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Author: David Severn

David Severn is a Software Developer/consultant based in the West of Ireland specialising in SharePoint and related technologies. He has over 25 Years  of experience in the I.T industry ranging from Mainframes to hand held devices working within a variety of industry sectors. Apart from teaching Learning Tree courses, which he has done for over ten years, he finds other ways to pass on IT knowledge such as as being a community lead for the Mid West (of Ireland) Microsoft technology User Group (MWMTUG) and blogging useful technical tips.

He has been involved in the Learning Tree SharePoint Curriculum since 2005 as Technical Editor for the hugely successful Introduction to SharePoint Technologies course.

He is currently working as Technical Editor for our highly anticipated new course, SharePoint 2010 Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction.

How to Keep Reference Data Tidy and Well Organised

Feb 26 2012
Frequently when building solutions using SharePoint you need to make use of reference data. This will be presented as look up type columns in the main list for your solution. Internal Data Internal data that is data stored within SharePoint can be stored within existing and new lists. List organisation The user doesn’t need to […]
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Getting Started with SharePoint: It’s Not Just a Product

Feb 6 2012
At our Introductory SharePoint courses for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 I often meet attendees who are completely new to SharePoint. I like to ask the class what they know already, what they have heard and what is of most concern to them. Many will be expected to carry out some newly learnt tasks as […]
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Debugging with Your Hands Tied

Jan 9 2012
The scenario was as follows: As part of a SharePoint project a custom event handler was needed that looked across two libraries to assign some metadata automatically. This required a farm level solution created in Visual Studio. (Such development is covered by our course, Programming SharePoint® 2010 Applications with .NET.) I don’t have administrative access […]
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Make 2012 Better With a Survey and Workflow

Dec 23 2011
How well are we doing In earlier posts I gave some thoughts on information structure design which is just one part of the bigger process in implementing effective SharePoint solutions. Getting feedback from users is a valuable way of determining if your designs are working or not How to get Feedback – use a survey […]
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More on Workshops (I.T. and the Users): My Thoughts on Structure Design, Part 3

Dec 19 2011
In my last post I mentioned how members of the I.T department should be included in requirements gathering workshops. Often dedicated business analysts are involved but members of the I.T technical team are not. The rationale being, that I.T. are concerned only with the back end infrastructure. Not so, I argue. I have seen the […]
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