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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.…
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Power BI Toggle Switch visualisation updated
Sometimes it’s the little things that get me excited; so I was delighted to find out the Power BI toggle switch visualisation has been updated. This handy little graphic allows a user to click on…
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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…
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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…
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Conditional formatting based on values from another query
We an issue we were able to cunningly solve in the query editor; we wanted to show in our report which values in one query had a match in the other. One query was a…
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PowerAutomate: Copy/Paste switch conditions
I was delighted to see the ‘Copy to/Paste from clipboard’ feature introduced some months ago; however I could never seem to get it working from one switch condition to another. After a bit of research,…
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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…
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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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WordPressing with style Part 2: Plug-ins
What is a plug-in? Where do they go? What are the essential ones? And where do I find them all in one file? Let the Information Handyman guide you through this three-step process for adding…
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Configuring Software to Support an Archiving Policy
The Records Continuum A 1930’s records management concept was the ‘records lifecycle’; where separate decisions about what should happen to a record occurred when it was created, accessed and then disposed of has recently been…
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Making Paypal Buttons change colour on hover
Since the Paypal buttons are such an important part of getting folks to cough up, it’s imperative they behave as users might expect a link to. However the default buttons don’t change when you hover…
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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…
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