
End User SharePoint
One of the things we cover in the live online Create a SharePoint Master Calendar workshop is how to reclaim the page space that a calendar sits on… hide the Quick Launch bar, title space and breadcrumbs… everything. Here a quick screencast on how we do it.
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If you like what you see, please consider registering for the workshop. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09 |
jQuery for Everyone: Slick Speed Test
End User SharePoint
Thanks to the test at Slick Speed Test, we have some empirical evidence about jQuery versus other JavaScript frameworks.
I’m a freak for performance. I like squeezing milliseconds out of a script and I really like reading tips on how to improve my code. This test can help highlight some areas to improve on. First, look at the raw scores: Dojo Query was the fastest overall, with jQuery coming in second, and ext 1.1b1 third. Sadly, IE8 was far slower for each library than FF3 (and even slowe [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09 |
SharePoint jQuery: Configurar el ancho de columna Ver (Spanish Translation)
End User SharePoint
Note from Mark Miller: I’m interested in knowing how this translation looks to our Spanish speaking audience. I used the Spanish Translation from the Google Translator Toolkit. Could be interesting if this works well. — Mark
Kjell-Jerijærvi Sverre en PuzzlePart ha llegado hasta con un simple jQuery solución a la omnipresente cuestión de cómo controlar el ancho de las columnas en las listas y las bibliotecas. Su próxima entrada a la libertad de mostrar cómo los encabezados de la [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 10th '09 |
SharePoint jQuery: Setting View Column Width
End User SharePoint
A note from Mark Miller: Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi at PuzzlePart has come up with a simple jQuery solution to the ubiquitous question of how to control column widths in lists and libraries. His next post will show how to free the column headers, too. Great stuff.
A very common request for changes to SharePoint list views is how to set the column width. This is not possible to do using the ootb “List Settings”, and the common suggested fix is to use SharePoint Designer (SPD) and convert [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 10th '09 |
Updated list of conferences on the road to the SharePoint Conference 2009
End User SharePoint
Note from Mark Miller: The Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog posted this list yesterday and have kindly agreed to let us repost. Thanks. — Mark
SPTechCon
June 22-24, 2009: Boston, MA
For three exciting days, you’ll be eating, drinking, sleeping, talking and living Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The first day at SPTechCon Boston is filled with intense full and half-day workshops, half in the morning, half in the afternoon. The next two days are fill [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 10th '09 |
A New Format for Small, SharePoint User Groups
End User SharePoint
I’ve been kicking this idea around in my head for a while and thought I’d run it by the SharePoint User Groups.
Those of us who live in New York City or any of the large metropolitan areas have a great pool of talent to draw from when it comes to presenters for our monthly meetings. But what about the smaller groups, the ones with 5 or 6 members who want to get together and discuss SharePoint over a beer and pizza?
I want to put together a group of presenters who are willing to do l [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 9th '09 |
How to replace the Learning Management System with SharePoint
End User SharePoint
One of the main reasons I chose to dedicate so much of my professional time on SharePoint is because it gave me the possibility to own the very site where I post and work. As a knowledge manager and trainer I have the constant need to keep materials updated. I also need to keep my end user engaged. Working within the constraints of enterprise learning and publishing structures means you have to send materials out to teams that then in turn publish the materials out, not always swiftly.
Many time [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 9th '09 |
4 Minute Screencast: Create SharePoint “Sub-Calendars” using Content Types
End User SharePoint
When we do the live online Create a Master Calendar Workshop, we do an extensive analysis of Content Types, discussing how to use them to help manage and segment information. The screencast below is a quick, four minute overview of how you might use Content Types to manage information about Regional Events in your company.
If the solution looks useful, please join us for the online workshop this Friday at 1:00pm EST.
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Testimonials from previous [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 9th '09 |
This Week in SharePoint with Joel - Week 03
End User SharePoint
This is week three of our weekly broadcast with Joel Oleson of SharePointJoel.com. You can also subscribe to the iTunes channel for this set of broadcasts.
We look forward to your feedback and recommendations on topics for next week’s recording.
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Topics covered in this screencast:
- Sharing vs Plagiarism : 00:00
Link to article
- Google Wave vs. SharePoint by Steve Gaitten : 01:26
Link to article
- Best Practices Conference: Speaker L [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 8th '09 |
Schedule of SharePoint live online workshops for June
End User SharePoint
As Laura, Paul and I are getting ready to head to SPTechCon in Boston, we worked out the holes in our schedules so we can continue to deliver EndUserSharePoint.com live online workshops. Here’s the updated schedule for June.
We would very much appreciate it if you’d spread the word. This is how we keep the site going.
Thanks in advance,
Mark
June 10 - Create On-Demand SharePoint Training
June 12 - Create a SharePoint Master Calendar
June 16 - Excel and SharePoint: I didn’t [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 8th '09 |
The Ethics of Reposting Articles: Sharing vs Plagiarism
End User SharePoint
I’ve got a real problem with people who cut and paste entire articles from EndUserSharePoint.com without asking. Not only is it unethical, I consider it stealing. I don’t have an issue with people who copy a paragraph or two and link back to the main article, but more and more I see direct ripoffs of entire articles with no attribution. I found another one this morning and posted the following comment to their site:
“You have taken this article from my site. Please take it down [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 7th '09 |
Case Study: Dynamic Charts in SharePoint, No Code Required!
End User SharePoint
Note from Mark Miller: Niamh Kenny has used some of the articles here at EndUserSharePoint.com to develop an in-house solution for charts and graphs. She was kind enough to send this overview as a case study of her project.
Guest Author: Niamh Kenny, London United Kingdom
Niamh is a SharePoint Administrator at Camden & Islington Foundation Trust, London. She has five years of experience working with Microsoft Sharepoint, this includes implementation, training, and customisation.
Case Study [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 5th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Project Management Auto-Notification Workflow
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers has developed a workflow solution for automatic notification during various stages of a project. As each phase concludes, emails are automatically generated to appropriate parties. There is also task tracking notifications, two days before a task is due and one week past the due date if the task has not been completed. The screencast is a quick walk-through of the final solution.
Laura’s solution is part of the live online Workflow Solutions Workshop series. The next live on [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 5th '09 |
jQuery for Everyone: “Read More…” On a Blog Site
End User SharePoint
Based on Walter’s comment in a previous article, I applied the “Read more…” link concept to a standard WSS Blog site.
It only seemed appropriate to make you click “Read more…” to get the code
if(typeof jQuery=='undefined'){
var jQPath = 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js'
document.write('');
}
.collapseText {height:26px;overflow:hidden}
function collapseText(){
var html = [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
Case Studies in SharePoint Dashboards: Live online workshop
End User SharePoint
“How you and Christophe got the KPI-like features into WSS is amazing. Definitely something we want to implement.” — Joan [Case Studies in SharePoint WSS Dashboards]
June 30, 2009
Case Studies in SharePoint Dashboards
Live Online
The lack of Excel Services in WSS makes it difficult to create usable dashboards to help analyze information in a glance. There are alternatives, however, that can be implemented by a site manager or Power User without recourse to third party s [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint: Live online next Tuesday
End User SharePoint
I have gotten multiple requests to run the Create a SharePoint Master Calendar workshop again, so I’ve got one set for next Tuesday, June 9. If you haven’t seen this solution before, view the two screencasts below.
