Article
11. October 2014
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by Stefan Bauer

Site logo inheritance on sub webs

Be careful when you change the title or the description in SharePoint you might set a logo url. Even if you don’t need to set one. Recently I found a strange behaviour in SharePoint during a branding project. The project included three site collections where each of those should have a different logo.
Somehow the logo couldn’t be changed in the complete site collection. A changed logo in the root of the site collection was not reflected on the sub site. Strange behaviour thou, because SharePoint has something that I call logo inheritance.[Read more]

Article
23. January 2014
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by Stefan Bauer

Tips & Tricks: Add attachments to list items faster

The great thing about SharePoint is that you can accomplish a goal in many ways. In my case the first version was SharePoint 2003 and I’m used to add attachments always from the edit form.
Recently, while I was working on a solution that works with attachments of list items, I accidentally discovered a faster way to add attachments to a list item. This option is hidden in the ribbon and allows to add attachments directly from the list view.

1. Select item 2. Attach file

1. Select item
2. Attach file

First select any item from the list and then the ribbon button. After you clicked the button the upload dialog opens and an attachment can be added to that specific item.

upload attachment

upload attachment

This saves time especially if files need to be added to multiple files. Sadly the upload dialog doesn’t support multiple file upload via drag and drop. This works in SharePoint 2010 as well as in SharePoint 2013

The lesson I learned. Review your personal and trained workflows, how you do something. There is might a better way to do something.