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How to Replace Text with Images in SharePoint List View using jQuery

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - April 15, 2014

My client had a list of projects in SharePoint 2010. He wanted to show their statues in a more clear way, and asked me to replace project status names with images(icons). This is the list of projects, with names of project statuses: “Project status” column is a lookup column and…

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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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Deleting a SharePoint Subsite in Office 365

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - February 5, 2014

Some weeks ago I got this screenshot from an end user: OK, I changed his red caption a little bit. The text was more similar to “How THE HELL do I delete this???” You might be tempted to think that the delete button is just around the corner, but I…

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Where is “Create Custom List” in SharePoint 2013?

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - January 30, 2014

Users keep asking me how to create a custom list in SharePoint 2013. However, they are not asking for details and secrets of custom list functionality or settings (since this is very similar to previous versions of SharePoint). What they mean is: “I don’t see a menu option or a…

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Walkthrough: Add tabs for custom scopes in Enterprise Search Center

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - June 19, 2012

When configuring SharePoint Search for customers I often help them configure their SharePoint Enterprise Search center. Companies usually index various content: SharePoint, Web Sites, File Shares, and it’s always good to divide different content sources with tabs, just as popular Search Engines like Google and Bing do. So what do…

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Use case: Managing Job Applications with SharePoint

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - June 10, 2012

I recently hired two employees for my company. The process is usually simple, an opening is posted on local jobs site and all the job applications are received via email. As we always require applicants to submit some additional forms and to complete a small writing or code development task…

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How to: Display Check-in comments

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - November 3, 2009

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’…

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