Data Connector: A friend that helps you connect
The recently released Data Connector by BoostSolutions is a fast and effective way to import and export business data between SharePoint list and external data source. Currently there are three methods that one can use to import external data sources to SharePoint lists: using the method Microsoft provides, developing code, and Data Connector. The method […]
How to Import Business Data from External Database to a SharePoint List in a Few Minutes
As SharePoint is being used in more and more organizations than ever before, it makes sense for it to be the place where you can access external data, see a KPI dashboard, reuse the data within SharePoint, or use SharePoint as the main interface to edit or add to your external data, etc. There is […]
How to Know Your SharePoint Permissions
If you are a SharePoint administrator, you may have this problem during permission management. How to do you find out who has what permissions? On SharePoint 2010, a new add-on will greatly reduce administrator headaches and the tedium of checking user permissions. I. Native SharePoint Environment 1. Select a site. 2. Enter Site permissions page […]
How to Connect Data between External Data and SharePoint Lists
As a database administrator, I manage a table named “Employee_Info” in database1 on our SQL Server. Meanwhile, my colleague Tom, a department manager, manages a SharePoint list named “brain-employee.” Now, we want to create a connection between the two different data sources and merge the data. Additionally, I want to customize the data connection profile […]
An Overview of PerformancePoint SharePoint Services 2010
PerformancePoint SharePoint Services 2010 is a highly rated software bundle that allows for performance management services that lets companies monitor and analyze their business. Companies can now create context-driven and in-depth programs that combine content and data to show how companies are performing. Now with programs such as dashboards, scorecards, reports, and key performance indicators, […]
Armfuls of Happiness with SharePointBoost’s Batch Check In
Multiple workers, everyone is busy taking out files individually and in bunches and suddenly you are up to your ears in checked out documents. What are you going to do? Your work space is suddenly filled with all these files that have been checked out, but now they are sitting around and you need to […]
SharePoint Permissions Made Easy
Having problems understanding permissions within SharePoint? Now with BoostSolutions‘s?Permission Report you can get additional features that are not available in the base SharePoint. Your IT administrator can generate various SharePoint permission reports based on account, permission level, permission inheritance and much, much more. With these reports in hand it will make it easier for administrators […]