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, ...
Criteria for Selection of the SharePoint50
“A note from Mark Miller: There have been some questions online, and to me through email, requesting detailed information on the selection of the SharePoint50. Debbie Rosen from Global 360 talked with Nick Hayes, President of Influencer50, about what was looked at during the selection process.” Debbie Rosen, Global 360: How did the SharePoint50 become the 50? Since we have published the first SharePoint50 list we have had several people ask us how the list was developed. As I wrote... [Read more]
Define Content Types for Records Management – Part 2
Guest Author: Michal Pisarek In the previous article I talked about a whole range of tips on how to define Content Types. In this article I am going to take us through the Content Types and metadata that we will use in our solution. If you are reading the rest of the series, keep this article somewhere handy because we are going to refer back to it often as we construct our solution. If you are at all confused then please leave a comment and I will get back to you. There is a lot to cover here... [Read more]
SharePoint: Integrate ASP.net controls with Forms – Part 2: Adding a DVWP Form to the page
Guest Author: Matt Bramer http://mattbramer.blogspot.com If this post doesn’t make any sense, please read over the first post in this series. I’m going to keep building on each post and then tying them together at the end. Now that Mark Miller has allowed the cowboy to run wild, let’s jump into setting up this DVWP (Data View Web Part) Edit Form. I always add a Web Part Zone to every custom page that I create. Adding these zones allow you to easily modify the page by clicking... [Read more]
Project Management With SharePoint Task Lists
Guest Author: Mark Gerow Fenwick & West Like many law firms, project management is finding its way into the lexicon of attorneys and staff at Fenwick & West. Driven by clients’ desire for more predictable legal costs, law firms are beginning to look beyond the billable hour to alternative fee arrangements. While AFAs can take many forms, they share one thing in common — they transfer the risk of cost overruns from the client to the firm. The need to better manage the... [Read more]
Combine Documents and Website Links in One SharePoint Library
Today’s question from Stump the Panel “I am new to sharepoint and am trying to set up a research library for our branch. I have created 8 bookshelves for my library using the Document Libraries. I would like to combine different document types (.pdf .doc and .xls) for a particular subject area (e.g. homelessness) and links to websites with relevant subject area information on the same ‘bookshelf’ of my library. I know that I can put in links in a Links List Library but I would... [Read more]
The SharePoint50: Top Microsoft Executives
This week we continue rolling out The SharePoint50 Project by announcing the names of the Top Executives at Microsoft who people listen to when considering purchasing SharePoint. I would venture to guess that you will know some of these through of the visibility they have because of their position at Microsoft, but some you won’t. Take you best guess before clicking through to read the bios. We’ve been asked to publish the criteria by which each of the SharePoint50 was selected. I’ll... [Read more]
Introduction to My Sites in SharePoint 2007
I was flipping through SlideShare.net this morning and did a search for SharePoint. The first one that came up had over 50,000+ views! What could be THAT interesting in SharePoint, enough to convince 50,000 people to view it? My Sites by Robert Wurhman. I’ve embedded the presentation below. It’s essential that we get a clear picture of the purpose of My Sites as we move forward into a more socially oriented SharePoint. I’m interested in your feedback… is this subject worth... [Read more]
Real Life Example with SPServices: Telephone List Gadget
Author: Marc D. Anderson http://mdasblog.wordpress.com Kevin Carbonaro posted a neat little gadget example to the SPServices Discussions today, and I thought it was slick enough that it deserved a blog post. The pundits out there may look at this and say “Well, he should have done it with…” or “That’s not best practice because…”. Hey, even I wrote back to Kevin and said that I would probably have done this with a Data View Web Part (DVWP) instead.... [Read more]
SharePoint 2010 Search Locations in Windows 7
Guest Author: Agnes Molnar http://aghy.dotneteers.net SharePoint 2010 has very powerful search capabilities, especially with the integrated FAST Search Server. But in this part of my series I don’t want to show you the server-side search capabilities but some client side gotchas instead. SharePoint 2010 Search in Windows 7 Windows 7 is the first operation system with the capability to use external search providers as federated search locations – and yes, this federated location... [Read more]
Susan Lennon on Resources for Producing a SharePoint Saturday Event
I caught up with Susan Lennon at SharePoint Saturday in Boston. During our conversation, I discovered that the SharePoint Saturday Coordination Team (Susan, Eric Harlan and Michael Lotter) have resources for people considering producing a SharePoint Saturday in their area. This 5 minute video is of Susan talking about the steps and processes you’ll need to go through to get your event setup. In addition to what you see here, there are other sites where event producers add their imput from their... [Read more]
SharePoint Saturday UK: Post Mortem
I just spent a remarkable weekend at SharePoint Saturday UK in Birmingham, England. The event was hosted by Tony Pounder, Brett Lonsdale and Mark Macrae. It was outstanding on several fronts. It was the first SharePoint Saturday in the UK. Some people didn’t think it would work that well because it’s assumed that Europeans would not want to give up their Saturday, a Ryder Cup Saturday at that, to come and hear about SharePoint. With over 400 people registered, that theory was put to rest... [Read more]
SharePoint 2010 and Visio 2010: Better Together – Part 4
Guest Author: Wictor Wilén http://www.wictorwilen.se/ Welcome back to the fourth episode of the SharePoint 2010 and Visio 2010: Better together series. Last time we finished looking at workflows by enhancing the workflow with a visual representation of the workflow process. This visualization was made by Visio Services. Visio Services is a server side rendering engine for Visio that runs as a Service Application in SharePoint. Service Applications were introduced to SharePoint... [Read more]
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