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itgroove has just launched the Gallery, a new website dedicated to inspiring you with solutions for your SharePoint portal. These widgets are derived from solving problems that we see “in the field” working as consultants in the SharePoint and Office 365 space everyday. The Gallery showcases what’s possible, and the site provides options for developers …

I’m humbled and pleased to say that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP in Office Servers and Services (formerly SharePoint) for a 4th year in a row. Thanks go out to all those who helped me in this effort along the way over the past year. Special thanks to my former boss Sean Wallbridge, …

Microsoft has rolled out an awesome new user experience for document libraries in SharePoint Online, and we want you to be ready! You can make the most of these new Document Libraries and learn what they have to offer. On the other hand, if you’ve invested a lot into customizing your SharePoint site, you may want …

I’ve recently come across a few scenarios where people have mentioned that they’re unable to load SharePoint sites in Internet Explorer 11 after having upgraded to Office 2016. It appears to happen regardless of Windows version (7, 8.x, 10), and is only an issue in IE (it doesn’t appear to occur in Firefox, Chrome, etc.). …

My colleague Alec and I ran into an issue today where SharePoint was having difficulty rendering modal dialogs at the correct size. The dialogs were too small for the content they contained, and therefore some undesired scroll bars appeared. Nobody wants that! Thanks to Chad Schroeder’s post for a nifty little fix: Add that to …

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 …

I recently ran into a scenario where a client was getting an InfoPath error after a while, when up until this point the form had been working without fail. This can actually be surfaced as one of two error messages. The details of the errors can be seen below.     Either… “The amount of …

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, …

I often require the need to create a date range (or at least an open-ended start or end date) filter in a SharePoint view. However, I can never remember what format the date filter is in (days first, or is it months first?). That’s why I made this blog post, so I can remind myself …