by Ralph Dalton | Mar 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Since my last blog on How to connect Tableau to a SharePoint list using OData, a lot of folks have asked about using a live feed to a SharePoint list. This is possible, however the method uses an MS Access database so please check that this is allowed by your...
by Ralph Dalton | Aug 2, 2016 | BlogPosts, Sharepoint, Tech Tips
Here’s a quick solution to a small but problematic issue we experienced recently. One of our customers applied a Cumulative Update to SharePoint 2013 SP1. The custom ASP.Net form in SharePoint that we had created then stopped working directly as a result....
by Ralph Dalton | May 10, 2016 | BlogPosts, Sharepoint, Tech Tips
I needed to restore some SharePoint backup files from a data centre to a Disaster Recovery SQL instance. I could have done this manually using the restore task, however I knew that I would like to do this repeatedly for different customers and different databases. So...
by Ralph Dalton | Jul 1, 2015 | BlogPosts, Tech Tips
Introduction Company and organisational information is often locked up inside SharePoint and is not always easy to manipulate or visualise as Business Information. This is where Tableau comes in. SharePoint data can be manipulated or accumulated with other information...
by Ralph Dalton | Jun 9, 2015 | BlogPosts, Tech Tips
Many businesses and organisations use Microsoft SharePoint in one guise or another to store company-centric information. Most of this information is locked in and it can be difficult to extract, and yet much of it could be used to report on the health of the business,...