Thursday, September 25, 2014

Inconvenient Document Template Access Issues and Send To connections in SharePoint

What?

You have a SharePoint site (Site A) that has got a content type with a document template attached to it.
You have created a few documents using the document template and them moved them into a different site (Site B).

A user who has access to the document in the new location (Site B) but does not have access to Site A tries to access it and gets prompted to authenticate against Site A.

Eventually being a not so technical end user, he gets his accounts locked after trying his credentials repeatedly.

How to reuse / associate list workflows built using SharePoint Designer 2013 on multiple lists

What?

How to reuse / associate list workflows built using SharePoint Designer 2013 on different lists

Why?

You want to built a reusable list workflow using SharePoint Designer 2013 and be able to attach them to multiple lists.