How to check the email of SP user when you trigger email for Alert Reminder Boost or Password Change
For quite a bunch of products from Boostsolutions, like Alert Reminder Boost, Password Change, email will be triggered to be sent to users of Sharepoint. And sometimes the truth is The right user accounts did not receive emails. Why it happened? The answer is the email of user account is not the one as […]
Maintain AD user information in SharePoint without Admin interfering
I introduced how to manage users in a SharePoint list by Ad Information Sync previously, without setting up any permissions for employee to prevent them checking other’s information in the list. With Ad Self Service, admins don’t need to worry about the privacy part. The OOTB SharePoint doesn’t support to access to AD, not to […]
Access Active Directory(AD) directly from SharePoint
We talked about reducing workload of IT guy with our product Ad Information sync to sync information from AD to a SharePoint list in another article. We also use another product Ad Administration to help us: Manage AD information in SharePoint Delegate control to other people, like department manager, to reduce the workload of the […]
We can manage AD users in SharePoint instead of in AD!
BoostSolutions develops SharePoint software, also we use SharePoint in our daily life, so we do have our own business requirement and we know what SharePoint does or what it cannot do, such as management of employee information. One situation is that our IT guy has been always busy in managing employee information in AD, updating, […]
How to hide a column in a Request form in SharePoint
There are so many cases about how to use Column/View Permission in the real world. And this is one story from my customer. One of our customer has a “Requests” link in our Help Desk system. The “Status” field should be set default in help desk requests list and read-only when users create new entry […]
How to hide column information from specific users or groups
Sometimes we need to hide necessary information in a SharePoint list for different purposes since there are confidential information that should not be exposed for all people in the company. One of our customers, needs to hide Salary column in a list which stores employee information, such as, Name, Contact information, Position, Department, Manager, Salary, […]
How to specify columns permissions based on user role
Since Column/View Permission released from 2008, it becomes the hot product which helps customers to resolve a lots of column permission issues. With SharePoint Column/View Permission, you can protect your sensitive information by hiding the columns which contains the sensitive contents, or restrict the users to edit columns by setting the columns as read-only. Also, […]
PDF Conversion From Within Your SharePoint Environment
SharePoint PDF Converter is a new lightweight, easy to use solution from BoostSolutions that will help you convert MS Office files and more to a PDF file, merge multiple files into one PDF file and the ability to convert PDF files back to a Word file. As with all BoostSolutions’ products, SharePoint PDF Converter is […]