SharePoint Workflows and InfoPath Form Services

Posted by George Khalil in InfoPath, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 on Mar 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments

One of the biggest selling points of SharePoint is the ability to extend and automate day to day business processes. This is usually one of my key points of emphasis when demonstrating SharePoint’s capabilities to key stakeholders of the business. What I am specifically referring to here is the ability to take an everyday business process, analysing the steps, people and processes involved and automating that through electronic workflows. Workflows within SharePoint automate otherwise manual and usually repetitive business processes, providing you with the ability to add some smarts to routing...

Windows 7 is coming to a store near you …

Posted by George Khalil in Windows, Windows 7 on Mar 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Well, it sounds like a life time ago that I first started investigating the next and greatest thing since sliced bread, yes Windows Vista. After a 5 year gap between operating system versions, there was a lot of hype around Windows Vista and how much better it is than Windows XP. Many argue against that and have not yet gone down the route of implementing Windows Vista into their networks or on their home PC’s. XP has better start up times, ummm, yes if you are running XP on today’s hardware, but how about we run XP on a Pentium 4 with 256 RAM and compare that against Windows...

Data View Web Part

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 on Mar 1st, 2009 | 0 Comments

I have been doing a lot of work lately with SharePoint 2007 and came across 2 scenarios where I needed to utilise the Data View Web Part (DVWP) available from within SharePoint Designer (SPD). I honestly think that this is one of the many under utilised tools from within SharePoint. Scenario 1 The request was to be able to display a subset of an existing SharePoint list from one sub site and display it on another sub site. Scenario 2 The request was to be able to have items within a list highlighted (different colour for instance) based on a condition, a.k.a conditional formatting. In both of these...