Often, there are times that you need to present completely different screens and data to the same logged in user but do not want the hassle of having to build multiple apps to accomplish this. One way that I have found to do this is by using variables with app OnStart rules. As you may… Continue reading Choosing your path in PowerApps
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted but I had to share this info. When working with SharePoint lists, we need to do our best to standardize data. One instance of this is if you are using an “Email” column as the primary key to match data between two different lists. To ensure that your users… Continue reading Get rid of those pesky text mismatches and spaces
Miss the old style Manage Content and Structure feature? No? Well this post is just not for you. Now if you said yes then you are in luck. It’s still available in Office 365, just not a menu option. To use the old “Manage Content and Structure”, add this at the end of the site:… Continue reading “Manage Content and Structure” in Office 365
The world of PowerApps can be new and exciting, not to mention completely frustrating! A lot of my frustrations come from my lack of knowledge of the product but there are times when it’s not that, but an issue with the Office 365 platform itself. This brings me to my issue I was having when… Continue reading Remove the authentication prompt for embedded PowerApps
Hello all! It’s been at least two years since I have posted something technical on my Salty Blog, pathetic right?. This how-to in my opinion was too good not to share as I believe that it will help others that are facing/have faced this issue. The ability to email attachments from a list is one… Continue reading Emailing List Attachments in Office 365
One of the quickest ways to find out information about your installed solutions is to use PowerShell. To do this, login to one of your WFE’s and open SharePoint Management Shell. Then, type in the following command: Get-SPSolution | Export-Csv C:\DeployedSolutions.csv. Open this file on your local machine (or whichever has Excel installed) and dissect as… Continue reading PowerShell – How to retrieve all deployed solutions
I have been using this method for some time now and decided to make a slight change to it. I have been using the PowerShell method found here to find the internal column names for my lists and libraries. It works great. The only problem with this is that I have to modify the script each… Continue reading SharePoint – Retrive the internal column name for lists/libraries using PowerShell
Today, I ran across an issue when I went to customize a list with InfoPath. I clicked on the ‘Customize Form’ button and it opened the item view in InfoPath as expected. After I made my changes I went to publish my form. I received the following error message: “InfoPath cannot connect to the server. … Continue reading Cannot publish InfoPath custom list form
Have you ever needed to hide the search bar on your site? Me neither until the other day. The page needed to be plain Jane and this was one of the requests. Turns out, this is very simple to do. All that you need to do is add a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to… Continue reading SharePoint 2010 – Hiding the Search Bar
In the world of InfoPath, you may have noticed the the url for an open form is crazy big! I ran into a problem in the past when I ran out of space in the url. Sometimes this happens if the form is nested a couple of levels down in a site. Whenever you open… Continue reading InfoPath – Shorten url for browser based forms
