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Hello everyone,

Dear sharepoint users and fellow developers,

I have recently started out to make System Analysis and Design for a project based on Sharepoint. You are aware that normally a typical deliverables for SAD are Use case diagrams, state charts, class diagrams etc.

How should I do my documnetation for a project based on Sharepoint. I doubt this because, Sharepoint has inbuilt templates and classes that we use and more importantly we can make sites on a mouse-click. So now, I don’t have any classes or database that I am making or working with explicitly so these typical deliverables will be difficult for me to deliver.

Can you please advise me how should I go about doing some good and resonable SAD for my project or am I completely wrong.

Any leads will be helpful.

Best wishes.

Chosen Answer:

i think you already know that you should not be worry about the interface or clicking or mouse right now,

these all things take about half paper in the documentation,
just start with the requirement , use case (“basic flow, pre-condition, post-condition) , sequence diagram..

don’t think. just write and every thing else will be easy to do in the documentation sequence ..
by: ZERO COOL
on: 6th February 08

I am very new to sharepoint. I am a contracted web writer and I have to upload over 200 pages of materials with hyperlinks to Sharepoint 2007. The developers have said that I have to convert my doc. files to a txt file using notebook. Is this true? Is there an easier way? Why can’t I upload using Word? Please help!!!!

Chosen Answer:

If I understand your situation… you have a bunch of .doc files that you want to convert to .txt.

May I ask why?

If it is because of the hyperlinks and indexing content outside of our domain than there would be a different solution than what I am about to explain.

Programactically I would create an instance of Word and open the doc file. I would have some type of loop to process multiple files but anyhow open the file programatically and save it as a txt file. Maybe you could even find a simple application or script to convert the files for you in a batch. Do a YAHOO search on “convert doc to txt” I saw a bunch of options.

To move content to and from SharePoint in bulk I like using Windows explorer – just add a new network location and use the http address of your SharePoint site then you can drag and drop… You also can see some of the hidden folders like where the document library template is stored in a document library.

Lastly you most certainly can save from Word back to SharePoint however there is some dependecy on the your Office version. Office 2003 and up I think you should be good. To make Microsoft Word “SharePoint Aware” you need to go to a document library and open a word file from there. After doing so you will have an option to save future content from Word back to the document library using an option in the left pane of the save as dialog box.

Hope this helps – you can also visit my blog for more Sharepoint knowledge. www.sharepoint-blogs.com

If you ever need any help on projects please let me know as I am always looking for work in the SharePoint world .
by: sharepointblogs
on: 10th February 08

how do i add yahoo weather widget in my website. plus i want to add it on my sharepoint portal site as well.

Chosen Answer:

YOU CANT ADD WIDGETS TO YOUR WEBSITES

PPL, YOU JUST CANT DO IT

IT IS A THING FOR YOUR DESKTOP, IT DOESNT HAVE A URL

ok sorry, just this is like 15th question like this
by: Whispkin B
on: 28th January 08

i want to konow which one of these is realy easy to learn for beginner, and that I can do lots of things for the beginnig of a new site :
-Microsoft Expression Web
-Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
-Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005
-Microsoft Office frontpage “2007″ (I don’t know if there’s one)

Chosen Answer:

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005
by: Amal
on: 22nd January 08

I need to complete three linked webpages for a project due next week. I must create an email link, table, etc in this project. Which one would you choose?

HTML-Kit – can download from
# Nvu
# Microsoft FrontPage
# Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer

Thanks in advance.
I have free access to all of the programs.

Chosen Answer:

Of those options the easiest in my opinion is frontpage – it was really built with the novice in mind and as such is easy to use. Creates poor code however you don’t care about that as that isn’t what the project is about.
by: doyler78
on: 23rd January 08

How do I import date from Microsoft SharePoint month, date, year, importing to MS Access

Is it ddmmyyyy. I tried setting up and allows me to type in date and give me an error in Access

Chosen Answer:

by:
on: 1st January 70

I am running ms sharepoint and they all have blackberry 8830′s

I was looking through the sourcecode generated by sharepoint and there is this snippet

if (browseris.mac && !browseris.ie5up)
{
var ms_maccssfpfixup = “/_layouts/1033/styles/owsmac.css”;
document.write(“ “);
}

is there a way to make a new view like this, so when blackberry users comming to the site, it detects they are blackberry browsers and changes the stylesheets accordingly?

Chosen Answer:

look into stylesheet media instead of stupid JS detection, it’ll make your life much better.

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/css/mediatypes

check it out, you could even set up a CSS print page so that when you print a page it automatically removes the sidebar, menu’s (maybe even ads). Save your people ink, save your company paper. Give your mobile devices a little smile;-).
by: lansingstudent09101
on: 21st January 08

I have an intranet that uses MS Sharepoint Services 2003. This has a lot of information that I would like to be made viewable to my mobile users. I have authentication set up so that isnt an issue, I was wondering if I need to make a new view for them, or add a few lines of code in the exhisting page or what. What would be the easiest way?

We are all using Blackberry 8830 series.

I know a lot about web design, except this WAP and mobile stuff is new to me.
Okay, you enlightened me to a detail I should have made before.

No, none of the pages use CSS. They are all done entirely in ASPX

Chosen Answer:

Do you have stylesheets? If your HTML isn’t accessible then you’ll have to create a whole new view.

However, if you design according to standards and proper CSS layout techniques, just make sure your links have

media=”screen”

Applied to them. If your BlackBerry browsers are proper, they won’t use the stylesheets.

However, mobile support is just bad in general and most dont use stylesheets. So you should be alright if you designed correctly. If the site appears wrong, you’ll have to create a new site for mobile users.

I’d read up on web standards and CSS layouts. You can get the Firefox Web Developer toolbar to see what your site looks like without CSS as that’s how it’ll probably appear on a mobile phone.

iPhones and the like use actual web browsers that can look at a site properly but regular phones don’t. They just look at the HTML.
by: Kamran
on: 1st February 08

Im downloading the trial version.Im new to web designing.
Can i just play around and learn on sharepoint d? ,or do i have to
have a proper domain and register my website

Chosen Answer:

You can use Microsoft Sharepoint designer 2007 to design your html if you really want to, however, SPD was developed to mostly work with SharePoint Sites. In order to use it for that, you will have to have SharePoint running on your computer, or a remote server that you have access to.

If you need to use a site editor, Microsoft Expression Web or Dreamweaver may be more suitable for you.

Or you could learn HTML and CSS and code pages by hand like I do which might sound harder than it is.
by: Monkeyman
on: 10th January 08