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How to: Migrate a site collection with a Sapiens.at solution from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013

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 […]

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How to: Migrate events from a SharePoint Calendar to the Calendar E-Mail Extension

Applies to the Calendar E-Mail Extension. In this post I will describe how to migrate existing events from a standard SharePoint Calendar to events using the Calendar E-Mail Extension and therefore enhance these event’s with the ability to send invitations to attendees. First of all you don’t have to create a new calendar (with e-mail […]

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How to: Create a list of recommended trainings

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 […]

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Forward meeting requests to a SharePoint calendar

With our Calendar E-Mail Extension you can send meeting requests from a SharePoint calendar to attendees’ mailboxes and handle their replies. But this is only one feature provided by the Calendar E-Mail Extension. What’s also possible is to send an invite to the SharePoint calendar from Outlook and as a result display all events in […]

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How to: Allow users to propose topics and trainings

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. […]

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How to: Only use internal trainers in Employee Training Management

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 […]

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Javascript to give a richtext field the same style as the page

If you use a richtext field in a list form, the style in the richtext control is different to the style on the page. This is because the richtext field uses an iframe and there is no style applied to the iframe document. So the iframe uses the default font configured in the browser’s settings. […]

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How to: Automatically approve items which have already been approved

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. […]

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How to: Apply a predefined filter on page load or create a default filter

Applies to SharePoint List Filter Web Part. In this post I will describe how to apply a predefined filter on page load or in other words how to configure a default filter for the SharePoint List Filter Web Part. The List Filter Web Part enables you to save current filter settings for future use (Predefined […]

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How to: Install and activate a new license key

In this post I will describe how to install and activate a new license key. This is important if a trial version of any of our SharePoint solutions is already installed and you want to use a full license key without repairing/reinstalling the solution. To purchase a license key, go to the product page, click […]

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