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 […]
Creating and Using Site Columns and Content Types Applied to SharePoint Online, Office 365 2013
In this post we apply the steps Asif Rehmani demonstrates in a video titled Creating and using Site Columns and Content Types to configure site columns for a document library created in our SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013 environment. Asif Rehmani is a SharePoint MVP and MCT. A subscription to SharePoint-Videos.com is required to view […]
Working with Master Pages with SharePoint Designer 2013 in SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013
It makes sense to use out of the box and custom master pages for team sites in SharePoint Onlne, Office 365, 2013. SharePoint Designer 2013 is a useful tool to customize these pages. Design and split view have been removed from the latest version, so any work will have to be done in code view. […]
Adding Web Page Components with SharePoint Designer 2013
SharePoint Designer 2013 neither includes Design, nor Split Views. Removing these features has created obstacles for organizations committed to SharePoint Designer, 2010, but with little interest in creating web page components with HTML, ASP or SharePoint tags. We don’t think the situation is catastrophic. Here’s why: In our video tutorial for SharePoint Designer 2010, Create […]
Adding an Index and a Loop Finishes Up our Workflow that Pulls Information from an RSS Feed into a Custom List in SharePoint 2013
This is our final post on a video tutorial authored by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT, Pull info from a Blog’s RSS feed using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow. In the final 10 minutes of this video training course, Asif Rehmani demonstrates how to build an index of the data that will be pulled from […]
Use a Workflow to Publish External Blog Content to a Custom List in SharePoint 2013
This is a second post in our current series of commentary on a new video training course, Pull info from a Blog’s RSS feed using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow. The method of building a custom list to display external content in SharePoint 2013 from an RSS feed is to build a workflow with SharePoint Designer […]
Add Valuable SharePoint 2013 Collaboration Features by Including Feeds for Blogs and More
In a video training course titled Pull info from a Blog’s RSS feed using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2013, along with some readily available free-of-charge online resources to add a blog feed to a SharePoint 2013 site. We think this is an important […]
A Click on View from the SharePoint Designer 2013 Ribbon Serves Up a Graphical Representation of Workflows
As we noted in an earlier post to this blog, SharePoint Designer 2013 Presents Important Changes from SharePoint Designer 2010, Design View and Split View have been removed from SharePoint Designer 2013. All of the workflow development and configuration that we provide in our video, SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow Enhancements are built with the Code […]
Configuring Workflows for Automatic Initiation is Easier with SharePoint Designer 2013
Of course one application of workflows with substantial promise for Line of Business (LOB) groups that are limited with regards to development capabilities, but long on need for governance, is the production of workflows which will seamlessly commence based upon conditions. As Asif Rehmani demonstrates in the video that we have explored over the last […]
SharePoint Designer 2013 Includes an Enhanced Copy Feature Accessible from the Ribbon
We demonstrate how to build a follow-on Stage with SharePoint Designer 2013 in our video SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow Enhancements. Once Asif Rehmani has finished configuring the last step of the Assign a Task go-to action for the “Starting” first stage of the example approval workflow demonstrated in this video, he shows us how to […]