SharePoint Use Cases

In last few years I worked with many clients in different industries. Every company I worked with had one application in common: a centralized phonebook. These apps are usually written by some IT rookie that had a desire to show how good his at “3 letter acronym” technology (ASP, PHP…) Phonebooks are being used when [...]

Scenario Let’s consider the following scenario: Your company is working with a partner. All support requests are being submitted via email. You have a a team of people submitting requests: Furthermore, sometimes you need to include additional people on your side. The communication channels might get even more complicated (the more employees you have working [...]

At Stump the Panel forum of End User SharePoint Maurice asked: I have a bunch of documents that need to be audited every six months. This their a way that a reminder can be set up to remind the owner of the document that its time to review the document? Laura Rogers suggested the following [...]

We had a SharePoint site that was organized as shown on the following picture. Each project had it’s own site but in each document library we wanted to connect a document with an asset stored in a central site and unique custom list. We could not use Lookup column because we wanted to be able [...]

Last week I was listening to SharePoint Pod Show – Episode #16 where Brett interviewed Todd Bleeker. Todd presented some of the benefits of custom SharePoint field types which reminded me of a project we have finished few days ago. Problem A customer wanted to integrate proprietary LOB system (project management application) with SharePoint. Their [...]

As we are approaching Christmas season many corporations will be sending gifts to customers and business partners. For third year in a row we are using Microsoft CRM to organize the process. Here is how you can do it: Create a marketing list If you are sending different kinds of gifts, create one list per [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Selling SharePoint (document management system / collaboration platform) to customers is not easy. There are two approaches you can take when selling SharePoint: It works the way you business does [:)] – Microsoft’s approach I believe that SharePoint really is very good platform but it is not an out-of-box solution. If you are experienced partner, [...]