On December 22, 2014, a number of online commentators on Microsoft’s Office 365 product published content about Microsoft’s announced decision to remove the Public Websites feature of SharePoint Online. Readers interested in learning more about this announcement are encouraged to read a post to Microsoft’s Support blog, titled Information about upcoming changes to the SharePoint […]
Use Logs to Debug Publishing Problems between SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010
We have spent some time, recently, building the content type, and workflow demonstrated by Eric Eaton in our Project Task Tracking video tutorial. This video tutorial can be viewed by anyone with a subscription to SharePoint-Videos.com. This video is also available as part of our SharePoint 2010 Project Management videos tutorial DVD. This DVD can […]
Use a Parallel Block to enter Two Conditions for a Workflow Built with SharePoint Designer 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010 is the preferred tool to build workflows for SharePoint Server 2010. If a workflow requires two conditions to be run, for example: If condition A AND If condition B, then the way to enter both of these tests into the workflow, joined with “and”, is to first add a “parallel block” to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Train Business Users to Build Workflows with a Combination of InfoPath and SharePoint Designer 2010
Business users looking for simple methods to build processes to deliver targeted data should be trained to use SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath 2010 to build workflows. Of course these users should have the technical understanding required to safely use these tools. In a video tutorial titled Create a Site Workflow and Modify its Form […]
Creating a Workflow on a List Using SharePoint Designer 2010
Providing Line of Business (LoB) users with workflows for business processes is a powerful way for IT organizations to hasten user adoption of computing on a SharePoint platform. In a video tutorial titled “Creating a Workflow on a List Using SharePoint Designer 2010, Asif Rehmani demonstrates how to build this type of workflow on a […]
Using Visio and SharePoint Designer 2010 to Build Workflows
Visio plays an important role in the recommend process for building workflows in SharePoint 2013. It makes sense for SharePoint 2010 Administrators, developers and even business analysts from Line of Business (LoB) units to build up a familiarity with the best practices associated with using Visio and SharePoint Designer 2010 to build workflows. In a […]
On Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to Create External Systems for Business Connectivity Services
In a video training course, Creating External Systems Raymond Mitchell demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to create External Systems for Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Edition. It is important to note that the point of adding external systems is to establish a data connection that meets security (meaning authentication) requirements […]
Creating External Content Types is a High Value Feature of SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
Rehmani Consulting, Inc offers a set of video training content on Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Edition. This set of video training content includes a video course on external content types, which is titled An Introduction to External Content Types. As an entry to the MSDN Library, How to Create an External […]