Adding metadata to specific artifacts stored in SharePoint Online, as Jamie McAllister points out in a video tutorial on managing documents and lists in SharePoint Online, contributes to an optimized search experience for users. The title of this video tutorial is Manage SharePoint Online Documents and Lists. The artifacts are documents, which are stored in […]
Catching a glimpse of how structured and unstructured data are managed, together, in SharePoint Online document libraries
This post is another in a set of posts arising from my review of a video tutorial on SharePoint Online Documents and Lists. This tutorial is published on the Microsoft Virtual Academy web site. The tutorial can be viewed by the public at no charge. I’ve included a link to the video tutorial in the […]
SharePoint document libraries are a special kind of list
As Jamie McAllister explains in a video tutorial published for free-of-charge public viewing on the Microsoft Virtual Academy web site, SharePoint document libraries are actually a “special kind of list”. The title of the video tutorial is Manage SharePoint Online Documents and Lists. I need to admit I wasn’t aware of the veracity of McAllister’s […]
Windows Phone 8.1 includes improved browser performance for SharePoint sites, lists, and libraries
Microsoft’s new smart phone operating system, Windows Phone 8.1 includes an improved web browser. SharePoint lists published from Access 2013 databases can now be resolved correctly on Lumia smart phones. Mobile consumers of SharePoint 2013 and/or SharePoint Online, Office 365 will likely be pleased with this improvement. This writer uses a Lumia 925 Windows Phone […]
Building Custom List Templates for SharePoint 2013
In a video tutorial titled Building Custom List Templates – Part 1, Yaroslav Pentsarskyy, subject matter expert and published author demonstrates how to successful produce custom list templates. Yaroslav uses Visual Studio to build the custom templates included in this video tutorial. His Visual Studio environment includes SharePoint Developer Tools, and SharePoint Project Items. The […]
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 Lookup Columns in SharePoint 2010 to Access Information Related to Specific Data
This is a concluding blog post on a video tutorial for SharePoint 2010, Configuring Lookup Columns authored by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT. By configuring the “Customer Name” column to “Allow multiple values” it is possible, as Asif Rehmani demonstrates in this video tutorial, to display one customer along with a purchase history. The […]
Lists in SharePoint 2010 Offer Many Database Features including Lookup Columns
The Microsoft® Office help website for Access defines a lookup column as follows: “A lookup column (or field) is a field in a table whose value is retrieved from another table or from a value list. You can use a lookup column to display a list of choices in a combo box or list box. […]
Use SharePoint Designer 2010 to Ensure that List and Site Column Data is Included for All Lists
As noted on Microsoft® MSDN in a library entry, “Introduction to [SharePoint] Columns”, site and list columns are defined as ” represent[ing] an attribute, or piece of metadata, that the user wants to manage for the items in the list or content type to which they added the column.” This library entry goes on to […]