Document management platforms, such as SharePoint, make real collaboration around documents possible. But this does not mean that collaboration will happen in practice. The most important single point of failure when organisations seek to promote collaboration is the required change in culture amongst users. Yes, the technical aspects of migrating content and scaling infrastructure need…

KPI lists are often used to count how many items meet certain criteria. For example, a task list may contain a Status field with the values Not Started, Started and Completed. A KPI list would count how many items have each status and compare to some metric of performance. It is then very frequent for…

SharePoint 2010 comes with a built-in rating system which allows users to record how much they like or value a particular item or page. Sometimes, it would be useful just to be able to set a Star Rating on an item in a list and simply make use of the SharePoint stars, without using all…

In SharePoint 2007, if you wanted to show graphic icons in a list on the basis of values, you would have had to insert some JavaScript into a Content Editor Web Part. In SharePoint 2010, a similar result can be achieved via the use of an XSL formatting file attached to the list. Imagine a…

SharePoint views are powerful tools for displaying information from lists. Views can be easily re-organized via browser-based configuration tools allowing filtering, sorting and grouping, etc. There are also some basic built-in styles, as follows:   But if you want to go further, most users will quickly get lost in the wild woods of XSL formatting,…

SharePoint is very convenient for managing document and lists. As an event management tool it is ideal to allow users to quickly register for an event and obtain the practical information they need. However, event organizers often want to theme their event site with a look and feel which is quite different from SharePoint, developed…

Lists in SharePoint are a very convenient way to store and share information. Now with SharePoint 2010, InfoPath form customization has made it much easier to create tailor-made forms for input and display of SharePoint list data. But when it comes to printing an individual list item in a manner which many companies still require,…

SharePoint allows the overlay of up to 10 calendars to produce a kind of stacked view of events:   Though these may often be different calendars, there is nothing to prevent the use of several views from the same calendar in an overlay. This would normally not be useful, but there is one context in…