SharePoint-Videos offers several training sets on Microsoft’s Office 2013 and SharePoint App Model. Tools for building applications for web browser clients, HTML, JavaScript and CSS, play an important role in this model. MSDN’s Channel 9 offers a truly hands-on lab on building a Windows App with HTML 5, JavaScript and CSS 3.0 with Visual Studio […]
The SharePoint 2013 Development and Office App Models Promise Expanded Roles for SharePoint Site Designers
SharePoint Users with successful experience branding sites with HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), can now look forward to a new role, with, arguably, an expanded importance within their communities. The new SharePoint Development, and Office App Models are both built, in entirety, on these skills. SharePoint-Videos offers a very rich set of video […]
Why SharePoint Developers Need to be Comfortable Building Apps for SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint developers need to move into a comfort zone on the topic of building “apps”. SharePoint server 2013 provides them with an opportunity to attain this objective. On November 12, 2013, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy will teach an online course, Building Robust SharePoint 2013 hosted Apps for productivity and profit – Online Class. This course can provide […]
Further Detail on Worflow Manager Client 1.0 for SharePoint 2013
Rehmani Consulting, Inc makes substantial efforts to keep SharePoint stakeholders, whether these individuals play a role as a line of business (LOB) decision-maker, or a role within an implementation and/or support team as an administrator, developer, architect, or SharePoint advocate, up to date with best practices with regards to using workflows to develop no-code processes […]
Implementing Browser Based Process Development for SharePoint 2013 can Produce Considerable Cost Savings for Enterprise Organizations
It is worth taking a blog post to reflect on an unstated, but nevertheless core assumption of Asif Rehmani’s presentation at the SharePoint 2012 Conference, “Building Composite Solutions for SharePoint 2013 with the Browser”. This core assumption is that it makes sense for enterprise organizations to empower SharePoint 2013 site owners and power users with […]
Expose Geographical, Location Specific Information about Documents and List Items in SharePoint 2013
In the final section of his presentation at the SharePoint 2012 Conference, Asif Rehmani demonstrated how the new, out of the box field type for SharePoint 2013, “Geolocation” can be used to expose location information about documents in SharePoint 2013 Libraries, and items included in lists. Like any other field type, a SharePoint site column […]
Use Metadata Tagging to Expose Line of Business Information Directly Within SharePoint 2013 Site Columns for Business Intelligence Gathering
Asif Rehmani included a demonstration of a 3rd party application, which automatically extracts metadata and adds it to SharePoint 2013 site columns within his presentation, “Building Composite Solutions for SharePoint 2013 with the Browser”. This 3rd party application is offered by Pingar. The App is called “Pingar Metadata Extractor” and is presently offered at no […]
Using Third Party Workflow Apps with SharePoint 2013 via the Browser to Manage Business Processes
Workflows are the next scenario presented by Asif Rehmani in his presentation, “Building Composite Solutions for SharePoint 2013 with the Browser” which he delivered at the SharePoint Conference, 2012, which was held in Las Vegas, NV in the U.S. We need to note that the workflow tool discussed in this section of Asif’s presentation is […]
Using Site Columns, Document Templates, and Office 2013 Quick Parts to Expose Data to SharePoint 2013
In his presentation, “Building Composite Solutions for SharePoint 2013 with the Browser” Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT, demonstrated how an Expense Report Created in Microsoft Word can be used as a method of adding data to SharePoint which can be exposed to users in a manner that facilitates business intelligence (BI) gathering objectives. The […]
Building Composite Solutions for SharePoint 2013 with the Browser – Part 2
This is the second installment of our comments on a presentation by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP, MCT and President of Rehmani Consulting, Inc. from the SharePoint Conference, 2012 on Browser Based Process Development for SharePoint 2013. In this post we present a definition of composite solutions along with a first example of this type of […]