Hi and welcome to part 7 of my series of articles around SharePoint 2013 workflows. We have been examining the trials and tribulations (mainly trials so far) of implementing a relatively simple document approval workflow for a mythical organisation called …

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Hi and welcome to part 6 of my series of articles aimed at demystifying various aspects to SharePoint 2013 workflows. We have been using a mythical example of a document approval workflow from our mythical multinational called Megacorp Inc. We …

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Hi and welcome to part 5 of my series of articles that take a peek under the hood of SharePoint 2013 workflows. These articles are pitched at wide audience, and my hope is that they give you some insights into …

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Hi and welcome to part 2 of a series that aims to showcase the good and the bad of SharePoint 2013 workflows, using a simple use-case. In part 1 I introduced you to the mythical multinational called Megacorp and its …

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Pardon the pun, but I just had a ‘clever workaround’ moment with SharePoint’s oData/REST implementation when it comes to filtering list items based on taxonomy (managed metadata) columns. Now I do not consider myself a developer, so this article is …

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Hi all While I’d like to claim credit for the wisdom in this post, alas I cannot. One of Seven Sigma’s consultants (Daniel Wale) worked this one out and I thought that it was blog-worthy. Before I get into the …

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Hiya A few months back I posted a relatively well behaved rant over the ridiculously complex User Profile Service Application of SharePoint 2010. I think this component in particular epitomises SharePoint 2010’s awful combination of “design by committee” clunkiness, along …

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