Office 12 brain dump from the Keynote
Office Keynote
Enterprise content management (all content in your organization)
Server Investments
Collab.
Portal
Search
Content Management
Forms with Workflow
BI
We will be seeing a "new content management server" which will be built on the foundation of Windows SharePoint Services.
"I won't talk about all the cool stuff with
MCMS :("
SharePoint
New tab called site "Site Actions" that lets you do things like "create page" etc etfc.
New high level chrome around the site ie. Search center.
Views are accessible from the document library on the top right hand site in a drop down list.
Create "content types" ie. an object oriented definition of the content in your site.
Type of information
Meta data
Behaviours of the content type (workflow / corporate policy)
The content types appear in the "New" menu ie. "New Spec" or "New …" almost suggests multiple document templates by Document Library.
Can create a random workflow for a specific document.
"Work offline in outlook" was in the document action pane.
Document libraries have RSS feeds.
Document libraries have "Open with database program"
SETTING ITEM LEVEL SECURITY - mentioned in passing but don’t know if true.
Workflow
Can dynamically create it.
Few OOTB workflows for Asia due to specific requirements.
Can attached a workflow to a document / document library or a type.
Lots of the forms are embedded as infopath forms.
Workflow tasks are emailed around as outlook tasks.
You can open then and close them and submit them.
Workflow appears in the document library in an additional column per document.
Front Page
FrontPage can be called "SharePoint Designer"
Call the "expression family" can be considered part of the SharePoint Designer suite.
Can define a workflow directly from Front Page
Does this workflow defined in FrontPage generate a WWF workflow? If so why not generate it from VS.NET.
Views
Access view
Gantt View
Can create personal/public views
MOBILE! - Make this list avail. As a mobile view.
Lists
Can create a new column called "Business data"
The type is defined and you can select the columns from the LOB apps.
LOB data is "jointed" with SharePoint data.
Can validate the LOB data on the
SPS CRUD interface - if you get it wrong it gives you a picklist of data.
Example.
Use CRM to hold your contacts
Use
SPS to get hold your data for ease of use / RAD and you can then draw on your LOB data.
InfoPath
The UI doesn't look much different
Have the ability to say "I want this form to be compatible with the Forms Server"
Design snippets will be a part of InfoPath ie. using parts of other forms.
A lot of the Infpath client doesn't look a lot different.
Publish it out to a network share or a webserver, or sharepoint site.
Demo'd infopath web forms using FireFox
When you browse to the file it created the form output as HTML.
You can also use it from a smartphone. Including validation using a WAP based phone
Importance of Infopath in the strategy.
Searching
MSFT are about to go live using vNext
Have a new "did you mean?" functionality in the search
Can customise the search results layout.
Alert me on the serach results?
Can filter by content type ie. from search results "Documents", "People" "Customers" or then pivot on things like "Job Title" for a person.
Web part for Colleagues and Peers
Get the Org Chart.
Excel
An excel calculation performed on the server.
Create a spreadsheet in excel and connect it to data.
Publish it to sharepoint
Can then be published as a web part.
Access
Had a massive Face lift (picture)
Can work with data stored on a sharepoint server.
Access can be used to update data in SharePoint.
You pick the server and the site and then the list and it gives you access to the CRUD facilities.
Preparing
Incorporate XML
Use Interop through web services
Use InfoPath forms
Use WSS as a foundation
All PDC attendees will get BETA1 in a couple of months.