One of the best parts about my job is that I get to travel to exotic locales to talk about SharePoint. My most recent jaunt was to the fine country of Croatia to attend SPC Adriatics. Every conference has its own personality, and SPC Adriatics is know for being fun and filled with meat. Who…
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…
A few weeks back when I was at the Digital Workplace Conference in Melbourne – a most excellent conference – I saw Adam Cogan (@adamcogan) demonstrate Power BI in his session Improve Your Business Intelligence with Power BI. I’d seen Power BI before a few times, but the way Adam showed it, it finally “clicked” for me. I…
It’s been almost a week since the #FutureOfSharePoint event in San Francisco, and as usual, there are a lot of questions flying around. Wictor Wilen has started a post SharePoint Framework – Initial Questions and Answers and I thought I’d start my own. I’m not going to rehash Wictor’s answers, and will instead focus on the questions…
In the beginning, there was Bill, and Bill was good. Bill revolutionized the concept of computing (along with a handful of others). But somewhere along the way, something happened. It’s not clear exactly what. Maybe it was the disaster of Vista. Maybe it was the reign of Ballmer. What it was exactly doesn’t really matter…
When you talk to SharePoint using REST, you have some options about what the data you get or send looks like. Early on, when REST first arrived on the scene for SharePoint, we HAD to specify odata=verbose. This meant that we had to be very specific about what our data was going to look like,…
The other day I was creating a custom UI for a SharePoint 2013 Discussion list. To me, the out-of-the-box UI in SharePoint 2013 is definitely a step forward from previous versions. It’s still pretty rudimentary, though, and my client wanted something “more like other forums”. SharePoint’s Discussion lists are sort of like Document Sets, in…
Recently, I was building a directory tree view of a Document Library for a client. Yes, you can say this shouldn’t be necessary. We can just tag the documents with metadata and we won’t need folders at all. Unfortunately, that’s not always the way people want to work. To build this, I started by calling…
In a previous post, I walked through Uploading Attachments to SharePoint Lists Using SPServices. Well, in the “modern” world, I want to use REST whenever I can, especially with SharePoint Online. I ran into a challenge figuring out how to make an attachment upload work in an AngularJS project. There are dozens of blog posts and…
Well, it’s official: Julie Turner (@jfj1997) will be joining me at Sympraxis in mid-May. This is very exciting news for me. If you’ve been following me at all, you may know that I have my own little company called Sympraxis Consulting LLC. (One of the first things Julie is going to make me do is…