SharePoint Use Cases

Every once in a while your customer might ask you to customize permissions for a document library in such a way that authors can only change their own documents. There was no such feature for document libraries in SharePoint 2007, and the “problem” is still present in v2010. (Both versions support automatic item-level permissions OOTB [...]

One of the usual challenges with SharePoint 2007 was to build a lookup field between two lists but also apply a custom filter to the values being displyed. Let’s consider a simple scenario: You have two lists on your site: Projects and Project Tasks. You want to link each task in Project Tasks list with [...]

I am reposting from End User SharePoint. Toni Frankola, Eric Harlan and I have been working over the past few days, putting together the first wave of speakers for Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA. This is turning out to be a pretty spectacular event with presenters from 11 countries, including 6 MVPs. If you haven’t registered [...]

On Dec 10th we had a 1st meeting of Croatian SharePoint User group. I was always under the impression we are too small to have a user group but… I was wrong. . We had around 120 applications for the first event. We gave an overview presentation on what’s new in SharePoint 2010 for end [...]

If your company is considering implementing SharePoint collaboration platform Microsoft has a free* offering for you: SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS). How can you benefit from this program? Well it is easy. If you are currently planning to deploy SharePoint to your organization you can contact a certified SDPS partner to help you plan this [...]

Last week I spent three very nice days in Murska Sobota, Slovenia, speaking at Slovenian SharePoint Conference 2009. It was my pleasure to meet some old frends and many new SharePoint people from the region and worldwide. I am really looking forward to the next edition ))) Slovenian SharePoint Conference 2009 -Best Practices To Boost Your [...]

I am so proud to make this announcement… on December 9th 5:30 pm we are organizing the first meeting of Croatian SharePoint User Group. Check our site (in Croatian)… The only topic on our agenda for December 9th is… SharePoint 2010 Overview and what’s new. Hope to see you there… If you would like to [...]

Staccee emailed me with the following problem: Can you report off of “Comments” entered when documents are checked in/out? If so, any help on how to get them all? Here is what I am doing: I navigate to a document that needs to be updated. I use the ‘Check Out’ function and then ‘Edit in [...]

As you probably know SharePoint Saturday events are huge success over SharePoint communities (mostly in USA). There are 10 events just in November 2009, and on November 14h there will be 4 parallel SharePoint Saturdays! As you recall from this blog, we had one in Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark). Europe is bit different and it is [...]

On November 27th I will be speaking at SharePoint Conference Slovenia, one of the first events where you will be able to see SharePoint 2010 live. There is also a preconf day hosted by  SharePoint MVPs where you will be able see new SharePoint in live action. Take advantage of the early bird prices for [...]