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GuideMeThrough SharePoint courseware is here!

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - November 19, 2014

We are very happy to announce the first version of GuideMeThrough SharePoint courseware – affordable courseware for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online! In this release we are focusing on document libraries, content types and SharePoint security. Each guide can be purchased separately, and each comes in 3 different flavors: Printable…

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GuideMeThrough SharePoint – affordable courseware for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online!

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - July 3, 2014

Have you ever needed to organize a SharePoint training for a group of people within your company? Or been hired by another company to do a group training? You can’t even begin to think about it without having the right documentation for your trainees! Documenting basic end user tasks in…

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External Users in SharePoint Online, part II: External User Accepts Invitation

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - June 10, 2014

In the last post, I showed how to invite an external user to SharePoint. Let’s see what this experience looks like for a person you invited to join the SharePoint website. There are two different use cases here.   Use case 1 If an external user has Microsoft or Organizational account,…

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External Users in SharePoint Online, Part I: How to Invite an External User

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - June 6, 2014

To add external users to your SharePoint project or any other site, click the “Share” button at the top right of any page on your site. In the pop-up window, on the default tab “Invite people”, enter email address(es) of the person(s) you want to invite and make sure checkbox…

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Getting Users to Appreciate Lookup Columns in SharePoint – Part III

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - April 3, 2014

Use case 3: Lookup list for reusable items (many-to-many) The last use case is the list of products which are stated on the invoice. Any invoice can contain more than one product. In this example, the products are software licenses. The name of the list is “Invoice Items” and looks…

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Getting Users to Appreciate Lookup Columns in SharePoint – Part II

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - February 27, 2014

Use case 2: Lookup list with additional attributes The list I created for thsi use case is: “Clients”. You can see it bellow – it has a couple of attributes, it’s not as simple as “Payment Methods”. The purpose of this example is to show that some attributes of this…

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Getting Users to Appreciate Lookup Columns in SharePoint – Part I

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - February 27, 2014

A software engineer or a technical person can easily understand the benefits of lookup columns (in SharePoint or any other system). However, not every SharePoint user is familiar with the concept of foreign keys and the advantages they provide. In this and next two posts, I will present a couple…

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KPIs for Masses – Part 2 and Part 3

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - December 19, 2008

I have published two new articles on EndUserSharepoint.com. KPIs for the Masses: A Dashboard based upon a date-time field In my the first two articles of this series, Visual Indicators for the Masses and Embed KPIs as a List View, I discussed ways to create simple KPIs in WSS. This…

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Visual Indicators for the Masses: KPIs in WSS

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - December 9, 2008

My first blog post at End User SharePoint has been published (Mark thank you for inviting me). SharePoint comes with really cool web parts for presenting key performance indicators, but these are only available in the Enterprise edition. If you are running Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Server Standard, it…

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