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Setting alert on the sharepoint

Sco — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:27:17 +0000

The SharePoint within my programme is being used by 3 different work streams (projects). There is a form of interdependencies between projects on the programme. [o:p][/o:p]

Is it possible to send out an alert via email notifying the respective project representatives of any changes relating to update in version of the documents on the SharePoint? I will appreciate your comments.[o:p][/o:p]

SharePoint – New Announcement Alert Posted on a Different Page

LboydCommunications — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:07:05 +0000

On our current company internal Web site, we have an announcement list on almost every section of the site. What I want to be able to do is have a “New Announcement Alert” on the home page (the only example I can think of is Facebook status updates). When a new announcement is posted on say the HR’s department page, I want a little notice/alert to show up on the main home page letting our employees know that a new announcement has been added to that page. I want everyone to stay informed with every department in our company, but I don’t expect them to visit every page of the site every morning to see what’s new. Any suggestions??

Thanks so much!!
Lindsay

Can we use SharePoint in the cloud as the basis of the portal and harness our on-prem WSS sites?

ITKE — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:01:07 +0000

We have multiple WSS implementations – we want to go to a unified portal. Can we use SharePoint in the cloud as the basis of the portal and harness our on-prem WSS sites?

Using AD Global SecurityGroups as Sharepoint groups post email to Discussion Boards

Ags2288 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:18:42 +0000

we are creating AD Global Security groups and then using them in the Sharepoint Members, visitors and owners. When a user in the Members group emails to the Sharepoint Discussion group their email is not posted. I can see it get to the drop folder and be picked up by the timer job but it still doesn’t show in the discussion board. If we directly add a user to the Sharepoint Member’s group their email is posted to discussion board. How do we get the members there in the AD Group to post to discussion board.

How to configure local drive to sharepoint

Ramesh86 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:42:27 +0000

I need to configure local drive to sharepoint.If anyone is having idea about this configuration please help me out.Thanks in advance.

Need help with my SharePoint 2007 database design

Lizmannos — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:43:34 +0000

I am new to SharePoint and I need help on the best way to architect our database.
Our Division has multiple groups and each group has multiple projects.
Each group is a site, so we have multiple group sites. And each project is a sub site under the group site and there a Task for every project.
G1 -> P1, P2, P3 …..
G2 -> P1, P2, P3 …..
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Currently we have separated Task (Action Items) database for each projects. Do you think it wise to have these many databases to manage or should we have only one master database for each group and add column for projects? But what about in the long run when we have thousands of Action Items? Would it bogged down the SharePoint when the user select display “all” action items? We have different scenarios below.

Scenario #1: Joe is working on three projects and would like to pull all of his action items into one view. “Joe’s Action Items List” to show all the Action Items (tasks) he wrote and that are assigned to him. Joe can also filter by Projects or Status in his view.
Scenario #2: Joe’s Manager (who does not write Action Items nor has anything assigned) would like to see the all Overdue/Late items across all Projects.
Scenario #3: Users can search for Action Items across multiple databases – including their own action items. User uses Action Item tracker personally to track his to do’s. So he could run a Report by selecting All databases or selective databases for his query.

Microsoft SharePoint customization

RajanKott — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:54:31 +0000

Hi,
One of our clients wants to do some customization on SharePoint services. We would like to know if this is possible or not. The requirements are as under.

1. Document Sharing.

Our client has many customers using their product. This software product has many modules and different customers are using different modules. Now our client wants to create a document library in Share point and then add documents related to various modules to this. Now what is required is our client wants to give access their customers to this share point site (which is possible) and then depending upon the modules each customer has purchased, the customer should be able to see only those documents. One idea was to create different groups and then provide access rights to each group. This can be easily done by creating different sites under share point and then providing access to these sites to the customers. But the question is can this be done with a single share point site ? i.e., there will be only one share point site called Document Library. When a client logs in, they should see only those documents relevant to them and not all the documents.

2. Issue Tracker System

The requirement is same as above. In this case, our client wants to creates an Issue Tracker site under share point and then add custom fields. Then they should be able to provide access to their customers to log into the site and add issues related to their product. However, there should be only one site and when customers log in, they should see only their issues and not all the issues entered by other customers. However, at the same time, suppose a customer wants to add an issue which is common to all customers, that customer should be able to indicate this in the site so that the issue is visible to all other customers. This is again possible by creating sites for each of the customers and providing access to them.. But this is not practically possible nor an elegant solution.

Any ideas on how to go about the above would be welcome. If the above is not possible in Share Point, then that also may kindly be mentioned so that we can inform our client of the same and suggest alternate options.

Thanks and Regards

Rajendran Menon

Renaming “add new announcement” in a sharepoint list

Smarticus7 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:27:13 +0000

I have created an announcement list in sharepoint and added a webpart on my homepage to display this list.

At the bottom of the webpart you have the option to “Add new announcement”. Does anyone know how to rename “Add new announcement” to “Post new Job Posting” ??

SharePoint Check In comments

ECLBASG — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:12:53 +0000

Is it possible to edit a Check In comment in SharePoint 2007?

Sharepoint Modal Window

Cgarude — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:28:01 +0000

I would like to show a modal window first before displaying the portal landing page, how would I accomplish this?