A customer had created a beautifully designed SharePoint site, complete with all kinds of informative pages containing lots of text and markup. The question now was how they could create a backup of these beautiful pages, in case something went wrong and they needed to restore them again. I know, you shouldn’t have to do …
In classic SharePoint, there was an easy way to show the “edit” button in a list. If you clicked on it, the edit page would open up. This was a wonderful, easy way to have your users go directly to the edit page of the item. In default SharePoint online, there is a different approach: …
Earlier this week I had a head scratching issue from a power user at a customer. The goal was to set up a new library, but when people wanted to share files, the “Allow editing” button was grayed out and not clickable. Wow. That is weird! Even for “specific people”, we couldn’t create a link …
It has been a long time since I published a quick tip, but a request from a client got me in happy mode this morning! The request was that every time they tried to open up a msg (.msg or Outlook email message format) it downloaded the file. Then they needed another click to open …
As announced at Ignite 2018, Microsoft is rolling out an easier way of formatting your lists and libraries columns. Until now you had to do this in Json script, which was very hard for end users or power users to do. Luckily, Chris Kent has a great webpart to make it easier, but that still …
You have been working with Office 365 SharePoint sites for some time now. Last year, the whole “modern” SharePoint was presented. You probably have your document libraries and lists set up to use these modern parts. Brilliant! Or maybe your organisation is not yet ready for these new, modern experiences. No worries! But what about …
A quick way to let users open and save ics files instead of having to sync their calendar to Outlook via calculated columns!
Every now and again SharePoint still manages to amaze me. One would think that after 8 years of intensive SharePoint activity, I would have learned all tricks of the trade. Yesterday, I had another eye-opener that I was not prepared for (in a good way)! The clients question was: I have a list with titles …
A quick how to on how to hide column titles in various versions of SharePoint with a small piece of css code that you can add in a content editor webpart
I got an error stating that the webpart couldn’t find the customstrings.js file at _catalogs/masterpages/display templates/language files/nl-nl/customstrings.js?ctag=xxx