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Thursday, April 29, 2010

SharePoint Quick Launch menu?

below shows what the Quick Start menu. This question just wanted to make sure you know the terminology and which is assigned to. In the largest section we will use this terminology for the left menu shown in the figure below.

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Use of SQL Server in share point?

SQL Server is used to store content and configuration information. We have two types of databases a database is the content and the other is the configuration database. We had previously said that the content is based on each site. So every site has its own content database. For example, if we have a web site payroll and recruitment they have their database of your own content. database configuration is for the entire site to be used in web farms, site configuration and many other things that are generic and common to all sites.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

SharePoint Design (Secret to my CSS Trickery)

It may be painfully obvious, but if not... I go about doing lots of tiny things here and there in the SharePoint user interface (UI) by manipulating the display using CSS and IDs and class names that are already in the code. Luckily there's a lot of ID/classes assigned to elements in the page, and if you know a tiny about CSS, you can use it to your advantage to morph or hide UI items. This process is how I hide the Site Settings (#SettingsOrReturnURL {display: none}) and My Site (#hlMySite  {display: none}) links for portal.

Adjusting the user interface is as easy as a reference source on the page, or what I like now is the use of partial views of the origin of which is part of Internet Explorer 5 Web Developer Accessories. View the source and see if there is any kind of identification or names related to the topic, or search for a level up or so and see if any ID or class names associated with the container. Sometimes you can change things by grouping and nesting in your CSS.

Store your CSS changes to your custom CSS file or in a Content Editor Web Part on the page. It is clean, requires no programming and is easy on your changes back to the user interface.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Document Library and SQL Server, SharePoint

Years ago, SharePoint 2007 is about to appear on the market, SharePoint 2003 seems to be something that is history now (Exaggerating ...). Many companies have adopted SharePoint for the past one year. The good thing is that I've seen a lot of small businesses acquiring SharePoint during the past year. SharePoint's popularity is growing day by day and is considered a top-level product portal.

Document libraries are collections of files you can share with team members on a network based on Windows SharePoint Services. Want to know more about the document libraries? Read more about the libraries of documents on this site:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/assistance/ha011412871033.aspx

This link will show you how to create and use a document library. You can extend the functionality of these libraries of documents using the "Event Handler Toolkit" that can be downloaded from the Microsoft site.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4B2C2F1B-D74A-482A-903A-45BB44C5DEC4&displaylang=en

Suppose, whenever a document is added in the document library, you want to collect the name of the document and the time it was added, in the database. How can you do that? Why would you do that? You can capture events evoked in the document library. When ever a document is added, updated, deleted, etc, you can capture the event and add your own business logic or simply capture document data and store it in the database. Why would you store document information in the database? Well, there can be many reasons. You may want to create reports for the senior management who may want to look at the documents added to the library from time to time. You may want to track the document history or you may want to add a workflow to your document library. All this can be done by using the “Event Handler Toolkit”.

Before, they proceed, let me tell you the purpose of writing this. There's plenty of excellent articles on the net that show you how to capture document library events and do processing but still plenty of people come to me and ask me the same query again and again and the query is related to the capturing of document information and storing it in SQL Server. Seeing the demand, I decided to write a small news story that will show you how you can capture the document information in the library and store it in SQL Server. You can do so plenty of things, for example:

  1. When a document is added, you can copy or move it to another document library.
  2. You can delete a document.
  3. You can capture document information and store it in SQL Server.
  4. You can update document information by updating the properties associated with the document.
  5. You can add workflow mechanism to your document library. For example, when a document is added to the document library, you send an email to the approver and ask him to approve the document. Document, after getting approval from approver 1, goes to approver 2 and so on.
These are only some of the important things that you can do with Document Library EventHandler. I wish I could show you all of the above in my article but unfortunately that is not possible due to shortage of time but I promise I will try my best to update this tutorial from time to time and add more content to it. In this article, we will see how you can capture document information when a document is inserted in the library and store this information in a DB.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Providing a Platform for Document Sharing and Collaboration

One of the innovative solutions based on web document management and collaboration is Microsoft SharePoint. Can be used to generate web-sites with shared documents, and special applications such as forums, blogs, Wiki, etc. The information can also be edited by a control panel appears on the pages. SharePoint, as the name suggests, presents a wide range of information sharing and collaboration is feasible both users and developers. This also explains why the SharePoint development has become much more popular in recent times.

Based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint offers a message of fully functional portal installation. Many organizations have benefited from the installation. It gives a suitable structure of a base to build a single workspace. Server options include news, themes, catalogs, private websites, creating websites, and tools for searching or viewing the information, employees and working groups. SharePoint Server can serve up to 1,000,000 end users, who are registered in Active Directory, all at the same time. It also has a capacity of 250 pages per second. The high performance and scalability has led many organizations to opt for SharePoint development.

SharePoint is also known for flexibility and adaptability that gives developers and users. Provides additional Web components that can be managed flexibly. Users can configure portal pages by simply dragging and dropping components to the pages. The search function of this tool allows a user to find information, people, websites and work groups with keywords or search terms.

Another advantageous feature of this tool is that you can sort by topic. This feature allows easy and convenient to search for data from different categories including documents, web pages and data from people. After locating a document, users can protect or check out documents and to go back to a previously visited document. SharePoint also provides a series of events, tasks, and links. An option is also available for defining new lists, which comes in handy in solving tasks. SharePoint developers that represent a wide range of collaborative opportunities for different work groups within the same organization or between organizations.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Drawing a Target on Your Users with SharePoint

One of the challenges with most portals, including intranets, is maintaining the relevance of the information that the user sees and interacts with. You will hear a ton about the relevance of search, but relatively little is said about what is shown on the main page. Some organizations focus on the home pages as simple landing pages, a place for links to other sites. Others seek to serve relevant content, but too often there are substantial parts of a corporate intranet home page that simply are not relevant. If you are in Indianapolis, the important thing is the company picnic that takes place in New York?

In our culture of information overload that we have supporters to block advertising and other items unrelated to the content of a page and still ad blocking
is widely used. We can filter information ourselves, but we can filter information for users they love. The more focused we can make our content better user experience. Fortunately, SharePoint has several ways that we can deliver customized content to users and groups.

One Size Fits All

Perhaps in some things one size fits all. The golf balls are regulation size and in that sense one size fits all. However, in most things we want to be unique, expressive and interesting. If you do not believe me walk in the mall and the wide range of mobile phones covers that are available. It is not enough compared to the plaques that can have any color you want. That's not all. The mobile phone must be unique as you what is holographic screen savers, and other "bling bling" to make it unique.

Although I can not advocate putting "bling bling" on the homepage of its website, it is evident that individuals are just that - individual. They need different information at different times and for different reasons. Part of the development of a portal is focused on developing a solution that adapts to the main user groups and try to meet their specific needs.
In SharePoint there are three basic ways to solve this problem as explained in the following sections.

In-Part Personalization

Perhaps the easiest way to manage the customization is to have the elements to include in its Web page to manage their own customization. Whether a Web Part to the time it asks for your zip code and remember the visit to visit or web element that remembers your search preferences, SharePoint Web Parts can have personalized information that enables users to customize their unique preferences - - if the parties supporting it anywhere.

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