The theme engine for SharePoint Online has been changed, substantially, from SharePoint Server 2010. Site owners should develop a familiarity with the new theme methods to make the process of making superficial changes to site appearance comparatively easy. It’s helpful, as noted in Show Off Your Style With SharePoint Theming, by Lionel Robinson, Program Manager, […]
A Different Set of Methods are Required to Successfully Brand SharePoint Online, 2013, Sites
The CSS architecture of SharePoint Online, 2013, is very different from the same architecture for SharePoint 2010. In an article titled Branding issues that may occur when upgrading to SharePoint 2013, Microsoft alerts organizations supported with branded SharePoint Server 2010 sites to do some extensive testing before migrating to a live SharePoint Online, 2013, platform. […]
Adding Dashboards to a Dashboard Library in SharePoint Online
Before we get down to the specifics of building a dashboard library inside our SharePoint Online, Enterprise E3 Business Intelligence Center (BIC) site collection, we need to note an important point. PerformancePoint Services Dashboard Designer is NOT available to SharePoint Online users. So plan on building any of the dashboards you require locally, with, for […]
BI Center Site Collection SharePoint Online Library and List Types
The following screen is produced with SharePoint Online, Enterprise Edition, once a Business Intelligence Center (BIC) site collection has been successfully added: The three prompts in the center of the screen are simple and right to the point: Explore and Analyze Data Create powerful data mash-ups of millions of rows of data from various sources […]
Adding a Business Intelligence Site Collection to SharePoint Online, Office 365 2013
We planned to add a status list to the top level site collection of our Office 365, SharePoint Online account. But we quickly learned about the removal of this out of the box type of list from an article, Discontinued features and modified functionality in Microsoft SharePoint 2013, which was published on the Microsoft® Office […]
Adding a New Document Library to SharePoint Online, Office 365
Keeping in mind that lists and libraries are called “Apps” in SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013, the process of creating a new document library is straightforward. From the team site page for our site collection we clicked on “Site Contents.” From “Site Contents” we clicked on “add an app”, and selected the first “Document Library” […]
Using the Gallery Feature of the Design Manager, SharePoint Online in a Windows 7 Local Environment
In the last post to this blog we introduced the Design Manager feature of SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013. In this post we will discuss some of the obstacles to using the Design Manager feature to access design components, in HTML, for automatic conversion to master pages for publishing sites in SharePoint Online. In a […]
Design Manager is a New Feature of SharePoint Online Office 365, 2013
SharePoint includes two different type of sites: publishing sites and team sites. Outward-facing web sites, as well as any sites planned for static content do better as publishing sites. SharePoint Online includes a new tool for building publishing sites — the Design Manager. In a document titled What’s new with SharePoint 2013 site development, Microsoft […]
Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2013 for SharePoint Online Office 365
Office 365 E3 plan accounts include a paid subscription to Microsoft Office 2013, Pro. SharePoint Designer 2013, InfoPath 2013, and InfoPath Filler 2013 are all included in this set. SharePoint administrators, developers, architects and power users should familiarize themselves with the differences between the 2013 and 2010 versions of SharePoint Designer 2010. A good way […]
Working with the Quick Launch in SharePoint Online, Office 365 2013
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a set of video tutorials on the procedures required in SharePoint 2010 to build lists, add items to lists, and even to edit list items. These tutorials are included in The Basics: SharePoint End User Training for Readers, Members & Subsite Owners. One of the tutorials in this set, “Working with […]