SharePoint 2010 Workflow states are grayed out

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Thomas Maurer

When you try to create a three-state workflow in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010, the state fields are maybe grayed out like in this screenshot below.

The reason for this is that there is no column to show the states for the documents of the document library. You can simply solve this issue, by adding the “choice” column to the document library.

Choose the document library in which you wanna create the workflow and click on the Library button in the Ribbon
Click on create Column
Choose the type “Choice” and make sure you add three states
Now these states are available in the three-state workflow.

How to use Microsoft Document Connection for Mac with Genotec Hosted Sharepoint

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

Some days ago, I made a post about “How to use Microsoft Sharepoint Workspace 2010 with Genotec Hosted Sharepoint“. If you work on a Mac you can also use Microsoft Document Connection for Mac, which is included in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac.

This shows you how you can use Document Connection for Mac with Hosted Sharepoint from Genotec.

Start Microsoft Document Connection and connect to a SharePoint Site
Add the Addresse of your hosted Sharepoint Site
Add your Credentials
And now you are connected to your Site Collection

How to use Sharepoint Workspace 2010 with Genotec Hosted Sharepoint

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

This guide will show you how to add a Genotec Hosted Sharepoint 2010 to your Sharepoint Workspace 2010.

First Startup Microsoft Sharepoint Workspace 2010
Add a new Sharepoint to your Sharepoint Workspace
Add the Domain of your hosted Sharepoint (sharepointhosting.ch, Hostedsharepoint.ch or your own Domainname)
Add your User Account and Password. Its Important that you add the Domain before your Username (CP\username)
Now wait until your Site is synced with your computer
Now you can see your Sharepoint Site Collection in the Launchbar and you can start working with Microsoft SharePoint Workspace.

Thats how you can connect a Genotec Hosted Sharepoint 2010 to your Sharepoint Workspace. I recommend that you use the “Remember my credentials” checkbox because your computer is not in the same Active Directory Domain.

Sharepoint 2010: Upload Multiple Documents button grayed out – This control is currently disabled

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

In the last days we had a customer ticket which was escalated because a user in our Hosted Sharepoint 2010 environment had the following problem. He could not upload multiple documents because the button was grayed out and he got the message “This control is currently disabled”.

This is a feature which is a client integration component, which is available on machines with a installed Office 2010 client. So if you have a Windows 7 PC and Office 2010 installed you get the following:

The first time you navigate on the Document Library you get asked about a ActiveX Control Object
You can accept that
Maybe you get asked again
Now you can use the Upload Multiple Documents Button
And choose the Office Files

I found this solution in the technet forums

Microsoft Office 2010 Migration Guides

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

Microsoft released a article about migration to Office 2010. With the Office 2010 Migration Guides you can easy guide user trough the new interface of Office 2010 with Ribbons and how you convert Office 2003 documents to Office 2010 documents.

You can find more here on the Office support page.

Docs.com

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

I think this is not really new but it looks like a lot of people don’t know about the new service of Microsoft called Docs.com. Docs.com is a kind of a online Office Suite connected to Facebook.

You can simple upload or create Microsoft Office files and share them with your Facebook friends. I think this is the first time Microsoft gets his Google Docs rival right. It’s very simple to use and you can login and share documents with something nearly every person has.