Today I would like to share something that confused a few of our customers when using the Calendar Email Extension or also the SharePoint standard calendar. The issue is that the calendar is not reflecting any of the meetings that have been set up or the calendar only displays events where the logged in user […]
A few of your customers recently asked if it’s possible to send an invitation to the creator of an event automatically using the Calendar E-mail Extension. The answer is yes, but the creator has to be added to the ‘Attendees’ column. Since it’s not possible to set a default value for a user column (people […]
SharePoint 2016 is not yet available to the general audience, but you can already start testing our popular solutions on SharePoint 2016 RTM. Go to the product page and click on Get your free trial. Enter your email address to receive a 60-day trial key and the download the setup. The download contains one setup […]
I would like to share a simple SharePoint power shell script with you which you can use to activate and re-activate installed features. This example re-activates the Employee Training Management feature. If you upgrade to a newer version, you should always re-activate the feature and if you have to do this for several SharePoint sites […]
The Employee Training Scheduling and Materials template was available for SharePoint 2007 and was part of the Fab 40 templates. It was developed to help companies, and their human resources departments, create and manage training events more efficiently, as well as simplify the registration process for training courses. This SharePoint template was one of the […]
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 it is possible to collect feedback using a survey list. To do this please follow the steps below: 1. First you must create a survey list and add the questions you want on your feedback form. 2. In the Scheduled Training Events list there is a column called Link to the […]
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 […]
A customer has told us they are experiencing the following error in SharePoint: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131904. Researching the problem on the internet returns stories of SQL Server problems, such as this one which can be due to the content database being out of space. However, this was not the problem in our case. After […]
