You have been slaving away at getting a page to look just right, with some contents on the page and a list of documents on the right hand side to showcase further reading material. But lo and behold.. SharePoint cuts off the full length of the document name! What? Oh no! This is just another …
If you need the TLDR; version: Add an extra step to do a “get item” from the hidden “TaxonomyHiddenList” and get the path there. Or scroll down to the bottom to skip my adventures in finding out how to get it. One of my customers had a specific requirement: They had a multilevel Managed Metadata …
For once, we try not to focus on the amazing platform and the supercool apps that we get, but we take a look at how a content-first way of working might benefit users! Content is the core of Office 365. Microsoft gives you so many ways to access your content, we will explore some of …
You might have already guessed that I just love PNP Powershell: It just brings me joy to have a readable script that just does what I need it to do! And that is what I say to my customers too. They too love it for being easy to read and to write, well at least …
A common scenario in many projects where you are working with dates is to have a group by weekday request. A customer asked for an publishing calendar in SharePoint, where we could say the published items per day of the week. There is a funny thing that happens when you group the items on that …
Contrary to the popular Crowded House song, there weren’t four seasons in a day, but four sessions in one day! At the Virtual Marathon (#M365VM) a few weeks ago, that was how many sessions I did! Luckily I had some awesome people to help out. So, here goes! Become a Road Warrior with Teams Mobile …
A request I hear a lot when implementing Teams is the ability to make files read-only in certain channels. There is also an uservoice item to request such a feature. Microsoft Teams, with the underlying Microsoft 365 Groups technology works best (in my opinion) if you keep it as simple as possible: You need a …
As I was busy creating the shownotes for Office 365 Distilled ep30, I heard Steve (my co-presenter) asking about this document templates feature in SharePoint. I meant to write a blogpost about this sooner but it kind of piled up next to the other 100 ideas I want to write down. So here goes! Announced …
Across the years of consulting various organisations in the world around SharePoint, I have hinted at using various color schemes and themes (color-coding) to define the type of collaboration: Green for a department site, brown for a project site, red for a highly classified site, … While this is still possible in SharePoint Online, with …
In this COVID-19 quarantine special episode of Blaming the End-User, different heroes of the Office 365 community sit together virtually over a drink and discuss best practices for WFH. This was a superfun event, where we asked each of our guests for their top tips for #WFH in these Corona days. We also heavily relied …