{"id":366,"date":"2011-09-25T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/lesson-2-sharepoint-is-not-lotus-notes\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:49:29","slug":"lesson-2-sharepoint-is-not-lotus-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/lesson-2-sharepoint-is-not-lotus-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 2, SharePoint is not Lotus Notes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our customer comes from Lotus Notes, they still have it. They are used to have everything they want as they want: I want a button here,&#8230;I want an specific work-flow there, I want this specific security in this corner of the screen&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We agreed to do not use Visual Studio, just SharePoint developer. 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