The following article applies to Employee Training Management and Event Management for SharePoint on premise. If you create a recurring event, SharePoint only creates one item with the recurrence pattern. All occurrences are displayed as individual events in a calendar view or the current items view, but it’s actually only one item in the list. […]
By default if you want to enroll users in an event using Event Management or Employee Training Management, you have to enter all users in the enrollment form. Enroll a SharePoint group To allow the enrollment of SharePoint groups you have to change the User column and allow ‘People and Groups’. Open the list settings […]
When trying to verify or save the e-mail communication settings for the Calendar E-Mail Extension, you may come across the following error: “Error in the application.” This error can have several causes, as described in this TechNet blog post. However, the most common cause is because the application pool account used for the central admin […]
Employee Training Management, Event Management and the Calendar E-Mail Extension all automatically send an update to all attendees when the title, location, start time, end time or any column contained in the invitation e-mail is changed. This means that you can use this feature to trigger updates to be sent to attendees. Firstly you need […]
A feature must be re-activated when it is upgraded to a newer version. If you are upgrading several SharePoint sites, you can save a lot of time by using a SharePoint power shell script to re-activate the feature. We have, however, become aware of an error which you may receive when re-activating Employee Training Management […]
With Employee Training Management, Event Management and the Calendar E-Mail Extension it is possible to forward attendee status replies to a specific e-mail address. This is done using the “Forward attendee status replies to” column, which, by default, is hidden in Employee Training Management and Event Management, but is visible in the Calendar E-Mail Extension. […]
Applies to Calendar E-Mail Extension, Event Management and Employee Training Management. You may remember that a while ago we wrote about how to troubleshoot incoming e-mails. If you have followed the instructions in the previous article and are still experiencing problems with e-mails disappearing from the drop folder and the invite status not being updated, […]
Applies to Employee Training Management and Event Management. In this article I will explain how to create your own workflow to send feedback notifications. I will use the “Confirm attendance” column as the trigger to send the notifications. I have set up a tutorial on how to create such a column. Of course you can […]
This simple and useful feature is not included in Employee Training Management or Event Management for SharePoint by default, but is possible using a simple workflow. Create a workflow in the Enrollments list and add an “If any value equals value” condition. Enter the following settings for the first value. To set the “Value” field […]
In Employee Training Management and Event Management you can also collect information on whether a user has actually attended an event or not. To do this just follow this simple guide. The first step is to go to your Enrollments list and click on the List Settings. Here you need to create a new column […]
