One of the latest hubbubs in the Office 365 world is around the new Document Library “experience”. (I refuse to use the word “experience” in this sort of context without a little sarcasm and some air quotes.) There’s a new “experience” coming to Office 365 that makes Document Libraries look a lot like the OneDrive…
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…
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…
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…
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…