A SharePoint Master Calendar is created with multiple content types for filtering specific types of events. When that type of event is needed within another site, LyteBox is used to display those events as a stand-alone calendar. This solution can be used to push informat [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
Need a little help: What is a SharePoint End User?
End User SharePoint
From Mark Miller
Founder and Editor
EndUserSharePoint.com
Joel Oleson and I were talking after our broadcast this week about how to define a SharePoint End User. The problem we are coming up against is “End User” doesn’t seem to be a broad enough term for what we are trying to describe.
We’re looking for a new term.
At EndUserSharePoint.com, we think of SharePoint End Users at three levels when writing articles: Information Worker, Power User and Site Collection Admini [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
Color-coded SharePoint Calendar with Lookup DateTypes
End User SharePoint
In my previous articles on color-coded calendars, the colors have been calculated based on a Choice field. But what if you need more functionality to, say, require approval for certain calendar entries like Personal Vacation.
Creating a Lookup Table
To add approval functionality like this (which is beyond the scope of this article), you’ll want to create a new table that has the names of your date types along with other fields you will need for a workflow, like this:
Create: Absence T [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
Multiple Pie Charts in a WSS Dashboard
End User SharePoint
From the feedback I received on my previous posts, I worked to develop a new jQuery script to present charts on SharePoint. It can be considered a major evolution of my first rudimentary pie charts versions because:
- It uses pure JavaScript libraries, no need to send data to the Google Charts API (i.e. internet).
- Charts are nicely arranged within an HTML table, with configurable columns.
- When you click on a chart, you jump to a target page showing the underlying list view.
- Represent [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09 |
Multiple Lists, Tasks and Workflows: Live Online Session This Friday
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers will be leading a live online session this Friday at 1:00pm EST: Multiple Lists, Tasks and Workflows. The problem statement and solution are outlined below. Sound good? We hope to see you there.
“In this workshop, we will be working with multiple lists and tasks with SharePoint Designer workflows. This content approval workflow will be based on a list of projects, with an associated list of project tasks. The project team lead for the project’s associated team will be th [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09 |
Sanitize Database Inputs
End User SharePoint
This was just too good to pass up… [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09 |
Exclusive Update: SharePoint Speaker List for Best Practices Conference
End User SharePoint
It’s time to start getting excited! The SharePoint speaker list for the Best Practices Conference in Washington, D.C., August 24 - 26, has been announced.
Here’s the first pass at the list, 27 presenters strong, just so you can get a taste of who’s going to be there. Once you’ve seen who’s speaking, you might want to register, since this is sure to be a soldout conference.
As an official media sponsor for the event, over the next few days and weeks, we’ll con [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Combine Multiple Documents to Create a Master Document
End User SharePoint
Many times I find people looking in the wrong direction when trying to find a SharePoint solution to one of their business problems. In this case, the question isn’t “How can I use SharePoint to combine multiple documents into a single, master document?” The real question is “How can I combine multiple documents into a single, master document?” It has nothing to do with SharePoint… the documents just happen to reside there.
Take a look and see what I mean.
E [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
Use SharePoint Designer to Send Intelligent Email Alerts
End User SharePoint
Please Note: Laura Rogers uses this solution during her “Power User Workflow w/ SharePoint Designer: Multiple Lists and Variables” live, online workshop. To get hands-on experience with this solution and others, join us this Friday at 1:00pm EST.
From Paul Galvin:
SharePoint provides an alerting function out of the box. The alert mechanism is reasonably flexible, but often times, we want more sophisticated alerts that SharePoint simply cannot provide without some extra elbow greas [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
Reminder: Live online workshop at 1:00pm EST today - Create KPIs with DVWP
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers continues her live online series today at 1:00pm. Here’s a brief description of “Data View Web Part Solutions: Part 2” and a short screencast to give you a taste.
“In this workshop, you will get hands on experience creating a data view web part of a task list on a SharePoint site, in your own sandbox. Not only will we create a web part with graphic key performance indicators (KPIs) , we will delve into the nitty gritty of conditional formatting.
“You w [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Date and Time - Part 4
End User SharePoint
Now that we’ve gone through 4 test cases that show the calculations being performed, let’s go back to our “Plain English” translation and see how much cleaner it becomes.
Deciphering the Puzzle (v2.0)
Our condition:
If the “End Date” (number) is less than the “Start Date” (number), AND if the “Start Date” (number) minus the “End Date” (number) is greater than 1, do the followin [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
Folders and Metadata Rehashed
End User SharePoint
The other day I got done with a one on one session with a user starting a new Sharepoint site collection for their department. After returning to my desk I tweeted “good one on one sessions over the past 2 days with a user involving the metadata practice instead of folders”
These are the responses I got in the matter of a few minutes:
While a few weeks ago I was nearly pulling my hair out with this very topic with a different user, I knew I had an opportunity to point a [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
jQuery for Everyone: Hourly Summary Web Part
End User SharePoint
On our Stump the Panel forum, bmix offered this problem:
We’re trying to figure out if there’s any way to show a total of how many people are scheduled for a particular hour of the day.
Well, after refining the problem statement, I put my owsapi to good use. The code below can be placed into a CEWP. You will need jQuery 1.3.1 as well as my owsapi code. Alter the paths to the scripts as needed in the first few lines of the code.
Of course, the CSS styling can be improved on, but this [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 1st '09 |
Free Web Part Download: Countdown Timer to SPTechCon Boston
End User SharePoint
Just because Laura Rogers asked so nicely, here’s a little gift to end the day: a web part that contains a countdown timer with the number of days, minutes and seconds until SPTechCon cranks up. Included in the download is the image used as the SPTechCon icon and an HTML version for those who would like to embed it in their non-SharePoint site.
So there, Laura. Now you won’t have to check your calendar to see when your presentation is.
Download the SPTechCon Countdown Timer [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 1st '09 |
SharePoint Demonstration: Leverage SharePoint to Build a Vertical Business Application
End User SharePoint
[Note from Paul Galvin: I want to straight away say that I have a financial interest in the desired outcome of this demonstration, which I mention in the interest of full disclosure, etc. This is actually the first time I’ve ever blogged about an event where I stand to benefit personally in this way.]
This web demonstration takes place Thursday, 06/04 at 12:30 EDT, ending at 1:30PM EDT.
In cooperation with my excellent business partner, Integrated Systems and Services Group (ISSG), I [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 1st '09 |
This Week in SharePoint with Joel - Broadcast 02
End User SharePoint
This is week two of our weekly broadcast with Joel Oleson of SharePointJoel.com. As requested, there are now minute markers and direct links to resources beneath the recording. iTunes podcast will be available for download within the next two days. You can also subscribe to the iTunes channel for this set of broadcasts.
We look forward to your feedback and recommendations on topics for future recordings.
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Topics covered in this screencast:
- Wh [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 1st '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Date and Time - Part 3
End User SharePoint
Test, Test, and Retest (then add 1 for good measure)
We’ll be using 4 different sets of dates in order to be able to test for the full range of possibilities with our formula:
Test #1: “Same Day”
Start Date: 5/12/2009
End Date: 5/12/2009
Test #2: “No Weekend”
Start Date: 5/18/2009
End Date: 5/22/2009
Test #3: “With Weekend”
Start Date: 5/22/2009
End Date: 5/26/2009
Test #4: “Multiple Weekends” [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 1st '09 |
jQuery for Everyone: Collapse or Prepopulate Form Fields
End User SharePoint
You may have seen the previous version of this script. At any rate, my goal was to create a script that required very little configuration and allowed prepopulation of any standard form field in SharePoint. This time, I’ve improved the look of “locked” fields as well as created a way to close or collapse a field, all from the URL.
