How to build applications without writing code

1. how to create applications without code SharePoint for Power-users

2. WHO AM I? Gene Vangampelaere SharePoint architect Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen SPUMS.be Gene.Vangampelaere@howest.be / gene@spums.be http://twitter.com/vangampelaere http://blog.spums.be http://facebook.com/gene.vangampelaere

3. It’s not a question of can SharePoint do it, it’s a question of how complicated it is to build. SharePoint can do almost anything.

4. What is SharePoint? A private web site for storing and collaborating on documents with your team.Your company’s external facing website. The platform on which you build your company’s intranet and extranet, (access for vendors, customers, partners, etc.). Profile pages for each of your employees that can be likened to Facebook. The landing page (dashboard) when linking to a whole lot of other line of business systems, eg: SAP and client databases, to report on Business Intelligence. An electronic forms solution. A document, record and web content management system including workflow. A search engine for people, documents and information.

5. How DO we use SHAREPOINT in HOWEST? Collaboration tool Teamsiteforeach team Business processes Workflows, electronicforms Portal News, calendar Manycustomapplications

6. How todevelopsharepointapplications OOTB SharePoint Designer (Free!) Visual Studio

7. Be CREATIVE withOoTB Custom lists ContentTypes & CQWP Filter WebParts Data views (SPD) JQuery (SPD) Workflows (SPD)

8. DEMO: ICT DEVICE TRACKING APPLICATION Track our ICT devices Features: Where are the devices? Generate a contract document Calenderview of the borroweddevices Overview of overduedevices Automatic reminders Demo

9. DEMO: ICT DEVICE TRACKING APPLICATION

10. Do’s building sharepointapps What’s in a name? Beware spaces in columnnames Renamethem Smart columns Show only the columns thatmakes sense toyour users Talk toyour users! Gotta keep itseparated Do notuse the default “All items” view Create multiple views! Sortit And let the users know (additto the view name) Source: Bil Simser: Do’s anddont’s building SP Apps

11. Don’ts building sharepointapps Remove the useless attachments column No horizontalscrolling Users canonlyprocess 7 pieces of data Views selector is ‘gone’ Verticalscrolling Watch out withmultilinetextfields! Duplicate information Grouping View names Source: Bil Simser: Do’s anddont’s building SP Apps

12. Giveaways Blog: https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com Blog:http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura Blog: http://blog.spums.be Twitter @EUSP (EndUserSharePoint) @WonderLaura (Laura Rogers) @MichalPisarek (MichalPisarek) @JenniferMason (Jennifer Mason) @SympMarc (Marc D. Anderson) @VeroniquePalmer (Veronique Palmer) #SharePointhashtag

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