Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Overview of this book

SharePoint is an incredibly powerful platform that can support a wide variety of business scenarios. In many cases it needs to be configured or extended in order to deliver fully featured business solutions. While some books merely talk about the capabilities of SharePoint in general and leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, this book takes a different approach. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions along with screenshots to help build exciting SharePoint business solutions that extend the platform. By the end of this book the reader will be a SharePoint developer to be reckoned with. This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. This book draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platforms underlying services to provide solutions that can support Social Collaboration, Content and Document Management, as well as project collaboration. Each chapter represents a new business solution that builds on the overall platform to deliver more complex solutions and more advanced techniques. By the end of the book the reader will understand how to leverage the SharePoint platform to build their own business solutions.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Building an Effective Intranet

Preparing the Intranet site

Creating a Weather Web Part

System status and notification features

Building an Appropriate Use and Incident dialog

Building an Employee Corner Web Part

Building a Stock Ticker Web Part

Content rollups

Summary

Building an Out of Office Delegation Solution

User profile properties

Master Delegation Tracking List

Check out of office workflow activity

Creating a Task Delegation Web Part

Creating custom application pages

Summary

Building an Enterprise Content Management Solution

Defining content containers

Defining and managing content types

Document routing

Optimizing Search

Creating a content aggregation Web Part

DocVault Listings Web Part

Enhancing the Document ID redirect

Summary

Building an Engaging Community Site

Creating the Community Site

Community members

Configuring social web parts

Configuring Rollup Web Parts

Creating an Enterprise Wiki

Summary

Building a Site Request and Provisioning System

Overview

Creating the list

Creating the project

Creating the SiteRequest form

Defining the RequestSiteAction menu item

Creating timer jobs

Summary

Building a Project Site Template

Overview

Template options

Building the Project Site Template

Summary

Building a Project Management Main Site

Content aggregation options

Building a project listing and a status Web Part

Building a site metrics gathering process

Configuring a project manager listing

Additional content ideas

Summary

Building a Task Rollup Solution

Task rollup options

MyTasks Search Web Part

MyTasks Web Part

Summary

Building a Site Directory with SharePoint Search

Site Directory options

How to leverage search

Defining the Site Directory Search Scope

Site Directory page

Related sites Web Part

Summary

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Building a site metrics gathering process

In order to gather the metrics for the active projects we will use a timer job to support the scheduled job scenario reviewed at the beginning of the chapter.

To create the timer job:

1. Start by adding an Empty Element to the solution.
2. Name the element SiteMetricsProcess.
3. Within the SiteMetricsProcess SPI, we now need to add in a class named SiteMetricsTimerJob.cs. This class is where the actual timer job and its execution logic will reside.

4. We will need to import the following namespaces to support our work:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

5. Next, we need to inherit from the SPJobDefinition class, which will allow us to perform the timer job functions displayed as follows:
```
class SiteMetricsTimerJob :...
```

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

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