The last 3 months 3 students of Howest (New Media and Communication Technology) did an internship at Howest. They all had to use SharePoint as an application platform. At the end of this internship they want to share their tips & tricks to the SharePoint community. The following topics will be discussed: SPServices, JQuery, Custom webparts and the use of SmartPart. They will do this in a live webcast on june, 14th at 04PM-04:30PM (GMT+1 – European time) Feel free to join the webcast and to provide them some feedback!

1. Webcast #SharePoint Internship at Howest Lynn Franceus & Tom Cracco

2. By Lynn Franceus SPServices

3. Why use it? Javascript Customising of SharePoint forms with extra functions More user usability possible Easy to implement

4. SPCascadeDropdowns Only related information visible List Student has a field Opleiding so its able to depend on the selected HowestOpleiding-item

5. SPCascadeDropdowns

6. SPLookupAddNew Add new item in list while filling in an form Add new item Return to original form Re-enter previous filled fields

7. SPDisplayRelatedInfo See read-only fields from item Able to check if correct item is selected

8. Start workflow Add column/ datafield in XSLT Data View Onclick-methode on text to start javascript-function 1 easy click instead of 4

9. By Tom Cracco Object Model & Use of SmartPart

10. Object Model Retrieving information Retrieving current SharePoint site collection SPContext.Current.Site Possibility of CAML Query Value from column: data-object =<SPListItem-Object>(“static column name”)

11. Object Model Saving Information Retrieving new blank item <SPList-object>.Items.Add Writing to column <SPListItem-object>(“static column name”) = data-object Saving item <SPListItem-object>.Update()

12. Use of SmartPart Creating User Control for Smartpart Open Visual Studio New website project Add new ASP.NET User Control Afterbuild: copy ‘.ascx’ and ‘.ascx.vb’ from project map tousercontrolsmap on SharePointserver

13. Use of SmartPart Adding SmartPart to webpage Add new webpart Select SmartPart ( with AJAX)

14. Use of SmartPart Adding User Control to SmartPart Select user control to be displayed