We can do all sorts of fun stuff that makes the user experience (UX) in SharePoint far better than it is out of the box. One of those things is to use jQueryUI widgets like an accordion to put a large amount of content on the page, but broken into categorized, consumable chunks. Most people…
This one is just for fun. Matt Bramer (@iOnline247) tweeted the other day: http://twitter.com/iOnline247/status/126795256225210368 That just seemed too good not to check out. Take a look what you’ll find if you do go to [your-sharepoint-server]/_layouts/xsl/internal.xsl: … Now who said that there are no hacks in SharePoint? ;+)
Over at the USPJ Academy, we’re really excited to finally be able to talk publicly about the partnership we’ve formed with InnerWorkings. We’ve been working hard with them over the last few months to get our content and platform capabilities integrated with theirs to deliver our classes to their customer base. We’re proud of our…
The other day I tweeted: It seems hardly an hour goes by in the day when I don't see something that could be more efficient – with no cost in jobs. — Marc D Anderson (@sympmarc) October 12, 2011 Dan Dragnea called me on it, fairly enough: @sympmarc sorry, I was curious how increased efficiency…
The conference continues along at breakneck speed toward tomorrow’s wrap up. I’ve noticed a few themes I thought were worth recording. As with almost all SharePoint events, I still see an overabundance of sessions focused on the technology side of SharePoint and not enough sessions focused on the so-called “business” side. The technology shouldn’t even…
The keynotes this morning at SPC11 were great Microsoft marketing. We heard about all of the hopes and dreams the product team has (probably driven to a large degree by the Marketing folks) for SharePoint use and adoption. We heard that Office365 is taking off like gangbusters and solves a whole class of somewhat unidentified…
Anyone who follows this blog or hears me speak at conferences knows that I am a *huge* fan of the Data View Web Part (DVWP). A good friend sent me this quick question in an email today: Content query webpart vs data view wp? When would you use content query over data view? Here was…
This is one of those things that I’m amazed I haven’t run into before. Perhaps I did in the past and wrote it off to my own lack of understanding. It turns out that this is a known, if rarely mentioned, limitation not only for Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) but also Content Query Web…
The other day, I got a question form an ex-client about Content Types: How many content types can we reasonably have in a document management collection for a large organization, with multiple document libraries? I am proposing using around 200 content types. We are 12,000 people in 130 countries, so we are big and complex….
It was great doing the webinar for MetaVis yesterday called “Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier“. Thanks to Dave Coleman (@davecoleman146) for the invitation to do this and the facilitation, and to Peter Senescu of MetaVis. If you haven’t looked at MetaVis’ tools for managing your SharePoint farm, whether for migration, working with your information architecture,…