Yearly Archives for 2014

SPDocKit v4

Misc - Toni Frankola - March 25, 2014

My dear readers, I am happy to inform that we, the fine people from Acceleratio, have released yet another spectacular version of SPDocKit.   Here are the key new features: To help so many of our customers migrating from SharePoint 2007, we finally released full support for Permissions Reports in…

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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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Manage Azure database security with T-SQL

Misc - Toni Frankola - February 10, 2014

This is slightly off-topic but we recently deployed some SQL databases to Windows Azure. I wanted to tighten security and allow users to connect to a particular views only. To my amazement, even though you can connect to Azure databases with SQL Management Studio, you cannot manage any of the…

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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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Managing document library versioning settings with Governance Toolkit for Office 365

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

Have you ever wanted to: enforce version control make checkouts obligatory for all the documents in your site collection, without changing the settings for each document library manually? This blog post is about our product Governance Toolkit for Office 365. I will explain how to use the product to perform…

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