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Show a message when your Content Query Webpart has no results

Small piece of XSL code to let your Content Query Webpart show a message when it returns no items – for SharePoint 2010 Read more →

Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Belgium (SPSBE)

On the 27th of april we have SharePoint Saturday Belgium! I will present a session on “Quick wins for your SharePoint platform with free add-ons and tools”. Read more →

Missing some buttons on the SharePoint ribbon ? Try zooming out

March 14th, 2013 | Posted by Marijn in enduser | gui | quick tip | sharepoint 2010 - (0 Comments)

If you are missing buttons on your SharePoint ribbon, you might want to zoom out to have them magically appear again! Read more →

Kickstarter platform for SharePoint to service good ideas

Kickstarter is a hot new social way to get investors warm for your product idea. It markets itself as a “funding platform for creative projects”. Those creative projects can be food, design, fashion, art, comics, games, technology, music, … The deal is that you design a Kickstarter page, stating all cool stuff your product would … Read more →

How to publish multiple pages at once in SharePoint 2010

November 22nd, 2012 | Posted by Marijn in enduser | quick tip | sharepoint 2010 - (0 Comments)

Another quick tip on publishing multiple pages with minimal effort. Read more →

Playing games as part of your analysis process

Everyone who has been in a meeting or process to develop something new knows that it is hard. You have to be able to do abstract thinking, visualise designs and structures in your mind, be innovative, be constructive. You have to get the viewpoint of your customer, your target audience, the benefits, the hows and … Read more →

Intranet Launch video’s and teasers

Congratulations! You have been appointed to create the new intranet for the organisation!! Hurah! But how am I going to start on thinking about how I want to structure it? Ellen Van Aken has a great overview of +30 short movies from organisations that show their own intranets. These are not SharePoint movies, but show … Read more →

Scrum: Product Backlog and user stories

July 15th, 2012 | Posted by Marijn in business | enduser | productivity | project management - (0 Comments)

I had the chance these past few weeks to do my first real SCRUM project. My task was, next to a content governance model, to deliver a “Product Backlog”. A Product Backlog is a collection of user stories, ordered by business value and risk. A user what? A user story! What is that ? Well, … Read more →

Enable “Append changes” on multiline textfield in SharePoint 2010

October 27th, 2011 | Posted by Marijn in enduser | sharepoint - (0 Comments)

In the default SharePoint “Issue Tracking” list you have the “Comments” field. Every time you add text to it and save the item, it is stored and the current text is added to the previous. You can get the same behavior an ony other multiline textfield in SharePoint 2010 you create. When you create the field, check … Read more →