Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365 – Part 5 – Sorting & Refiners

This post in the series was sitting in my “outbox” for a long time. Sorry to people like Nigel (@Nigel_Price) who probably gave up on me! In a company with 100 employees, clicking on once of the letters are the top of the page will probably narrow things down well enough that you’ll see everyone…

Dear Microsoft: Remove the 5000 Item Limit for SharePoint List Views

It’s 2016. In 1993, I used Microsoft Access to process over 1,000,000 records of data to implement a product profitability model at Staples – on an IBM 486 machine. We’ve been saddled with a 5000 item limit for views since SharePoint 2010 launched. Oddly, in SharePoint 2007, there was no such limit. When 2010 came…

Looping Through Content in a SharePoint 2013 Site Workflow – Part 4 – Get Authorization Info

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Looping Through Content in a SharePoint 2013 Site Workflow

In this installment, we’ll focus on the Get Authorization info step. We need to do this step first so that we’re set up to write data later in the workflow. Remember that we were actually trying to create a workflow? If you’ve gotten this far, I’ll forgive you if you’ve already forgotten what the point…

Looping Through Content in a SharePoint 2013 Site Workflow – Part 3 – High Level View of the Workflow

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Looping Through Content in a SharePoint 2013 Site Workflow

As I discussed in the first part of the series, my goal is to find all the sales opportunities in a Site Collection and process them based on their characteristics. To do this I’ve created a Site Workflow – SharePoint 2013 flavor – that makes a set of REST calls to traverse the Site Collection…

Looping Through Content in a SharePoint 2013 Site Workflow – Part 2 – Setting Up App Permissions

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Looping Through Content in a SharePoint 2013 Site Workflow

Site Workflows are great, but if you want them to reach across into other sites you’ll probably have permission issues. By giving these workflows App Permissions, you’ll be able to let your workflow access content across your Site Collection. In part one of this series I described the basic task we’re trying to solve. We…