SharePoint Use Cases

In my previous posts about blogging from Word I mentioned that Word 2007 and SharePoint are great when working together. But in SharePoint blog is not available as a feature but as a site so you need to create one site per each blog. That’s fine if you are using a blog site for blogging, but since it is a great feature I wanted to use it for content production in general.

We started our intranet using the default “Collaboration Portal“ template and modified it according to our needs (see figure below).

Our home page displayed newly created pages (news) in standard news format like simplified version of BBC News web site. The biggest problem for our team was very complex and time consuming procedure for formatting texts and adding pictures to news pages.

Therefore I decided to replace standard MOSS Pages concept with a blog site. We created a new subsite below the root site using the blog template. This site is hidden from main navigation so users do not see it. (Blog site is displayed on figure below and titled “News”)

Then we modified ItemStyle.xsl and used the newly created template for Content query web part. CQWP was placed on the home page.

Key benefits in this scenario:
• Ease of use for content editors (easy to use formatting, automatic picture storing…)
• Users do not need training to create new posts
• Visitors can post comments

You will need to change CommonViewFileds property of CQWP:
Title,Text;Body,RichHTML;Author,User;PostCategory,Lookup; NumComments,Lookup;PublishedDate,Date;LinkUrl,Text
Modified template for ItemStyle.xsl is:

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