Looping Through Content in a SharePoint 2013 Site Workflow – Part 1 – Introduction

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Looping Through Content in a SharePoint 2013 Site Workflow

Site Workflows let us run logic independent of lists and libraries. By combining them with REST calls, we can traverse a Site Collection and process multiple lists and their contents by looping though them when we want. In this article, part 1 of the series, we’ll describe the problem we are trying to solve, but…

Error Saving JavaScript Files to SharePoint Mapped Drive – Minor Version Overload

Error Saving JavaScript Files to SharePoint Mapped Drive – Minor Version Overload

This is a first. I was editing away in Sublime Text today and suddenly I couldn’t save my code to the mapped S: drive I was using in SharePoint 2013. S: is for SharePoint. Get it? The error message on the PC side wasn’t all that helpful, as one might expect. (Sorry for the crappy…

Simple Expand/Collapse for the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online

Yesterday I helped my pal Marcel Meth (@marcelmeth) with a pretty simple little task, but everything’s simple if you know how to do it! We needed to add simple accordion-like expand/collapse functionality to the Quick Launch on the pages in a Site Collection. Because there were going to be a lot of links in the…

Using the SharePoint Color Palette Tool to Create Customized Composed Looks

At the great SharePoint Evolution Conference last week, someone – I wish I could remember what session it was! – mentioned this great little tool. It helps you to create a very detailed theme for SharePoint 2013. You can save the file into a .spcolor file, which you can upload to the Theme Gallery in…

Upcoming Bonzai Intranets Webinar – Wednesday November 26th at 10am PST

My good friends at Dynamic Owl in Vancouver have been doing some amazing things of late. Not only are they some of the smartest people in SharePoint consulting, they have a relatively new product offering called Bonzai Intranet. Based on their years of consulting, the folks at Dynamic Owl realized that they had been building…