SharePoint Starter Series: creating a SharePoint list
This is one of the most common questions end-users ask. “How do I create a list?”. Well that’s easy but you have to pay attention to some guidelines. To create a list you need site owner permissions(or...
View ArticleSharePoint Starter Series: choose the right column type
When you create a list you can add your own columns to it. This is a way of structuring your data. By default there are 13 column types (when using SharePoint Server, there are less in SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint Starter Series: How to create a cascading dropdown list in InfoPath
One of the most common questions in SharePoint is how you can create a cascading dropdown list. There are a few ways to do this. You could use the excellent SPServices library and let that script...
View ArticleUse query string parameters to create a document with metadata
A few weeks ago a customer asked me if there was a solution to create a document in SharePoint by using the url. He wanted to create a contract for each of his customers by using the url and a few...
View ArticleSharePoint bashers, I challenge you!
Sometimes it is hard to be a SharePoint solution architect/developer. There are some SharePoint bashers out there who like to throw some shit at you. Well I challenge you all! By using SharePoint as a...
View ArticleCount list items in InfoPath
In some cases you want to count the number of items in a SharePoint list and do something with that value. Let say show or hiding a control in InfoPath. This is how you can do this: Add a new data...
View ArticleHow to enumerate the selected list items with JavaScript
In SharePoint 2010 you can select multiple list items in a list by checking the checkbox in front of the item. That is an option you can enable (by default) or disable in the view settings. The purpose...
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SharePoint Starter Series: How to hide the title column in a list
When you create a new list in SharePoint you always get a predefined set of columns (title, created, created by, modified and modified by). Sometimes you do not want to use the title column. You can...
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