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I’ve been working with a client recently on a project where we are using a BDC connection. Things have been going fine when we were using the external item picker in an InfoPath form but we ran into a problem. We are using an external column in the same library. Due to issues I will explain, I need to set this external column with PowerShell.
I’ve seen a lot of online folks have trouble with this, so I thought that I would share how to properly set this column with PowerShell as there is a little trick to it.
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In today's post featuring PowerShell, I'm going to show you how to use a script with a few functions and some handy tricks to quickly reset permissions with multiple libraries, folders and files. This can be very difficult to handle manually, especially when there are many many libraries with many folders and files with broken permissions.
You've been there, we all have. At one point or another, we loved InfoPath and were disappointed at the news it would be discontinued. We waited with anticipation to see what was going to replace it. It's been quite the gray unknown for a long time, and in part the Ignite conference this year didn't make any overwhelm anyone with any big announcements in this regard. But that doesn’t mean there wasn't one.
Keep reading to get my thoughts and what was announced and where the planned future of InfoPath is going.
Thanks for staying with me as I walked you through the basics of workflow in our favorite intranet platform – Microsoft SharePoint (and I’ll see you at the Ignite Conference at the end of the month!).
To wrap up our series, I wanted to talk a little about some best practices with workflow then offer some ways that you can extend your workflows.
I trust that you’ve been following me in this 101 series on workflow, so welcome to part 3! Today we’re going to focus on getting SharePoint Designer going, reviewing the interface for workflow and creating some workflows. Get ready, this will be a long one! There’s a lot of info to get through, and I give you different steps between 2010 and 2013.
Get 10 practical tips that will help you build a rock-solid intranet. Some of these you may have heard, and some may new ideas, but all are time-tested and have been proven effective.
Welcome to part 2 of our introductory blog series on SharePoint workflows. Now we can venture deeper into the depths of your workflow adventures. We’ll cover how to use the default workflows, more details on workflow structure and we’ll wrap up with working with workflows. In the next post, we’ll crack open Designer to see how we can create some workflow.
In this post, which is part of a new Building a Better Intranet series that I’m writing, I want to share 4 strategies with you. Four overarching themes, that you can and should be using, whether you’re designing and building a new intranet, or trying to breathe new life into a struggling one. Don’t worry, I promise to show you what luck has to do with it, so just stay with me.
With most clients I’ve worked with over the years, I inevitably get asked the same thing sooner or later – “what’s workflow?" Or it’s “teach me about workflow,” or “how do you customize an default workflow?"
With this blog series I want to try to take explain some core concepts of workflow, then give some direction on creating them, the interface, customizing the default ones, some best practices and some ideas on extending them. Sounds like a lot, and it is! There are 2 and 3-day training courses just on workflow, but my goal is to give you some basics and direction to get you going with your adventure with SharePoint workflows. I won’t go into many step by steps on building a sample workflow, but I want to help you started.
This post will the first of a 4-part series on how you and your organization can begin to build a better intranet. In this first post, we will ask the question of "Why do we need a better intranet?", and give you 4 areas that have changed dramatically, and why acknowledging and addressing them is one of the keys to a successful intranet.
Is your team frustrated with too many meetings, struggling to find the information they need to get their jobs done, and become increasingly disengaged? Then it's time to consider a new (or upgraded) intranet. This article lists the top 6 benefits of a modern intranet.
Are you considering an intranet project? Or do you have an intranet that no one wants to use? Creating an intranet that your team loves to use doesn't require a PhD, but it does take some time and patience. This article include 3 simple secrets for intranet success.
Recently Microsoft gave all document libraries in SharePoint Online an overhaul. Some call it “modern document libraries”, others refer to it as the new library interface experience (or UI experience). I want to give folks a more granular walkthrough of the experience, and in this post I want to call out some important differences and changes you should pay attention to.
We all have a few scatterbrained friends. But when it comes to business, almost every organization is too scatterbrained. These 6 surprising statistics will give you some insight into the problems organizations have with listening across channels.
Successful digital transformation projects result in better employee engagement and customer experiences. But most attempts meet with failure.
This infographic is an overview of the potential – and perils – of digital workplace transformation.
Discover the missing step needed to uncheck the default "overwrite existing files" for uploading documents to a single document library.
Failure is a great teacher, isn’t it? And with 63% of all SharePoint projects stalled, struggling or failing to meet expectations (AIIM), you’d think everyone would be learning a lot, right? Well, the collaboration struggle is real, and it’s still going strong today. Are you struggling with SharePoint?
Earlier this March, all the long hours and late nights of the Microsoft SharePoint team came to fruition with the announcement of the release of SharePoint 2016 on May 4, 2016. As you start planning for a potential migration to SharePoint 2016, we have put together a checklist to ensure your project success. Continue reading to understand how projects fail and how to avoid this fate!
SharePoint has had “Announcements” for a very long time now. The idea is good, you want to let people know what’s going in your department, division, location, site, project, whatever the case might be. You put the Announcements on the homepage of your site, but they don’t exactly blow you away. Today I’m going to show you an easy way to use Announcements for Critical News that will with style that get a lot more visibility.
SharePoint Add-Ins, though very interesting, are very tricky. Let me get directly to the point. If you are developing a SharePoint Hosted add-in, that needs to make a call outside the app web, be it host web or any other API call, there are certain things that need to be completed. Otherwise, you will have everything in place but will keep producing the Error-Not Found message when you run your SharePoint hosted add-in.
Focus on Content was a feature that emerged with the release of SharePoint 2013 and is also in SharePoint Online. What this little button does is hides some structural parts of the rendered page to allow more room for the library, list or page content. With custom branding, you might have issues.
I’ll show you a quick and easy way to overcome this and get your users more screen real estate!
With the imminent release of SharePoint 2016 in the coming months, now is an excellent time to reflect on the current landscape of BI.
Does this sound familiar? “I need a cool dashboard for manager and other executives. Can SharePoint do that?” This post will outline options and give guidance when you have SharePoint and are looking to enhance with graphs and charts to build dashboards.
Eat an elephant. Put down the hammer. Be lazy for a day. Yes, we're seriously writing about these topics, and how they can help your organization achieve a successful digital transformation. Read on for 10 impactful tips that you can start using today.
The Digital Transformation is coming - is your organization ready? According to recent studies, there are 5 key areas to prioritize for a successful digital workplace. But - spoiler alert - digital is not all about technology. Read on to learn about how better understanding people - and failure - will truly lead to digital success.
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