SPSUK November 2011

Cutting Costs Using SharePoint 2010Alan Richards

#SPSUK35

About Me Information Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School

Worked in education for over 17 years

Led teams in the early adoption of Microsoft systems

Regular presenter at events

SharePoint MVP – July 2011

Topics Background

Demo of the end result

possible

InfoPath 2010

SharePoint Designer 2010

Background High levels of investment in ICT needs a ROI

Paper – 1.5 million sheets of paper a year

Printing

Copying

Letters

Academic Review Day

£8000 for 2 days

InfoPath 2010 Simple to use

Easy to connect to SharePoint

Browser based forms

InfoPath 2010 Create the list from InfoPath

Set server / site location

Create new list

Creates Basic Fields

Design Your Page

Layouts

Page Design

Tables

Add fields

Text boxes

Date / Time

Person Picker

InfoPath 2010 Current User

Add text box

Control Properties

Select function

SharePoint Designer 2010 Open a SharePoint site

View current workflows

Create new list workflow

SharePoint Designer 2010 Creating a workflow

Add conditions

Resultant actions

Send Email

User from AD / list

Use a function to create the subject

Use lookups in the body to pull data out of the list

SharePoint Designer 2010

Simple or Complex

Live Meetings Series of 3

Part 1 – 1st December Lesson based End Product

https://www311.livemeeting.com/lrs/0000000379_116/Registration.aspx?pageName=2ds76p494tj8c4bt

arichards@edutechnow.com

www.edutechnow.com

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