Tena Matta

My Latest Closet Organization Project

Tena — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:38:08 +0000

Ok, so I had done so many closet organization projects over the past three years that I had literally burned myself out. Plus, add the fact that I had moved apartments at LEAST five times over the past five years had added to my lack of initiative to do closets AGAIN! So when I moved

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In Loving Memory..

Tena — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:21:55 +0000

Today is one of many sad days in relation to a person that defies description to me. Ghassan Bawarchi was (and is, and always will be) a trusted friend, a lover, a reassuring voice on the other end of the phone, a boyfriend, a trusted confident, a reliable shoulder to cry on, a person to

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Having Trouble Using InfoPath to Submit to a SharePoint List?

Tena — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:03:37 +0000

Wow. I have been literally pulling my hair out (luckily I have a lot to spare) over this one. Background: I have been dying to finally get my hands on an InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 environment so that I could FINALLY have the ability to submit to a SharePoint list with NO CODE. This

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I truly deeply believe this..

Tena — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:55:34 +0000

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Words to live by..

Tena — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:21:11 +0000

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InfoPath – Make a control required based on a condition

Tena — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:10:43 +0000

Learn how you can use data validation in InfoPath to make a field required based on a condition or the value of another field. Making a control required in InfoPath means applying data validation to that control. There are 3 ways to apply InfoPath data validation: Use data types Use data validation rules Use rules

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Map a network drive to a SharePoint document library

Tena — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:20:48 +0000

With this feature, it allows you to save documents directly to your SharePoint document library. Step 1: Copy the URL of the document library that you want to connect to Step 2: Go to “Start”, then “Computer”, then “Map Network Drive” Step 3: Paste the URL that you copied into the box “Folder”

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SharePoint Site Provisioning Process

Tena — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:28:03 +0000

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Failed SharePoint Implementations??

Tena — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:23:25 +0000

Bottom line. A lot of companies, both large and small have jumped on the “SharePoint bandwagon”.. They bought it, they installed / configured it, they taught their employees how to use it. But my personal opinion is that a lot of companies are experiencing some slight “buyers remorse” Why? 1. They expected SharePoint to automatically

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SharePoint required metadata issue – a workaround

Tena — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:26:54 +0000

Have you run into this problem? You set up a SharePoint document library with required metadata (columns).. This is definitely a best practice since experience shows that unless you make metadata fields required, end users simply won’t take the time to fill them in. However, if a user moves files into the document library using the

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