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…
In this installment, we’ll focus on the Get Authorization info step. We need to do this step first so that we’re set up to write data later in the workflow. Remember that we were actually trying to create a workflow? If you’ve gotten this far, I’ll forgive you if you’ve already forgotten what the point…
I’m using Thomas Bradley’s Signature Pad plugin for a project, which I’ve used successfully before. The twist this time is that I want to save the signature as an image rather than just as JSON. There’s a method called getSignatureImage() that works just fine to grab the signature as a base64 string, like so (this is…
I ran across an article on ZDNet today entitled The advent of the citizen developer. In the article, Dion Hinchcliffe posits that we may finally be at the cusp of a citizen development revolution. Yes! I’ve been arguing for years – in one way or another (See, for example, The Middle Tier Manifesto: An Alternative Approach to Development with…
When you create a new subsite In SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online (Office 365), you have the option to use the same permissions as the parent site or use unique permissions. If you use unique permissions, you’re taken to a page where you can set up the special groups for the subsite. Generally, this is…
As I discussed in the first part of the series, my goal is to find all the sales opportunities in a Site Collection and process them based on their characteristics. To do this I’ve created a Site Workflow – SharePoint 2013 flavor – that makes a set of REST calls to traverse the Site Collection…
I had the chance recently to have chat with TechnologyAdvice’s Josh Bland (@JoshBlandTA). This interview was a part of the TechnologyAdvice Expert Interview Series. The series explores a variety of business and technology landscapes through conversations with industry leaders. There’s plenty of great content there, including interviews with some of the speakers for the SharePoint Technology Conference – SPTechCon…