7 Things About Intranets I Learned The Hard Way (Webinar)      27-Mar-2015     957  

Wednesday, April 17th at 10:00 am PST Sam Marshall of Clearbox UK joins Bonzai Intranet as a guest speaker for his session “7 Things About Intranets I Learned The Hard Way” …Being...

What Makes an Intranet Valuable? (Webinar)      16-Mar-2015     851  

Andrew Wright  is the founder of the Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC), the world’s largest intranet end user satisfaction survey. The WIC allows organizations to obtain and benchmark feedback fro...

Introducing Bonzai Moyogi (Webinar)      24-Feb-2015     1007  

Bonzai is welcoming spring with the release of Bonzai 1.2 also known as Moyogi. This release offers new features and enhancements based on a mix of real client feedback, market research and innovat...

Getting a Handle on Intranet Governance (Webinar)      03-Feb-2015     826  

The Bonzai Webinar series is back! We our second webinar has now been confirmed for February 12th, 2015 at 10:00 am (PST). If you are a senior level manager or you are in HR and have been tasked wi...

The Core Intranet Functionality Needed By Most Organizations by Bonzai Intranet      29-Jan-2015     956  

We have recently published an article on the Bonzai blog entitled “The Core Intranet Functionality Needed By Most Organizations”. It covers some of the core Intranet capabilities such a...

Checkout and Open PDF files from SharePoint Document Libraries      08-Jan-2015     1367  

We have a customer that makes extensive use of Adobe Acrobat’s integration with SharePoint, which allows for the checkout and editing of PDF files directly from Document Libraries. Recently, ...

Beyond Governance Planning: it’s the execution that matters!      08-Dec-2014     950  

If you’ve read anything about governance, you’ll quickly figure out that this is a really really big topic and so naturally it can be really overwhelming to understand. When a lot of pe...

Content Approval Models in SharePoint Intranets      18-Nov-2014     856  

SharePoint 2013 provides a number of ways to author, approve and publish content. When we work with clients on Bonzai implementations we take into account both the Intranet publishing model that an...

Re-Thinking SharePoint Intranets with Bonzai Webinar      12-Nov-2014     1115  

As part of the recent launch of Bonzai Intranet for SharePoint we have been receiving many questions about Bonzai such as: What is the difference between Bonzai and a template/skin? How the hell d...

SharePoint and Moment.js      22-Oct-2014     1931  

As SharePoint 2013 client side developers, rarely do we implement a custom solution that outputs dates without loading Moment.js. Simply put, Moment.js makes it possible to: Parse, validate, manipu...

Adding an XsltListViewWebPart With a Custom View Using JavaScript      16-Oct-2014     2159  

I was building a SharePoint Hosted App, and one of the requirements was to add a List View web part to the home page of a site.  Lucky for us SharePoint devs, there is no documentation on this stuf...

The launch of Bonzai Intranet for SharePoint      29-Sep-2014     980  

The consulting company I co-founded, Dynamic Owl Consulting, has been hard at work over the past year developing a new product that we’re very proud to release–Bonzai, a pre-built intra...

Item-Level Security, Sharing and the SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure Feature      22-Sep-2014     999  

The Scenario Consider a scenario such as the following: you need to grant access to a specific document within a site to a user, but want to restrict that users access to the rest of the site. This...

Adding Data Bound Images to Power View with Power Query      10-Sep-2014     1508  

The Power BI team just announced the latest round of new features added to Power Query in the September update. It’s really gratifying to the team’s focus on a quick tempo for updates a...

Cross-Browser RichText Editor Solution For SharePoint      04-Sep-2014     983  

I was recently building a custom application page in SharePoint to allow users to update their User Profile information. One of the fields, the ‘About Me’ field, was to contain rich tex...

Using SharePoint’s DatePicker Control      28-Jul-2014     1111  

SharePoint Date Picker Whenever I am building anything for SharePoint, I try to leverage the OOTB SharePoint components as much as possible.  There are a few benefits to doing so: Present a UI tha...

Sending email from SharePoint on-premises via Office 365      21-Jul-2014     979  

Sending email from SharePoint is a fairly basic requirement for almost every installation that we come across, but with the move to hybrid and fully cloud-based email environments configuring this ...

Reporting on SharePoint lists with many to many relationships using Power Query      09-Jul-2014     764  

SharePoint lists are often the repository for reportable items and whether these take the form of incident reports, inventory, inspection forms or other data we are often asked to surface that info...

Custom WebPart Editor      20-May-2014     815  

One of the nice things about a webpart is it’s flexibility! With a webpart, you can expose a bunch of properties to allow the user to quickly change the behavior and look of the webpart. This...

Canadian Intranet Practices Survey      20-May-2014     763  

Our good friends at nForm, a consulting firm based in Edmonton that specialize in creating great user experiences, are undertaking a survey of Intranets within Canada. Now I know that many of you r...

Active Directory Groups and SharePoint Security      12-May-2014     723  

Working with a client recently I’d run across something that seemed pretty fundamental and widely-known (or so I thought); however, I’ve been wrong before and here was another example o...