sps india - august 2012

USING SHAREPOINT FOR BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

ALAN RICHARDS

ABOUT ME

Information Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School

Worked in education for over 17 years

Led teams in the early adoption of Microsoft systems

Regular presenter at events

SharePoint MVP

TOPICS

Background

Demo of the end result possible

InfoPath 2010

SharePoint Designer 2010

BACKGROUND

High levels of investment in ICT needs a ROI

Paper – 1.5 million sheets of paper a year

• Printing

• Copying

• Letters

Academic Review Day

• £8000 for 2 days

INFOPATH 2010Simple to use

Easy to connect to SharePoint

Browser based forms

INFOPATH 2010

Create the list from InfoPath

• Set server / site location

• Create new list

• Creates Basic Fields

Design Your Page

• Layouts

• Page Design

• Tables

Add fields

• Text boxes

• Date / Time

• Person Picker

INFOPATH 2010

Current User

• Add text box

• Control Properties

• Select function

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2010

Open a SharePoint site

• View current workflows

• Create new list workflow

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2010

Creating a workflow

• Add conditions

• Resultant actions

Send Email

• User from AD / list

• Use a function to create the subject

• Use lookups in the body to pull data out of the list

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2010

Simple or Complex

arichards@edutechnow.com

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