Entries for 'workflow'

Dan Mitchell

03/12/2019

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I was recently creating a Flow when I realized that the “Create Item” and “Update Item” actions in Microsoft Flow would not allow me to set the value of a hyperlink field. To overcome this, I used the “Send an HTTP re...

Dan Mitchell

08/28/2018

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In our work with various organizations, DMC’s Digital Workplace Solutions team has found that many organizations have no formal onboarding process in place. Without an organized system, it is easy for key onboarding tasks to fall through the cr...

Michael Dannemiller

01/16/2018

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Click here to see our latest onboarding workflow solution. Here at DMC, we take great pride in our onboarding process for new employees. We love that all new hires feel welcome and hit the ground running their first week. Have you ever arrived at ...

Rick Rietz

08/21/2017

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I recently fielded a question from a potential client who wanted to know if Microsoft SharePoint or Google Docs with Google Sites was a better fit for their organization's document management and collaboration needs. Although this question is pre...

Peter Rijks

01/09/2017

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Sometimes, when things seem to be going catastrophically wrong, the root cause can be simple. You just have to find it. After a recent batch of updates were applied to a SharePoint 2016 farm, a large number of items quit working on the application...

Michael Dannemiller

02/24/2015

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Often times when implementing a workflow, we as designers run into a situation where we need a variable to persist between each workflow. Sometimes it’s to determine if a specific process has been completed previously or to count how many times...

Michael Dannemiller

01/27/2015

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One problem we run across on a fairly regular basis is the process of creating a single document which differs only slightly. Often times, this is a contract for a business that has standardized services. They want to generate a contract with the con...

Michael Dannemiller

01/05/2015

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When you have time-sensitive tasks or documents that require renewal or can expire, SharePoint can be the perfect tool to help you and your company remember to address these upcoming concerns. Using SharePoint Designer workflows, we can set automated...

Anjali Bharadwa

12/15/2014

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My last video blog on color coding in 2010 was a huge success and now that everyone is moving to Office 365, I often get questions about how do we make this work in SharePoint 2013, or later. (If you are wondering why you should upgrade to newer...

Timothy Johnson

03/25/2014

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In my experience, the most widespread issues that occur for both DMC users and our external customers, happen while using Microsoft Outlook. This is partially due to the fact that Outlook is quite possibly, the most important application and definite...