I’ve been diving into Apps lately and was surprised on the User Experience and Interaction model in general. Don’t get me wrong I think Apps are cool, but they ask for a very different mindset from a User Experience point of view.
Apps are small specific functions or applications (like we know from our Smart Phones). In SharePoint one App has a very small and restricted environment (App Web) where all functions for that App are… Lees verder
When building a custom WebPart that displays users, I wanted to show the Users as displayed in the people Search.
Just a Picture with a small Presence indicator stroke on the left side. This is how Lync shows users as well. It’s possible to use SharePoint JS functions to Render a User like this.
To render a User the… Lees verder
Today I dove into JSLink. There are many BlogPosts on how it works but none were showing how I can implement the SharePoint paging that is part of a SharePoint List View. It’s surprisingly easy!
I started with this BlogPost to figure out how this JSLink property works: http://www.idubbs.com/blog/2012/js-link-for-sharepoint-2013-web-partsa-quick-functional-primer/
When you just want to change the rendering of the Fields inside the View, the paging section will still be on the Page because it’s rendered in the Footer…. Lees verder
When working with Apps, JSOM and the new SharePoint REST API there’s always a challenge when it comes to displaying moments in time or dates. New in SharePoint 2013 is the display of Time Delta’s like “A moment ago” or “2 days ago”. The Newsfeed is a good example of this.
SharePoint 2013′s new cool REST API returns DateTime field values in ISO8601 format. This can be a value in the likes… Lees verder
In my Previous posts I created an App that retrieved data from a public website.
SharePoint 2013 Hosted App
SharePoint 2013 Hosted App Part II
I used that data and added it to my App List in SharePoint. In this post I will explain how we also can interact with our personal Timeline using the App Framework. If a song is added to the Playlist, an update is posted on the users Timeline.
This will be my first post on SharePoint 2013. The buzz around the App Model is huge and so I dove in on a very basic level. Just to show how easy an App can be hosted in SharePoint and can consume Data or connect to popular websites. Like Facebook.
No worries, no Authentication is being used. This Post it’s just to show how easy it is to create a SharePoint App and consume “free” data.
The very first… Lees verder
Developer and IT Pro beware! When you’re creating a Visio solution and want to use a data link to Office 365, you will need to consider the Lookup Threshold of 2 columns which is set on Office 365.
Today Steve Ballmer announced the release of both the Office 15 preview as well as the SharePoint 2013 (including SP designer 2013) preview. These products have gone public, so you can download them immediately.
This post is an accumulated overview of all the info, links and resources which are available at the time of release.
“Today, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office, available… Lees verder
When adding Lists programmatically, it’s most likely we use the Lists.Add() Methods. These Methods are giving us choice on how to create the list. In my case I wanted to use a custom ListTemplate which is inside a custom Feature.
First I chose to get my custom SPListTemplate from the Web and use the Add(String, String, SPListTemplate) Method. But I figured I had to activate the Feature that has the Template in it… Lees verder
Interview Daniel by Christian Buckley. Daniel talks about Social Computing via SharePoint. About what SharePoint misses and why SharePoint is still a very good choice for social collaboration, with Attini Social Suite of course 
Daniel talks architecture, aggregation, virality of good ideas and knowledge, microblogging, cross site collection and cross farm search, in short: Socializing SharePoint.
For any of you that don’t follow Wouter van Vugt, he had a great session at the Dutch SPC a while ago about loading JavaScript files in an On Premise SharePoint 2010 Environment. Very cool solutions were discussed however none of them are applicable when having a SharePoint Online environment. It’s true the possibilities are very limited but still some cool techniques can be used to keep amount of scripts loading down to an acceptable level.
Content Type Hubs or centrally managed content types were one of the biggest (and under appreciated) additions to SharePoint 2010. When working with several web applications and site collections (which is inevitable most of the time), keeping content types up to date over several location can become a drag and easy to make mistakes. So Microsoft added the possibility to have a centrally managed hub, were site collections and web application can subscribe to and still have local content… Lees verder
For a client we created an extended PowerShell script to do an One-Click deployment of their intranet. This was awesome to create because it really saved huge amounts of time creating sites & site collections, adding and activating solutions and setting permissions, navigation and master pages.
But we still had to add a piece of code to create pages in the Pages Library. After a quick search, I came across this blogpost of Brendan Newell. It… Lees verder
I created a list which uses 12 Person or Group fields. So I changed the resource throttling in Manage Web Applications > General Settings in Central Admin. Customer happy, so I’m happy too.
Now we have to the move this list to Office365 because their intranet is moving to the cloud. But changing the resource throttling settingis not possible in Office365 (yet?). So now we have to create a new solution.
So keep in mind when working with Office365, you can’t… Lees verder
When I was exploring the possibilities to read from a User Profile in a SharePoint Online environment I realized there are lots of properties that are being synced back to the UserInfoList, but only when they are filled in the User Profile.