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Latest news and insights from the SharePoint sphere

Get organised with SharePoint and Harvest

We use Harvest to track time spent working on projects and we use SharePoint to manage our project documentation. As it happens, several of our clients do the same but were disorganised and struggling with SharePoint file management. To integrate these systems for organised document management, we have collaborated with them to develop project navigation dashboards in SharePoint.

SharePoint Document Library makeover

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Microsoft is revamping the SharePoint document library UI. This was covered in the August OneDrive Office Hours, which is now available on YouTube.

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Whilst reviewing the latest updates from Microsoft, a few caught my attention which I know will be useful for many intranets.

SharePoint Metadata or Folders

Folders or metadata - which one should you use for your SharePoint files? You may have seen articles about how folders are terrible and how you should always use metadata. That sounds great in theory, but if you have ever tried to implement this you quickly discover that it is not a silver bullet.

Renaming files using Power Toys and ChatGPT

I had about 30 files in a Windows folder that roughly followed a naming convention that had a date or year at the end of the file name. For example “Interesting Report 2021.pdf” or “Invoice 2024-01-12.xlsx”. It also included other files that didn’t include any dates, such as “Certificate.docx”.

Reduce Risk with Your Employee Onboarding Processes

How can you mitigate the risks that come with your employee onboarding processes?

Target, Track & Report with Compliance Tracking Software

Every company has rules and regulations to control how they work and perform in the market. Though some industries, such as medical or legal service providers, may enforce more stringent rules, every company has a level of compliance to maintain. Compliance tracking software simplifies the monitoring of compliance by ensuring critical business processes are read and understood keeping in-line with regulations, organisational goals, and customer standards.

Healthcare Regulatory Compliance - Compliance Tracker 365

We’ve put together an industry use case for Healthcare Regulatory Compliance.

Daily journal using Microsoft OneNote

I follow Jeremy Thake on Twitter and he recently posted about Bullet Journals. I’d never heard of this so I looked it up. Turns out it is an approach to tracking your activities in a structured manner. It has a strong emphasis on writing things down as many studies show that this helps you better remember things. It has some very interesting concepts. I am a sucker for personal productivity stuff and I’m more than happy to add another title to my long list of books to read.

Microsoft Flow – formula to calculate the due date excluding weekends

We’ve been doing a lot of work recently with Flow, Microsoft’s latest workflow product for Office 365. Here’s a formula you might find useful if you need to calculate a due date for a task, but factor in weekends. For example, if your start date is a Friday and the task duration is 2 days, then you want the due date set to Tuesday, not Sunday.