Adding Data Bound Images to Power View with Power Query
The Power BI team just announced the latest round of new features added to Power Query in the September update. It’s really gratifying to the team’s focus on a quick tempo for updates and it certainly demonstrates the commitment to […]
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.
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 […]
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:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Upgrade My Sites to SharePoint 2013
If you’re working through an upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2012, there’s a ton of information on MSDN on how to upgrade your My Sites. I’m not going to go into the specifics, but what I do what to […]
SharePoint and Moment.js
As SharePoint 2013 client side developers, rarely do we implement a custom solution that outputs dates without loading Moment.js. Simply put, Moment.js makes it possible to: Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript. And not only does it make […]
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 […]
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.