Category: enduser

Scrum: Product Backlog and user stories

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, …


Official: Microsoft acquires Yammer (with infographic)

Enable “Append changes” on multiline textfield in SharePoint 2010

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 …


Hit Shift-Enter in a SharePoint multiline text-field to insert a new line instead of two

At my customer, we created a solution where users can fill in some comments in a SharePoint multiline text-field. Unfortunately, every time they entered some lines, they appeared a little bit too far from each other. Looking at the code, SharePoint adds a “p” or double “div”’s around the line. After some testing, the simple …


SharePoint 2010 Validation Settings

One of the cool things in SharePoint 2010 for end-users is the validation of columns. In normal applications you can have a validation on a field; examples : – a field number must be between value x and value y that are also on the item – a date must be smaller then another date …


How to create a Project Dashboard ?

Every Manager needs a dashboard, and every Program Manager needs a project dashboard, so he can view in an instance what projects are running good, and what projects need corrections. Ofcourse you can build something like that in SharePoint, with nice KPI’s, but that is quite easy, so you dont need me to tell you …