For more information, examples, and an example web part, go to http://spff.codeplex.com/
Paul Grenier [read].
Posted: Sun, May 31st '09 |
Live Media Coverage of Best Practices Conference, Washington, D.C.
End User SharePoint
It’s official: Laura Rogers (@WonderLaura) and I (@EUSP) will be sitting in the cat seat at the Best Practices Conference in Washington D.C. in August as an Official Media Sponsor! What does that mean to you, the reader? Oh, wow… read on.
If you have seen our live coverage of the Best Practices Conference in London, SharePoint Saturdays in Atlanta and in DC, and St. Louis Moss Camp, you’ve got an idea of what we’re up to. We will be sending live bloggers to each of the ma [read].
Posted: Fri, May 29th '09 |
Free download: Countdown to Best Practices Conference Web Part
End User SharePoint
Some days I’ve just got to take a mental break and have a little fun. This morning I created a simple web part that shows a dynamic countdown to the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the Best Practices, Washington, DC Conference kicks off. Look to the left of the page here and you can see it at work at the top of the column.
Being the kind of guy I am, I thought of you and said, “Hey, maybe other people would like to display this on their SharePoint site!” Ok, here you go. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 29th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Date and Time - Part 2
End User SharePoint
Deciphering the Puzzle (v1.0)
Back to our formula, lets convert it into “plain English” (or close to, at least) to see just what’s occurring in the logic being processed:
The formula:
=IF(AND((WEEKDAY([End Date],2))1),(((DATEDIF([Start Date],[End Date],"D")+1))-(FLOOR((DATEDIF([Start Date],[End Date],"D")+1)/7,1)*2)-2),(((DATEDIF([Start Date],[End Date],"D")+1))-(FLOOR((DATEDIF([Start Date],[End Date],"D")+1)/7,1)*2)))
The (albeit somewhat confusing) translation:
I [read].
Posted: Fri, May 29th '09 |
Top Blogger Web Part – No code required
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers posted an interesting business requirement at Stump the Panel of End User SharePoint:
Here’s a question that came in from jlschu1:
I am trying to create a web part on a SP blog site that will display the top bloggers for that site. There is a large group of people writing posts on one blog site, in one list of posts. I want to show the top bloggers based on their number of posts.
Laura solved the problem with SPD workflow which sounds interesting. Laura, I can’t wait [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
Live Online Workshop - Data View Web Part Solutions: Part 2
End User SharePoint
Next Tuesday, June 2 at 1:00pm EST, Laura Rogers will be leading the second live online workshop, showing how to use the data view web part to build data driven, SharePoint solutions. This is a hands on session where you will implement the solutions in your own, SharePoint sandbox.
In the screencast below, Laura presents three topics for the workshop and asks you, the reader, to pick your favorite. Please leave a comment to let us know.
Choose from:
1. Customized Task List in a Data View Web [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
24 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow, Part 6 of 5
End User SharePoint
Does this guy ever sleep? This is the sixth screencast in a five part series on SharePoint Designer Workflow, produced by Bjørn’s of the USP Journal. Yes, that’s right… the 6th in a 5 part series. Go figure.
Embed this screencast on your site.
If you have seen previous issues of the journal, you know how well it’s done and you might want to just go directly to Bjorn’s site and purchase the issue, Number 4 on SharePoint Designer Workflow.
For those wh [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Date and Time - Part 1
End User SharePoint
Overview
I wanted to start off the series on the “Date and Time” set of functions by examining a specific problem that many folks have posted questions about – that is, how do you calculate the difference (number of days) between two dates, while excluding weekends? (Iain on the STP forums asked this recently, which sparked my interest in writing this)
At first glance, this seems like an obvious candidate for the “DATEDIF” function since by defi [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms
End User SharePoint
Continuing with Laura Rogers series, this screencast is to supplement her Multiple Edit Forms article.
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Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
Laura Rogers is currently a SharePoint Administrator at HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama. She has ten years of experience with Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration systems. This includes four years in SharePoint implementation, training, and customization. Laura has been a MCSE since [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
Web Parts: How would I know if available in WSS or Enterprise?
End User SharePoint
I’m posting a request that came in this morning in hopes that I won’t be the one that creates the chart to answer the question. Can you point us to a resource that lists ALL available web parts, no third parties please, and tells which version of SharePoint in which they are available?
I would post that one on the wall if it looked really nice! Here’s the original request:
“Could you please develop a list that shows the web parts and whether or not you have to have the fo [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms
End User SharePoint
There are a couple of different things I’m going to show you in this article, and both of the entail editing data in the data view (data form) web part.
Multiple Edit Form
If you’d like users to be able to edit data in multiple records, without using the datasheet view, the multiple edit form is another option. In the first article in this series, we showed how to insert a data view web part onto a web part page. Here’s how to insert a multiple edit form instead:
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Posted: Wed, May 27th '09 |
You Can Pry SharePoint Designer From My Cold, Dead Hands
End User SharePoint
Nearly everything I write about for EndUserSharePoint.com involves SharePoint Designer. In fact, a substantial amount of this site’s content, maybe even a majority, speaks to end users on how to leverage SharePoint Designer to solve business problems. And now that SharePoint Designer is free, it’s easy for everyone to get their hands on it.
A lot of people want to use SharePoint Designer and why not? As Lori Gowin wrote last week, it’s a very versatile tool. M [read].
Posted: Wed, May 27th '09 |
Who’s talking about SharePoint? How much?
End User SharePoint
There’s a new Twitter search engine out called Topsy. Interesting playground, that one.
Spent a couple minutes and it helped me realize that some people know how to use the word “SharePoint” in their tweets, and some don’t. I’d have to put myself in the latter category.
Follow me on Twitter: @EUSP. I think you’ll see the word “SharePoint” a lot more often.
Watch it Jeremy and Michael. I’ve got your number. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
SPTechCon Boston: One Free Pass Available
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers, Paul Grenier, Mark Miller, Robert Bogue, Scot Hillier, Todd Klindt, Bob Mixon, Matt Passannante, Tom Rizzo, Tiffany Songvilay, Dux Raymond Sy, Woody Windischman, Shane Young, Darrin Bishop, Gary Blatt, Sean Bordner, Jennifer Carbone, Frank Cottos, Randy Drisgill, Bob German, Andreas Grabner, Chad Gronbach, Kevin Israel, Kanwal Khipple, Eric Kraus, Jennifer Mason, Michael Noel, Errin O’Connor, Christopher Regan, Larry Riemann, John Ross, John Stover, Paul J. Swider, Mike Taylor, D [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
How important is SharePoint End User Training?
End User SharePoint
I just received this in my InBox.
“I am a SharePoint end-user training designer, developer, and teacher working for the provincial government of Ontario in Canada, and I find both the demand for and supply of strictly end-user training for SharePoint is relatively small compared to how important I FEEL the need is. This feeling of mine is based on trying to roll out SharePoint in our large organization. I’d appreciate any comments you might have for me.”
