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Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects
The new book is out! Brought to you by the wonderful folks at Microsoft Press. Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects with SharePoint 2010 is intended to be a practical guide for evaluating...
View ArticleSharePoint Lists: Used, Abused and Underappreciated
This session was presented at SharePoint Fest – Denver 2012 Abstract: No matter which version of SharePoint 2007 or 2010 you’re using (Foundation, Server, Enterprise, or SharePoint Online) you’re...
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Back with a Vengeance – MNSPUG Tomorrow
June? Really? It’s been that long since I’ve actually completed a post and uploaded it? Sad. Well, it’s been a crazy busy summer and now that that is wrapping up (the kids walked to the bus stop...
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SharePoint Saturday – Twin Cities – Fall 2012
Yep, it’s that time of year again. We’re ramping up for the Fall 2012 SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities event. We’ll be meeting on November 3rd this year, still at the Normandale campus down in...
View ArticleSharePoint Fest – Chicago 2012
Last week I presented a few sessions at the SharePoint Fest Chicago event. The first was the SharePoint Lists: Used, Abused and Underappreciated session that I’ve given a number of times. SharePoint...
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Finding Internal Names for SharePoint List Columns
The average user usually doesn’t need to care about ‘internal’ naming on SharePoint lists. They just need to work. But as you start to delve into some customization approaches, trying to piece some...
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JS Link for SharePoint 2013 Web Parts–A Quick Functional Primer
JS Link is a new web part property in many SharePoint 2013 web parts. It allows users and developers to create Client-Side Rendering (CSR) solutions within SharePoint 2013. In other words, it allows...
View ArticleGroup Work Site, Feature and Lists: 2010 to 2013
The short answer/story is that they are deprecated – no longer available… The reason given was that they were not widely used. The Group Work site is not available when selecting sites in 2013 and the...
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Use SkyDrive Pro with a Office 365 2010 account
I want to keep my stuff in SharePoint, but also have it synched down to a local location. Should be cake with SkyDrive Pro, but my 365 account hasn’t been upgraded yet. So, what to do… Well, it turns...
View ArticleSharePoint Saturday Twin Cities–May 2013
Another great event this past weekend – for those of us that were able to navigate the monsoon in the morning. Almost 500 attendees made it in. Slide decks should be posted to the www.spstc.com soon....
View ArticleSharePoint Fest Chicago
I’ve got two sessions this week at SharePoint Fest Chicago. PWR104 – Build a SharePoint Intake / Request List PWR202 – Customizing Sites and Pages in SharePoint 2013 Slide decks for both will be up...
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JS Link – Hello World
JS Link and CSR (Client-Side Rendering) for SharePoint 2013 are often used interchangeably, but they aren’t exactly. The JS Link web part property is a way to add CSR template overrides to your page....
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JS Link – CSR Simple View Field Formatting
One function that SharePoint Designer (pre-2013) was great for was doing some quick formatting changes to views – tweaks not available through normal view configuration. This example shows how you can...
View ArticleSPC14 MySPC, Sessions and Schedule
SPC14 is going to be pretty darn cool. Looking at the sessions and how things are going to be organized is amazing. Microsoft is doing a great job integrating Yammer into the mix for this conference....
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JS Link – CSR View Conditional Formatting
This post builds on the JS Link – CSR Simple View Field Formatting post. If you can format a single field as was done in the previous example, it’s not a big step from there to using conditional...
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JS Link – Highlighting a Row with CSR
One conditional formatting scenario in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 was to highlight a row in a list view based on a rule: data within the item/row. SharePoint Designer 2013...
View ArticleHiding the Title Field – A little stumble…
Plenty of folks talk about variations on a theme here. I’ve hidden the Title field before, no big deal. The order I happen to use this time was a little confusing though. I have a list where I know I’m...
View ArticleClient-Side Rendering (CSR) demystified – Slides
At SPC14 – the SharePoint Conference 2014 – I initially presented a session on Client-Side Rendering in SharePoint 2013 as implemented using JS Link through the web interface. CSR and JS Link using...
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JS Link – Using CSR for KPIs
OK. Someone asked me today if CSR and JS Link can be used incorporate KPIs into a list view. The answer of course is ‘yes’. This is a wonderful example of how CSR can be used. Background: If you’re...
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Display Links to SharePoint Item Attachments using CSR
I had an inquiry this week regarding whether or not CSR could be used within a SharePoint list view to display links directly to an item’s attachments. It took a bit of tweaking code around a bit, but...
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