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SharePoint PortfolioA Visual Summary
Keith B. RimingtonApplication Developer
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Objective:
To implement SharePoint with
Corporate colors, fonts, and
themes enforced throughout
all sites.
Solution:
Created replacements for
default.master and
application.master.
Rather than modify original
SharePoint system files, and to
decrease upgrade risks,
implemented an HttpModule
that configures site theme and
master page at runtime.
Branding
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Objective:
To provide configurable
navigation items across all
sites.
Solution:
Implemented new
SiteMapProvider, using a links
list as a data source.
Added menu (green bar) to the
master page connected to new
provider.
Added page to Central
Administration to configure the
global links list on a per-
application basis.
Navigation
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Objective:
To provide visual cues in a
SharePoint list.
Solution:
Implemented new column data
type, called the Dashboard
Status Indicator.
Column type configuration
included support for 16 icon
sets, trending, text position,
and alignment.
The column appears in forms
as a drop-down list.
The column appears in
spreadsheets as text which
can be subject to conditional
formatting.
Status Indicator Column
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Objective:
To facilitate sorting, filtering,
and grouping by employee
information.
Solution:
Implemented new column data
type, called Personnel
Information.
The column supported up to
fourteen different employee
attributes, stored in an external
Oracle 10g database.
Adding a personnel
information column also
associated a list item event
receiver to the list, responsible
for retrieving the calculated
data.
Personnel Information
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Objective:
To provide special-case
reporting and visualization of
SharePoint data.
Solution:
Implemented web part based
loosely on the Open Source
project, ChartPart, to present
live data stored in a family of
SharePoint lists.
The utilized the library,
System.Data.Visualization, or
MSChart, provided by
Microsoft (now part of .NET 4).
This part supported a flexible
set of configuration options via
an editor part.
Business Intelligence
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Objective:
To provide insight into site
usage and promote
responsible disk consumption.
Solution:
Implemented a site usage
dashboard to supplement the
SharePoint storage manager.
The bar chart provides insight
into current storage versus
site quota.
The double-pie chart provides
insight into storage size of the
largest lists and libraries. The
outer ring is image-mapped to
the version settings page for
each list. The red slices in the
peppermint-candy inner pie
represent old file versions.
Site Analytics
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Objective:
To provide unified search
portal across multiple
SharePoint farms.
Solution:
Led a geographically
distributed, cross-
organizational team to
implement federated search.
Provided training and
examples to assist
administrators with their
implementation.
Federated Search
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Objective:
To provide multiple columns
on a lookup for use in list
calculations.
Solution:
Developed a column type and
list item event receiver to
provide additional calculated
columns based on an existing
lookup field.
Multiple Column Lookup
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Objective:
To provide enterprise reporting
of SharePoint list data.
To enable reports bound to the
SharePoint lists service, it was
necessary to resolve a conflict
between SharePoint’s handling
of null values in the Lists Web
service, and Reporting
Services method of inferring
schema from XML data.
Solution:
Created an enhanced Lists
Web service, allowing XML-
bound reports such as is
shown here.
Reporting
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Objective:
To increase effectiveness of
SharePoint administration.
Solution:
Developed several STSADM
extensions and PowerShell
modules to automate repetitive
tasks, including:
Bulk-starting workflows.
Copying menus between sites.
Bulk-purging list item and
document versions.
Bulk-updating access request
emails based on site owners.
Bulk-configuring search
scopes across site collections.
…and many more.
Automation
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Objective:
To increase effectiveness of
SharePoint administration.
Solution:
Developed PowerShell scripts
managing a variety of
automation tasks, including:
Packaging of .wsp solutions,
Staged solution installation
and upgrades,
Migrating data to/from
SharePoint lists,
Voice synthesis of SharePoint
list data,
Scheduled maintenance,
Ad hoc SharePoint Ninjutsu.
Automation (cont’d.)
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Objective:
To reduce maintenance costs
by consolidating legacy
applications into SharePoint.
Solution:
Utilized PowerShell to migrate
data from legacy databases to
new SharePoint lists.
Designed
lists, views, pages, and reports
to replace and improve legacy
application functionality.
Pictured at right is an
application developed by a
former intern, ported into
SharePoint.
Applications
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Objective:
To provide effective training to
end-users and administrators.
Solution:
Configured SharePoint site
dedicated to ongoing training
and user education.
Provided regular screencasts
using Camtasia Studio.
Provided navigation to publicly
available training from
Microsoft and its partners.
Reviewed and published user
submissions for training
materials and topics.
Training