Monthly Archives for October 2007

How good is SharePoint as Document Management System?

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 9, 2007

One of the most important features of SharePoint 2007 is document management. I decided to review SharePoint in terms of features that a document management solution should have. Definition on DMS can be found here (I just adapted this definition with few things mentioned in April 2007 edition of Directions…

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Workflow: An error has occured in Approval

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 8, 2007

I have created a custom approval workflow in a document library. On customize workflow screen I selected the following option: [x] Update the approval status (use this workflow to control content approval) During workflow testing I was surprised when SharePoint reported the following error: “An error has occured in Approval.“…

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SharePoint Usage Reports

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 3, 2007

One of my customers recently deployed intranet site on MOSS 2007. After a while we wanted to analyze the usage of this site. I was rather disappointed to see the built-in reports in MOSS. Reports are very basic and do not give you many clues about real usage of your…

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