Thanks to Stan for suggesting the idea for this post, by leaving a comment here.Our goal here is to take your joined lists and display them on a single page, so you can effectively review an item and its associated information. This is a useful task for creating views of projects with many tasks, milestones, documents,... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Browser Support – All latest browsers supported… Really?
I came across Kirk Stark's blog post in which he discusses an update to Microsoft's documentation regarding SharePoint's browser support: Unless otherwise stated, all browser versions are supported. Period. For any third-party browser (including Google Chrome, Firefox, Apple Safari, etc.) we will support the latest publically released version. There is no more distinction regarding version numbers. Yyeeahhh! I can let my users... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010 Web Parts and Their Features
Below is a list of all of the "out of the box" web parts that comes with SharePoint 2010. The column on the right highlights which Site Collection Feature you have to activate to enable the web parts. Some web parts will require additional farm solutions like SQL Reporting. Business Data Business Data Actions -... Continue Reading →
Loading SharePoint lists from Excel using PowerShell
One of my biggest headaches with developing and testing in SharePoint is my lack of test data to work with. Sometimes I need to generate a load of test data so I can perform searches or test performance on custom code. Like in this blog post, I needed to load up a bunch of fake... Continue Reading →
Using PowerShell to play with SharePoint Items
As a developer or administrator working with SharePoint, sometimes I need to know exactly what the data is doing, what on earth is it thinking. I may want to manipulate the data real quick without going to the website. This post may also very helpful if you're working against SharePoint's web services, as you can look... Continue Reading →
PowerPivot Walkthrough Using SharePoint Lists
Before we can just walk through using PowerPivot and SharePoint, we need to make sure things are in order. Some prerequisites PowerPivot has been installed and properly configured on your farm. Download PowerPivot for Excel 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 version (SQL 2012 version WILL NOT WORK!) for free at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7609. I am using the Northwind sample... Continue Reading →