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Recently on a project we needed a way to display PDFs inline on a page within a “document viewer” we were building. Basically there is a table of contents driven by a library going down the left hand side and when the user chooses a document we wanted to render it in a panel on …

At one point a client asked me to disable a dropdown field in an InfoPath form when that field was empty. Unfortunately this isn’t as easy as it sounds. Here’s my rather roundabout way of solving the problem, which works, but isn’t pretty.     You need to start by creating a second (companion) field, …

We’ve hit a number of problems recently when using JSOM in SharePoint Online. Often when we try to execute a query we get strange errors such as “b is undefined”. It all relates to the SharePoint libraries we need not being available to us when we try to execute the commands. After some trial and …

It’s finally been announced that the Office 2016 Public Preview is now available. I’ve seen a few early previews of this as an MVP and have quite liked what I saw (they’re sticking with the KISS principles and yet adding ever more power/functionality to the suite). I encourage you to go and take a look …

  Finally I was able to get a copy of the video (with audio) we recorded from my presentation back in March (2015) available publicly. Please see below a link to my presentation on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/126519910 Enjoy!

Join me and piles of others in the MVP vConference (online). See below for more details. Here is a high level overview of the event: World-class free online conference that features technical content presented by Americas’ region MVPs that is open to the public More technical content (Level 200, 300, 400), less marketing 5 tracks: …

Recently we discovered that the help in our SharePoint site was not working properly when performing an online search for content. Below: 1) Enter Content then 2) Press the search icon. Note that by default SharePoint will be configured to search online first. The result we were seeing was similar to this below: The problem …

This is an update to my original post “How to Check Your Skydrive Pro Usage“, as it’s no longer valid. Go to your OneDrive Click on the Site Settings (Cog) icon Select “Site Settings” Under “Site Collection Administration” choose “Storage Metrics” Finally, in the upper right, you’ll see the value of your OneDrive for Business …

Note: The technique described below is designed for SharePoint 2013.  It could be adapted to 2010, but it’s not likely to work in 2010 with a simple copy/paste. Note 2: This also should work just fine in Office 365, so get ready to knock some socks off. In SharePoint 2013 we at itgroove have a …

The long awaited arrival of Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 is finally here.  What I’m really excited about is PowerMap is finally out of Beta as well, and now part of the Excel / PowerBI suite.  Also, not to be left out, Exchange also had it’s SP1 arrive today. http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-the-release-of-service-pack-1-for-office-2013-and-sharepoint-2013.aspx