In the eleventh and twelfth units of a set of fifteen units of video training content on building workflows for external data, in either SharePoint 2013, on premises, or SharePoint Online, Office 365, Fabian Williams, a SharePoint Server MVP, presents a set of procedures, and their underlying components, most likely to be useful for an […]
Project Siena, a New No-Code Solution for Building Apps for Office 365 and SharePoint 2013
Anyone paying a recent visit to the Business and Productivity homepage of Microsoft’s MSDN content site will notice a mention of Project Siena, a mobile app builder for enterprise class organizations. This development tool can be downloaded as an app to any computer running Windows 8.0 or 8.1. Best of all, it appears to be […]
SharePoint 2013 Workflows Simplify Calls to Web Services for Developers
A familiar challenge facing lots of large organizations is how best to integrate custom software for Line of Business (LoB) requirements with enterprise applications, including SharePoint. With SharePoint 2013 workflow, no code developers can call web services. Better yet, LoB application developers needn’t know anything about SharePoint, they can also just simply call a web […]
Reduce SharePoint Development Costs with No Code Reusable Workflows
The biggest return on an investment in developing custom solutions can be found in the combined benefits of enterprise wide accessibility and utility. For SharePoint, reusable workflows are a great example of a method of delivering this high value benefit. In a video tutorial titled Intro to Workflow types, models, stages and app step usage […]
Using SharePoint Workflows to Identify Inefficiencies in Business Processes
Workflows built on SharePoint lists and libraries can be used to identify problem points in business processes. Our newest DVD set of specialized training content for SharePoint 2013, Cheap Thrills in SharePoint presents several workflow examples useful for this purpose. Why would an organization consider implementing workflows for this purpose? Any SharePoint stakeholders monitoring their […]