I leave this as an open [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
Don’t Make Users Think about your SharePoint Site Navigation
End User SharePoint
I’ve just returned from a business trip and saw something that I have never seen before. In the shower of the hotel there was a large sticker above the faucet that gave instructions on how to use the faucet. I thought it strange that there were instructions for something as simple as a faucet and it got me thinking about challenges with SharePoint navigation.
Some companies come to the conclusion that the best way to foster the growth of their SharePoint environment is to allow it to [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
This Week in SharePoint with Joel - Week 1
End User SharePoint
Welcome to the first recording of “This Week in SharePoint with Joel”.
The conversationalists on the recording are Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com and Joel Oleson of SharePoint Joel. It is our intention to start each week with a 15 to 20 minute conversation on the current state of SharePoint and point out some subjects that might be of interest during the coming week.
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Download the recording for later playback [read].
Posted: Mon, May 25th '09 |
Special Download: Two Chapter Excerpt - SharePoint Designer Workflow
End User SharePoint
The Weekly Newsletter has just been released with a two chapter download from Issue 4 of the USP Journal: SharePoint Designer Workflow. If you have seen previous issues of the journal, you know how well it’s done and you might want to just go directly to Bjorn’s site and purchase the issue.
For those who haven’t had the pleasure of reading the USP Journal, sign up for the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter and download the free chapters. When you decide it’s time to [read].
Posted: Mon, May 25th '09 |
Efficiently Follow Microsoft SharePoint (and Other) SharePoint Forums
End User SharePoint
Paul Galvin has posted an article, Efficiently Follow Microsoft SharePoint (and Other) SharePoint Forums, that describes his process flow when responding to the MSDN forum or STP forum questions. As part of a community that participates in the open sharing of information, helping out on the public forums is not only a way to help other, but to help yourself become more visible in the community.
Thanks, Paul. Nice way to get people started. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
15 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 5
End User SharePoint
This is the fifth screencast in a five part series on SharePoint Designer Workflow, produced by Bjørn’s of the USP Journal.
Embed this screencast on your site.
Bjørn’s next issue of the USP Journal, over 120 pages, is about SharePoint Designer Workflow from an End User’s perspective. He has agreed to provide two chapters from the journal to anyone who is on the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter list when we publish next Monday, May 25th. This is an exclu [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
To SPD or not to SPD, that is the Question
End User SharePoint
SharePoint Designer (SPD) has been free from Microsoft since April. In those two months, some lines have been drawn in the sand. Some users are of the opinion that it should be completely locked down and not allowed in the organization. Others have the view that it makes everything better. Still others aren’t even sure what value it could possibly bring. It is free, so you get what you pay for, right? Not always!
SharePoint Designer is one child of FrontPage. Remember FrontPage? The sa [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
Final Call: Live Online Workshop - Conditional and Approval Workflow w/ SharePoint Designer
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers is leading a live online workshop, Conditional and Approval Workflow w/ SharePoint Designer, Friday at 1:00pm EST. For those just getting started with SharePoint Designer and who need real world, hands-on experience developing custom workflows, this is a structured workshop that includes your own SharePoint sandbox and step-by-step instructions.
Testimonials from previous live online Workflow Workshop attendees
What a great class! The team of Laura & Mark really did a great [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
This Week in SharePoint with Joel…
End User SharePoint
Hey, this is Joel Oleson of SharePointJoel.com. I have teamed up with Mark Miller and EndUserSharePoint.com to provide a new feature, This Week in SharePoint with Joel, a weekly series of recorded audio broacasts on everything SharePoint.
This 15 minute weekly broadcast features my perspective of the SharePoint world and everything that’s happening in it. I cover everything from commentary on SharePoint team blog posts, to new whitepapers and articles of interest, to a rundown of conversa [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
24 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 4
End User SharePoint
This is the fourth screencast in a five part series on SharePoint Designer Workflow, produced by Bjørn’s of the USP Journal.
Embed this screencast on your site.
Bjørn’s next issue of the USP Journal, over 120 pages, is about SharePoint Designer Workflow from an End User’s perspective. He has agreed to provide two chapters from the journal to anyone who is on the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter list when we publish next Monday, May 25th. This is an excl [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
22 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 3
End User SharePoint
This is the third screencast is a five part series on SharePoint Designer Workflow, produced by Bjørn’s of the USP Journal.
Embed this screencast on your site.
Bjørn’s next issue of the USP Journal, over 120 pages, is about SharePoint Designer Workflow from an End User’s perspective. He has agreed to provide two chapters from the journal to anyone who is on the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter list when we publish next Monday, May 25th. This is an exclu [read].
Posted: Wed, May 20th '09 |
2 Minute Quick Demo: Show the top 5 bloggers in a SharePoint Blog
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers is leading a live online workshop this Friday at 1:00PM EST, Conditional and Approval Workflow with SharePoint Designer. She’ll be covering workflow solutions to common requests, such as the one below. Take a quick peak to see how she has developed a solution for showing the top 5 bloggers in a SharePoint blog.
If you like what you see, register for the workshop on Friday. You can follow Laura and get updates on Twitter: @WonderLaura.
Embed this screencast on your page. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 20th '09 |
15 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 2
End User SharePoint
This is the second screencast is a five part series on SharePoint Designer Workflow, produced by Bjørn’s of the USP Journal.
Bjørn’s next issue of the USP Journal, over 120 pages, is about SharePoint Designer Workflow from an End User’s perspective. He has agreed to provide two chapters from the journal to anyone who is on the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter list when we publish next Monday, May 25th. This is an exclusive edition just for EndUserSharePoint.com that i [read].
Posted: Tue, May 19th '09 |
4 Minute Screencast: Create a Cross-Site Dropdown Menu
End User SharePoint
As part of the Hack the SharePoint Interface - No Code Required! live online workshop, we provide the resources to create a cross-site / cross-site collection dropdown menu. The implementation is pretty simple and can be setup and configured in less than five minutes.
This screencast is a quick walk-through of how the solution works. Special thanks to Christophe at Path to SharePoint for the original solution.
Embed this screencast on your site. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 19th '09 |
Use Custom Lists for More Effective Workflow Auditing
End User SharePoint
SharePoint Designer workflow doesn’t give us a lot of visibility into what’s happening with our workflow solutions. And, the visibility that we do get is hampered by a relatively poor interface and 60 day time window. This 60 day window can be a major disappointment to new SharePoint Designer users because it’s not advertised by the tool itself. It’s not at all uncommon for someone to fire up SharePoint Designer, create a workflow solution that leverage [read].
Posted: Tue, May 19th '09 |
13 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1
End User SharePoint
Bjørn Furuknap, UnderstandingSharePoint.com, is the author of the USP Journal. He and I have worked out a nice little perk for EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter Subscribers.
Bjørn’s next issue of the USP Journal, over 120 pages, is about SharePoint Designer Workflow from an End User’s perspective. He has agreed to provide two chapters from the journal to anyone who is on the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter list when we publish next Monday, May 25th. This is an exclus [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com - Problems with leaving comments
End User SharePoint
Something’s up with the hosting service. When someone tries to leave a comment on the site, they receive a server error, even though the comment gets posted. I’ve got a support call in. Hopefully we’ll get this resolved within a couple hours.
