During the last 12 months Twynham has moved beyond using SharePoint as an intranet and extranet to developing Internet facing websites in SharePoint.
During the last 12 months Twynham has moved beyond using SharePoint as an intranet and extranet to developing Internet facing websites in SharePoint.
Guest Author: Marc D. Anderson
http://mdasblog.wordpress.com
So I’ve been going on about how wonderful this jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services stuff is, but you may have wondered if I ever actually use the library in real world situations. You bet I do, and it lets me build some pretty nice solutions [...]
In this article I’ll describe some of the ways that SharePoint can reduce the effort to create, manage and retrieve documents and increase their value, as smart documents, to both your firm and its clients.
The SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata feature has been my favourite topic since coming back from the SharePoint conference.
SharePoint Saturday: The Challenge of Unstructured Content, Concepts and Terminologies, Taxonomy and ECM Adoption Techniques, Why should Taxonomy matter to me
Another quick little fun thing today. Many times you might want (need) to hide the “New” button on a list toolbar. You know the one I mean? Why would you want to do such a thing? For example on a project I’m building I actually call the NewForm.aspx page with a querystring because I want to pre-populate my form with some vales. As such, I don’t want users to create new items in a list without these references and since they have to come from another list I’m left with the problem of trying to restrict them from creating new items but still offer them the ability to use the features of the list like alerts, exporting to spreadsheets, etc. Yes, the “New” button isn’t available for readers of a list but for contributors it is and for admins you can’t just turn some of this stuff off easily.
What goes into a Document Workshop? Well, the first thing would be the raw materials. In the case of documents, that would be templates. Sure, you can tie templates to Content Types but that might be overkill – this is a workshop, not an assembly line. I like attaching templates to a Custom List item that explains the purpose of the template. The other thing we might put in that list is instructions to help a new person create this type of document. Then we put up a list of contacts but not just the people on the project team; we include the people the team might need to reach out to for advice and help. We are also finding that interactive parts like discussions and wikis are useful for exploring ideas and developing content.
At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, I had the distinct pleasure to present the Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 session. The early estimates are that over 1000 people attended that session. I personally had a real good time talking about SharePoint Designer since, aside from the facts that it’s my favorite tool to customize SharePoint and that I co-authored the book on SharePoint Designer 2007, so many enhancements have been made to this product that I didn’t have to use the “maybe this feature will be included in the next version” answer even once in the session Q&A! Awesome!
What goes into a Document Workshop? Well, the first thing would be the raw materials. In the case of documents, that would be templates. Sure, you can tie templates to Content Types but that might be overkill – this is a workshop, not an assembly line. I like attaching templates to a Custom List item that explains the purpose of the template. The other thing we might put in that list is instructions to help a new person create this type of document. Then we put up a list of contacts but not just the people on the project team; we include the people the team might need to reach out to for advice and help. We are also finding that interactive parts like discussions and wikis are useful for exploring ideas and developing content.
