Lesson 2, SharePoint is not Lotus Notes!

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,…I want an specific work-flow there, I want this specific security in this corner of the screen…. We agreed to do not use Visual Studio, just SharePoint developer. The budget … Read more

Lesson 1, how is SharePoint behaviour

We received yesterday the acceptance of the first SharePoint project I have being involved with the customer I provide services. It has been an important experience for me in all terms. I have a list of lessons learned in my mind that I cannot even write. But I will try to do a polite short … Read more

Configuring Reporting Services for SharePoint 2010 Integration

This is the basic information to use the SSRS integrated in SharePoint, interesting reading for learning. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326356.aspx I have to ask about how the Report Server Database exactly works, there are so much things without answer in my mind. Other important thing to be clarify: let’s talk about performance!! The business case I have on … Read more

SharePoint, Business Data Connectivity

Learning about SharePoint BDC, that is an standard functionality that is there in the server, but that the configuration and its start-up is not free in terms of effort. 1.- BDC service provides a means for storing and securing external content types and related objects. An external content type defines the following: A set of … Read more

SharePoint 2010, filtered view

The aspect of the view is easy, there are a lot of options to enable the visualization in the right way. The only problem I have faced is within the filtering. I have tried to use brackets to point to other fields (for instance: [field_A] ) with the purpose of showing just the documents where … Read more

MS-SharePoint – Default language for first-time user cannot be German?

In the system we are developing, the default language for user which are using first time the system must be German. At the moment it’s English.​ It looks that this can’t be modified through SharePoint (link). First SharePoint checks if the user already selected a preferred language, if not it is taking the preferred language … Read more

Business Intelligence Site in SharePoint 2010

The BI site in SharePoint 2010 provides you reports, monitor key performance indicators and allows you to create dashboards that provide a consolidated view of business data. The business problem that my client requests me is to allow the end-user to provide feedback to the SQL database. There are about 50 fields that are updated … Read more

MS Azure, scenarios

In March I assisted to a MS-Azure presentation, where I found this examples scenario very interesting, It was a very theorical presentation and it’s so far to the business goals of my client, however it’s interesting to me to listen to these new products.