Monday, June 29, 2009
3 Minute Screencast: Create support links in a SharePoint WSS Dashboard
One of the recommendations I give in all of my SharePoint Site Administration Workshops is for every site to have contact information for the site manager in the top, right corner of the entrance page to every site. In this screencast, I show how to use LyteBox functionality to open a support contact page without losing the context of the underlying page.
Access to support pages, the use of LyteBox, and other techniques for creating dashboards in WSS, are included in the Tuesday, June 30 live online workshop, Case Studies in SharePoint WSS Dashboards. The workshop is a three hour, live online, hands on session where you are given your own SharePoint sandbox to practice implementing the dashboard solutions.
I also dumbfounded by the lack of some sort of “Site owner” web part in the current version of MOSS. I mean in a corporate env. where u potentially have thousands of site and want to enforce corporate standards for pages you don’t want to create this sort “customizing” for every site. What I’d prefer is a web part or a control that can be made a part of the master page so that when a new site is created and owners are assigned it gets dynamically populated for every user to see. I’m yet to find a solution like this, and looks like I’ll have to build something myself.
Otherwise – cool tip. Thanks,
Alex.