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Employee Training Management

How to: Create events with different time zones

In SharePoint it is not possible to create events in various time zones. Our Sapiens.at.SharePoint Time Zone per Event add-on allows you to do this. You can download the add-on here: sapiens.at.setup.addons.tz.zip The add-on requires either the Calendar E-Mail Extension, the Employee Training Management or the Event Management to be installed, however it will also […]

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Improved functionality for waiting lists

The waiting lists have been improved in the new update for both the Employee Training Management and the Event Management. It is now easier to visualize people on the waiting lists and the options have been expanded. Configuration To access the settings, you must first open the scheduled training events’ list settings (scheduled events in […]

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How to: Create a simple management approval workflow

In this article I want to show you how to enable content approval for enrollments in the Employee Training Management or the Event Management. This is what I require: Content approval is required individually for each event. This means I can decide if content approval is required for an event. If approval is required and […]

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SharePoint Employee Training Management R2

Today we published the new release of the SharePoint Employee Training Management (R2). New and improved Features Improved configuration Verify e-mail communication The e-mail communication can be verified during configuration. Exception from HRESULT: 0x810200A0 fixed An error occurred when several hundred people were enrolled in a training. This issue is now fixed. Improved performance Other […]

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How to: Automatically create a training certificate in SharePoint

With our Employee Training Management solution you can manage your employee training program on SharePoint. It’s very easy to provide catalogs of courses and training events, distribute course material and to manage the enrollments of your employees. Out of the box it is not possible to automatically generate a training certificate after successfully completing a […]

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How to: Create training events for a certain group of people only

Applies to Employee Training Management. In this post I will show you how to create training events for a certain group of people only, for example for a certain department. Of course there is more than one approach but I think the following is the easiest one. I will use a simple SharePoint Designer Workflow […]

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How to: Validate the enrollment deadline in Employee Training Management

If you schedule a training event using our Employee Training Management for SharePoint, you can set an enrollment deadline. After the enrollment deadline users are no longer allowed to enroll in the training. We do not check if the enrollment deadline is before the end date of the training, but if you have this requirement, […]

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Employee Training Management – Edit enrollments

The edit form of an enrollment is empty by default, however you can add additional fields to the enrollment content type to make them available in the edit form. By default there are no columns visible in the edit form, but you can add new columns to the enrollment list/content type(s). If you want to […]

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Employee Training Management – Use a choice instead of a text field for location

One of our customers wanted to use a drop down choice instead of a text field to define the location where a training takes place. If you have the same requirement, this is what you can do. The location is usually a text field and this cannot be changed. What you can do is to […]

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How to: Hide certain ribbon actions and the created/modified info in the Employee Training Management

Today one of our customers asked how to hide the “Workflows” and “Manage enrollment(s)” actions from the ribbon in the training events list display and in the content type/version/created/modified info at the end of the display form. I think that this could be helpful for others too, so that’s why I decided to explain it […]

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