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Depending on where your data lives, it may take a few seconds for that data to display in the PowerApp. There is nothing that drives users more nuts than just staring at a screen as it does nothing, wondering if it's frozen or broken. PowerApps does have that useless little loading dots thing at the... Continue Reading →
Microsoft PowerApps is a great "no code" solution for creating customized forms for SharePoint Online and independent web apps and mobile apps. However, it can get unruly inside of an app if you don't follow some sort of guidelines and practices. After you get a few screens in with dozens and dozens of controls, you... Continue Reading →
Yes, CSS for PowerApps, kinda. Actual CSS based style sheets are not possible, but the next best thing is. We can create a few objects to store our styles in, like colors, font sizes, dimensions, etc. and then reference them across the app. Not really cascading style sheets, but let's call them just style sheets.... Continue Reading →
Special thanks to Joann for the question! A common use case is to have a list of people in a list in SharePoint, maybe they're members of a project, contacts for a department, your favorite people to talk to, whatever it may be, you have a list. This example is a listing of my teammates: Now I'd... Continue Reading →
I am very pleased to share that I will be presenting at this month's Boston Office 365 user group, on August 21st. I will be sharing about using SharePoint Online public website, which you get with your Office 365 tenant, to host your web site. We'll cover some techie stuff but I will mostly cover... Continue Reading →
I wanted to quickly share on two more options for you to listen in on my session Before you make SharePoint Public. SP24 is reairing all of their sessions, this Wednesday and Thursday, May 14th - 15th. My session will be run Wednesday night, at 9pm EST. I hope you can make it. Check out the wrap up... Continue Reading →
I am very proud to share that our team at Slalom is taking 24 hours out of this beautiful New England weekend for a SharePoint/Office 365 dev-a-thon to benefit local non profit Junior Achievement of Northern New England. From www.janewengland.org: The mission of Junior Achievement (JA) is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in... Continue Reading →
This is Part 4 of my series on 'My Users Don't Like SharePoint...' "Can you make it not look like SharePoint?" Sorry, I can't use the Mustang metaphor on this one, it's too beautiful. SharePoint can be a little rough to stare at day after day. It's basic, and a little boring. The 2010 interface... Continue Reading →
I shared a post a while ago on how to create a color coded calendar in SharePoint. This is a no code (for real!) solution, and I've received some great feedback from it. One area I want to focus on are the colors. Let's go from blah To, well, more colorful, not sure if I'd... Continue Reading →
Seriously, I want to know. Take this small survey and let me know what you think. Why do you hate SharePoint? the survey My goal here is two fold: first, for the industry to understand the headaches people face daily and two (more importantly) try to provide some solutions to make these headaches go away.... Continue Reading →
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