Microsoft

Microsoft has developed forty application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide out-of-the-box solutions to address the needs of specific business processes, such as coordinating a Help Desk. The purpose of this article is to describe how Microsoft developed the application templates, identifying best practices for how to work with core capabilities within both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Designer 2007, with the goal of empowering customers and partners to create their own applications.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 allows non-developers to create custom workflows in a straightforward way by using the workflow designer it provides. During the process, the user "glues" together different activities that represent the steps for the workflow. There are numerous activities one can use and the list is extensible. Developers can use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to build additional activities and deploy them, so that they are available in Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

This article introduces the concept of secondary workflows and provides instructions for creating one. The example workflow in this article, which is created on the Tasks list, sets the due date value for each new task that is produced by a specific workflow running on the Shared Documents library, and then sends a reminder message if the task is not complete by its due date.

You can add a toolbar to a Data View so that users can filter, sort, or group the data in the Data View by using the toolbar in the browser. You can also turn on filtering and sorting on column headers in a Data View, so that users can filter or sort the data by clicking the column headers, just like a list view.

If your Data View uses a list or library as its data source, you can add the SharePoint list toolbar to the Data View so that you can work more effectively with the underlying list or library. The SharePoint list toolbar is the menu bar at the top of a list or library that provides various options to work with that list or library.

You can change the number of records that a Data View displays in the browser. For example, you can have the Data View display all items or only a certain number of total items. You can also set up paging so that the Data View displays items in sets of a certain number. If you add paging to the Data View, you can navigate between pages in the browser. You can also change the number of records that a Data View displays in Design view, so that you can see a quick preview of how the Data View will render itself with a certain number of records.

This article shows you how to set up your workflow to send an e-mail message. It also explains how to use workflow lookups both to address the mail and to include dynamic content in the message body, including how to insert or build hyperlinks. Finally, this article shows you how to format the content of the message, along with providing other information about working with workflow-generated e-mail messages.

This article describes how to check workflows for errors in Office SharePoint Designer 2007. You can also find troubleshooting information for workflow error messages that appear in Office SharePoint Designer 2007, and for error messages that appear in the browser for workflows created in Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

Learn how to move around on a site and customize the navigation.

See how to copy files to different libraries, and then manage the copies after they are created.

Learn how to poll team members or customers to find out what is on their minds.

Learn how you can control access to what users or SharePoint groups can access on your SharePoint site.

Learn how to manage SharePoint groups by adding or deleting groups, adding or removing users from a group, and changing group settings.

Use SharePoint groups as email distribution lists.

Learn how to quickly recreate the design, structure, or content of a site by using site templates.

Find out how templates can package up customizations to an existing site so that you can easily reuse them.

Learn how to get predefined templates you can use to quickly build customized solutions to address specific business needs.

Learn about formulas, functions, and constants that help you calculate data in a SharePoint list.

Learn how to create and add calculated columns to lists, such as an expiration date that is 30 days from the current date.

See examples of data calculations for lists, such as a date that is three days from the current date or how to round off numbers.