The following screen is produced with SharePoint Online, Enterprise Edition, once a Business Intelligence Center (BIC) site collection has been successfully added: The three prompts in the center of the screen are simple and right to the point: Explore and Analyze Data Create powerful data mash-ups of millions of rows of data from various sources […]
Adding a Business Intelligence Site Collection to SharePoint Online, Office 365 2013
We planned to add a status list to the top level site collection of our Office 365, SharePoint Online account. But we quickly learned about the removal of this out of the box type of list from an article, Discontinued features and modified functionality in Microsoft SharePoint 2013, which was published on the Microsoft® Office […]
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 […]
Adding a New Document Library to SharePoint Online, Office 365
Keeping in mind that lists and libraries are called “Apps” in SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013, the process of creating a new document library is straightforward. From the team site page for our site collection we clicked on “Site Contents.” From “Site Contents” we clicked on “add an app”, and selected the first “Document Library” […]
Using the Gallery Feature of the Design Manager, SharePoint Online in a Windows 7 Local Environment
In the last post to this blog we introduced the Design Manager feature of SharePoint Online, Office 365, 2013. In this post we will discuss some of the obstacles to using the Design Manager feature to access design components, in HTML, for automatic conversion to master pages for publishing sites in SharePoint Online. In a […]
Design Manager is a New Feature of SharePoint Online Office 365, 2013
SharePoint includes two different type of sites: publishing sites and team sites. Outward-facing web sites, as well as any sites planned for static content do better as publishing sites. SharePoint Online includes a new tool for building publishing sites — the Design Manager. In a document titled What’s new with SharePoint 2013 site development, Microsoft […]
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. […]
Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2013 for SharePoint Online Office 365
Office 365 E3 plan accounts include a paid subscription to Microsoft Office 2013, Pro. SharePoint Designer 2013, InfoPath 2013, and InfoPath Filler 2013 are all included in this set. SharePoint administrators, developers, architects and power users should familiarize themselves with the differences between the 2013 and 2010 versions of SharePoint Designer 2010. A good way […]
Working with the Quick Launch in SharePoint Online, Office 365 2013
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a set of video tutorials on the procedures required in SharePoint 2010 to build lists, add items to lists, and even to edit list items. These tutorials are included in The Basics: SharePoint End User Training for Readers, Members & Subsite Owners. One of the tutorials in this set, “Working with […]
Using SkyDrive Pro with SharePoint 2013 Online through Office 365 or On Premises
The Office 365 SharePoint Online 2013 service includes SkyDrive Pro. We started using this service after our Office 365 Enterprise E3 service was upgraded, on April 6, 2013, to the 2013 structure and interfaces. Most organizations will need to understand the differences between this service and the free SkyDrive offer before planning to implement the […]