Poll for SharePoint
Guest Author: Alexander Bautz SharePoint JavaScripts This code lets you generate polls using JavaScript/jQuery only. No need for server side installed WebParts. Poll Result with bar chart Result with column chart Result with pie chart The charts are generated using Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API). Create a custom list with the following fields Answer: Single line of text Question: Single line of text Name it anything you like, but keep the display name fairly simple (no special characters) as you will use the display name in the ...
SharePoint Solution for Interdepartmental Business Process – Phase 1: Form Initiation
Guest Author: Nancy Skaggs Background We are a specialty commercial insurance company (Excess and Surplus Lines) that was acquired/merged with a larger corporate parent a couple of years ago. We continue to be challenged by the need to make our processes and practices more transparent to our parent company, especially since they have no experience with the type of business we write. Over time we have developed thousands of policy forms specific to our niche market. The process surrounding form creation, use and maintenance is a primary company function. The Regulatory department ...
SharePoint Managed Metadata Overview
Guest Author: Sharon Richardson SharePoint.Sharon 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. First a quick (and very basic) primer on what is metadata. It is simply data about data – the stuff that describes a document (or any digital artefact). The title, author and date modified are all metadata properties. You can define your own properties such as category (what’s it about) or status (public, confidential). Metadata typically comes ...
Making Sense of SharePoint’s Workflow and BPM Capabilities
Guest Author: Ahmed Hafeez Edgewater Technology Workflow and BPM often get lumped together but it is important to understand the difference between them if you are to pick the right tool for your enterprise. While it is generally agreed that workflow is for modeling simple sequential processes and BPM solutions are more capable of handling complex tasks the distinction between the two needs to be further sharpened. According to David McCoy of Gartner BPM can be defined as “… a structured approach employing methods, policies, metrics, management practices and software tools to ...
The SharePoint Maturity Model, Version 1.0
Guest Author: Sadie Van Buren A Matter of Degree As SharePoint gains in popularity and adoption worldwide, an increasing number of resources are available to help organizations understand and navigate the different aspects of this platform. What’s missing is a cohesive way to analyze and understand the system as a whole. Yet many experts have observed that, although SharePoint implementations vary from organization to organization, there is a typical progression of implementation, upward through each functional area and across the areas together. I created the SharePoint Maturity Model to apply a holistic view ...
SharePoint Community Events Need You: How You Can Get Involved – Part 1
Guest Author: Christian Buckley http://buckleyplanet.net One of the best things about the SharePoint community is that people really want to get involved and share their experiences. At a recent SharePoint Saturday event in Boston, I had a great conversation with a developer who had been through a couple deployments, and asked how he could best share his experiences and add to the vast best practice knowledgebase that is the SharePoint community. At the most recent SharePointPalooza event, held in beautiful downtown Seattle, I met several local end users who shared their perspectives on productivity solutions, ...
Connecting the Content Query Webpart to a Document Library filtered by a Meta Tag
Guest Author: Andy Hodges SharePoint Rescue I found a bit of an obvious feature of the Content Query Webpart that enables you to connect to a document library that is filtered with the same Meta Tag filter that you are using as the query for this webpart. The new document centre feature of SharePoint 2010 enables documents to be filtered and searched by Meta Tags that are associated with those documents. In a traditional business you may have departmental sites and document libraries... [Read more]
Why should I do this in SharePoint?
Guest Author: Olaf Didszun SERVICEPORTALS IT-Systeme GmbH Last week we had a meeting, at one of my customers, to do some knowhow transfer about our current project. In this project I created a site template with several fields and content types to do permission reviews for the systems in this company. Because we have a dependency on the features, I created in this project, I started at the beginning. I described how we have created the fields and how we have created the content types,... [Read more]
Poll for SharePoint
Guest Author: Alexander Bautz SharePoint JavaScripts This code lets you generate polls using JavaScript/jQuery only. No need for server side installed WebParts. Poll Result with bar chart Result with column chart Result with pie chart The charts are generated using Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API). Create a custom list with the following fields Answer: Single line of text Question: Single line of text Name it anything you like, but keep the display name fairly simple... [Read more]
SharePoint: Integrate ASP.net controls with Forms – Part 6: Bonus: Embed documents to pages
Guest Author: Matt Bramer http://mattbramer.blogspot.com I’ve been thinking about a few comments I’ve received during this series. Specifically, this comment from Jeremy on EUSP: “Would adding a document view/preview window be possible? It sounds like it might fit into where you are headed with this project.” I initially wrote that it would not be possible without some code. That comment is still valid, but I’ve gone ahead and written the code to display certain... [Read more]
Stop being so damn polite! Tell them what you need.
