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String format for multi-value lookup columns in SharePoint
I recently had a question from a client around multi-value lookup columns and how to set them using a workflow. Scenario A list serves as the master list and has a look-up column that is linked to a second list, containing details for a chosen item. In the master list we want to show the title [...]
SharePoint Governance – Interview with Peter Sturm
Today I’d like to share an interview on the topic of SharePoint governance, which one of my clients gave. Peter Sturm is a project manager at Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Employment Agency) in Nürnberg, Germany, currently working on a project for a SharePoint based Intranet. Apologies to my English-speaking readers, but the interview is in [...]
Create Multilingual InfoPath Forms
I came across this requirement back in 2007 when I first started working with SharePoint 2007 (or MOSS) and InfoPath 2007. Back then I was quite a rookie and I just took the advice from a former colleague that the best way to create multilingual forms is to use code. Yes, code behind InfoPath forms. [...]
Nintex announces 2013 Product Wave
Nintex has just announced the release dates for the 2013 wave of their popular products Nintex Workflow 2013, Nintex Forms 2013 and Nintex Workflow for Project Server 2013. The anticipated release dates for their products are December 2012 (Nintex Workflow 2013), January 2013 (Nintex Forms 2013) and the 1st quarter of 2013 (Nintex Workflow for [...]
Project Management with SharePoint just got easier
Last week SharePoint 2013 RTM was released on MSDN and I had to install it straight away. One of the reasons was a presentation I had on Project Management in SharePoint on Friday. For that I wanted to use SharePoint 2013 RTM instead of the Preview version. Just because it has all the icons So [...]
How To: Get User IDs from SharePoint Group with Nintex Workflow
In a recent conversation with a client, who uses Nintex Workflow 2010, I was asked if it is possible to send personalised emails to individual users in a SharePoint group. In Nintex’ Send Email action you can choose to send an email to the whole group or an email to each member of the group. [...]
InfoPath 2013 – What’s new?
NOTE: This post is based on InfoPath 2013 Preview! With SharePoint 2013 around the corner, I was really looking forward to some enhancements to InfoPath 2013. So what is new in InfoPath 2013 compared to InfoPath 2010? At a first glimpse, NOTHING. Very disappointing I have to say. Let us step through InfoPath. When you [...]
Nintex Workflow 2010 – Workflow not Publishing
Before I start writing about the issue and solution for this problem, please be aware that this is actually a SharePoint limitation. You will quite likely encounter it when you create Nintex Workflows though, especially when working with a lot of UDAs within a workflow. Problem:When creating a workflow with lots of UDAs and try [...]
Contact Selector in InfoPath 2007 and 2010
There are heaps of articles and blogs out there that describe how to create the Contact Selector control in InfoPath 2007. I guess I just want to take the opportunity to refresh everyone’s mind on this and also show you how to create the Contact Selector in InfoPath 2010 for an InfoPath 2007 form. Let’s [...]
