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In Office 365, after successfully accessing the SharePoint site via the URL in the browser, and after successfully opening the site in SharePoint Designer 2010 or SharePoint 2013, I continuously received the following error when accessing workflows (to view or edit).



There is a very simple solution to this problem:

1. Close SharePoint Designer 2013
2. On the local computer, browse to the following folder:
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache
3. Delete all the folders that are present.
4. On the local computer, browse to the following folder:
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SharePoint Designer\ProxyAssemblyCache
5. Delete all the folders that are present.
6. Open SharePoint Designer 2013 and make the changes to your site as needed. The technet article can be found here.

- Kristin Cameron, Managing Consultant
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May 02,2013 by Kristin CameronSharePoint Designer Cannot Display the Item



In Office 365, after successfully accessing the SharePoint site via the URL in the browser, and after successfully opening the site in SharePoint Designer 2010 or SharePoint 2013, I continuously received the following error when accessing workflows (to view or edit).



There is a very simple solution to this problem:


1. Close SharePoint Designer 2013
2. On the local computer, browse to the following folder:
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache
3. Delete all the folders that are present.
4. On the local computer, browse to the following folder:
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SharePoint Designer\ProxyAssemblyCache
5. Delete all the folders that are present.
6. Open SharePoint Designer 2013 and make the changes to your site as needed.



The TechNet article can be found here.
- Kristin Cameron, Managing Consultant

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April 16,2013 by Kristin CameronHow to limit a SharePoint list to one row, with no-code



Have you ever wanted to use the functionality of a SharePoint list, but limit the list to only one row?

Did you go into Item Limit in the view, only to realize that you are limiting the number of items to be viewable, not actually limiting the number of items in the list?

I have, and I have come up with a very simple, OOB, no-code solution: Add a column, that is Required, Enforces Unique Values, and give it a Default Value. That’s it!
However, to make it more robust and transparent, you will need to:


1. Create a site column



2. Create a List Content Type



3. Add the Site Colum to the Content Type



4. Make the column Hidden



Let’s test it out. After adding my content type to a new custom list, I created one record: “Item 23665.” I can see it in the list. Now, I will attempt to add a second list item: “Item 27788”:



After pressing Save nothing happens (the window stays open – you will have to write some code to force it to close). The user must press Cancel to get out of this modal, and the record will not be saved.

I hope you find this helpful.

- Kristin Cameron, Managing Consultant

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March 27,2013 by Kris WagnerYammer and SharePoint: Enterprise Social Roadmap Update & My Experience



Yesterday Microsoft released the following post about updates to Yammer and SharePoint Online (Office 365). I’ve been very excited with what’s coming and now I’d love to share some of my experience. With the integration of Yammer we really do get a "Facebook" like enterprise experience that will blow competing products like Jive out of the water. PS: I used Jive at my last place of employment for 9 months and I can say the social experience was ok but collaboration was not so good.


In my images below you can see my "My Site" page, this is my personal hub for who’s who and what’s going on. To the right you can see People, Documents and Tags I’m following. To the left you can see my options to open new pages (Newsfeed, About me, my blog, Apps I can put on my page and Tasks. I can also can start a conversation or update my status from my My Site page. Here I can tag using Hashtags # and @ Tag people like you would Facebook and Twitter. I can also like items in my news feed for people on content I’m following and this also updates if I like something within a site! Rockin! I really love the changes and I’m also excited to see updates the desktop and mobile clients If that’s in the stars.


Updates with # and @ Followed #Tags pulled from Managed Meta Data

Full My Site Page





- Kris Wagner, SharePoint MVP, Senior Solution Architect
You can read more posts by Kris at SharePoint Kris.

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March 04,2013 by Dave GilbertSetting your local time zone on SharePoint



Sometimes the SharePoint server you are on is actually located in another time zone and is usually set to default to that time zone. When you make changes in SharePoint, this time zone affects the time portion of the Created/Modified fields. If it’s an hour difference, it probably doesn’t bother you that much. However, if you’d like to change it, follow these steps (these need to be done by each user):


• 1. Once logged into SharePoint, click on your name in the top-right corner and choose “My Settings”
  
  
  
  2. On your Settings page, click the “My Regional Settings” link
  
  
  
  3. On the Regional Settings page, uncheck the “Always follow web settings” checkbox and set the “Time Zone” field to the one you would like. Click OK when you are finished.
  
  
  
  - David Gilbert, PMP, Managing Consultant
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