Thanks for hanging in there. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
Quick Tip: Add Web Part in Firefox
End User SharePoint
I love Firefox. IE8 has some improvements over IE7, but I still prefer the fox. So I made this bookmarklet a while back and just got around to sharing it.
If you’re in FF and need to add a web part to a page, just click this bookmarklet (drag to your Bookmarks Toolbar).
>Add WP [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
Final Call: Live Online Workshop - Hack the SharePoint Interface, No Code Required!
End User SharePoint
Tomorrow at 1:00pm EST, I'll be moderating another live online workshop on how to utilize Content Editor Web Part to Hack the SharePoint Interface - No Code Required! [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
Data View Web Part, The Basics - Keep it Clean
End User SharePoint
This is pretty easy, and is applicable in most scenarios when using the data view web part. Basically, you create a blank web part page on your site, open that web part page in SharePoint Designer, and create your data view web part. Then, you save your (temporary) web part page, and click YES to the site definition page warning. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
A Funny thing happened on the way to the gym…
End User SharePoint
Two things really. The first is that SharePoint Designer became free and all the ideas, projects and requests that had been labeled “I’ll do them when they spend the $” were all green lighted. If you have read my earlier posts and case study you’ll know that I have had a fair amount of time in front of people selling MOSS. In each group there are always a few or so the saying goes, but in this case they weren’t what you’re thinking. They were the minority, the ones who see the value [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
7 Minute Screencast: Create a Message of the Day Web Part
End User SharePoint
As part of the Hack the SharePoint Inteface - No Code Required! live online workshop, we show how to implement a message of the day web part. In the screencast below, I show how you can create a Message of the Day Web Part to implement a status update on multiple pages of your site. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
JQuery for Everyone: Faster than Document.Ready
End User SharePoint
Sometimes I want scripts to work as soon as possible, possibly even before document.ready.
For style changes, one option is to add CSS link or style tags to the page. However, if the CSS is tightly married to a JavaScript solution, it’s better to keep the styling changes based in JavaScript.
So here’s my approach: [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
15 Minute Screencast: How to Emulate Network Shares in a SharePoint Document Library
End User SharePoint
Dux Raymond Sy has offered us a screencast demonstrating how to emulate the experience of navigating through a network share hierarchy WITHOUT creating sub-folders ina document library. I use this same technique in live workshops when people ask how to structure document storage when migrating from a file sever. [read].
Posted: Sun, May 17th '09 |
JQuery for Everyone: Email a List of People with OWS
End User SharePoint
Eric posted a good question on our forum:
What I’d like to be able to do, is create a hyperlink or button on the page that iterates through the list of users and when clicked, opens a mailto: href that is populated with all the users.
Any ideas on how this could be accomplished with jQuery?
I had [...] [read].
Posted: Sun, May 17th '09 |
Who says Geeks can’t be sexy? Bring it on!
End User SharePoint
The #SPBabes on Twitter are looking for a logo. Who needs a logo when you've got a bunch of SuperStar babes like this hangin' out. Looking forward to the calendar! [read].
Posted: Sat, May 16th '09 |
15 Minutes with Chris Geier on 3rd Party Workflow Solutions
End User SharePoint
I put in a call to Chris Geier at K2, one of most recognized vendors of workflow solutions for SharePoint, to get his perspective. When Chris called, I turned on the recorder so that you could hear from him directly. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 14th '09 |
Free Recording Available: Michael Sampson on Chapters 9 and 10 of Seamless Teamwork
End User SharePoint
We have just concluded the broadcast with Michael Sampson, author of Teamless Seamwork. This week, Michael talked about how to clean up after a project. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 14th '09 |
6 Minute Screencast: Data View Web Part - Add a Hyperlink to a Field
End User SharePoint
This screencast is a supplement to Laura Roger's article, Data View Web Part, The Basics - Add a Hyperlink. As a side note, I don't know why her face is green... maybe it has something to do with the new Star Trek movie that just opened. Where's Kirk when you need him? [read].
Posted: Thu, May 14th '09 |
Data View Web Part, The Basics - Add a Hyperlink
End User SharePoint
When a Data View Web Part is added to a page in SharePoint Designer, it is sometimes useful to include links to the content of the list. In a regular view of a list on your site in the browser, the list's Title field is a link to open the item. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 14th '09 |
Final Call: Live Online Study Group with Michael Sampson (free)
End User SharePoint
Michael Sampson, author of Seamless Teamwork, continues his live online Study Group today, covering Chapters 9 and 10. This is a free session, however registration is required so we can keep a head count. We'll start at 4:00pm EST and go for one hour. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 14th '09 |
JQuery for Everyone: Accordion Left-nav with Cookies Speed Test
End User SharePoint
We had a great run of Superstar! workshops this year. I enjoyed them all and learned a lot from our users. One of the more popular solutions, based on Accordion Left Nav and featured in Tony’s Deployment article, has only one improvement since the original article.
A few months ago, I added the ability [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, May 14th '09 |
Feedback: Live Online, Train the Trainer - Wikis, Blogs and Adult Learners
End User SharePoint
I had a great time delivering the live online Train the Trainer session today. The participants are experienced trainers and gave lots of good input when it came to real world case studies. Today we started with a discussion of different learning styles and learning types. That was followed by two presentation decks that can be used for in-house training: Get Started with Blogs, and Get Started with Wikis. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Use DVWP to display all files, even those stored in folders!
End User SharePoint
This short screencast is a visual walk-through of Laura's previous article, Data View Web Part, The Basics - Folders. In this session, she show how to display all files within a library, even when those files are stored in multiple folders. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
New Live Online Workshop - Hack the SharePoint Interface: No Code Required!
End User SharePoint
The Content Editor Web Part is an extremely powerful tool for WSS and MOSS site managers. You can hack the interface to SharePoint without access to the server! Using simple javascripts, css and jQuery code, enhancements to the interface can be added without having to resort to programming. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
Data View Web Part, The Basics - Folders
End User SharePoint
When creating data view web parts in SharePoint Designer, and dealing with libraries or lists that contain folders, the Item and Folder Scope setting becomes pretty important. In SharePoint views, it’s always possible to create a new view of the list with no folders, by configuring the “Folders” section in your view settings. Unfortunately, the same functionality is not as obvious in SharePoint Designer. When you create a view with no folders, and then convert it to XSLT in SPD, the folder [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Logic - Part 10
End User SharePoint
If we had taken the same direction as in the previous series (detailing the “IF”) to test for each possible combination of values with multiple nested “IF” functions, the formula would have been considerable longer, and would have worked, but would have been much less efficient.
By using the “OR” and “AND” functions to test for combinations of values at the same time, we’ve not only lessened the development time need to create the formula, we’ve also made debugging and testi [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
Mark Miller, Paul Grenier, Laura Rogers: Speaking at SPTechCon Boston in June
End User SharePoint
Paul Grenier and I are sharing a session at SPTechCon in June. We'll be doing a bunch of the Become Your Company's SharePoint SuperStar! material along with a couple other surprises. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Logic - Part 9
End User SharePoint
In order to take what we’ve learned by using our “Truth Table” and convert it into a usable formula for our SharePoint list, we need to work through the logic in order to make sure we don’t skip any steps (which can happen when designing complicated formulas “on-the-fly”). In the previous series on “Logic Functions”, we used a nested “Hierarchical” diagram to accomplish this since all we were working with were a series of nested “IF” statements (“If this, do this, if no [read].
