How to Manage SharePoint Site Permissions
Update: 2010-02-04 Sharon has confirmed the time for this event: 1:00pm EST (NYC). Event time and date: February 8, 2010, 1:00pm EST. Because of the overwhelming number of people interested in this event, our internal servers can not be used for the session. Dux Raymond Sy from Innovative-e has volunteered to sponsor the session through Live Meeting. That bumps us up to the ability to host 1000 people! Thanks Dux. Please register immediately to confirm your live online, virtual "seat" for this event. We'll be running the same setup that worked so well for SharePoint Saturday EMEA. While Live Meeting is running, we'll have ...
How to get an SPD Workflow to Run at a Specific Time – Employee Vacation Reminder: Part 1
Dessie Lunsford Points-of-Sharing In this article, we’re going to look at how to fire off an SPD workflow at a specific time of day for a fixed number of days. Thanks to “IAIN” on the “STP Forums” (once again) for asking the question on how to build this out for use with an employee vacation tracking list. The Setup The question we have is, how do we tell a workflow to fire off at a specific time of day (8 AM for example) in order to send out an email reminder to let people know who’s on vacation for ...
Avatar, the Movie: SharePoint Navigation Re-creation Introduction
Guest Author: Christina Wheeler Introduction When Mark tweeted about the Avatar movie navigation and asked if I was up to take on re-creating the navigation for SharePoint I was thrilled. Being an old graphic designer and flash designer I was excited to start picking apart the navigation and figuring out how I could rebuild it for SharePoint. Avatar’s Website When you go to the Avatar site and click “Enter the Official Site” you are taken to a flash page that contains the sliding menu that I am attempting to re-create. Before I can attempt the re-creation, ...
Build a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center
This article is part of a series as I document my processes of discovery for creating jQuery solutions in SharePoint. To view the entire series, click the link at the bottom of this article to view all of the articles in the series. — Mark I laid the groundwork for my jQuery investigations in a previous article. Now that I've done a little research, I've started building out a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center. The SSRC is at the top of the site collection, and set to "Read Only" access for all users of the site collection. I used a SharePoint wiki ...
A jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (WSS 3.0 and MOSS): Part 1 – Why and Why Now?
Guest Author: Marc D. Anderson Sympraxis Consulting LLC Even back in the old days (late 2006) when I first started working with SharePoint 2007, I was surprised how little interactivity there was within pages. Sure the drag and drop way to add Web Parts to pages and move them around had some “wow factor”, but most users wouldn’t even get to see that. In general, the UI for the average user was a do-something-and-watch-the-page-refresh affair. There were good considerations for ...
Adoption Tip 3 of 8: Communicate the Context of SharePoint in the Environment
Author: Lee Reed While a moose crossing sign may make sense when you are traveling across the wide open spaces of Alaska, it certainly doesn’t make sense when you are driving in downtown Atlanta. The context of the sign simply doesn’t resonate in Atlanta as it does in Alaska. In similar fashion, the context of SharePoint must be communicated to your users in order for them to adopt it. Is SharePoint Replacing Any Existing Systems? To provide the proper context for SharePoint’s use in your company you need to address whether or not SharePoint will replace any ...
SharePoint CEWP Solution Interface – Part II
Introduction Now let's get to the meat of this solution. How do we implement this? This article will show how to implement the basic CEWP Solution Interface. The next articles will start to add the bells and whistles. If you have not read the first article in this series please read the first article first and then come back here. First Article can be found here: SharePoint CEWP Solution Interface – Introduction So, a recap, we are putting a solution together that will make is easier for the end user to ...
Live from SPTechCon in San Francisco, it’s the EUSP Twitter Tracker!
