There seems to be a fair amount of confusion in the IT world regarding SharePoint Development.  Essentially, the term SharePoint Developer is too vague. I have conversations with recruiters on a frequent basis who want to discuss the three typical roles of SharePoint Architect, SharePoint Administrator, and SharePoint Developer.  We need to discuss this third […]

If you have a document library with required fields, then uploading multiple files at once is going to cause them all to be “checked out” to the person who uploaded them. As you know, if you upload a single file to a document library with required fields you will be prompted to fill out those […]

Actually, the title here is misleading.  Let me explain: when a user clicks the X in the upper right corner of a web part (while editing the page) it does not actually delete the web part.  Rather it is “closed”.  There’s actually a big difference between a deleted and a closed web part. However, if […]

I ran into the problem last week where the Navigation link was missing from Site Actions, Site Settings, Look and Feel.  To resolve this problem: turn on Publishing. 1.  In Site collection features, you’ll want to activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure. 2.  You will also want to turn on Publishing at the site level.  In […]

In the previous post, I pointed out that in order to change the view in SharePoint 2010 permissions, you have to go into the List Settings.  You can create or edit the Views there.  However, sometimes the List Settings option is missing.  In this case, the page is there… there’s just not a link for […]

I’ve had a few users reach out to me that they wanted to see additional columns in either of the two views (Detail and List) available to them in Permissions, People and Groups, <PermissionGroup>. We are used to seeing Modify this View in the View dropdown in document libraries.  (Our client has SharePoint 2010 but […]

In SharePoint 2010, when you create an input form for a list, once the form is submitted, the user is redirected to the list.  Often, you will want to redirect the user to a landing page instead thanking them for their input or perhaps sharing with them something useful that is only to be shared […]

I was performing a SharePoint 2010 assessment recently.   Among a great many other things, I went over their Windows Event logs, diagnostic logging, health and usage data collection, and web analytics. I went to Google looking for best practices in these areas but was not very successful in finding succinct, solid information.  So I’m going […]

Details about SharePoint 2013 (a.k.a. SharePoint 15) are starting to emerge.  Somewhat redundanct articles from ZDnet and RedmondMag discuss some of the highlights that are currently being leaked.  Both reference an enterprising fellow named Bjorn Furuknap who has started a subscription service for publishing SharePoint 2013 rumors.   It looks like both of the articles rely […]

A client has some of their users in limited permission groups, such as Read Only.  Thus, some of their ribbon commands for this limited group are disabled (“grayed out”).  The client wants for these users to not even see these grayed out ribbon commands both to cut down on the training issues and the complaining. […]