Posted: Tue, May 12th '09 |
6 Minute Screencast: Insert a Data View Web Part onto a SharePoint Page
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers has started her series on the basics of the Data View Web Part. This screencast is to supplement the first article in her series. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 12th '09 |
Feedback: Live online workshop - Setup Your jQuery Environment
End User SharePoint
Paul Grenier has completed the second live online workshop in the jQuery for Everyone Series: Setup Your jQuery Environment, Step-By-Step. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 12th '09 |
Data View Web Part, The Basics - Insert a DVWP on Your Page
End User SharePoint
Since this initial article is really just to show you around in the DVWP, we’re not going to do anything fancy. We’ll just insert a regular SharePoint list as our data view. See, that now on the right side of the screen, there is a “Data Source Library” pane. 8. Now, in the pane on the right side of the screen, instead of the “Data Source Library” tab, you’ll see the “Data Source Details” tab, that shows the details of the source that was just selected. This means, that all of [read].
Posted: Tue, May 12th '09 |
Create MASSIVE amounts of text for placeholder content in less than 3 seconds
End User SharePoint
In Lee Reed's article on displaying your latest blog posts in SharePoint, he suggested a way to create text to use as placeholder information to see what the fully configured blog interface will look like. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 12th '09 |
Just Added: New Live Online Train the Trainer Sessions
End User SharePoint
The Train the Trainer sessions are going well. There's another one this Wednesday on how to train Information Workers to use Blogs and Wikis. I also had a request this morning to post the entire schedule for the Train the Trainer series so people can plan in advance and put them on their schedules. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 11th '09 |
2 Minute Video: OOTB Workflow vs Third Party WF Solutions
End User SharePoint
Would your company be willing to implement a third party solution for a few thousand dollars and have access to a fully functioning workflow platform, or would they rather have you hack away at it for a couple weeks because, in terms of dollars, they are already paying for your time? [read].
Posted: Mon, May 11th '09 |
Enough with the “Bad Economy” crap already!
End User SharePoint
I've been extremely frustrated lately with companies that are pleading "bad economy" as a reason not to properly train employees in the use of SharePoint. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 11th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Four, Live Online Events This Week
End User SharePoint
We've got four, live online events this week, a little bit of something for everyone. Here's the list. Check it out and please plan on joining us for one of the sessions. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 11th '09 |
Final Call: Setup jQuery in Your SharePoint Environment - Step by Step
End User SharePoint
Paul Grenier, aka @AutoSponge, will be leading the live online workshop to Setup jQuery in Your SharePoint Environment on Tuesday, May 12th at 1:00pm EST. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 11th '09 |
2 Minute Video: The Value of Sharing Information
End User SharePoint
I had the pleasure of having lunch with Toni Frankola while he was in town from Croatia last week. Toni is a frequent contributor to EndUserSharePoint.com and Stump the Panel, but we had never met. During our lunch conversation, we touched on many subjects. A couple of times I recorded Toni in mid-sentence because I thought the information was interesting enough for him to expand on and share. [read].
Posted: Sun, May 10th '09 |
In Defense of the SharePoint Community
End User SharePoint
It was disconcerting, to say the least, to hear the personal attacks against Joel Oleson, and those against the SharePoint MVPs during this past week. I have stayed out of the fray, not from lack of desire to participate, but because I was too confused to comment. [read].
Posted: Sat, May 9th '09 |
Feedback: The Building Blocks of SharePoint Designer Workflow Live Online Workshop
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers has finished delivering the first live online session on SPD Workflows. This post will serve as a place for participants to leave feedback on the session. If you like what you see, the second, more advanced session is on May 22nd. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 8th '09 |
New Forum on Stump the Panel: Business Problem Statements for SPD Workflow Solutions
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers leads the live online workshops for SharePoint Designer Workflow and is looking for real world problems that she can integrate into the workshops. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 8th '09 |
New Article Series: Laura Rogers on Data View Web Part Basics
End User SharePoint
This is an introduction to my new series of articles on the SharePoint 2007 data view web part (DVWP). These web parts can only be created using SharePoint Designer (SPD). Now that SharePoint Designer 2007 is free, this opens the door to a lot more people being able to create these web parts, widening the intended audience for these articles. What are these new DVWP articles all about? Well, various things. Usually I get ideas for blogs and articles that I write, from questions that people ask o [read].
Posted: Fri, May 8th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Logic - Part 8
End User SharePoint
Now that we’ve looked at how to trace down the logic of an “OR” function and that of an “AND” function, we’re going to merge the two in order to be able to test for multiple conditions together. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 8th '09 |
Feedback: Train the Trainer - The Fundamentals of Lists and Libraries
End User SharePoint
Yesterday was the first live online Train the Trainer session. We covered how to deliver training content to Information Workers, including presentation design, chunking of material and how to restrain from forcing information overload. The final hour covered the course module that will be delivered in-house. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 8th '09 |
Final Call: Live Online Workshop - The Building Blocks of SharePoint Designer Workflow
End User SharePoint
You've still got time to register for Friday's 1:00pm EST session for SharePoint Designer Workflow. Laura Rogers will deliver a hands-on session to get you started with developing your own, customized workflows. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
2009-05-02 SharePoint Saturday DC Videos
End User SharePoint
I finally got down to B&H to get a disk reader. Here are a few videos from SPS DC... the Washington Monument features prominently and there's also one in the speaker's room. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
Document SharePoint through Screencasts
End User SharePoint
Ken Lo and I hooked up at SharePoint Saturday in DC last week. I recorded his session and published along with my own. Ken asked if I could give him some tips and tricks on recording screencasts. Instead of doing a quick one-off, I've decided I'm going to do a series of screencasts on how to use Camtasia Studio to create documentation and training modules for you SharePoint implementation. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Manage Your Blog Posts
End User SharePoint
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Show your Latest Postings
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Create a bloggers list in the sidebar
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Personalize Your Blog Header with an Image
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Use Windows Live Writer
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Add a Short Bio About Yourself
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Manage Your [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Move documents between libraries with SPD Workflow
End User SharePoint
Laura Rogers is teaching a workshop this Friday on The Building Blocks of SharePoint Designer Workflow. This hour and a half session is for beginning users of SharePoint Designer who would like to get hands-on experience building conditional workflows. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 6th '09 |
JQuery for Everyone: Extending OWS API for Calculated Columns
End User SharePoint
Last night, I wanted to sum a calculated column with groups on the page with the groups closed. SharePoint does not do this OOB and my previous attempt at a solution needed data rendered (groups expanded).
