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I was recently asked if I could make some list fields read-only because a department was having problems with users filling out fields they weren’t supposed to. They attempted to control this by creating a column called “END OF CUSTOMER INPUT SECTION. INTERNAL USE ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT.” One of ...
Recently I have been working with large lists (10,700+ records) on a site where I only have Site Owner privileges. SharePoint protects server performance by query throttling lists above 5,000 records, although this limit can be adjusted in Central Administration. When a user attempts to view the list he will ...
I was tasked with updating some list data, including changing a text field column to a lookup column. The lookup list was located in another subsite, and since a lookup list only works with lists within the same root site or subsite, I created a root level Site Column with ...
Recently, when I went to view a list I ran into the following error message: Silly Microsoft! My list isn’t deleted, I see it right here in my site contents. After brushing off the error message as totally missing the mark and unhelpful, I went to my go-to troubleshooting tool ...
With the recent time change for Daylight Savings Time, I am reminded that it is time to run some scripts that will update the time stamps for alerts. Problem: When alerts are set for a list or library, they can be scheduled to be sent immediately or as a daily ...
One of the things I love best about SharePoint is I am always learning something new every day. In my experience, when things work right the first time you try something, you don’t learn much. Conversely, when things don’t work correctly, I learn tons of stuff. ‘Nuff said about learning ...
In our University environment we decided to pre-configure MySites for our 18,000+ users across 30 different content databases using a Powershell script. While running a file to update composed looks, our log file indicated that 13 MySites weren’t created. These users all had a site collection under our MySite host ...
A user emails you complaining about how SharePoint is broken. You click on the link they provided, and instead of going to the Community Site (in this example) it leads you to the following page error: The error description may or may not help you troubleshoot the problem. In this ...
Sometimes trying to accomplish a simple task isn’t as intuitive or easy as we may like in SharePoint. A case in point is how, exactly, does a Moderator or site owner delete a Community Site member? There is no “Delete a Member” button or link in the UI: Clicking on ...
SharePoint 2013 has a new and improved search results page functionality: Users can see a fly-out with a preview of the document type by resting their cursor over the search result. Microsoft Office documents will display the application icon in front of the title of the search result. Search will ...
A friend related a conversation he had with a Drupal developer. He asked him what he thought about SharePoint. “I don’t like it one bit,” he replied. When pressed, here are his objections, and how I would have responded: With Drupal, you can start out with a streamlined site and ...
I’m sure we all have our own stories about how we “fell” into the SharePoint-verse. Perhaps your employer decided to make the switch and your job title suddenly expanded to include “SharePoint Administrator/Architect/Developer”; you were considered “computer savvy” and you were recruited by your company to help with the SharePoint ...
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