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Workflow. Free. Creating simple tasks calendar for SharePoint sidebar - Gunnar P. Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms | End User. Comparing Dates in a Data View Web Part to Build a WSS KPI in Sh. Advanced SharePoint View and Filter techniques | Pentalogic Tech. Pages - EasyTabs. SharePoint 2003 Graphical Indicators and Dashboards. Fabulous 40 Application Templates - Absence and Vacation Schedul. The Absence and Vacation Schedule template is a part of the server admin templates provided directly from Microsoft here.

This template is based off of a site definition which needs to be installed by a SharePoint server administrator using stsadm. The Absence and Vacation Schedule template was designed for the Human Resources business area and the official description is described below: The Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management application template helps employees manage requests for out of office days. Team members post days they will be unavailable and can use the system to assign their responsibilities to others during those days. The application template helps team leaders manage requests for vacation and provides dashboards showing which users are signed up for a set of responsibilities Features: By using a site definition when you create a site based off of this template it automatically activates the custom features associated with this template.

. - Absence Type. Working Days, Weekdays and Holidays in SharePoint Calculated Col. AcmeCorp aim to reply to customer complaints within 3 working days. They plan to use SharePoint Reminder webpart to alert managers when these targets are not being met. We have a list with the following information Once we have this table we could make a View with a filter to only show records that don’t yet have a Reply Sent date (i.e. they have not been dealt with) and then configure a Reminder web part to watch this view and send out emails when the Reply Due date is overdue.

If we didn’t care about working days we could set Reply Due to be a calculated column with a formula of =[Date Received]+3 The question is – how do we work out the Reply Due date being 3 working days from the received date? One of the calculated column functions you can use in SharePoint is Weekday which returns 1 for Sunday, 2 for Monday and through to 7 for Saturday.

So from here we can work out if the day is Or writing this another way Weekday > 3 then +5 Weekday = 2 or 3 then +3 Weekday = 1 then +4 (FREE BONUS! Public Sector Developer Weblog : How to Video: (Programmatically. This video (#5 in the series of How To Videos on SharePoint/MOSS 2007 "Document" Workflow with Visual Studio) addresses one of the most common questions/needs: "How can I build an Escalation workflow in SharePoint? ". It turns out that this is a very Advanced Workflow scenario and therefore will take me a bit longer to demonstrate in video than some of the other videos that I've produced. In the video I show how to escalate a task based on an expired (i.e., Overdue) Task Due Date, and automatically sending emails to the Original Owner of the Task and the person who has been Re-Assigned the task (using Outlook email/tasks). The to view the Full (streaming) Hi-Resolution video (WMV file) and get the source code: Click here Related videos ~ Robert Shelton.

A simple method to display a list in another site « Path to Shar. This is one of the frustrations with the SharePoint UI: you can’t display on your site a list from another site. Well, of course, you have the Page Viewer Web Part, which allows you to embed in your page another Web page. But usually the result doesn’t look good, as the embedded content doesn’t fit nicely in the host page.

If you are looking for something nicer, there is still hope. You may for example have SharePoint Designer, in which case you can use the Data View Web Part to display a list from another site. However, in SharePoint 2007 I have not been able to make it work across site collections (did I miss something?). The next level is to build your own viewing interface, and use XML to retrieve the content of the list (through the URL protocol, Web Services or RSS for example).

For today, let’s keep it simple. I already mentioned that the iframe was part of my toolbox, so let’ s put it to work. First, a demo Your turn! You can also decide to stick to the default view: Some limitations. A Matter Of Degree: Site Column Best Practices - whether to use. The question came up this week of whether it's preferable to use a lookup or choice field for storing data within a site column. I don't have a definitive recommendation, but I can offer some pros and cons, gleaned from various sources: A list lookup will let you delegate management of the master list to an end user simply by giving them elevated rights to the list; to manage a site column you must be a site collection administrator.A list lookup will allow approvals for selection choice changes, and will allow audit trails (great point by Nadeem as a comment to this post). There is no tracking or approval workflow for changing the choices in a choice column.A list lookup can't be used as part of a formula in a calculated field.

(from the Stump the Panel forum on End User SharePoint)A list lookup can't be accessed in "edit in datasheet" mode, which means that a look up value should probably not be a required field or there’s no possibility of a “bulk edit.” To Note: Create a Customer Dashboard in SharePoint. Quicky. SharePoint CSS Builder. SharePoint Manager 2007 - Home. Thinking SharePoint (and listen to your mother!) Note: Special thanks to Andrew Jolly for his excellent ideas and feedback I have to say, SharePoint is one of the most misunderstood products that Microsoft have ever released.

The misunderstanding extends from executive management who signed the budget approval to put it in, to the geeks who actually put it in for us, and all the way to us end-users who are expected to find nirvana in its magical world of sites, lists, libraries, workflows and the like. Misunderstanding creates confusion, and confusion leads to bad implementations, expectations unmet, teams deflated and the word “SharePoint” being spoken only in whispers in-case you’re overheard by the many ears of the corporate immune mechanism.

The outcome of this series is to give the reader an appreciation of a more human look at SharePoint. .. but you can hardly blame Metallica can you? Article Pre-requisites This series has been aimed at a broad cross section of the user base. For those not yet convinced 40 years of folders No Tags.