Document management (particularly older document management systems) are often loathed, regarded as annoying and prohibitive tools that inhibit efficiency and require too much overhead. In some organisations their use is mandated but not followed, others enforce their use across the … Continue reading
It has been quite some time since I have posted an update – has been a very busy few months out at a new client. Faced with some down time during the holiday season and two weeks to myself it … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I last posted anything so why not start small and quickly go over this handy feature I stumbled across the other day – Gmail Labs! I use it for the extended ‘Undo Send’ feature but … Continue reading
I have been looking into the new SP 2010 Workflow Template that comes with Visio 2010 Premium with the intention of building complex workflows entirely within Visio and then exporting to SP Designer for implementation. Sound easy? Well everything works fine … Continue reading
I’ve been looking into the options of using Visio Web Access to link Visio objects to SharePoint data. Now that its possible to capture shape data and use it to filter web parts there is a an opportunity to supplement … Continue reading
The inclusion of REST in SP2010 has given us an easy way to reference lists external to the site collection – and cross-site lists too of course! The purpose of this post is to give a quick run down on … Continue reading
I’ve been playing with the REST protocol in SP2010 to bring in data from external lists (external to the site collection) and using it to display the result in the data view web part (DVWP). Creating the data source went … Continue reading
SharePoint 2010 brings to us some really nice Office web apps that allow in-browser rendering (and editing) of Office 2007/10 formatted documents and I took a brief look at Word and its co-authoring functionality last year. This time I’d like to demonstrate … Continue reading
Ever found it incredibly annoying when trying to add images into a list on the fly? (without having to go away and add them to a library first – then come back and manually add a reference). Using SP2010′s enhanced rich … Continue reading
Another handy OneNote feature that is particularly useful when working with screen clips or picture/text edits – is the ‘Save as’ option. You can then select the image format and away you go. Even if you don’t like working within … Continue reading