Ok, we’re at it again. If you missed all the live blogging fun and excitement at SharePoint Conference 2009, we’re going to do the same thing at SPTechCon this week. We’ve got a bunch of people who who will be live blogging the sessions directly from the conference sessions. In addition, I’ve setup the EUSP Live Twitter Tracker so that you can follow all the tweets coming out of the conference. If you are tweeting from the conference, please include the #SPTechCon hash in... [Read more]
Managing SharePoint 2007 Site Permission: Video Download
Sharon Richardson of JoiningDots.net delivered a lively EUSP Live Online session this morning on Managing SharePoint 2007 Site Permissions. If you weren’t able to attend the session, we are making it available for download as a live meeting presentation. Download the package and expand it on your local harddrive for viewing. This was an overview of the full, EUSP Live Online Workshop that Sharon will be giving on March 1, 2010. We will be going over best practices for setting up a security... [Read more]
Adoption Tip 8 of 8: Implement SharePoint ‘In the Flow’ of Business
Author: Lee Reed Implementing SharePoint in the flow of business means that SharePoint’s capabilities and your user’s needs meet at right time and the right place. For users to adopt SharePoint, these capabilities must meet the user where they are; meaning that they must provide the power that’s needed to solve the user’s current challenge while also being easy enough for the user to understand and implement. When SharePoint is implemented outside of the ... [Read more]
SharePoint: Making the Most of Content Types (Screencast)
Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL SharePoint 911 In this screencast, Laura Rogers explains a unique way of using SharePoint content types to function as status levels for list items. This solution does not involve any custom code, and the concept is useful in WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010. There is also an associated step-by-step blog post: Using Content types as Statuses. Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL SharePoint 911 Read More →
Make Your SharePoint Site More Intuitive
Marcy Kellar and I have been waving at each other in passing over the past year, but have never had time to slowdown and do a little work together. Last week at SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis, she delivered a well received presentation on the SharePoint UI. We’re posting the slidedeck below, along with updated comments by Marcy to get you started. — Mark Make Your SharePoint Site More Intuitive — Marcy Kellar One of the indicators of a successful SharePoint implementation is high... [Read more]
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 5: xsl:param
Author: Marc D. Anderson http://mdasblog.wordpress.com <xsl:param> A value you’ve passed into a template with <xsl:with-param>. You need to have an <xsl:param> at the top of the template for each value you expect to be passed into it. I talked in the last post about passing values into templates using <xsl:with-param>. Whenever you pass these values, you need to tell the “receiving” template to expect them. You do this by using the <xsl:param>... [Read more]
Birthday Gifts for my Extended SharePoint Family
This is an excerpt from the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter that went out on February 3rd. A friend of mine, Michael Cortez, introduced me to a birthday tradition he has in his family where the person having the birthday gives out gifts to everyone else in the family. I really like that a lot. Since today is my birthday, I’ve got a little gift for you, my extended SharePoint family. “Leading the Dispersed Workforce” is a summary of research done by Richard R. Reilly and... [Read more]
Avatar, the Movie: SharePoint Navigation Re-creation – Part 1
Guest Author: Christina Wheeler Introduction In this article I will show you how to re-create the scrolling boxes (without content) using jQuery Tools JavaScript library. jQuery Tools One of the approaches that I am taking with re-creating the Avatar navigation in SharePoint is using jQuery Tools which is part of the jQuery Tools JavaScript Library written by Tero Piirainen (@jquerytools). jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user interface components which are tooltips, overlays,... [Read more]
SharePoint Saturday EMEA Recording: Intro and Keynote
I’ve been having difficulty getting the SharePoint Saturday EMEA recordings to play over an http connection, so I’m going to make them available for download so that you can play them locally. Each session is contained within a zip file. Expand the zip file into a folder on your harddrive. There will be an HTML file with the name of the session. Click that file, accept the request to run an Active-X control and things should play properly. The first session available for download is... [Read more]
Adoption Tip 7 of 8: Define What Collaboration Looks Like
Author: Lee Reed When you don’t take the time to define what collaboration means in your environment then you won’t have a baseline to compare current-state against previous-state to determine if your project has been a success or not. Take time before your SharePoint project starts and discuss what collaboration means within your organization. Define it. Test the definition. Ask people throughout your company how they define collaboration in order to build... [Read more]
