European SharePoint Best Practice Conference - April 2011

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BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE SHAREPOINT Clarity. Direction. Confidence. CUTTING COSTS USING SHAREPOINT 2010 Alan Richards

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Slide deck from the European SharePoint Best Practice Conference in London, April 2011.How to use SharePoint 2010 to cut costs and improve efficiency

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BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE SHAREPOINT

Clarity. Direction. Confidence.

CUTTING COSTS USING SHAREPOINT 2010

Alan Richards

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About Me

Alan RichardsInformation Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School

Worked in IT in Schools for over 17 years

ExperienceFirst School in UK to launch SharePoint 2010 based public website

Presented at many SharePoint events and the BETT 2011 show in London

Many Microsoft case studies and press articles about how we use IT and in particular SharePoint

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Paperless School Project

Tight economic conditions

Reducing budgets

Portray a different view of ITNot a black hole for money

Invest to save

Academic Review Day£8000 a year spent on paper and admin for 2 days a year

Transfer all paperwork into online forms

Easier data analysis

Easier reporting

Data to hand

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TopicsSharePoint 2010

List or form library

InfoPath 2010

Form design

Interaction with SharePoint 2010

Rules

Submitting data methods

SharePoint Designer 2010

Designing workflows

Workflow initiation

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SHAREPOINT 2010

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List or Form Library

Form libraryStores copy of form as it was completed

Can store data fields from the formThese fields can be used to search the data

ListDoes not store copy of form

Does store a link to open the form

Stores all data fields in the list

Lists can be exported to Excel

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INFOPATH 2010

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InfoPath 2010

Part of the Office suite

Used to create forms from a multiple of sources

Multiple ways of submitting dataList

SQL

Email

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Demo

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SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2010

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SharePoint Designer 2010

Mostly known for branding SharePoint

Used to design workflows

For complicated workflows you can design in Visio and import into Designer

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Demo

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FITTING IT ALL TOGETHERDEMO

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Best PracticeCreate the list using InfoPath 2010

Stores all the fields from the form

Easily extract the data

Set options for successful and failed submission

Use code in InfoPath to reduce clicks Make it easier for the user

Filter fields from data in other fields

Auto complete fields if you can

Make relevant fields read only

Use validation rules

Limit view to list itemsAdd code to the end of the newform.aspx address

/Listname/NewForm.aspx?Source=/SitePages/Default.aspx

Set permissions on listRead items

Edit items

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Contact Me

[email protected]

www.edutechnow.com

twitter.com/arichards_Saruk

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Clarity. Direction. Confidence.

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