Provide customized error message

By Adam Cogan in SharePoint On Premises 0 Comment

When SharePoint cannot talk to configuration database, provide a customized error message rather than the default Runtime Error.

Figure: Default 500 error message looks bad

Figure: Default 500 error message looks bad

Figure: Detailed error message - for investigation we can disable the custom error message, then detail error message is shown

Figure: Detailed error message – for investigation we can disable the custom error message, then detail error message is shown

We don’t mind the detailed error message shows in the ugly yellow background page, but the default 500 error message should be better.

[This is as per Do you use a customized error page to handle an unhandled error occurs on your website?]

Ability to call a webAPI to get the call history from employees personal skype accounts

By Adam Cogan in Skype 0 Comment

We want the ability to call a webAPI to get the call history from employees personal Skype accounts.

Skype for business has API’s and we able to get CDR’s however there does not appear to be a simple solution for employees who use their personal accounts.

There are some steps that employees could run manually to get this data:

However this data needs to be captured automatically.

Give me options on right-click without editing the report

By Adam Cogan in Power BI 0 Comment

I’ve just started to use stacked columns… For some reason I’ve always avoided then in the past.
See screenshot… You can see trends with red and green but not black.

Figure : Bad example - the black data is hard to focus on

Figure : Bad example – the black data is hard to focus on

Suggestion to Microsoft: A user, without editing a report to add a slicer, should be able to right-click and choose to “Change order” or “Hide red | Hide black | Hide green”

Allow me to search for any word in the title

By Adam Cogan in Microsoft 0 Comment

When doing a search, I need to type the exact first few letters to make results appear. It should work for any word/letter present in the title.

Figure: searching for template won’t give me any result

Figure: searching for template won’t give me any result

Figure: I only found it after typing the entire “Do you…” from beginning

Figure: Only found it after typing the entire “Do you…” from beginning

Please improve this search engine to make any typed word to give search results.

Help me to easily find out who created a library/list

By Adam Cogan in SharePoint On Premises 0 Comment
Figure: Who made this?

Figure: Who made this?

Currently, to see who is the author of a library/list like the above, we have two options:

  1. Use SharePoint Manager
    sp-manager
  2. Use PowerShell
    powershell

Both of them are not straightforward, and you have to log on to the server to use either of them.
It costs a few mins and many clicks (not countable) to find out…

The info could be simply exposed to the “list Information” page (can be collapsed by default if there are too much info):

Figure: Add "author" info here

Figure: Add “author” info here

In SharePoint 2016 Preview and Office 365, this has not been improved.

Time Zone – Change “All Day Appointment” to be an all day appointment

By Adam Cogan in Outlook 0 Comment

Outlook currenly uses 12 AM to 12 PM for All Day Events. This creates problem when it is for different time zone. A full-day event is a full-day event, no matter what time zone your are in.

It would be useful to use additional time zone feature in outlook to display local time zone without changing time of operating system. Either you can change all day event to local time zone setting.

One best option to handle with this problem is storing all time zone using UTC(Universal Cordinated Time) so that there is no need for any other time settings and appointment can be rendered using local time zone.

Ken Getz says more on this:
Time Zone Disaster – All Outlook Appointments Bite the Dust