I cannot count the number of clients I’ve encountered who have treated the default document library on a SharePoint site as the *only* document library they could use. So they filled it up with folders, then sub-folders, then sub-sub-folders, etc. It makes for a difficult conversation. I usually say “let’s take ALL of the top-level […]
Today I found two tools from LinkTek that I want to share. First, the free one. LinkReporter is a free tool that reports on broken links throughout your IT enterprise. I suggest you run it and then decide to either fix the links manually or use a paid product to fix them for you. The […]
To edit a page in SharePoint 2013 that does not have Edit Page menu option available (pictured above), such as the Access Requests page, append the following bold text to the url (start with and include the ?): http://SharePoint/sites/YourSite/Access%20Requests/pendingreq.aspx?ToolPaneView=2 For my little task, I actually used the following url: http://SharePoint/sites/YourSite/Access%20Requests/pendingreq.aspx?ToolPaneView=2&pageview=personal I added the part about […]
I encountered the following error today in our SharePoint 2013 environment while simply trying to move a web part to another web part zone: A Web Part you attempted to change is either invalid or has been removed by another user Of course, I went to Google first and found several articles on the subject, […]
I’ve often used the Web Parts Maintenance page in working with SharePoint sites. To get there, simply add ?Contents=1 to the end of the URL. My other favorite “quick link” is for opening a page in Edit Mode when I cannot otherwise. This is achieved by adding ?ToolPaneView=2 to the end of the URL. Ahmed […]
In case you weren’t aware, Microsoft has provided a free, online PowerShell Command Builder utility: https://www.microsoft.com/resources/TechNet/en-us/Office/media/WindowsPowerShell/WindowsPowerShellCommandBuilder.html I recommend that you bookmark it and refer to it whenever you need to double-check the commands in your scripts. You may want to download the Getting Started Guide. Make sure that the first thing you do is to select the appropriate […]
Now that you’ve created a brilliant chart, graph or dashboard in Tableau you want to render it on a SharePoint site. Here are the steps to do this. Honestly, the step you’re probably not thinking about is Step 1 below. If you’re working with the Tableau client on your desktop, you can make awesome interactive […]
If you are using Tableau for reporting, you may want to connect to one or more lists in SharePoint. Here are the steps I take to do this. Step 1: Open a browser and navigate to the SharePoint list you would like to work with in Tableau. Make a point to identify the list name. […]
There are articles on Google that help you add a field to an InfoPath form so that you can display who last modified it. Great. However, I needed to find out who had last edited (and thoroughly screwed up) an InfoPath form on a specific list in our SharePoint 2010 environment. It takes a little […]
I keep SharePoint Designer disabled ever since one malicious user caused a great deal of trouble two years ago. We have over 15,000 users and the risk is just too great. As you probably know, SharePoint Designer is enabled/disabled at the web application level and then at the site collection level (for some degree of […]
