t21 sharepoint europe slide deck
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Slide deck of my presentation at the SharePoint Europe Conference 2011 in BerlinTRANSCRIPT
Cutting Costs Using SharePoint 2010
Alan Richards
About Me• Information Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School
• Worked in education for over 17 years
• Led teams in the early adoption of Microsoft systems
• Regular presenter at events
• SharePoint MVP
Topics• Background
• Demo of the end result possible
• InfoPath 2010
• SharePoint Designer 2010
Background• High levels of investment in ICT needs a ROI
• Paper – 1.5 million sheets of paper a year
– Printing
– Copying
– Letters
• Academic Review Day
– £8000 for 2 days
InfoPath 2010• Simple to use
• Easy to connect to SharePoint
• Browser based forms
InfoPath 2010• Create the list from InfoPath
– Set server / site location
– Create new list
– Creates Basic Fields
• Design Your Page
– Layouts
– Page Design
– Tables
• Add fields
– Text boxes
– Date / Time
– Person Picker
InfoPath 2010
• Current User
– Add text box
– Control Properties
– Select function
SharePoint Designer 2010
• Open a SharePoint site
– View current workflows
– Create new list workflow
SharePoint Designer 2010• Creating a workflow
– Add conditions
– Resultant actions
• Send Email
– User from AD / list
– Use a function to create the subject
– Use lookups in the body to pull data out of the list
SharePoint Designer 2010• Simple or Complex