A few of our customers who use our Employee Training Management or Calendar E-Mail Extension have had some usability issues regarding recurring events in SharePoint Calendars. The main issues are that: recurring events and one-off events cannot be distinguished in the calendar view; if you open a single occurrence of a recurring event, you can […]
Meeting workspaces are a discontinued feature in SharePoint 2013. They are still available but are hidden in the webtemp.xml file. In a previous post I described how to make meeting workspaces available in SharePoint 2013 by changing the Hidden attribute in this webtemp.xml file in the 15 HIVE. This works fairly well, but it’s always […]
In this post I will describe how to highlight different kinds of events in a calendar view using the calendar overlay feature. Later I will show you a way to change the event colors for a calendar without being overlaid. The calendar overlay is a nice feature, the only problem is if a user selects […]
In this post I will describe how to migrate a site collection from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 using a Sapiens.at solution. By using a Sapiens.at solution, I mean either one created from a Sapiens.at site template, such as the Employee Training Management, or using a Sapiens.at feature such as the Calendar E-Mail Extension, the […]
Applies to the Employee Training Management. A few days ago one of our customers required a list of trainings which are recommended to the user. The user should first complete a survey. The interests, skills and capabilities of the user are determined by the survey, based on which trainings are recommended to the user or […]
Applies to the SharePoint Employee Training Management. In this post I will describe how to configure permissions to allow users to propose topics and training in the Employee Training Management. Make sure that all users have “Contribute Permissions” in the training catalog. If all users are in the Members group, this should be the case. […]
Applies to SharePoint Employee Training Management. Our Employee Training Management provides a contact list you can use to manage trainers. These trainers can be used in the Training Catalog and the Scheduled Trainings list. If you want to use a people picker and pick trainers from your AD instead of a contact list you have […]
Today we published a hotfix for the Employee Training Management and the Calendar E-Mail Extension. Assembly File Version: SharePoint 2010 (14.0.13.0703) SharePoint 2013 (15.0.13.0703) Installation Download and extract the setup files. Browse the folder Sapiens.at.Setup.ETM/SP201x/Employee Training Management or Sapiens.at.Setup.CEE/SP201x/Calendar E-Mail Extension. Run Setup.exe (as Administrator) and choose Repair. Recycle the Application Pool(s) and restart the […]
The hotfix is published as the current setup. Installation Download and extract the Setup Files. Browse the folder Sapiens.at.Setup.ETM/SP201x/Employee Training Management. Run Setup.exe (as Administrator) and choose Repair. Recycle the Application Pool(s) and restart the SharePoint Timer Service. In the List Settings of the Scheduled Trainings list go to “Employee Training Management”, in the Time […]
In this post I will explain how to create a simple SharePoint Designer Workflow to approve items automatically if they have already been approved. This can be useful if you need content approval to prepare content for your users but you don’t want to approve every single update if the content has already been published. […]
