One of the major issues with InfoPath these days is that many organizations think they can simply use the browser to implement all of their forms needs. Although InfoPath has a robust set of browser supported features, not all of the InfoPath capability is browser compatible. Before you decide if you can forego the individual client licenses for InfoPath [...]

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I’ve seen a few colleagues with avatars of themselves and thought it was fun. Yes, in a geeky, techie sort of way, that is my idea of fun. So I found this free avatar creation program this week and here’s what I ended up with. All in all, it was fun.

Check out this avatar creator [...]

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Views are a native part of InfoPath 2007 that allow us to create one data source, but display the data in many different ways, even to different people in different ways. For example you might have one view for an order form and another view for the order summary. However, there is a special view [...]

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There are some things in life, like good manners, which never go out of style, and there are other things, like clothing styles that fall in and out of fashion, but when an IT skill falls out of favor it rarely ever comes back. Here’s our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of [...]

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In our first blog on Excel and SharePoint I discussed how to export information from SharePoint to Excel. In this blog I’m going to demonstrate how to export information from Excel into SharePoint.

Open the Excel file you want to Export and make sure each column has an appropriate title or heading.

One of the import methods allows [...]

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I’ve had many people ask me how to play Flash in SharePoint, to which I’ve responded “it’s very easy, just add it to the Content Editor Web Part”. So here you go.

Add a Content Editor Web Part to your page.
Edit the Web part properties.
Click the Source Editor button
Add the following code:

Note: The height, width, value, and [...]

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This is the first of a series of blogs on how to work with Excel and SharePoint. All of the Microsoft Office products work very nicely with the new Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) but since Excel is the #1 database in the world it seems only fitting that many users [...]

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Last week I had the pleasure of sitting in on a training class taught by MVP Zubair Alexander. It was an awesome and intense five day SharePoint class, so I decided to settle in for the week and make myself comfortable. Later, Zubair sent this picture of me geeking out. I decided to make a [...]

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After my Content Type blog yesterday I thought it would be fitting to provide you a link to this cool Web part I found. It is called the Content Type Toolbar for SharePoint and is used to help the users access the content types a little easier. As a “techie” using SharePoint I find the [...]

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I have been wanting to write a blog about Content Type in SharePoint for months now, which seems to be a common theme of mine. I have dozens of blog ideas and zero time. But, with a few days off during the holidays I decided to tackle some of my ideas. So here goes . [...]

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