I was working with a client this week, drawing out what a good solution would be for a project she was working on when this statement came out, “Oh, just do what’s easiest.” There were three people on the call: the site admin who will implement the solution, the end client who needs the solution, and me to lead the discovery process. We were talking about a small solution that needs to hold a couple hundred documents. The discussion was centered around how people will find the documents... [Read more]
Is SharePoint good for ECM?
Guest Author: Wahid Saleemi http://www.wahidsaleemi.com For some reason, many companies (mostly larger ones) don’t really consider SharePoint a good ECM platform. In fact, even some SharePoint administrators are dismissive of it’s ECM capabilities. Perhaps there’s been a quiet campaign against labeling SharePoint as an ECM platform or perhaps it’s just tough to leave the perception of SharePoint 2001 & 2003 behind. It seems this is prevalent throughout the IT circles... [Read more]
QOTD: Filter a Column with Multiple Users
Author: Eric Alexander, Moderator, Stump the Panel Dave_S writes on Stump the Panel: I have a list that contains 3 user (peoplepicker) columns. Two of the columns only allow for a single entry (user) so filtering on [ME] works fine. The 3rd column gets its users from workflow and allows for multiple users (seperated by semi-colon) so filtering for "3rd column contains [ME] does not work. I don’t believe I can overcome this by creating a data view web part as the source includes... [Read more]
How Much Does SharePoint Cost?
Guest Author: Clare Stone Pentalogic Technology One of the top questions you’ll ask if you’re looking at deploying a SharePoint solution for your organization is – how much is this going to cost us? While the exact answer depends on the size of your business and what you want from SharePoint, this post will look at the cost of entering the SharePoint sphere. There are many options available and many variables that may come into play here – so the figures we are... [Read more]
What makes a good SharePoint Analyst?
Guest Author: Michal Pisarek With SharePoint being such a new technology, and unique in the skill sets required, the role of SharePoint Analyst has become a role that seems to encompass many differing skill sets. But what exactly is a SharePoint Analyst and does the role of the SharePoint Analyst differ from a more traditional Business Analyst? For me the SharePoint Analyst role is a unique combination of platform knowledge, business acumen and interpersonal skills. Someone that is comfortable... [Read more]
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Kicking Off A Sharepoint Workflow from a Button, and [Much] More!
Author: Marc D. Anderson http://mdasblog.wordpress.com A little while ago, I noticed that a fellow named Rob Doyle was asking some interesting questions about working with workflows in the SPServices Discussions. If you’re not familiar with SPServices, it’s my jQuery library which helps you to relatively easily work with the SharePoint Web Services. It also gives you what I call ‘value-added functions” which can really easily let you dress up your list and library forms... [Read more]
SharePoint Search as the Universal Interface
Listening to Peter Morville, SearchPatterns.org, deliver the keynote at KMWorld two weeks ago changed the way I think about interface design. I speak a lot at conferences, usually floating in and out of sessions just to get a taste of what’s going on, but Peter’s talk stopped me in my tracks. From my perspective, his entire approach was new. I’m including some of my notes from from his talk below, but what stood out for me was thinking about search as the universal user interface.... [Read more]
InfoPath and UserProfileServices: what can be done…
Guest Author: Pascal Poeck SharePoint AfterWork Most of the time, when I use InfoPath forms in SharePoint, I need to capture the current user name to put it on my form. Nothing very complicated about that but this time I want to retrieve the other properties of my user that I can find in my Active Directory. The idea is to create a kind of badge that I will use on the Human Ressources page of my Intranet like this one: As you can see, all of the fields on my form come from my User Profile,... [Read more]
