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How to: Create an approval workflow for enrollments in paid training events

Applies to SharePoint Employee Training Management It’s pretty easy to configure an approval workflow on enrollments in the Employee Training Management, especially if you use SharePoint Server. SharePoint Server includes a Publishing Approval Workflow you can use for this purpose. In this post I will describe how to configure an approval workflow which automatically approves […]

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How to: Make meeting workspaces available in SharePoint 2013

Meeting workspaces, site templates designed specially for meetings, have been discontinued in SharePoint 2013. However they sill exist and can be reactivated. Navigate to the site templates in the “15” hive (C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\1033\XML). Edit the webtemp.xml, scroll to the MPS templates and set the Hidden attribute to FALSE on the configuration […]

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How to: Change time of event reminder

The SharePoint Employee Training Management and the SharePoint Calendar E-Mail Extension send Meeting Requests to attendee’s email clients. Microsoft Outlook and other email clients remind users before an event is due to start (usually 15 minutes before an event). Meeting requests sent by our applications have set the reminder to 1 hour before the event […]

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SharePoint Calendar E-Mail Extension 3.0 – Calendar list can’t receive meeting requests sent from Outlook

Applies to SharePoint Calendar E-Mail Extension 3.0 and Meeting Organizer 1.0 (SharePoint 2010) This post contains some in depth information about the SharePoint Calendar E-mail Extension. When you activate the Event (with e-mail extension) content type in your calendar list, the Calendar E-Mail Extension registers an e-mail receiver to handle replies (accept, decline …) sent […]

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How to: Install the SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0

Applies to SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0. Installation Log on to one of your SharePoint farm’s servers as an Administrator. Download the setup to a local folder and unzip the folder E-Mail. The content should look like this: 1. Install the new Framework, run SetupFramework.exe You can check if this version of the sapiens.at SharePoint […]

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The SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0 – The SharePoint High Speed List Filter

Applies to SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0. The new SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0 lets you instantly filter SharePoint document libraries and lists with hundred thousands or millions of documents or items with a great performance. Search or not Search – Using SharePoint Search to filter lists and document libraries Using key word search to […]

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How to: Configure the SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0

This post describes how to configure the SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0. After you have installed the solution and activated the “Sapiens.at.SharePoint List Filter Web Part 3.0” feature in your site collection’s features you can add the SharePoint Filter Web Part to any web part page. If you want to add the web part to […]

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How to: Configure the SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0 for large lists

Applies to SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0. The new SharePoint Filter Web Part 3.0 lets you instantly filter SharePoint document libraries and lists with hundred thousands or millions of documents or items with great performance. But there are some important facts you should know when configuring the SharePoint List Filter Web Part 3.0 for large […]

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How to: Create a new Employee Training Management site with unique permissions

Read this post to ensure you won’t run into problems when creating a new Employee Training Management site. It applies to the SharePoint Employee Training Management Site Template 2.1 and earlier. It is important to understand that the SharePoint Employee Training Management Site Template was originally designed as an administrator Template, designed to be applied […]

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How to: Create public reusable filters

This post describes how to create public reusable filters for the SharePoint Filter Web Part. With the SharePoint Filter Web Part users can save their current filter settings for future use. As an administrator you’re able to create reusable filters and publish them to all users. To create a reusable filter, follow the steps below: […]

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