To accomplish this, I did two things to my OWS API. First, I added a getType method that [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, May 6th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Logic - Part 6
End User SharePoint
To model this approach, we looked at using common logic modeling tools like “Truth Tables” and “Hierarchical Flowcharts” to first build out the path the logic will take, then transform that logic into a complete formula we can simply paste into a SharePoint calculated column. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Metadata
End User SharePoint
Yesterday on Twitter we had a discussion going on how to approach the topic of metadata with End Users. The discussion moved over to a post here called Folders in doc libraries are metadata cries for help. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Logic - Part 7
End User SharePoint
The “AND” function is similar to the “OR” function in that it will look at up to 30 different values for comparison, but it’s difference is that in order for the final “Result” to be “TRUE”, each and every condition must be true in the entire check or the end result will always be “FALSE”. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
Live Online Workshop: Train the Trainer - Lists and Libraries
End User SharePoint
Single tickets for the EndUserSharePoint.com live online Train the Trainer: Lists and Libraries are now available.
Train the Trainer is a series of workshops helping build in-house training communities. The workshop provides participants with a set of training materials as a base to build in-house training for Information Workers. Included in the series are all [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
Live Online Workshop: The Building Blocks of SharePoint Designer Workflow
End User SharePoint
Conditional and branching workflows are a key component of approval processes. In The Building Blocks of SharePoint Designer Workflow, Laura Rogers takes a hands-on, step by step approach on how to get started building your workflow solutions. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Add a Short Bio About Yourself
End User SharePoint
In the fifth installment of Pimp Your SharePoint Blog, Lee demonstrates how to include a bio in your blog. [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
Folders in doc libraries are metadata cries for help
End User SharePoint
On twitter, @PirateEric is lamenting the fact that users INSIST on creating folders. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
1 Minute Screencast Test: Looking for Your Feedback
End User SharePoint
I am trying out a new screencast recorder called CamStudio. If you have time, please give me some feedback on the audio and video quality of the presentation. Don't worry about the content... that was just a quick answer to a question Eric asked on Twitter. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
9 Minute Screencast from USP Journal: Creating Workflow
End User SharePoint
Bjorn from USP Journal at Understanding SharePoint has a nice 10 minute screencast on the solutions that will be covered in the next version of the journal. The main subject is Workflow. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
One hour recording from SharePoint Saturday DC: Ken Lo on Content Types
End User SharePoint
Ken Lo recorded his session at SharePoint Saturday DC. You can view it in its entirety below. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
Final Call: 3 minute demo screencast of Random Solutions with the Content Editor Web Part
End User SharePoint
Tomorrow I will be giving a live online workshop of Random Solutions Using the Content Editor Web Part. The three minute screencast below will show you some of the things we will be covering. Hope you can join us. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com: Stats for April
End User SharePoint
Just checked my google stats after a busy weekend and my jaw dropped. Thank you to everyone, especially the contributing authors in April, for continuing to support the site. I wish you all could have been at SharePoint Saturday DC this weekend. [read].
Posted: Sun, May 3rd '09 |
SharePoint Saturday: Recording of Mind Map Templates for SharePoint Site Planning
End User SharePoint
I recorded my entire session at SharePoint Saturday in Washington, D.C. on May 2. Here's the recording. Hope you find it useful. -- Mark [read].
Posted: Sun, May 3rd '09 |
Feedback: Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
The live online workshop, Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint, has concluded. The participants will be leaving feedback here on how the session went, what they will be using the solution for and any tricks or traps they learned along the way. [read].
Posted: Sat, May 2nd '09 |
Side-by-Side: Live Blog and Twitter Feed for SharePoint Saturday DC
End User SharePoint
There are three ways to catch the live feeds from Sharepoint Saturday in DC. [read].
Posted: Sat, May 2nd '09 |
SharePoint Saturday DC: Live Twitter Feed
End User SharePoint
Live Twittering from SharePoint Saturday DC begins at 8:30am, EST. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 1st '09 |
SharePoint Saturday DC: Live Blogging Feed
End User SharePoint
Live Blogging from SharePoint Saturday DC begins at 8:30am, EST. Enter your email to get a reminder notice. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 1st '09 |
Use Firebug in IE
End User SharePoint
I love Firebug. It saves me hours of time while troubleshooting a solution by keeping nearly all of the important information in one, easy-to-reach place. But sometimes, the differences between IE and Firefox requires me to troubleshoot in IE, where the popular Firefox addon does nothing.
Firebug lite to the rescue.
How to get some [...] [read].
Posted: Fri, May 1st '09 |
Last Call: Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint, Live Online Workshop
End User SharePoint
Tomorrow, Friday May 1, at 1:00pm EST I'll be doing a live online session on how to create a Master Calendar solutions. This is a very popular session because it's something you can implement immediately after the workshop. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 30th '09 |
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Use Windows Live Writer
End User SharePoint
In this fourth installment of the Pimp Your Blog screencast series, Lee talks about using Windows Live Writer to write and publish post. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 30th '09 |
InfoPath Part 2: Create a Project and Requirements Form
End User SharePoint
The Project and Requirements Form does not have to be complex, just gathering the basic information needed. In most cases, the business problem being addressed and the proposed solution are the initial pieces of information gathered. Follow along as we create this form and publish it to a site for use by anyone. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 30th '09 |
To package or not to package: that is the question
End User SharePoint
I have built quite some experience around Intranet, Extranet development using MOSS Publishing sites in large, globally managed environments. I have always felt that a mix between both would work best. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 30th '09 |
Finally: Dynamic charting in WSS, no code required! - Part 3 - Multiple Pie Charts
End User SharePoint
I finally got a script to get multiple Pie Charts on the same page!!!
In the screenshot, I show an hypothetical systems issues list, grouped by priority, status, system and site. You can represent different views of the same list or you can include multiple lists!!! [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
30 Minute Screencast: MindManager Templates for SharePoint Site Planning
End User SharePoint
I gave a talk on my MindManager templates at the Microsoft building in New York City yesterday. I recorded the entire session. This will give you a pretty good idea of how the templates are structured and how you might consider using them. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
1 Minute Video: Solar Powered Lego Helicopter
End User SharePoint
I've got an interest in robots and origami that I'm trying to pass on to my kids. Here's project I did with my six year old that took less than half an hour. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Reclaim space on a calendar page
End User SharePoint
One of the problems with a busy calendar in SharePoint is that the wrapper around the calendar takes up so much space. In this quick screencast, I'll show you how to reclaim, not only the Quick Launch space, but the heading and title space, too. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
EndUserSharePoint.com Training the Trainer Series
End User SharePoint
I had a few requests this morning to purchase the entire series of workshops for Train the Trainer, so I've extended the special series offer through May 1st. That will save you $498.00. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
Live online study group with Michael Sampson: Wednesday at 4:00pm EST
End User SharePoint
Michael will be continuing the study group live online tomorrow at 4:00pm EST, covering Chapter 8 of Seamless Teamwork: Making a Decision. Attendance to the event is free, but please register in advance so that we can get a headcount. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
Feedback: Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar!
End User SharePoint
Today's live online session of Become Your Company's SharePoint SuperStar! has completed. This is the feedback area for the workshop. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
Create Dynamic Bar and Pie Charts in WSS with any RSS feed: No code required
End User SharePoint
A note from Mark Miller: Last week, Claudio provided us with a solution for creating charts against a list in SharePoint: Finally - Dynamic Charting in WSS, no code required!.
