Ever get this message when you open an InfoPath form to edit? One or more fields in the SharePoint list have changed. Do you want InfoPath to update the set of available fields? You may need to modify your form view to add or remove the updated fields. Most of the time, you can just […]

​I had just finished some significant upgrades to an InfoPath SharePoint list form and moved it to production when users of the form started to have this validation error: “my:PersonOrGroupFieldName Error: No exact match was found” In my upgrade process, I had changed one of my existing Person or Group fields from allowing the selection […]

One of the most common views asked for on a SharePoint list is the “Assigned to Me” view. But what if “Assigned to Me” is really “Assigned to Me” or “Assigned to My Group”? I have struggled with this one for custom lists for a while now. Short of custom DVWPs which I have done, […]

​Found a great little post about how team sites look before and after an upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. In the article, it mentions how to turn on the newsfeed (something that is included with NEW SharePoint 2013 team sites). I had already figured out that the newsfeed was a feature called “Site […]

When they are part of a new SharePoint 2013 team site. A funny thing happened on the way to SharePoint 2013. The members permission group we all know and love got a very significant permission upgrade. If you open up a new SharePoint team site, you will notice that the members group now has a […]

I opened my door this afternoon to find a copy of Plain & Simple Microsoft SharePoint 2013 sitting on my porch. What a surprise. This book was such a blast to edit and to see it in print, all colorful and formatted, just blows me away. Since I’ll be talking about 2013 Community sites in […]

Update April 1, 2015 Microsoft apparently issued a hotfix for this issue in June of 2013. If this is your problem – then get the hotfix here:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817395 I have a SharePoint list with a custom InfoPath list form, versioning turned on (3 major versions only), and 3 multi-line text fields that are defined as […]

Came across this again today at a client site. They had an InfoPath form published to a form library, but they were not promoting all of the data collected in the form out to the SharePoint library as columns. Since they wanted to do some reporting on the data in the forms, I promoted the […]

Ran into a problem again that I’ve run into before. Sometimes, in a SharePoint Designer workflow, you cannot move actions up or down. The command is active in the action menu, but it does not respond when you choose it. This has happened to me before, and I have always had to recreate the step […]

​I’m on a mission. A mission to get the %20 out of SharePoint URLs. They’ve been around long enough, I think; years, now. So ugly. So problematic. Let’s just get rid of them, OK? You see them everywhere, including the URL for the default “Shared Documents” library that comes with a SharePoint team site. What […]