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 […]
Today I was asked to remove the left-hand navigation on the New Item form for a list in Office365. The form was opening in full-page mode, rather than the “modal dialog” format (aka “LightBox”) and was showing the site navigation on the left. The site owner did not want this. This should also work on […]
SharePoint offers the basic feature of importing a spreadsheet which will then become a brand new list. If any updates are made to the spreadsheet, you will either have to: manually key in the updates to the list -or- copy and paste the updates to the list using the DataSheet View or QuickEdit (depending on […]
I have a user who doesn’t want to make edits in the SharePoint list. He exports the list to Excel, makes his edits there, and then forces others to manually update the list with his edits. No more. I tried using F12 and writing CSS code to do the trick but it wasn’t working. As usual, […]
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 […]
If you have encountered an Access Denied message in SharePoint although you have proper permissions to the site, page, list, or library, then it could be one of several reasons. Hopefully one of these several fixes will work for you. Fix #1: For the site or sub-site with the Publishing feature enabled, ensure all users […]
Details about SharePoint 2013 (a.k.a. SharePoint 15) are starting to emerge. Somewhat redundanct articles from ZDnet and RedmondMag discuss some of the highlights that are currently being leaked. Both reference an enterprising fellow named Bjorn Furuknap who has started a subscription service for publishing SharePoint 2013 rumors. It looks like both of the articles rely […]
