2010, 2013, 2016, Information Architecture, Office 365, SharePoint, User Experience, UX Blog
The art of findability
Ensure users can find what they’re looking for on your intranet. Understand your users, understand your content, and consider a few easy changes to ensure everything on your intranet is easily findable.
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2010, 2013, 2016, SharePoint, User Experience, UX Blog
5 easy steps to user adoption
Use the following steps before, during and after your project to ensure users are exited with you for the changes they are about to embark upon.
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_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames in SharePoint (2013 & 2016) vs. jQuery’s document ready
Since SharePoint 2013, Microsoft seems to have embraced jQuery, and you can now happily use jQuery or $ as you please in the SharePoint environment. Here are some code samples and explanation on how to use it.
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Load SP.js, Taxonomy and other utilities in SharePoint 2013, 2016 and Office 365
Learn how to properly and easily load dependencies in SharePoint and Office 365 (classic). In this article, you’ll find some code samples on how to properly work around some of the issues that may arise when following the prescribed documentation from Microsoft.
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SharePoint JavaScript CSOM – currentItem.get_item(columnName) – how do I get at the property options and values?
No doubt if you’ve worked with CSOM/JSOM (JavaScript Client-Side Object Model), you’ve accessed lists and libraries to consume the contained data.
This article aims to help you access the data AFTER you’ve successfully loaded the list data.
2010, 2013, 2016, Development Blog, jQuery, Office 365, SharePoint
Clean CSOM JavaScript structure to access SharePoint list data
With proper code samples, learn how to write clean, maintainable JSOM/CSOM for SharePoint and without overriding other third party frameworks already running on your site.
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Handy Links within SharePoint
SharePoint 2013/2016 links to standard and more obscure SharePoint features. Some are easy to find within the application interface and others quite difficult to discover. I broke them down into the more obscure ones (first) and the standard site settings (as viewed from a Site Collection) links.
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Build a Page Layout with integrated content type and SEO (Page) properties in SharePoint 2013/2016
Currently, there are 3 places for users to administer: Content Type data, SEO and Page elements (web parts, article field, etc). Why not combine these in a nice format so users can administer all the page properties in a single area? This article explains how.
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