Upcoming Live Online SharePoint Workshops by EndUserSharePoint.com
I’ve spent the past week working with the live online workshop presenters to confirm a schedule for upcoming workshops. We will be offering the workshops as a discounted package or series of workshops this time because of numerous requests. Here’s the way it will work. When we announce the schedule later this week, only series purchases will be available. We have bundled them into specific topics, such as SharePoint Site Administration, Project Management Dashboards, etc. Each series... [Read more]
Adding Custom Actions to the List Item Menu in SharePoint 2010 Using SharePoint Designer 2010
Guest Author: Geoff Varosky In SharePoint 2010, it is easier than ever to add custom actions that are scoped to a specific list using SharePoint Designer 2010. So today, I am going to walk you through the process. In a related post on my blog, I showed you how to surface ULS logs using SharePoint Designer 2010, an External Content Type, and an External List. We’re going to use that list as our base for our custom action. Our phony business case for this custom action is such – We... [Read more]
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 4: xsl:with-param
Author: Marc D. Anderson http://mdasblog.wordpress.com <xsl:with-param> You use this with <xsl:call-template> when you want to pass a value into a template, usually a value that varies. Once you’ve laid down the foundation and framed the rooms with <xsl:template> and <xsl:call-template> (one of my goals in this series is to mix as many metaphors as possible), you can start building out. <xsl:with-param> is the way you can send variable information into a template... [Read more]
SharePoint 2010 – External Lists
Guest Author:Brett Lonsdale SharePoint 2010 has introduced a new type of List called the External List. The External List is used for displaying content that comes from Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Enterprise content types. Business Connectivity Services is the replacement in SharePoint 2010 for The Business Data Catalog (BDC) in SharePoint 2007. The BDC provided a read only view of your line of business data allowing you to display the data in Web Parts, Search... [Read more]
jQuery Blogging Part Deux
Guest Author: Jason MacKenzie Intelligence Among Us This is a continuation of my previous post on enhancing the SharePoint Blog user interface with jQuery. In that sample I demonstrated how to use jQuery along with a customized Content Query Web Part in order to create a nice accordion effect for recent blog comments. In this example I will take things further and demonstrate: How to include the most recent blog posts using jQuery to create a nice scrolling effect Use the concepts introduced... [Read more]
How to Manage SharePoint Site Permissions
Update: 2010-02-04 Sharon has confirmed the time for this event: 1:00pm EST (NYC). Event time and date: February 8, 2010, 1:00pm EST. Because of the overwhelming number of people interested in this event, our internal servers can not be used for the session. Dux Raymond Sy from Innovative-e has volunteered to sponsor the session through Live Meeting. That bumps us up to the ability to host 1000 people! Thanks Dux. Please register immediately to confirm your live online, virtual “seat”... [Read more]
The Anatomy of a SharePoint Event: SPSEMEA Post Mortem
This is the third article in a series of articles on how the EUSP team coordinated and produced SharePoint Saturday EMEA. The first article walked through the runup to the event. The second article talks about what happened during the event. This article will sum up the final evaluation of the event and what we will do better next time. By any criteria I set, I consider SharePoint Saturday EMEA a resounding success! And no, that’s not coming from an objective third party, but what Toni,... [Read more]
Free Training: The New SharePoint 2010 User Interface
There were tons of complaints about Microsoft’s lack of documentation and training when they rolled out SharePoint 2007. That doesn’t seem to be the case with 2010. Even though the product won’t be used by most people for another year or two, I see new stuff coming out everyday. The Microsoft Office Online Training crew is already busy getting the pieces together to make it easier for SharePoint End Users to get a handle on what’s coming. They have just released a new training... [Read more]
Style a Page using the Content Editor Web Part and CSS
Author: Devin Walker DLOCC, Inc. Do you have pages that look bland that you want to add some color to? Perhaps you would like some a background behind your web part titles. Maybe you want to hide the recycle bin on one page, but not another. Using the Content Editor Web Part you are able to add CSS to a page to customize its look and feel. This is a great alternative to modifying core.css, using SharePoint Designer or other methods (such as specifying a custom CSS file in site settings).... [Read more]
SharePoint Folders vs. Metadata
Guest Author: Eugene Rosenfeld Things that Should be Easy There are many posts out there extolling the virtues of using metadata over folders for organizing information in SharePoint 2007. I certainly believe that metadata is a great tool for for classifying information, but it is incorrect to ask whether to use folders or metadata to organize information. Rather, it is more appropriate to ask when to use folders and when to use metadata. This post is not intended to be an in-depth... [Read more]
