From The Field

I recently received a requirement from a customer who wanted to build one click approval into the email notifications being received around a Purchase Order process.
 
As Purchase Orders are being created in a forms library (although this could work against any list item use case), a SharePoint Designer workflow was created to determine approval routing [...]

There has been some recent interest in whether the Toolset could be used to create MS Office documents.  So being the adventurous guy that I am, I set off to see whether it could be done.  And I’m pleased to say it’s possible and really straight forward.
 
Imagine you were building out an employee on-boarding process [...]

With the new Chart Display Adapter in the Toolset, a useful functionality is ability to click on a chart and drilldown to view more specific information.  In this example, we have a Pie Chart that is representing sales for an employee for the months of March and April.  Our pie chart rolls up the monthly [...]

During a recent customer engagement, I was asked to help customize the Rich Text Field (RTF) available in the Toolset.  The following customizations are available whether you are using the RTF in a Business Data Form Adapter (BDF) or in a list or library.
The customer wanted to customize the tool options and configure a default [...]

The External Data Provider is THE Swiss Army knife of the Toolset. Sure it connects to your external data, but did you realize all the connection types it supports and the possible properties you can specify with each? During this blog series we’ll cover all the connection types, the properties associated with them and also [...]

The External Data Provider is THE Swiss Army knife of the Toolset. Sure it connects to your external data, but did you realize all the connection types it supports and the possible properties you can specify with each? During this blog series we’ll cover all the connection types, the properties associated with them and also [...]

The External Data Provider is THE Swiss Army knife of the Toolset. Sure it connects to your external data, but did you realize all the connection types it supports and the possible properties you can specify with each? During this blog series we’ll cover all the connection types, the properties associated with them and also [...]

The External Data Provider is THE Swiss Army knife of the Toolset. Sure it connects to your external data, but did you realize all the connection types it supports and the possible properties you can specify with each? During this blog series we’ll cover all the connection types, the properties associated with them and also [...]

This series of screenshots and comments will help you implement a master-detail grid solution using the Toolset. The instructions assume you know how to create providers for the grid displays that will accept passed in parameters for filtering the provider. (If you need more information on this, you can reference this document.)
Note: screenshots [...]

CorasWorks has been using a new verb lately, Jing. This new concept has allowed us to quickly create a how-to, walk through, and demo. Since we have captured so much, we figured perhaps you would be interested in getting access to a continuous feed of them, so here are some RSS links to help.
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