This post was created in collaboration with Syskit. Managing documents and data in SharePoint is easy, but when it comes to form data, a challenge can lie in the user interface for data entry. By leveraging different Microsoft 365 (M365) functionality and adhering to a few user experience principles, we can streamline user interaction, decrease…
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Home is where the laptop is
This is a departure from your regularly scheduled programming of technical/SharePoint content. We originally published this on the Sympraxis newsletter. Last summer I went on an impromptu vacation with my husband to Iceland. Despite having a whirlwind tour we left the weekend more invigorated and relaxed than we had been in a long time. On…
To New Beginnings
This is the beginning of a new year. It’s also the beginning of a lot of change for me.
SharePoint Saturday NYC 2014 Slides Posted
Thank you to everyone who attended the sessions I did with Beatrice Baciu on Leveraging User Profiles in 2010 and 2013. We had a great weekend. Thanks to the organizers for having us down. Looking forward to next year. If you are looking for the slides I have posted them here.
Custom Search MasterPage for SharePoint 2010
I wish I could say that I was smart enough to have figured this one out for myself but I can’t. I was working on my first custom branded SharePoint 2010 site and the search screen was all messed up. The navigation was displaying doubled. It turns out that the search center out of the…
Defaulting Preview Pane To First Item in List
A client of ours wanted to use the preview pane for a list view. The default view of the preview pane has the right hand pane blank. You need to select an item or hover an item from the left pane to populate the right pane. The client wanted the right hand pane to have…
Powershell Commands for Installing Solutions and Features
As a SharePoint 2007 developer I have many of the common stsadm commands committed to memory. While stsadm still works in SharePoint 2010 in favor of moving to proficiency in the latest version of the technology here are some of the powershell commands that I use on a daily basis. With that said, I usually…
Themes for your SharePoint 2010 environment
I spend most of my time working on custom branding projects using SharePoint. These are great projects and tend to be large custom dev projects. They also tend to have larger budgets. But what about those clients that want a different look and feel but don’t have the large budget. Use a custom theme or…
Creating SharePoint 2007 Web Part using Visual Studio 2010
One of the things that I love about Visual Studio 2010 is the automated feature and solution creation. This works great when you are developing a web part for SharePoint 2010 and using Visual Studio 2010. Where I ran into a problem was I needed to create a web part for SharePoint 2007. It took…
When Pigs Fly…
“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” – Joe Sparano I have had the good fortune to work with some very talented designers in my career. They have taught me about the difference between good design and great design. The good is something that when you look at it makes you say wow. The…
When Pigs Fly 