Item-Level Security, Sharing and the SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure Feature
The Scenario Consider a scenario such as the following: you need to grant access to a specific document within a site to a user, but want to restrict that users access to the rest of the site. This is not […]
Reporting on SharePoint lists with many to many relationships using Power Query
SharePoint lists are often the repository for reportable items and whether these take the form of incident reports, inventory, inspection forms or other data we are often asked to surface that information in a usable fashion for the business. I […]
Active Directory Groups and SharePoint Security
Working with a client recently I’d run across something that seemed pretty fundamental and widely-known (or so I thought); however, I’ve been wrong before and here was another example of exactly that.
4 CSS Tips For Every SharePoint Developer
CSS is really powerful, but in order to be really successful with it, you have to understand and have knowledge of the various tools at your disposal. I wanted to take this opportunity to touch on some of the ones […]
SharePoint Enterprise Feature Activation – Unintended Consequences
SharePoint Editions and License Conversion SharePoint Server can be licensed in one of two editions: Standard and Enterprise, which is determined by the license key applied to the server. This key may be applied at installation time, or afterwards through […]
Checkout and Open PDF files from SharePoint Document Libraries
We have a customer that makes extensive use of Adobe Acrobat’s integration with SharePoint, which allows for the checkout and editing of PDF files directly from Document Libraries. Recently, after applying a Cumulative Update to the SharePoint platform we lost […]
Experimenting with AngularJS in SharePoint Part 2
If you haven’t checked out Part 1, please have a look. I’ve made some changes since then. I’ll be going over the changes here in Part 2.
Content Approval Models in SharePoint Intranets
SharePoint 2013 provides a number of ways to author, approve and publish content. When we work with clients on Bonzai implementations we take into account both the Intranet publishing model that an organization will use and how this can be […]
Re-Thinking SharePoint Intranets with Bonzai Webinar
As part of the recent launch of Bonzai Intranet for SharePoint we have been receiving many questions about Bonzai such as:
Adding an XsltListViewWebPart With a Custom View Using JavaScript
I was building a SharePoint Hosted App, and one of the requirements was to add a List View web part to the home page of a site. Lucky for us SharePoint devs, there is no documentation on this stuff, only […]
The launch of Bonzai Intranet for SharePoint
The consulting company I co-founded, Dynamic Owl Consulting, has been hard at work over the past year developing a new product that we’re very proud to release–Bonzai, a pre-built intranet for SharePoint.