Whenever I get into conversations about forms in SharePoint (or anywhere else for that matter), the conversation almost always turns immediately for workflow. It seems to greatly surprise a lot of people when I say that sometimes workflow is irrelevant for forms. I’d say that 80%+ of SharePoint forms have no workflow at all. (I…
This is a simple thing, but because at the moment it’s sort of invisible, you may need a little help understanding it. The Content Type Hub is a nice capability that lets you create your Site Columns and Content Types in one centralized Site Collection for syndication across your farm. It’s an excellent idea to…
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…
Last week the SharePoint community lost a valuable member and I lost a friend. Dave Coleman, who had been in and out of hospital since last year about this time, finally succumbed to cancer. Dave was a SharePoint Server MVP, active community member, and educator. He was also a husband, a father, a grandfather, and…
Be careful what you ask! @Daniel_the_Nerd Nope. Want to build it? — Marc D Anderson (@sympmarc) October 30, 2014 Well, no more than two hours later Daniel had sent me the stub of a vsdoc file for SPServices. Now I don’t use Visual Studio, but I suppose if you like this kind of hand-holding, Intellisense…
Today Randy Drisgill (@drisgill) alerted me to the fact that Jeremy Thake (@jthake) and Steve Walker (@sharepointing) were talking about me in the Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 018 with Steve Walker on SharePoint UX developer guidance. While they do indeed say some very nice things about me (those payments to Redmond are working out),…
I’ll be the first one to admit that I’ve had massive problems with syncing in both OneDrive for Business and OneDrive (Personal). (The branding on this drive me nuts, too, but that’s a different post.) Yesterday I learned of a page on the Microsoft site that takes you through problem-solving steps to fix (hopefully) your…
I am putting together a presentation talking about UI hacks that we all need to do in order to accomplish everyday UI customizations that our customers – internal or external – require. For this one I want to limit it to SharePoint 2013 and/or SharePoint Online (Office365). Another way to think of it is how…
It’s the message SharePoint gives us that we’ve learned to love or hate or be indifferent to. But it’s a message that we cannot escape if we use SharePoint even a little bit. Yes, I’m talking about “Working on it…” When I was in Stockholm this week speaking at the SharePoint and Exchange Forum (SEF),…
The SharePoint SOAP Web Services are fast. In fact, I think they are as fast as the newer REST Web Services in many cases. The old, crufty SOAP Web Services even provide batching, something that the REST services don’t yet do. (Andrew Connell (@andrewconnell) has been beating the drum about this with Microsoft for months…