We’ve devoted this blog, since January 1, 2014 to providing our readers with an ongoing series of examples of our notion of the broad value proposition for SharePoint stakeholders. This general overview of the benefits to communities of SharePoint users, inherent to a decision to implement specific SharePoint features, has been complemented with some specific […]
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 […]
SharePoint-Videos Releases a New Video Training DVD on Workflows for SharePoint 2010 and 2013
Workflows are not only a popular feature of SharePoint, but also a very promising method of capturing return on investment for stakeholders. Here are merely a couple of reasons why workflows possess this unique characteristic: Workflows can be put together by anyone capable of following a set of procedures. There is no need, whatsoever, for […]
An Overview of No Code Solutions for SharePoint 2013
On Thursday, February 20, 2014, SharePoint-Videos.com hosted a free-of-charge webinar on no-code solution options. As I’ve written recently in this blog, large communities of SharePoint 2013 users can avail of these approaches to attempt to capture substantial return on their investment in SharePoint. The no-code development tools included with SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint Designer 2013, browser […]
No-Code Solutions are an Important, Value-Packed Reason to Implement SharePoint
Bolt-on systems development, otherwise known as “no-code” solutions, are an important reason to implement SharePoint. Perhaps no other method of application development offers as rich an opportunity for Line of Business (LoB) users to participate, directly, in the development of computing solutions to satisfy their unique needs. SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, and Online can all […]
SharePoint 2013 Users Benefit from Automating the Creation of Collaboration Documents With SharePoint Designer 2013
Organizations using SharePoint will benefit from automated processes called “workflows”. These “workflows” can be used to create high demand collaboration documents; for example, team calendars. SharePoint Designer 2013 can be used to produce “workflows”, which can be configured to automatically fill in forms, as required, as events occur. “Workflows” amount to a set of actions, […]
Commentary On a Video Overview of Workflow in SharePoint Server 2013
On February 28, 2013, Microsoft® published a video titled Overview of Workflow in SharePoint Server 2013. The presumed audience appears to be SharePoint administrators, developers, SQL Server administrators, developers, and network services developers. This presentation will likely leave the viewer with a clear impression of a planned separate product path for the new Workflow Manager […]
Creating Globally Reusable Workflows for Other Site Collections and Other SharePoint Farms
Many of the procedures we’ve presented in the last couple of posts to this blog hold for either SharePoint of SharePoint Designer 2013. We wrote these posts on procedures presented by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT, in two video tutorials: Creating a Workflow on a List Using SharePoint Designer 2010 and Publishing globally reusable […]
Use Workflows to Migrate Automated Processes Into SharePoint
SharePoint stakeholders require high levels of user adoption to achieve meaningful return on investment. Building workflows to migrate business processes into a SharePoint computing environment is a valuable method of achieving this goal. When expense reporting, document archiving, team calendar maintenance, and other day to day business procedures are all dispatched within SharePoint, the task […]
Concluding a Look at a Video Tutorial on Building a Workflow to Add Events to an Announcements List with SharePoint Designer 2010
This post continues our comments on a video tutorial, Creating a Workflow on a List using SharePoint Designer 2010, authored by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint® MVP and MCT. Be sure to add a specific value for the “Title” field of the Announcements List to which the event will be added as a new item. As Asif […]