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I am now offering both online workshops and one-on-one online sessions.
Upcoming online workshops
The next webinar is planned for Spring 2013 and will focus on inline navigation (tabs and other menus).
One-on-one online sessions
- you don't want to waste time reading through the tutorial and prefer to have somebody guide you through the steps.
- the script is not working for you and you can't figure out why.
- you have specific needs that require to slightly adapt the script.
Each session includes a conference call (30 minutes or one hour), a SharePoint sandbox, and follow up e-mails.
To register via PayPal, use the form in the right pane. I'll get back to you to schedule the date and time of the session at your convenience. Feel free to contact me for additional information.
If you have other needs - like information architecture, users coaching or SharePoint customization - you're welcome to contact me directly.
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Tips and best practices for SharePoint end users
- SPELL Nav, the successor of the Easy Tabs
- The SPELL library is reaching version 0.8 this month. My main achievement in this release is the completion of the “Inline Navigation” module. SPELL supports SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013 and Office 365, and to demonstrate it I have updated all my sites: Tabs on my legacy SharePoint 2007 site Vertical buttons on the User Managed [&hellip
- Discussion: How do I exclude weekends when counting the number of days between a start and end time?
- The only purpose of this post is to relay a discussion that has been active for almost two years on LinkedIn, in the SharePoint User Managed Solutions group: How do I exclude weekends when counting the number of days between a start and end time? You would think that such a question would bring a [&hellip
- Interactive demo: charting in SharePoint
- Last month I published a first demo based on the SPELL mini-BI solution, showcasing the ability to build multi-level drill-down charts. Today we are taking a look at the edit mode, thanks to an interactive demo. I think the best way to understand what this is about is to simply follow the link, read the [&hellip
- Trick or Treat? Text to html, the wicked no-code way (Part II)
- At the end of the previous post, we had this aha moment when we realized that rendering a field as rich text might not be that difficult, after all. I’m back, after taking the time to set up a brand new demo to confirm our assumptions: It works! As you guessed, just using a [&hellip
- Trick or Treat? Text to html, the wicked no-code way
- As I am actively working on a new training program called SPELL, it recently occurred to me that I should make Halloween a special day. So let’s start the tradition, the SPELL program annual trick or treat! I have described many times my HTML Calculated Column technique on this blog. The idea is to use [&hellip
- Workaround for the SP 2010 calendar resize bug
- In SharePoint 2010, the calendar views are rendered via a script on the client side. This is a significant improvement over the heavy calendars of the previous versions (2003 and 2007), and in the 2013 version client side rendering has been extended to all list views. Unfortunately, the SP 2010 calendar also came with a [&hellip
- Teaser: real time Business Intelligence in SharePoint
- I am making progress on my SPELL project. Its main component, the SPELL JavaScript library ($P), recently reached version 0.6 and has been implemented on a couple sites. I expect to reach version 0.7 by the end of the month and version 1 by the end of the year. To showcase some of the capabilities [&hellip
- My slides from the March 2011 San Diego SharePoint User Group meeting
- No, there’s no typo in the title, I am posting today the slides I presented 18 months ago in San Diego. My main purpose is to use them as reference in future articles, as it turns out that their content is very consistent with what I’ve been doing since then, and also with the way [&hellip
- Security concerns with the HTML Calculated Column
- The HTML Calculated Column is certainly my most popular technique. It is mainly used to color code calendars, but its scope is much larger than that. The technique is especially useful when you… actually do calculations, for example in these progress bars with color gradients. You can see some other examples in this live demo, [&hellip
- A dynamic website built on Office 365
- I mentioned it on twitter a couple weeks ago, Bradshaw & Weil has launched its new public website based on Office 365: http://www.bradshawweil.com In an article last year, I expressed my frustration with the current Office 365 public sites, for which building dynamic pages requires more effort than it should. Well, it doesn’t mean that it [&hellip
- Introducing SPELL, a framework to speed up SharePoint customizations
- Spell (paranormal), the claimed art of altering things either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult natural laws unknown to science. (Source: Wikipedia) For 8 years, I have been writing solutions for SharePoint from the user’s side – I mean with only the SharePoint UI or tools like SharePoint Designer (originally FrontPage) as entry [&hellip
- Pie and Bar Charts (Google connector)
- I already mentioned it briefly in an earlier post: the SharePoint User Toolkit now includes a tool that allows you to add simple pie or bar charts to your SharePoint pages. The code is actually a connector that points to the powerful Google Visualization interface. For this reason, Internet access is required. A common concern with [&hellip
- No Easy Tabs v6 in 2012
- This is not the most exciting post ever, but I had to write it for the sake of transparency. In the past 6 months, I have been working on a new version of the Easy Tabs. I have also tried my best to answer the many requests I received in this blog or by e-mail. In [&hellip
- Bridging the gap between the users and IT
- Happy New Year 2012! I discovered SharePoint 8 years ago, and I was immediately fascinated by the opportunities it offered. Being a functional consultant, I have always been on the user side, in “hosted” environments, where traditionally you have limited options to tweak applications. SharePoint was a game changer. The CEWP (Content Editor Web Part) and the DVWP [&hellip
- A new location for the SharePoint User Toolkit
- This week, the SharePoint User Toolkit has officially moved to its new home: http://usermanagedsolutions.com/SharePoint-User-Toolkit/ It is now located in my company site. The site is still under construction, but you’re welcome to visit the home page to read about our upcoming offering: solutions, coaching, Web design and SharePoint hosting. As you would expect, the home [&hellip
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They said it couldn't be done...
Did you know that SharePoint allows you to add color coding and charts to your lists, modify the look of your calendar views, display lists in another site, etc.? All of this without SharePoint Designer or server side customizations.
Feel free to explore this site to see the live demos, then head out to my Path To SharePoint blog to read the tutorials.
Note: a few demos are still on my old site, awaiting to be transferred here.
I started working with SharePoint in 2004. In my path to SharePoint enlightenment, I came across blogs like Tariq Ayad's Tangible Thoughts and Todd Bleeker’s 60 Hive. These were eye openers and helped me understand that there was much more to SharePoint than initially met the eye.
Today it is my turn to share my tips and tricks, and contribute to the great SharePoint online community. | |
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I am a consultant in Organization and Information Systems. In the past 10 years, I have helped companies reengineer their business processes and implement systems such as ERPs and Business Intelligence.
I have been involved in SharePoint deployments since 2004. My areas of interest include collaboration, collaborative Project Management, information architecture, mashups and dashboards.
I also have a passion for teaching. Besides training/coaching users, I occasionally give lectures on Management Information Systems in MBA programs.
In a previous life (before the Internet), I was an engineer and project manager, working on aerospace and nuclear programs.
I am a French citizen and US green card holder.
Feel free to contact me: Christophe@PathToSharePoint.com
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