Thomas Troppers Blog

Thomas30. October 2014asides, ICT, Software0 comments

If you have activated the content approval or even work with an approval workflow to approve items in your list or library you might have recognized that a bulk approval/rejection of items/documents is not possible. This blogpost shows how to create a possibility to bulk approve items/documents.

Therefore custom ribbon buttons are provided which call an application page (one per action, reject, approve, publish). The application page gets the selected items via query string parameter. The processing is done in the application pages, after the page closes the lists are refreshed.

Versioned Comments in SharePoint 2010 lists and libraries

Thomas23. October 2014ICT, Software0 comments

In daily business use it is often required to have comments on your list item or document in a SharePoint 2010 list or library. Before you start: It is recommended to plan this. SharePoint 2010 allows you to configure comments on list items or documents, but you have to do some (ootb) configuration.

Newsletter layout does not support connected web part

Thomas3. July 2014asides, General, ICT0 comments

Did you know that newsletter layout does not support connected filters in SharePoint 2010. That means that connected filters from a list or library web part does not update the connected web part when the connected web part has configured the newsletter view. What a pitty …

SharePoint 2013 claims a re-thinking of its design approach

Thomas23. April 2014ICT, Software0 comments

Since Microsoft has turned their product strategy with a clear focus on mobile devices also the SharePoint world has been strongly affected. From the beginning of SharePoint server side code was the main approach to solve business needs. With the change of the Microsoft strategy also this common idea became questionable: Client side solutions were strengthened, REST, JavaScript or Web Standards are some of the often heard key words. What are the most interesting changes and new ideas in the “new” UI SharePoint world?

WordPress updates

Thomas16. February 2014ICT0 comments

I really appreciate wordpress for several reasons: Basically I have worked in different projects with the tool, both website and blog focused. In my opinion wordpress is one of the very best examples how open source software can be developed and provided to users.

Dynamic approvers in Sharepoint 2010 approval workflow

Thomas13. August 2013General, ICT, Software0 comments

I wrote two posts on the issue of having dynamic approvers in Shaerepoint 2010 approval workflow. The requirements are that the approvers have to be managed in a seperate list and the workflow has to be connected to a specific contet type.

Consumerization of IT – bulky?

Thomas13. June 2013asides, General, ICT0 comments

No, consumerization of IT of course is not bulky. It helps us getting around easier with business IT. But the term is. People do not how to handle this term – especially IT beginners have difficulties to understand. Any ideas to rename? Read more on this issue under http://blogs.tieto.com/futureoffice/2013/05/31/consumerization-a-broad-topic/

Update: Citizen Card on Mac

Thomas12. June 2013asides, General, ICT, Software0 comments

Concerning my latest post on this topic I have to do some update: The current update (Java 7-Update) fixed the issue. I am now able to use the Citizen Card again on my Mac. Great.