zo 30 januari 2011 20:16
As consultants we often get the question to migrate file shares to SharePoint. This blog will describe the functionalities of a free tool to analyze the file share before migrating. This tool, called DriveSight, is an excellent tool for getting a first impression about the file share. Because you need to pay lots of attention [...]
wo 29 december 2010 23:48
Sometimes you want to inform your users, maybe about a network error, planned updates or so. So why not use the out of the box status function from SharePoint for this purpose? See the image for an example. Step 1: Create a custom list 1. First we need a list named Statusalerts where we [...]
zo 21 november 2010 18:37
One of the functions in SharePoint 2010 I really like are the search suggestions, when a search result is clicked 6 times (within a year) it will be added as a type-ahead search suggestion like below. This article will demonstrate how to manually add these suggestions or fill it with terms from the term [...]
za 16 oktober 2010 22:13
I make a lot of phone calls each week so it would be really nice if I could organize these calls somehow so I can use them for later reference, archiving and for creating timesheets. I tried a couple of products that looked promising. In this post I will describe 2 of them, including the one I am [...]
za 16 oktober 2010 15:29
When you query list items with the Content Query Web Part you sometimes want to open it in a dimmed layer instead of a new full page. This is much more user friendly. I found out it is really easy to achieve this functionality. So what we want is: And when we click a item [...]
zo 26 september 2010 00:11
In a previous post I showed the possibility to set another language for the UI and how to export the names of list, content types, etc to translate these to a target language. If we want to translate not only the default UI elements (done with language packs) or content (done with variations) but also user-specified text [...]
za 25 september 2010 00:07
I was searching for a list of the properties that you can map in the external content type to office items. Since I couldn't find this list I created a excel sheet with all the possible fields you can use. You can download the sheet here