Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013
If you have SharePoint 2007 and are considering upgrade at this point of time, my personal opinion is: "Don't waste your breath on SharePoint 2010". Top 5 reasons to upgrade your SharePoint 2007 to...
View ArticleNew buzz words in SharePoint 2013
Top 5 - new buzz words in SharePoint 20131. App is a new way of packaging SharePoint solutions2. Channels are used to display a website in different ways on different devices, phones, PCs, tablets...3....
View ArticleDesign Manager
You can find Design Manager in Site Actions on your SharePoint 2013 site. It converts graphic design that is made as HTML with tools such as Dreamweaver into SharePoint master pages and stylesheets....
View ArticleScript Editor and Embed Code
I was doing a demo of SharePoint 2013 social and publishing features, and I showed how to embed video from Youtube directly on the page. Than I showed how to embed Twitter feed and Linkedin. I got a...
View ArticleUpgrade SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
Top 5 reasons to upgrade to SharePoint 20131. Out-of-box support for mobile devices and tablets with Channels and Image Renditions2. Out-of-box social features and usability3. Document integration to...
View ArticleNapa Adventures - SharePoint 2013 and Office 365
Hand-sorting grapes at peak flavor, punching-down wines in open tanks, that's the wine making philosophy in Napa Valley, California. Coding apps in open SharePoint 2013 Online tank instead of pumping...
View ArticleApp Properties in SharePoint 2013
Properties that can be altered by end-users in Tool Pane are not gone in Apps, written with JavaScript.How it worksElements.xml file for Client Web Part (App Part) looks like this:<?xml...
View ArticleUse List View in SharePoint 2013 Apps
XsltListView web part comes in handy when you want to show contents of a list or library. The code below is used on an app's page. It displays default view with toolbar (and Ribbon) of asset library...
View ArticleJavaScript - add list with columns
Here is an example how to add custom list with date, link, html, user, and choice column:// Create new list  var listCreationInfo = new SP.ListCreationInformation();...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 app licensing - JavaScript
When you submit your app to Office app store, you can choose your app to be free, trail, or paid. You can read all about app licensing hereAlthough you choose your app to be licensed as paid or trial,...
View ArticleSimply Intranet - Upgrade to SharePoint 2013
What is simple intranet? Intranet is going to be better in SharePoint 2013? I started on my new job as Consultant back in 2004. 7 days after I started, I was at the meeting with customer talking about...
View ArticleSelf-hosted App - access lists with CSOM
Self-hosted apps run isolated from SharePoint site. The code that worked with SharePoint 2010 web parts, the code that read or write data from the SharePoint site doesn't work in self-hosted apps.Don't...
View ArticleContent Search and Metadata Driven Navigation
I described in my post about metadata driven navigation how metadata in Term Store is used for site navigation. I made a Topic page as an example of a template page, used for all the pages that are...
View ArticleGeolocation in SharePoint 2013
Geolocation is a new smart column type in SharePoint 2013.How it worksI simply created a list with Title and GPSLocation columns, and added new item:I clicked on "Use my location":It worked ;-) I don't...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Mobile
Mobile devices are everywhere, and whether we like it or not, working with SharePoint sites can suddenly turn into working with mobile sites.Sites and pages in SharePoint 2013 can both have desktop and...
View ArticleContent Query and Metadata Driven Navigation
I wrote about "baby steps" in using Content Search web part to show data in my post "Content Search and Metadata Driven Navigation". This post about Content Query is probably considered as "baby tried...
View ArticleContent Search, Metadata Driven Navigation, and Display Templates
Metadata driven navigation in SharePoint 2013 generates automatically site map and pages that correspond to term set hierarchy in the Term Store. Content Search web part is the web part, we are...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Publishing Features
Thousands and thousands of people work with content on SharePoint sites every day. They create new pages, edit existing pages, delete and publish the content. Their work is important, and I wanted to...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 and Linkedin
It is easy. It is a copy-paste thing.I'm talking about using data from Linkedin on your SharePoint 2013 site.You need to have a SharePoint 2013 site, you have to know how to use SharePoint 2013...
View ArticleDocuments in Sharepoint 2013 - SkyDrive
We all heard about Microsoft SkyDrive online document storage and file sharing. There is link to "SkyDrive" in upper right corner in SharePoint 2013.This "SkyDrive" link is NOT a link to your SkyDrive...
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