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.

 

 

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 10.14.10 - Assigning a Task List

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 the installment Panelist Laura Rogers and Chris Poteet attempt to help Jennifer  add a feature to her Assign To site column that would alleviate the need to type each assigned team member name.  Laura and Chris find a way to do this using workflow. Join us on LinkedIn  or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.