SharePoint Use Cases

In Part 1 of this post I outlined a use case for using list items counter. In this post I will describe how you can create such a web part.
Prerequisites:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
One contacts list (or any other list) with some sample data
Basic knowledge of HTML and XSLT

Step by step guide

Open the page you [...]

A customer recently approached me with a simple request: how to show total number of employees on his home page.
They are using a SharePoint Contacts list as a central phone book for their company. It is an interesting use case and I will try to provide more details about it in future posts.
Although you can [...]

An anonymous reader asked:
Do i need cals for read-only users sharepoint server 2007?
SharePoint does not recognize a read-only license. You will need to buy a CAL for each user that is accessing your data. Each client computer accessing Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Office Forms Server 2007 requires a valid CAL. There are two [...]

In previous articles I wrote about configuring scopes in SharePoint and Search Server 2008 (Part 1 | Part 2). One additional question that I would like to explain is scopes dropwodn configuration.

Configuring Scopes
Scopes are controlled by Site Settings > Search Settings, here is the list of available options:

Option
Result

Default Scope > If you choose not to [...]

A reader Ajay asked:
I have a requirement where I need to send automatic emails to the submitter of the out of the box approval workflow once its finished. I tried to create SharePoint workflow for sending email in the item changed event, but no hit. Would be grateful if you can provide a solution for [...]

Believe it or not, it is time for Microsoft CRM 5.0. It will probably be released as part of Office14 wave (target year 2010) but there is already some information about the new features.
Simon Hutson a very nice post with information about new features, and from SharePoint perspective the most important feature is the ability [...]

I am sometimes really amazed with cool features of Google Applications. They have just released a new feature for GMail, that allows you to make voice and video calls from your GMail interface. Very cool :))))

In every major project we are running, there is always a request to store some additional metadata to SharePoint. Usually this data describes :

processes running on SharePoint platform
document attributes
users

…or customer just wants to have the same, familiar web interface or a single web application for the end user.
Few days ago I stumbled upon a discussion [...]