SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities - SharePoint 2007 No Code Application

1. What is No-Code Application with SharePoint? Donald Donais

3. Specializing in SharePoint, Exchange 2007, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003, Windows XP, ITIL v2/v3

5. Getting Started with No-Code Applications What does No-Code Application mean?

6. Ultimately Will run into limitations! Eventually may need Developer/Coding help Time and place for No-Code and Developers within an Organization

8. Data Sources

9. Excel & InfoPath Form Services

12. Foundation Elements What knowledge about InfoPath 2007 is needed? Forms Creation Data Connections and Filtering Views Conditional Formatting

13. Foundation Elements What kind of knowledge about SharePoint 2007 is needed? InfoPath Form Services (MOSS 2007 Enterprise) Creating Lists and Form Libraries OOB Web Parts Excel Services Web Services BDC Definition File BDC Editor, MetaMan, MOSS BDC Design Studio

14. Foundation Elements What kind of knowledge about SharePoint Designer 2007 is needed? Data View Web Parts Data Source Connections Connecting Web Parts Workflow creating and editing

15. Step by Step

16. Plan, Plan, Plan Application Management Lifecycle

18. Are there forms already created?

19. Does the data already exist?

20. What business workflows are already established and documented?

21. What metrics, data, or knowledge is needed for a particular business unit?

23. Business Solution Owner

24. Data Sources

25. Required Metadata

27. DEMO Creating and Connecting to Data

28. Reporting in SharePoint Designer!

30. Excel Services

31. Report Center

33. What else? How should this tie into current Business process? Basis for No-Code App should be Business Process Interview the process owners Figure out the process inputs and outputs Who are the Stakeholders

34. What else? Who is going to support the application when it is completed? If IT is not involved who will support? What parts of the Application are IT related and which are not? Service Level Agreements should be in place to determine

35. What else? Where should it reside within SharePoint? Hierarchy within SharePoint Within the organization Apart of IT or the business

37. Resources SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed – Michael Noel (author) SharePoint for End Users – sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/default.aspx

38. Resources SharePoint Designer SharePoint Designer Team Blog – blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/ Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step – Penny Coventry Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 – WROX Publishing

39. Resources InfoPath 2007 Pro InfoPath 2007 – Philo Janus: Apress Publishing InfoPath Dev – www.infopathdev.com/default.aspx InfoPath Team Blog – blogs.msdn.com/infopath/default.aspx

40. Resources BDC Editing Tools SharePoint 2007 SDKhttp://tinyurl.com/SharePoint07SDK BDC MetaManhttp://tinyurl.com/BDCMetaMan MOSS BDC Design Studiohttp://tinyurl.com/MOSSBDCDS

41. Questions?

42. Thank you!