Has your company become a victim of its own success with an intranet?

If documents are piling up faster than you know where to put them – you might know what I’m talking about.

Topics: SharePoint Intranet, Corporate Intranet

Content Search Web Parts and their Display Templates offer great power and flexibility for aggregating and displaying content. There are some areas where this system falls short. It would be nice, for example, to allow the end user (in this case the Page Designer) customize the text for the column headers in a table. Sure some of the column names such as “Title” are fine. Others, like AuthorOWSUSER or LastModifiedTime, could use a little help.

Here’s a little trick. 

Topics: SharePoint, JavaScript, Tutorial

When creating a custom form in SharePoint Designer it is sometimes useful to change how some or all form fields display. This is especially true with complex SharePoint forms that have multiple tabs and intricate logic. Rather than doubling your efforts to create multiple forms in different modes this can be switched dynamically. The goal here is to eliminate the need to customize the dispform.aspx, newform.aspx and the editform.aspx when changing a list form. This process will help you customize a single form, and display it whether the user is in new, edit or view mode.

Topics: SharePoint 2013, Tutorial

While Mail Apps can use Ajax and SharePoint has REST endpoints this will not work because it violates Cross Site Security

The Solution: use a Generic Handler

Topics: Office 365, Troubleshooting, SharePoint Online, Outlook, Tutorial

Adding a signature field to a SharePoint list is a great way to verify user input to a list especially in environments with shared-access kiosks or devices. They are especially useful for tablets. Once the framework is in place they are relatively easy to implement on list or library forms.

Topics: JavaScript, Development

SharePoint, in addition to storing documents, allows you to store data in the form of “Lists” and offers various ways to interact with your data once it’s there.

Topics: Development, SharePoint Framework