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Data Intranets Software

Power BI : Learn to build free Venn and Euler diagrams

Grouping datasets into overlapping circles can, in many cases, allow your audience to easily grasp relationships between them. Power BI comes a bit short in being able to deliver on this, with no out-of-the-box visualisations for Venn or Euler graphs – and the custom visualisations are lacking essential features or cost up to US$5,000 p/annum. […]

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Automation Classification Data Intranets

Easy Route to Hybrid Search in Sharepoint

Bringing content from applications that aren’t indexed by Sharepoint search can be expensive, complex, and fraught with unknown variables. Follow this guidance to quickly populate your index with such external content without having to go down the Graph/Cognitive Search route… This post will clearly show you the steps to accomplish this: On a Sharepoint site, […]

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Data Intranets Open Source Social Learning

Get Geospatial with the Moodle Database Activity

Moodle allows you to quickly build a custom database, including a location field; this article will show you how to make it easy for your users to populate that field, and then generate a beautiful, interactive map from its data

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Data Intranets Software

Power BI – Keeping it Simple

You know the scenario – you throw some visualisations together and publish a proof of concept. People love it, and start filling up your backlog. You quickly add new features accordingly, and before you know it you’ve an unintelligible mass of pages, charts, tables, filters, maps, and text boxes; the ‘love’ turns out to be […]

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Automation Classification Data Intranets

Sharepoint library settings – quickly go from default to awesome

The out of the box list settings in Sharepoint are simple and easy to get your head around. Here are some basic configuration settings that will bring out the very best Sharepoint has to offer. So head to your list, and add these in…

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Automation Classification EDRMS and ECM Intranets

Saving SharePoint Document Library/List Settings as a Template

Have you ever spent 20-minutes setting up a document library in SharePoint with multiple views, a folder structure, default column values, some custom columns, content types, and perhaps some default content, then struggled to copy the settings to another library? Fear not, brave SharePoint Site Owner, there’s a simple and sometimes hidden route to awesome…

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Communities of Practice Data Intranets

What’s missing from the new Yammer?

The new version of Yammer is a massive improvement over the previous – full text and interactive emails, favouriting communities, the replacement of Yammer profiles with the Office 365 ones, and the hidden gem of closing posts to further comments have been met with universal acclaim. I’m not here to gush, however, so lets get […]

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Communities of Practice Data Intranets

Finding the most liked Yammer message

We wanted to improve our communications, and figured that understanding the characteristics of messages that had lots of ‘likes’ would help us do that. A request to find the most liked Yammer messages in our network was received, and we and figured out a way to find it…

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Internet tips Intranets

Interactive Images in Sharepoint

If you have a need to embed an image with clickable sections within it across Sharepoint (or any web content management system, for that matter), there is a reasonably easy way to accomplish this…

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Classification Intranets

Preventing a Digital Workplace Dark Age: Why Intranet Archiving Policies Matter

Imagine a future where we find ourselves without a written record of the past; a ‘digital dark age’. Because just as digital content is easy to create it is as easy to lose. So where we ruthlessly delete content that doesn’t get used, if we don’t ensure the right information gets stored for the future […]