Author: Marijn

What is your SharePoint Business Model: Governance basics

Ben McMann from Tribridge talks in this presentation about the SharePoint Business Model. In my view, any project ( not just SharePoint) should start with making up such a thing. This should be the basis of your governance, the start on why and how you are going to manage things.


Microsoft Productivity Hub is a Quick Win for Training and Governance

The Microsoft Productivity Hub 2010 is a customizable, on-premise training solution for technology products. Developed by RedTech for Microsoft, the Productivity Hub is based on SharePoint 2010. Code for the Productivity Hub’s Sliverlight components and other add-ons can be found here. The Microsoft Productivity Hub can help improve information worker productivity by giving users the …


Rename item in order to work when you create a new item based on the title

Quite a title this time 🙂 Let me explain: I have a list where people can add items to: requests for a ticket. Those tickets are ( if approved ) getting into a workflow: every ticket becomes a folder in a list, where we can have actions as list items. The problem was that my …


add a PreSaveAction on the SharePoint "input type=button"

My previous blogpost was about how you could replace the SharePoint:SaveButton with a input type=Button in order to add a redirect after you have filled in the form. Today I wanted to add the PreSaveAction() functionality and it didn’t work. After some research and testing I found out that the input type=Button does not have …


Add a redirect on a custom newitem form after you hit the "SharePoint:SaveButton"

At a client, I am building a custom formin SharePoint via a custom newform. One of the requests was that after the form is submitted, users have to be redirected to a “thank you” page. If you insert a dataview, you get a normal “input type=button” which you can customize like I described here. With …


How to check for attachments or limit the number of attachments in SharePoint via jQuery

A client had a business requirement that if someone added an attachment to an item in a list, a metadata field had to be filled in. So I put on my jQuery glasses (they are quite special, looking a bit like Dame Edna’s) I ended up with following code which uses the PreSaveAction, a default …


jQuery Cycle plugin for an easy to code picture slider

why bother with costly external picture sliders or Silverlight scripts that have to be developed and deployed when you can simply use jQuery Cycle plugin?


SharePoint technical diagrams ( are really quite functional)

I knew Microsoft made SharePoint technical diagrams on development and architecture, but I had no idea they also published some more functional diagrams!


Get the field value from dispform.aspx in SharePoint 2010 – 2013 via jQuery

I was trying to find a quick way to get the field value from dispform.aspx in SharePoint. Apparently, the internet is filled with .. let us say “less-interesting methods” to get that value


harmon.ie for SharePoint 3.0 has got new social features

Social email software provider harmon.ie® recently announced harmon.ie for SharePoint 3.0, the first platform that aggregates collaboration tools and social enterprise networks into a sidebar within Microsoft® Outlook® and Lotus Notes®. Designed to remove barriers to user adoption of Microsoft SharePoint® as well as to bring a critical social component to document creation, harmon.ie enables …