{"id":884,"date":"2015-04-19T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-05-01T10:11:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T10:11:49","slug":"sharepoint-saturday-belgium-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/sharepoint-saturday-belgium-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint Saturday Belgium wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just woken up at home after another excellent SharePoint Saturday Belgium! The BIWUG guys always organise a great event and this one was no exception so thank you very much to them and good luck to the new Board members stepping up this year. Running a user group is hard work, but very rewarding and these guys really know their stuff and how to run a good show!<\/p>\n

We had a change in venue this year, we were based at the ALM conference facilities in Antwerp. A great venue and an excellent city which I wish I’d had more time to see. Unfortunately as it’s the London SharePoint Evolution conference starting on Monday, I needed to spend some time at home so I came straight back after the prize giving (and I really wanted one of those drones! Which alas I failed to grab!).<\/p>\n

I was up first session which is a slot I actually really enjoy as people are (generally) fresh faced and keen having come all the way to a SharePoint Saturday in their own time! I had a pretty packed room to listen to my “Building an FAQ in SharePoint” session. This is I think the fourth time I’ve given this session and I only had one minor problem with one of my demos, luckily the “Blue Peter” demo was working fine although I think only the UK attendees really got the reference!<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the session as the audience were really engaged, one of whom picked up on a comment I made and tweeted it. It was an off the cuff comment, but it is something I believe..<\/p>\n

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I was talking about deploying content types across multiple site collections which for my FAQ session generally focuses on the methods available to the end user. So primarily you have two, manual configuration and the content type hub. My comment was really relating to manual configuration and that you can pretty much guarantee if you have a repetitive manual process, such as creating Site Columns and Content Types across multiple site collections, then you will get human error creeping in.. It might be something simple, like a spelling mistake in the description, but more likely it’ll be a real issue, like a miss spelling in the Column name which of course means the internal name is forever miss-spelled and your display templates won’t work for that content type.<\/p>\n

The slides from the session are available on slideshare by following this link.<\/a><\/p>\n

As this was really an End User session, I only touched briefly on other options for Content Type deployments, but next week at the London SharePoint Evolutions conference, I’ll be building a solution in Office 365 and as part of the demos for that, we’ll be deploying Site Columns and Content Types across multiple site collections using PowerShell and CSOM! All the scripts for that will be available on my blog after the session.<\/p>\n

I also made time to attend the sessions of some fellow speakers and friends.<\/p>\n