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Explore the complexities of creating an effective skills mapping system in organizations. This article delves into defining skills, measuring proficiency, and navigating the pitfalls of controlled vocabularies versus folksonomies. Discover key insights to help you design a robust skills mapping application that balances user adoption with organizational needs.
This article is a must-read for anyone using SharePoint lists to manage tasks and actions. It guides you through transforming your raw data into insightful visualisations that can help you track team performance, identify resource bottlenecks, and stay on schedule.
Want to build trustworthy Power BI reports? This article emphasizes the importance of branding, storytelling, standardizing footers, thorough documentation, clear commenting, and validating metrics. These practices ensure reports are accurate, auditable, and resilient, fostering confidence and trust among stakeholders.
The content explains how to replicate Planner’s ‘Checklist’ feature in a SharePoint task list using a separate actions list and Power Apps form. It details steps to create the actions list, build and customize the Power Apps form, and link actions to tasks. Finally, it covers adding, displaying, and updating actions linked to tasks.
This article explains how to set up a workflow in Power Automate to send task reminders from a SharePoint list to team members. It includes detailed steps for creating and customizing a flow that schedules reminders, generates an HTML table of tasks, and sends personalized emails, ensuring project tasks are managed effectively.
Communities of practice are essential for any organisation to grow its capabilities, respond quickly to opportunities and challenges in the market, and gain an engaged, productive, and satisfied workforce. Creating and growing such communities takes investment and skill.
When Microsoft’s Planner is insufficient and Project is too complex, this post outlines how to use SharePoint lists for task management. SharePoint offers flexibility with custom fields, quick setup, and integration with the Power Platform. The guide details creating task lists, assigning responsibilities, and improving task views, providing a middle ground between Planner and Project.
As we delve inexorably into the inevitable world of AI we’re finding it has the potential to revolutionize our lives in countless ways, from automating tasks to pioneering scientific breakthroughs. With this power comes a great responsibility to ensure AI is developed and used ethically. In this blog post, we’ll explore the basics of AI, […]
Unlock the full potential of your Power BI reports with our latest feature – the Search Box. This intuitive visual allows users to filter reports effortlessly by entering any terms they define. Whether it’s a simple keyword search or a precise phrase search, the Search Box has you covered.
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: In the guidance that […]
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
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…