Tag: sharepoint-2013
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Getting Users to Appreciate Lookup Columns in SharePoint – Part III
Use case 3: Lookup list for reusable items (many-to-many) The last use case is the list of products which are stated on the invoice. Any invoice can contain more than one product. In this example, the products are software licenses. The name of the list is “Invoice Items” and looks like this: As you can…
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Getting Users to Appreciate Lookup Columns in SharePoint – Part II
Use case 2: Lookup list with additional attributes The list I created for thsi use case is: “Clients”. You can see it bellow – it has a couple of attributes, it’s not as simple as “Payment Methods”. The purpose of this example is to show that some attributes of this list, such as “Organization Name”…
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Getting Users to Appreciate Lookup Columns in SharePoint – Part I
A software engineer or a technical person can easily understand the benefits of lookup columns (in SharePoint or any other system). However, not every SharePoint user is familiar with the concept of foreign keys and the advantages they provide. In this and next two posts, I will present a couple of use cases related to…
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Deleting a SharePoint Subsite in Office 365
Some weeks ago I got this screenshot from an end user: OK, I changed his red caption a little bit. The text was more similar to “How THE HELL do I delete this???” You might be tempted to think that the delete button is just around the corner, but I actually had to send a…
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Where is “Create Custom List” in SharePoint 2013?
Users keep asking me how to create a custom list in SharePoint 2013. However, they are not asking for details and secrets of custom list functionality or settings (since this is very similar to previous versions of SharePoint). What they mean is: “I don’t see a menu option or a button which will initiate the…