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How to display a specific unit of measurement next to a numeric in a SharePoint list

How to display a specific unit of measurement next to a numeric in a SharePoint list

In a SharePoint list, if you want a Number Column displays its value that includes a specific unit of measurement, you may have to customize the SharePoint list form, or create a calculated column to combine the value with unit. BoostSolutions considers this requirement and launches a new product Measured Number Column, which provides an […]

Color code calendar events on Calendar Rollup Web Part

Color code calendar events on Calendar Rollup Web Part

Recently, BoostSolutions announced the release of Calendar Rollup 3.0 for SharePoint 2010/2013/2016. One great feature is that users have more options to color code the events not only based on the event types. Calendar Rollup 3.0 enables users to color code the events based on multiple column types, such as Single Line of Text, Number, […]

SharePoint 2016 New Features – Image and Video Previews

SharePoint 2016 New Features – Image and Video Previews

SharePoint Server 2016 is released with numerous new features, image and video preview is one of them. When you upload images and videos to a document library in SharePoint server 2016, you can see a preview by hovering the mouse over the image or video, or by clicking on them. In this blog, I will […]

Update a SharePoint list from Excel

Update a SharePoint list from Excel

BoostSolutions Excel Import is an efficient tool to import data into a SharePoint list from Excel file manually or automatically. It is especially useful in this scenario, you may want to maintain your sale data in a SharePoint list so that it is ease to share and update, but also need analyze the sale data […]

Outgoing Email Settings in SharePoint 2016

Outgoing Email Settings in SharePoint 2016

For any messages (such as alerts, notifications and site invitations) to be sent out of SharePoint server, you need to configure SMTP server to send the messages. This server can be any SMTP-compliant server that you can connect to using port 25 from the SharePoint server. For SharePoint 2010/2013, it cannot be configured to send […]