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Office 365/SharePoint 2013 – Search Result Query Builder with {Site.Url}
Your problem For a long time I’ve been trying to restrict a query within my SharePoint Search Result web parts to items in a list within my current site. Including Path:{Site.Url}/MyList doesn’t seem...
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Office 365/SharePoint 2013 – Dropdown refinement panels display templates in...
My problem One of my requirements today was to implement dropdowns which filter content in a search results web part. So something that looks like this: I want to do this quickly, so I’m not cleaning...
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Office 365/SharePoint 2013 – Adding a search result web part to a page layout
My Problem Today I tried to add a search result web part to a page layout. Initially I thought to do this the same way as I would with an content editor web part. So first the steps on how I would add...
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Office 365/SharePoint 2013 – Enable Intellisense of OfficeDev\PnP
In recent months I’ve really started to like the OfficeDev\PnP initiative on Github. The following 4 projects give a great start for provisioning sites:...
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Office – Interesting 3rd party products
In the many years that I worked with Microsoft products I have liked using 3rd party add-ons. Cimaware AccessFIX Fix your access databases ExcelFIX Repair your Excel spreadsheets OutlookFIX Repair...
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SharePoint 2013 – Display the first 100 characters of a Publishing Page...
I like the usage of Display templates but every now and then there are problems that should be easy to solve that are not. Well, the problem in this article is actually one of those easily solved...
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Office 365 – SharePoint Online – Out of the box is good, but sometimes not –...
In general I try to use out of the box functionality in SharePoint but sometimes out of the box just doesn’t work. Today I created a list with URLs and I used the out of the box field URL. SharePoint...
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Nintex – Coercion failed: Unable to transform the input lookup into the...
Today, I was trying to update a list item with some data using the Update listitem action in Nintex and I got Coercion failed: Unable to transform the input lookup into the requested type The string...
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Office 365 – SharePoint – Getting Started with PnP PowerShell
In recent weeks I’ve given quite a few of my colleagues in introduction into PnP PowerShell. PnP PowerShell is part of the Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices initiative. In this post I’m...
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SharePoint 2013 – Nintex – How to update tasks with document details
Today I’ve got a document library with an approval workflow on it. For the approval I’ve used a Request data task. Within the Request Data task I’m collecting some additional fields. This data will...
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SharePoint – Adding links on a page to create new documents using content types
Today I had a need to add a link to a page which would create a new document. The document library that I use has multiple content types and each content type has a custom document template. Rather...
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SharePoint – DocuSign – How to implement electronic signatures within a...
In some of my projects at Triad, I’ve been using SharePoint 2013 to digitally sign documents with DocuSign. In this article I’m describing how DocuSign works and how to implement a Nintex workflow in...
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SharePoint – Nintex – finding the number of actions left on your license
Nintex workflow has a number of different ways you can license their products. For on-premises installations Nintex have had a server based license for a long time. Since Nintex Workflow has appeared...
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OneDrive for Business vs Office 365 / SharePoint 2013 – Synchronizing folders...
When I use OneDrive for Business to synchronize document libraries in my SharePoint libraries I have found some differences between Office 365 and SharePoint on-premises. OneDrive When I look in my...
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Office 365 – SharePoint 2013/2016 – Replicating or migrating SharePoint sites.
Over the last year or so many of my posts have been related to the PnP Provisioning Engine. I've created multiple scripts to replicate my whole intranet from one tenant to another. I've set this all up...
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Office 365 – SharePoint – New-PnPWeb : Provisioning did not succeed. Details:...
Today I tried to create a site using New-PnPWeb and I received the following erro message: New-PnPWeb : Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to initialize some site properties for Web at Url:...
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SharePoint – Nintex – Request Data vs Nintex Forms
Currently I'm implementing an appraisal process for one of my customers using Nintex Workflow and Nintex Forms. My initial thought was to create an appraisal form and then create a workflow with a...
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Office 365 / SharePoint 2013/2016 – Moving sites around
Have you ever tried to migrate a site from an on-premises SharePoint environment to Office 365? Or have you tried keeping development, test and production sites in sync? Within an on-premises...
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SharePoint – Get list items using JavaScript
Many times I've used the examples in this article to get lists items from SharePoint using JavaScript. The examples in this article are however incorrect and the collection of list Items isn't...
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SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016 – Monitor your SharePoint logs.
Quite a while ago I developed tool to monitor SharePoint logs. Since I developed this it's been available for download on Codeplex. Recently I noticed that codeplex is going to shut down. So I...
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