If you’ve been using Task Lists in SharePoint as long as I have, you will notice even the tiniest changes. Task Lists have never worked exactly the way people want them to – why doesn’t marking a task %100 complete also mark it as Completed? – but by adding a few extra columns to each…
This will be a quick post. Recently, when I wanted to make a REST call to retrieve all of the high priority tasks from a set of task lists, I figured it would be no big deal. I’d just add something into the querytext and be done with it. Unfortunately, syntax is always a cruel…
I get interesting questions all this time. This one came from a client who was trying to use GetListItems with SPServices in SharePoint . Hey Marc, I’m trying to do a GetListItems operation on tasks list and I’m having trouble with the “Task Status” column. This is SP2013. None of the above work and I…
My pal Christophe Humbert at PathToSharePoint.com forwarded me a question from one of his readers earlier today. I didn’t know the answer, but it intrigued me enough to track down the answer. Something that a lot of people don’t realize is that every List View Web Part (LVWP) you use in your SharePoint pages contains…
When I’m working on a project, we almost always use a SharePoint Task List to manage our outstanding tasks. I’ve seen many people try to overcomplicate this process with complex workflows, roles, and permissions, but to me some simple tweaks and conventions to the basic Task List get you much further along and make life…