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How would you answer this question? What are the real reasons to use SharePoint to build this solution?

Her request led to creation of the Forms Portal, a SharePoint site designed to replace the Excel spreadsheet and facilitate access to its valuable data to the whole company.

In this article, we’ll explore the dialog functionality that comes with the SharePoint 2010 platform, and we’ll discover new ways to customize that content to create a uniquely fresh appearance for your SharePoint portal.

If you wish to utilize Ratings on a SharePoint list or library, you might think that you can do so by simply adding the “Rating (0-5)” site column to your existing list, library or content type. In fact, SharePoint will allow you to do that, however doing so may or may not provide the intended results.

I was listening to someone recount a business process the other day, (you know, the sequence of actions that result in providing value to the customer,) and something they said made me stop and ask them to repeat themselves.

SharePoint has always had some form of metadata capabilities. However the latest version includes the first attempt at managing metadata. This post is a brief introduction and overview.

This question came in my email from Fernando: I used the code from your article, Extending the DVWP – Part 22: Creating Title Based on Other Fields in jQuery. I’m having a problem when using fields that are not “Text”, for example in fields combo box or radio button the variable returns “undefined”.

I would like to set up some kind of workflow that will automatically delete a folder and all files within it two weeks after creation.

We have seen that the job can be done with SharePoint out-of-the-box tools; creating the list and library with the fields we need, and doing a simple workflow with SharePoint Designer.

I would like that list to be able to be consumed by columns across the entire site collection. Is this something that can be done?