SharePoint ShopTalk Highlight: Control the Center of SharePoint Announcements

SharePoint ShopTalk is a live, dynamic discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers to pressing contemporary SharePoint questions. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment features Panelist Laura Rogers presents "How to Control the Center of SharePoint Announcements:

 

The Birmingham SharePoint user group site is a WSS site, so there is no publishing feature. Each month, it was taking a while to format the announcement of the next topic and speaker, with all of the correct HTML and colors in the announcement body. I created an "event creation" workflow that takes some basic information about the next meeting, and formats it into a new SharePoint announcement, with all of the proper colors and fonts automatically. This has saved time and kept us with a standard for the way new meetings look. I'll be demonstrating this list and workflow. This concept can be done in any version of SharePoint (2007 and up) and in Office 365.

 

 

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlight 6.30.11 - Social Sites for SharePoint 2010

SharePoint ShopTalk is a live, dynamic discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers to pressing contemporary SharePoint questions. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment features News Gator Solutions Engineer Rich Blank and his presentation of Social SItes for SharePoint 2010.

By integrating Social Sites directly into your SharePoint 2010 collaboration deployment, you can focus on delivering value to your users and unifying your technology infrastructure while fully leveraging your SharePoint social network - instead of building custom applications or learning and supporting additional technologies. Increase adoption among stakeholders, streamline communication, improve employee recruiting and retention, and boost overall productivity with Social Sites 2010.

Panelist Spotlight - InfoPath & SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment  features the SharePoint ShopTalk Panelist Spotlight - Tips and Tricks with SharePoint MVP Laura Rogers:

In your organization, forms are everywhere.  InfoPath is a program that lets you quickly and easily create forms for business users to fill out and submit.  InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer workflows can be used in conjunction, in order to create a complete business process. In this session, Laura Rogers will discuss and compare different ways that forms can be submitted and streamlined, so that the life cycle of the form is efficient and logical.  This includes best practices around the form's data connections, buttons, rules, views, and workflow that sends the form through an approval process. All of this is done with no code needed, just making the most of the InfoPath and SharePoint Designer out-of-box functionalities.

See the prerequisite demo: InfoPath Keeping the Approval Process in the Form

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 4.14.11 - OOB API to Send/Store the document in SharePoint from an automated process

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

In this installment Panelist members Ed Musters, Nilesh Mehta, and Paul Olenick discuss whether Client Object Model or SharePoint Web Services would be the best option when answering: "Any out of box API to send/store the document in SharePoint from an automated process?" a question from the MSDN Forums.