Should UI Designers do UX?
With whom can we lean on the process? If you’re reading this, chances are you’re probably a designer aiming to become a UX Designer. Maybe your job title on linkedin is UX/UI Designer already. Or even better, you are a “UX Unicorn” on […]
Canadian Intranet Practices Survey
Our good friends at nForm, a consulting firm based in Edmonton that specialize in creating great user experiences, are undertaking a survey of Intranets within Canada. Now I know that many of you readers are from outside of Canada so […]
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 […]
The Core Intranet Functionality Needed By Most Organizations
According to the Nielson Norman Group 2014 Report on Intranet Design, creating a new intranet from scratch took users an average of 1.4 years, a significant reduction from the 2.2 years reported in 2013. That still seems like a very […]
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 […]
The Core Intranet Functionality Needed By Most Organizations by Bonzai Intranet
We have recently published an article on the Bonzai blog entitled “The Core Intranet Functionality Needed By Most Organizations”. It covers some of the core Intranet capabilities such as news, events, employee directories and other pieces needed to create an […]
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to the Bonzai Webinar Series
Bonzai is getting a head start on 2015 with some new informative ways to keep you in the loop!
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 […]