Month: December 2011

Document Review and Cartoons by PleaseTech
Document Review and Cartoons by PleaseTech
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At PleaseTech, we have found that cartoons can be a very good way to get a message across- simply. We develop solutions to facilitate collaborative document review and this can be a challenging subject to explain in a few words! In fact, we do receive great feedback on our cartoons and now they have now taken on a life of their own.
We’ve just launched a new cartoon website (www.documentreviewcartoons.com) which takes a humorous view on events and stories that appear in the world media- from a document review point, of course. We believe that if only the right document review tool had been used, then things may have turned out quite differently!

SharePoint For Mobile – Yes we can! by Joel Oleson
SharePoint For Mobile – Yes we can! by Joel Oleson
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You may have deployed SharePoint and had a complaint from a mobile user, by default the experience isn’t great. A legacy design decision was made for SharePoint 2010’s that creates a poor default mobile smart phone experience. In my mind if they would have kept the capability for mobile as an alternative and left the default experience alone things would be much better. Instead, by default, an iPad or iPhone, Windows Phone 7, Android, and even Blackberry… yes essentially all your rich mobile phones have a degraded user experience. SharePoint 2010 inherited the mobile interface that was built in SharePoint 2007, and it was improved slightly for publishing sites in SharePoint 2010, and a whole SDK was built for mobile. Was it a waste?

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Use “Check Out” and “Check In” actions with globally reusable workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010 by Kim Frehe
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I love that SharePoint Designer gives you the ability to create reusable workflows. It’s even better that you can select “All” as the content type. However, I have come across a minor issue with being able to update an item that requires check in and check out via workflow and being able to apply that to “any” list, content type, page or document. You can’t start a workflow on an item that’s checked out, but you can’t update an item that’s checked in. When you try to use the “Check out” action, you are expected to select a list to check out an item from.

SharePoint Governance: Beyond the Buzzword by Dan Holme
SharePoint Governance: Beyond the Buzzword by Dan Holme
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As I documented my community outreach statistics as part of my year-end procedures, I came to realize that I had personally touched one in ten of the largest enterprises on the planet. In my meetings with these companies, SharePoint teams shared their problems, gave me insight into the solutions they had developed, and trusted me to provide guidance and to share the lessons learned from hundreds of other SharePoint implementations.