The Knowledge Author – transitioning your DOCX/PDFs to HTML

To call yourself a knowledge author, is to participate in knowledge management.   The key term here is participate. In the context of corporate knowledge, I am defining knowledge as content that is unstructured (document-based), long-lived and highly valued by the organisation.   If the content you curate, managed and archive is seen as important to your […]

DataSync keeps Employee details fresh in Active Directory

Active Directory (AD) is a key system for most organizations.  It is important that user information from key systems like HR, are kept current in AD.   User moves and changes occur daily and manually keeping track of these changes or even creating service desk tickets to maintain these changes is time consuming and susceptible to […]

Broken Quick Parts (metadata) after SharePoint migration

Have you ever migrated your documents to find the quick parts are actually broken? When you store documents in SharePoint, the document parser promotes and demotes the metadata column values to and from SharePoint and the Word document.  These values are then able to be used within the document header, footer and body of the […]

Modernizer – Step by Step

Modernizer – Step by Step Overview For instructions on how to install the Modernizer app for SharePoint Online, please refer to section Installing the Modernizer app of this document. Once installed in to SharePoint, Modernizer is added to your WIKI and Publishing pages library and is set to display for users with edit permissions. Go […]

Live Publish is to Modern SharePoint what Transform is to Sway

Did you know that you could publish to Sway using Word in the same way we publish to SharePoint using Live Publish? Live Publish has supported this for SharePoint for 3+ years. I am thrilled that the Sway team has taken the same approach and has a Word add-in. This supports our view that Live […]

Modern pages – creating anchor links using Live Publish (with a major caveat)

Modern pages are a much simpler way to create pages in SharePoint. However, there’s a limitation at the moment that is being discussed over many forums that relates to the fact that anchor references and bookmarks cannot be added to headings within a modern page. Here is one such discussion with a couple of statements […]

SharePoint Properties Panel – Why we built our own?

Until recently, the user experience of managing metadata in Office (focusing on Word) was pretty average. With the news that InfoPath was depreciated, this left Microsoft in no man’s lands when it came to managing metadata real-time whilst editing your documents. InfoPath was the tool used to create the document panel and it was rendered […]

CentricMinds – Our newest Live Publish plug-in

Recently, one of our clients made the shift to CentricMinds from SharePoint 2010 Foundation as the tech was getting old and they were looking for an affordable, mobile friendly and easy to use system. As the service delivery partner for their SharePoint 2010 environment, we were asked to manage the transition. Not only were we […]

Modern Pages – now even easier!

SharePoint communication sites share news, reports, files, links, and other information in a modern dashboard approach to rolling up content. Communication sites are responsive and can be viewed from any device and are used to broadcast communication-based information out to organisational teams. For users that are constantly creating corporate communication for their teams in SharePoint, […]

Live Publish v2.0 – new version in Office Store

Congratulations to the Qualitem team for the latest version of Live Publish, now available from Microsoft AppSource. This is a major release for our product that covers some exciting new features. SharePoint Modern Page & Modern News Article support Live Metadata panel (akin to the SharePoint Property Panel) CentricMinds support  Office 365 – trial within […]