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SharePoint User Profiles Service Application has a lot of nice and very useful features but it misses one small but important thing. Customers often want to display all their contacts (from User Profile Store) in a single list, phonebook style. Here is a simple solution how to achieve this with a PowerShell script. The script [...]

At Acceleratio, we often receive various use case requests from customers using our product Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint, here are few of those use cases: Use case – Upgrading farms or resuming maintenance after rogue admin left Customer writes: I have taken over administration of a SharePoint farm at [enter company name here] and will [...]

I recently hired two employees for my company. The process is usually simple, an opening is posted on local jobs site and all the job applications are received via email. As we always require applicants to submit some additional forms and to complete a small writing or code development task it’s sometimes hard to track [...]

20 Aug, 2009

Use case: PhoneBook Search – no code required

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

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 [...]

06 Apr, 2009

Use case: Automated knowledge base in SharePoint

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

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 [...]

26 Mar, 2009

Use case: Auditing documents on a regular basis

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

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 [...]

04 Mar, 2009

Use case: Integrating lists from different sites

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

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 [...]

16 Feb, 2009

Use case: Integrating SharePoint with LOB applications

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

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 [...]

01 Dec, 2008

Using Microsoft CRM to distribute corporate Christmas gifts

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: crm

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 [...]

25 Nov, 2008

Displaying a number of items in a list – Part 2

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

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 [...]



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