When Ming Fung Yong saw the solution, he found another source of data for feeding the charts: RSS feeds. The charts below were created using [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
30 Minute Screencast: Creating Key Components of a Custom Training System using SharePoint OOTB (out of the box) and SPD
End User SharePoint
For those of you who can't attend SharePoint Saturday in Washington, D.C. this weekend, the sponsors are providing free webcasts. Here's one from Tom Fallon, describing how you might design a customized training system using OOTB SharePoint and SharePoint Designer. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
Finally: Dynamic charting in WSS, no code required! - Part 2
End User SharePoint
The script below, combined with such a list view, will plot a Google Chart showing those totals dynamically. The chart scale is automatically adjusted with the maximum value to be charted so it fits the designated size in the script. Once implemented, you can hide the list view web part so only the chart will render on the page. You can also play around with chart parameters within the script, to change chart type, style, size, colors or even build more complex charts. Take a look at the Google [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
InfoPath Part 1: More than Just Buzz Words
End User SharePoint
What that really means is that InfoPath is a powerful set of tools that you can use to accomplish all of those things and more. When you combine InfoPath, MOSS 2007 (Enterprise), and SharePoint Designer, you have the ability to create solutions quickly and without writing any code. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
Last Call: Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar! Live Online Workshop
End User SharePoint
Paul Grenier and I are getting ready for tomorrow's live online Become Your Company's SharePoint SuperStar! The solutions shown in the workshop are applicable for WSS as well as MOSS. Checkout the screencast below to see some of the solutions in actions. [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 27th '09 |
17 Minute Screencast: Using Twitter and Skype for Presence Information Inside SharePoint
End User SharePoint
Isaac Stith has put up a fun screencast on how to work with Twitter and Skype in SharePoint. This is the type of information you will be seeing at SharePoint Saturday Washington, D.C. this Saturday, May 2nd. I'm looking forward to it. Hope you can join us. [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 27th '09 |
Tuesday in New York City: Mind Manager Templates for SharePoint - Mark Miller
End User SharePoint
Tomorrow morning, I'll be at the Microsoft building on 6th Ave, talking about the Mind Manager Templates I have created for SharePoint. [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 27th '09 |
Post to SharePoint Blog Using Windows Live Writer
End User SharePoint
With Windows Live Writer, you’ll be on your way to creating and posting well formatted and feature rich blog posts in a little amount of time. As you have seen, configuring Live Writer to post to a SharePoint blog is very intuitive. [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 27th '09 |
7 Minute Screencast: Color code a SharePoint Calendar - Update
End User SharePoint
In this screencast, Jim Bob Howard continues his examination of different techniques for color coding a SharePoint calendar. [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 27th '09 |
Laura and Lori: On the Go! Part 3 - Policy Management System
End User SharePoint
This is Part 3 of Laura and Lori On the Go. In this segment, Laura describes a Policy Management System she implemented using lists, site columns, site content types and publishing HTML fields. [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 26th '09 |
SharePoint Saturday, Washington, D.C. May 2nd - Latest Update
End User SharePoint
If you haven't had the pleasure of seeing Dux Raymond Sy in action, check out this short video of him asking for your help in a canned goods charity drive that is part of SharePoint Saturday, Washington, D.C., next Saturday, May 2nd. I'll be there along with dozens of other presenters and 100s of SharePoint devotees. [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 25th '09 |
I just don’t see what you, JoelO, and the SharePointPodcastShow are so pleased and excited about.
End User SharePoint
Please help me understand. I just don't see what you, JoelO, and the SharePointPodcastShow are so pleased and excited about. [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 24th '09 |
4 Minute Screencast: 6 Quick Solutions to Improve the SharePoint Interface - No code required
End User SharePoint
Paul Grenier has been steadily working, giving us solutions on how to add simple End User functionality to the SharePoint interface. In this four minute screencast, I show the solutions Paul will be providing in the Become Your Company's SharePoint SuperStar! live online workshop. [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 24th '09 |
Laura and Lori: On the Go! Part 2 - InfoPath, SharePoint and Web Services
End User SharePoint
This is the second video in the Laura and Lori road trip saga. In the last episode, we left off when the cellphone rang. Let's see what happened next... [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 24th '09 |
Pimp Your Blog - Personalize Your Blog Header with an Image
End User SharePoint
Lee Reed continues his Pimp Your Blog series with a tip on customizing an image to personalize your blog. Actually, there are some things in here I haven't seen before. Fun stuff. [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 24th '09 |
3 Minute Screencast: Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
Here's a quick, 2 minute screencast to show the structure and functionality of the EndUserSharePoint.com Master Calendar solution. If you like what you see, there's a live online workshop next Friday, May 1st. Read the details and join us. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 23rd '09 |
Laura and Lori: On the Go! - Introduction, workflow and forms
End User SharePoint
The first two and a half minutes are for introductions and getting comfortable, but after that there's great content about a real world project Lori is working on with workflow and forms. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 23rd '09 |
Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
I've had about a half dozen requests in the past could days to schedule the Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint live online workshop. Ok, you've got it: Friday, May 1 at 1:00pm EST. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 23rd '09 |
Live online workshops: SharePoint Designer Workflows w/ Laura Rogers
End User SharePoint
Now that SharePoint Designer is a free, it's time to get your hands dirty with those workflows you've been thinking about. Laura Rogers will be leading the charge when it comes to giving you hands-on experience in the creation of workflow solutions. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 23rd '09 |
A Hidden Gem - the Preview Pane View in SharePoint
End User SharePoint
SharePoint offers a lot of different ways to look at the information in your sites. One of the most interesting is the Preview Pane view. Although it doesn't show up as a web part on its own, you can use it in almost any list or library simply by modifying the view settings.
I hope this article has encouraged you to explore this, as well as some of the other view formats available to you! [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 23rd '09 |
April 28th in NYC: MindManager Templates for SharePoint Site Planning
End User SharePoint
Next Tuesday, April 28, 2009 from 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM (EST), I have been asked to give a presentation on the Mind Manager Templates that I created for SharePoint Site Planning. If you are in the neighborhood, would love to see you there. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 23rd '09 |
10 Minute Screencast: Create a tabbed, layered interface - no code required
End User SharePoint
A couple weeks ago, I found an intriguing article by Baris Wanschers on how to create tabbed windows in SharePoint with jQuery. Peter Allen from Bits of SharePoint started playing around and created some really nice documentation, using the solution to document itself. [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 23rd '09 |
New Live Online Workshop Series: jQuery for Everyone with Paul Grenier
End User SharePoint
Later today or early tomorrow, I will be posting the schedule for twenty new live online workshops. Just a quick heads up for the jQuery series since it starts next week. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 22nd '09 |
Today at 4:00pm EST: Live online with Michael Sampson
End User SharePoint
Michael Sampson continues working his way through his book "Seamless Teamwork", through a live online study group. Today we will be covering Chapter 7, "Analyzing the Options". [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 22nd '09 |
5 Minute Screencast: Hack the SharePoint Wiki Interface
End User SharePoint
During the live online workshops, I've been showing people how to use an HTML template to place a wrapper around wiki content to constrain the horizontal width and provide a master menu. Peter Allen from Bits of SharePoint ran with the idea and created a No Deployment Solution that any site manager or site collection manager with access to the Masterpage can implement. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 21st '09 |
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog - Create a bloggers list in the sidebar
End User SharePoint
This is the second screencast in Lee Reed's series "Pimp Your SharePoint Blog". In this installment, Lee shows how to expose images with corresponding links from a custom list in SharePoint. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 21st '09 |
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