Sabrina Su

Cascading and Cross site in one go

Cascading and Cross site in one go

Cascading function has been required by many customers so far, and it’s a common requirement in the SharePoint market as SharePoint itself doesn’t support this. Why we need cascading and cross site function: 1. Avoid selecting redundant data 2. Improve efficiency 3. Look up records from different sites under one site collection 4. Locate desired […]

Maintain AD user information in SharePoint without Admin interfering

Maintain AD user information in SharePoint without Admin interfering

I introduced how to manage users in a SharePoint list by Ad Information Sync previously, without setting up any permissions for employee to prevent them checking other’s information in the list. With Ad Self Service, admins don’t need to worry about the privacy part. The OOTB SharePoint doesn’t support to access to AD, not to […]

We can manage AD users in SharePoint instead of in AD!

BoostSolutions develops SharePoint software, also we use SharePoint in our daily life, so we do have our own business requirement and we know what SharePoint does or what it cannot do, such as management of employee information. One situation is that our IT guy has been always busy in managing employee information in AD, updating, […]

How to hide column information from specific users or groups

How to hide column information from specific users or groups

Sometimes we need to hide necessary information in a SharePoint list for different purposes since there are confidential information that should not be exposed for all people in the company. One of our customers, needs to hide Salary column in a list which stores employee information, such as, Name, Contact information, Position, Department, Manager, Salary, […]