Poor Person’s Form Embedding in SharePoint Online Pages

In SharePoint – because it’s primarily a collaboration platform – we often struggle with the difference between security and obscurity. Some content absolutely must be secured, meaning only certain people can see or edit it. In these cases, we set the permissions such that people simply can’t see or even be aware of the content….

Adding Conditional Formatting for a List Form Header with JSON

The recently added capability to perform simple layout changes on a SharePoint list form using JSON is the bee’s knees. As is the case with many insect joints, the examples out there mostly are the same and the documentation isn’t full featured enough for most people’s taste. Sue Hanley (@SusanHanley) and I were working on…

SharePoint Forms and Workflow – A Different Perspective

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…

SharePoint List Settings Issue: “Internet Explorer is required to use this feature.”

This one belongs firmly in the “things that make you go hmm…” department. Let’s say you are a good do-be like me and you use all of the Microsoft products that you can get your hands on. You’ve got email and SharePoint running on Office 365, you use all the Office applications and tools, you’re…