You have created groups for a SharePoint site, defined their permission levels, and added users to those groups. And now you want to be the only one who grants access to any resource of this web site for new users. Well, that is going to be difficult, if not impossible, if…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…