Category: SharePoint 2010
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SharePoint People Picker Error – Item cannot be more than 256 characters.
Had a colleague ask me the other day if there was a limit on the People Picker control in SharePoint. Reason being is that she had a Person field setup to accept multiple users and had a group that was constantly getting the error “Item cannot be more than 256 characters” when trying to enter…
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SharePoint Best Practices – Content Types
The other day I decided to start a power user best practice series. I started with site columns and now the next logical step is content types. I have found that many times experienced users don’t realise the importance of a properly setup content type. Because of this, they often are recreating the same data, having…
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SharePoint Best Practices – Site Columns
So today I am starting a new series on SharePoint Best Practices. This may seem like a fairly simple topic but, I have come to learn that it is an important one. I am not talking about best practices in setting up and configuring SharePoint or how to best develop a solution in SharePoint. I…
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Waiting in a SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow
All too often when building workflows in SharePoint Designer there is a need to pause the workflow for a duration of time, or while waiting for values to change within SharePoint list\library. Microsoft has provided methods or actions within a workflow to accommodate this for quite some time. The method to accomplish while similar between…
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SharePoint Fest Denver
I am blogging to you right now from Denver, Colorado where I have had the honour of speaking at the SharePoint Fest conference there. I also was speaking at the SharePoint Fest conference in Washington, DC where I received some good constructive feedback. With that in mind I completely revamped my slide deck and approach…