SharePoint stakeholders require high levels of user adoption to achieve meaningful return on investment. Building workflows to migrate business processes into a SharePoint computing environment is a valuable method of achieving this goal. When expense reporting, document archiving, team calendar maintenance, and other day to day business procedures are all dispatched within SharePoint, the task […]
Working With External Content Types with SharePoint Designer 2010
In a video tutorial titled Create External Content Types using SharePoint Designer 2010, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to work with External Content Type Site Objects in SharePoint 2010. This video tutorial is intended for an audience of SharePoint Administrators, developers, designers and architects. In an article […]
Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to Work with Site Columns and Content Types in SharePoint 2010
On the topic of site columns and content types for SharePoint 2010, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT notes “both are extremely, extremely powerful functionality” in a video tutorial titled Creating and using Site Columns and Content Types. To understand Asif’s point business users should take a look at an article on the Microsoft Office […]
Building Custom Actons for Lists in SharePoint 2010 with SharePoint Designer 2010
An important component to a successful effort to hasten user adoption for SharePoint is easing the “unfamiliar” burden for end users grappling with computing procedures written for SharePoint. SharePoint is a complex computing system with an extensive range of functionality. But getting specific functions to work to the benefit of an organization can require end […]
How to Add an App to a Site in SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013
Microsoft has heavily promoted the availability of apps for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013. But organizations subscribing to SharePoint Online will need to familiarize themselves with a specific method of adding apps to sites. Do not try to add apps from the SharePoint Online Administrative Site, meaning https://”your domain”-admin.sharepoint.com/. Clicking on the […]
Newsfeed Options for SharePoint Online Office 365, 2013
Organizations looking to enhance collaboration between personnel on projects, or other shared tasks will want to use the Newsfeed feature of Sharepoint Online, Office 365, 2013. By implementing this feature, personnel with an interest in specific documents, spreadsheets, or other organizational assets (including web pages, slide decks, or data in any other file type format […]
Working with Master Pages in SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013 with SharePoint Designer 2013
In an article on MSDN, How to: Create a Master Page Preview File in SharePoint 2013 the instructions, “Create a master page preview file” include Make a copy of a master page preview. SharePoint 2013 includes oslo.preview and seattle.preview The preferred method of working with these pages is with SharePoint Designer 2013. As a preliminary […]
Master Page Preview Files, SharePoint Online, Office 365
Most organizations with shared tenant accounts on SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013, will want to brand their site pages. The correct method of accessing the page design features is the “Change the Look” page, which is accessed with a click on the gear symbol on the right hand side of the top right of a […]
Build a Custom “Composed Look” for a SharePoint Online, Office 365 Team Site
SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013 has been equipped with an entirely new theming engine. Custom themes built for SharePoint Server 2010 won’t work. But the theming engine is, nevertheless, highly flexible. One method of customizing the look of an out of the box team site is to build a custom “Composed Look”, and apply it […]
Customizing the Look of a SharePoint Online Team Site from the Change the Look Page
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, […]