Bonzai Intranet Blog

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

Happy Holidays from Bonzai

To say that 2014 has been an amazing year for everyone here would be a bit of an understatement!

Beyond Governance Planning: it’s the execution that matters!

If you’ve read anything about governance, you’ll quickly figure out that this is a really really big topic and so naturally it can be really overwhelming to understand. When a lot of people talk about governance, they talk about how […]

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.

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 […]