We have a customer who are planning on putting a lot of documents into a Library in SharePoint. These documents will be uploaded, by hand, and are nearly always the ‘final’ version of the document. Given the number of documents in the library, the plan is to find them again using their metadata, which seems like a good idea.
However, there’s a catch – what if someone has uploaded a document with that filename already? Continue reading “O365: Uncheck the Overwrite checkbox”
Previously I’ve discussed some of the technical observations I made while working with Office 365. I’ve also noticed some ‘higher-level’ features of the project, and some discussions we’ve had about other opportunities. Here are some the the things that might well need addressed… Continue reading “Office 365 SharePoint – Higher level observations”
Recently I’ve been working on an Office 365 based SharePoint solution. It’s a system to allow a company to create sites to collaborate with their customers, and I learnt some interesting things on the way. In part 1 I’ll deal with the technical side of things, and in part 2 I’ll look at more ‘project’ level observations. Continue reading “Office 365 – Technical observations from a first project”
This is just a quick note – that annoyingly, there isn’t an RSS feed web part (that functions) in Office 365. Even more frustratingly, the RSS Viewer Web Part is available, it just doesn’t work. When you add it to a page, you get the warning:
Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. The type is not registered as safe
This is discussed in KB2535012, the main thrust of it being:
This issue occurs because the RSS Viewer Web Part is not available in Office 365. This issue is scheduled to be resolved in a future version of Office 365.
In fairness, this restriction is mentioned in the SharePoint Online Release notes.
Alternatives? Continue reading “RSS Feed in Office 365”
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