One of the best ways to enhance the user experience is to highlight something about the data they are interacting with. One of the coolest tools available out-of-the-box with SharePoint is Conditional Formatting. With Conditional Formatting, you can designate some condition that the data is in and based on the matching the data values to … Continue reading How to configure Conditional Formatting in SharePoint Designer
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How to tell if you have 32 Bit or 64 Bit Office installed
When installing SharePoint Designer 2010 on a computer it is important to match the bit version of SharePoint Designer with the Bit Version of the Office Installation. Most of the time, Microsoft Office will already be installed. In this blog I will go through how to quickly check which bit version (32 or 64) of … Continue reading How to tell if you have 32 Bit or 64 Bit Office installed
XML Data Source Weirdness in SharePoint Designer 2010
Using the XML File Data source is SharePoint Designer 2010 is a very handy thing indeed. In my experience it can be a bit buggy to get it to work. Sometimes it just works and many times I find myself staring at the screen waiting..and waiting..and waiting.. and nothing. Somehow I figured out a weird … Continue reading XML Data Source Weirdness in SharePoint Designer 2010
How to add a Web Part Connection using SharePoint Designer 2010
Many times it is helpful to create what we call a master details type of view on some data. For example, I have a list of SharePoint Courses and I find it easier to keep all of the data about each course in a single list and use SharePoint 2010's out-of-the-box view engine to present … Continue reading How to add a Web Part Connection using SharePoint Designer 2010
Loop Through Documents with SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow
This is a technique I use to emulate the idea of looping through a bunch of documents in a document library in order to execute a workflow on them when they already exist in a document library. I call it the poor man's foreach! To start, I have a normal SharePoint 2010 Team Site with … Continue reading Loop Through Documents with SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow
Using BCS and External Content Types in SharePoint 2010 To Bring Contacts In and Connect To Outlook 2010
We will use SharePoint Designer 2010 to create an external content type. This will be connected to the customers table in NorthWind and will allow for the creation of a new external list. We will add the functionality of being able to connect this list to Outlook by mapping the customers from NorthWind to the … Continue reading Using BCS and External Content Types in SharePoint 2010 To Bring Contacts In and Connect To Outlook 2010
Creating a Custom List Form with SharePoint Designer 2010
In this post I will go through one of the common techniques of creating a custom list form using SharePoint Designer 2010. Custom-List I CHOOSE SITE ACTIONS > MORE OPTIONS I start off with a fresh site collection for which I have chosen the team site template as the top level site. This can be … Continue reading Creating a Custom List Form with SharePoint Designer 2010
Creating Hidden Columns in SharePoint 2010
This blog will cover how to set up hidden columns in a SharePoint 2010 List or Library. Setting up hidden columns is a core skill as one progresses to more advanced SharePoint Designer 2010 custom workflows. This skill is one of several necessary to successfully work through the a future blog entry "Automatically Populating the … Continue reading Creating Hidden Columns in SharePoint 2010
ITIL – Incident Management with SharePoint 2010 using SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows
This blog post is a step by step description of the creation of the Incident Management Solution created for Mark Thomas and my presentation at the 4th Annual I.T.S.M Summit in Arizona. This solution uses a pair of provided matrices to construct custom workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010 and manages the incidents. This solution can … Continue reading ITIL – Incident Management with SharePoint 2010 using SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows