One of the most convenient ways to enter, edit, or view the SharePoint metadata for a Microsoft Word document (or other Microsoft Office document) is to use the Document Information Panel (DIP). For Office documents that are not stored in SharePoint, the panel can be used to view and edit the Document Properties fields that are built… Read More»
How to Add and Subtract Hours and Minutes from Date and Time Fields in SharePoint Lists
I recently needed to write a SharePoint Designer workflow to send a reminder email 12-hours before the end of a multiple-day event. It’s easy to use the Pause Until Date activity to pause until the necessary time, but it’s not so obvious how to calculate the date and time ithe workflow needs to pause until.… Read More»
How to Validate a Due Date in a SharePoint 2010 List
One of the great new features that end-users love in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to validate input. It provides an easy way to make sure that users enter the correct type of data in a metadata field. However, there are a couple questions users often have. The first one is why are there two… Read More»
How to Scale Out a SharePoint 2010 Farm From Two-Tier to Three-Tier By Adding A Dedicated Application Server
Many small to medium-sized organizations start using SharePoint in a “two-tier” server farm topology. The two tiers consist of: Tier 1 – SharePoint Server with all web page serving and all Service Applications running on it Tier 2 – A SQL Server to store the SharePoint databases – the SQL Server could be dedicated to… Read More»
SharePoint-InfoPath 2007 Video Tutorial: Displaying SQL Data in Data View Web Parts (Part 2)
How-to video: Create an InfoPath form that stores form data in SQL Part 1: Create a web-enabled InfoPath form that stores form data directly in SQL Part 2: Create data view web parts in SharePoint Designer to display/update SQL data in SharePoint pages This SharePoint video tutorial is based on a simple concept: Store customer… Read More»
SharePoint-InfoPath 2007 Video Tutorial: Storing InfoPath form data in SQL (Part 1)
How-to video: Create an InfoPath form that stores form data in SQL Part 1: Create a web-enabled InfoPath form that stores form data directly in SQL Part 2: Create data view web parts in SharePoint Designer to display/update SQL data in SharePoint pages This SharePoint video tutorial is based on a simple concept: Store customer… Read More»
Visio Services Won’t Refresh in SharePoint 2010–How to Fix It
I recently ran across a problem where a user had connected a Visio 2010 diagram to data in a SharePoint list to create a dynamic graphical dashboard of the items in the list. He had a problem though that the data wouldn’t refresh. So, when values changed in the SharePoint list, the Visio diagram that… Read More»
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