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Monday, June 17th, 2013
Our HR folks will be really interested in this: Showing the week number on the calendar.
This change happens under your site’s Regional Settings. If you are a site owner, you can go to Site Actions> Site Settings > Regional settings (under Site Administration)
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Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Try a Content Type Based Off the Task Content Type
Create a new content type based off the task content type:
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Monday, June 10th, 2013
by Russ Lombardo, President – PEAK Sales Consulting
In my sales seminars I often ask the attendees when was the last time they saw an accurate sales forecast. Usually after the laughing dies down I see one or two raised hands. It is truly a challenge to create an accurate forecast, and in today’s difficult economy and crazy world it’s even harder than usual. But reliable forecasting using Salesforce is possible.
Frequently the sales person lets his/her emotions get in the way of accurately forecasting the status of an opportunity. The meeting went great. Everyone got along. The prospect loved the product. Hence, it looks like an 80 percent chance of winning this deal. But wait! Is there a budget? Are you talking to the right person — the one with authority to make a purchasing decision? Have you met all their requirements? Do you know, and can you meet, their timeframe? These are the four basic questions that need to be answered in order to accurately qualify a prospect: Budget, Authority, Requirements and Timeframe (in no particular order).
Chances are you’ll say no to more than one of these critical qualifying questions. But because the meeting went so well, your emotions take over and instead of making an analytical assessment, you make an emotional one and predict a higher probability of making the sale than is realistically possible, or at best make a premature assessment of the probability. Not only are you deluding yourself, but you are setting false expectations for your own income. Furthermore, you are making your boss look bad by feeding him/her inaccurate information that s/he has to present to his/her boss. If you are the manager collecting forecasts from your sales team, then you have to make sure your people are not making emotional forecasting decisions. Click to continue »
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Monday, June 3rd, 2013
by Russ Lombardo, President – PEAK Sales Consulting
It’s a simple concept, but one that is often overlooked or even deemed irrelevant; that is until someone gets hurt. The integrity and quality of data is paramount in having a reliable and useable CRM system, and that includes Salesforce. However, in our haste to enter information into the appropriate fields, sometimes any information will do. For instance, you have the busy sales rep who doesn’t have time to think about the exact “next step” to enter in the Sales Process field in Salesforce. So they enter whatever comes to mind. If this happens often, imagine how impossible it would be for them to search for all accounts for which they need to write a proposal (assuming writing a proposal was a next step in the sales process). What text or phrase would they build their search on? They can’t accomplish an effective search because that field would have neither consistent nor reliable data.
In another example, say a marketing professional fills in the Lead Source field with whatever they feel is the best description for the source. They might enter “Web Site” for one lead and “Website” for another, even though they both came from the exact same source. In this case, potentially every lead could have its own unique description with respect to its source. Now suppose the marketing manager wants to do a search on where leads have been coming from so they can analyze the most effective versus least effective marketing programs and campaigns. It would be impossible to find any consistency or commonality in the Lead Source field from which they could base their analysis since the entries would all be different. Click to continue »
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Monday, May 13th, 2013
The scope of a sandboxed solution allows the site collection administrator to activate / deactivate it. There may be some cases where the farm administrator needs to have a look before activating the solution. For such purposes, Sandbox Solution Validator is used. In this final blog post of Sandbox solutions, we will look at HOW TO IMPLEMENT A SANDBOX SOLUTION VALIDATOR. Although it’s a feature that is not used often, it has proved to be handy when you really need to implement a rule for solution activation.
To create a solution validator you need to follow the steps below:
- Create an empty SharePoint Farm solution in Visual Studio.
- Add a class SolutionValidator in class file SolutionValidator.cs
- Inherit it from SPSolutionValidator and give a GUID to the class Click to continue »
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Now we are aware of the architecture and execution model of Sandboxed solutions. This blog is dedicated to a sample sandbox solution. Do you think it is required? I don’t think so because it’s a very straight forward task which doesn’t motivates me to dedicate a full blog J. Instead we’ll take another topic – Sandbox Proxy or Full Trust Proxy.
If you want to execute full trust code in a sandbox solution then the only way of doing so is to write a Sandbox Proxy. Click to continue »
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Everyone wants a piece of the cloud. So now you want your piece. It is one thing to build it. It is an entirely other thing to position and sell a solution within it. Other challenges include how to staff the right supporting organization and creation of team compensation plans that drive desired behaviors.
On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, Mike Shook and Will Shook of Accelerence, LLC went over the business rational for cloud. They also discussed how to sell cloud solutions and your product or a solution within it. Will and Mike discussed ways to counteract the confusion and uncertainty the cloud can bring and offered specific value propositions and selling techniques to hit the ground running. They touched on getting started with a cloud services strategy, cloud sales processes and barriers to entry.
Overall, the presentation went over why the cloud is hot, selling cloud followed by selling your solution, defining value in the face of confusion and tips on how to do effective competitive research.
You can listen to a complete recording of this presentation at aspeevents.webex.com. Select “View Event Recordings” in the top right corner and then search by title. You can also download the slides from this presentation by visiting our Web Seminar Archives.
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Tags: ASPE Web Seminar, ASPE-IT, Cloud, Cloud Applications, Solution Selling, Value Definition, Value Definition and Sales Enablement for Cloud Applications and Solutions
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
This web part will display data from the child to the parent site. You can edit the content directly as well.
- Open the child site in SharePoint Designer 2010
- Select “Lists and Libraries” from the left navigation pane
- Select the list you with to display
- In the “Views” section on the right, either open an existing view (e.g. AllItems.aspx) or create a new view.
- In SPD page editor, edit the view.
- In the Ribbon go to List View Tools –> Web Part tab
- Click “To Site Gallery” from “Save Web Part” section
- Give it a name and description, set its properties if you would like and click OK
- Click “Yes” when the message pops up. This ensures that the Web part will point to the original source with the Data
- In the browser, go to your parent site
- Edit a page, insert a Web part through the browser ribbon
- Go to Miscellaneous section, and select the Web part you just created. Save the page and you are done. The Web part displays on the page and items can be edited with the right permissions set up.
Happy SharePointing!
About the Author:
Nadia Douaji is a passionate individual who is excited about SharePoint. She started her IT career as a web designer/developer over 20 years ago. Her experience includes development and management of unique websites solutions from initial concept to live site. She started working in SharePoint 2007 and was then the only person willing to “dig in” at her agency. With SharePoint 2010, she continued acquiring all the skills and experience needed to become an expert. She is passionate about all aspects of the SharePoint platform and loves to share the good word. As SharePoint Business Analyst for a government agency, she is often talking to her peers about a quick way of using SharePoint to solve or ease a business process.
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
In my previous post, SharePoint 2010 Sandbox Solution 1 – Overview of Sandboxed Solution, I gave an overview of Sandboxed solutions. Now I’d like to peek into the architecture and execution model.
Architecture
Sandbox solution is often called user solution. The primary API for sandbox solution is Microsoft.SharePoint.UsserCode and the service that takes care of it is SharePoint 2010 User Code Host.
The first question that normally arises is where the assemblies are deployed – The assembly is packaged in a wsp file and the wsp is uploaded in the solution gallery. When, for the first time, the assembly is required (e.g. a page is accessed which contains a webpart of the sandboxed solution) then the assembly is extracted from the gallery and copied to the file system (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\UCCache) of the server that is handling the request. This may not be web front end server as it is handled by User Code Host Service. Click to continue »
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