Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group May 8 th, 2013 SharePoint Information Worker and What Is Changing! Raymond Mitchell Donald Donais

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Agenda What is IW? Skills By Version Break Differences in 2013 by Features/Tools Evaluations & Giveaways

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com User Group Goal / Objectives –Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies Transfer knowledge within the community Communicate best practices Introduce new products / solutions

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Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com MNSPUG Sponsorship Two Opportunities to Sponsor Annual Sponsorship ($2500 annually) –Money Will Help Fund MNSPUG Events –Annual Sponsorship will be Reviewed Yearly –Cannot be in Direct Competition with Another Annual Sponsor –Looking for: Microsoft SharePoint ISV Microsoft Learning Provider Microsoft Licensing Account Reseller Lunch Sponsorship

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com MNSPUG Sponsorship Continued Lunch Sponsorship ($500 for a lunch) –Sponsor a Lunch Event Following MNSPUG Event –This can be geared toward your specific SharePoint product or capabilities

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting –June 12 th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM –MNSPUG Members - User Case Studies –Microsoft Technology Center –Check for updates! Ongoing Schedule – 2 nd Wednesday of every month – 9:00 to 11:30 am – Microsoft Technical Center - Edina

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Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Evaluations & Giveaways!

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Presenter

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Raymond Mitchell SharePoint Consultant with Rackspace Introductions

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com What is IW?

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com What is NOT IW Not talking about End Users Uploading documents Entering List Data etc..

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Information Worker Technologies Focus on empowering POWER USERS Features enabled creation of complex solutions WITHOUT CODE* Frequently, multiple tools used to create components of a solution No-Code / Low-Code - but still “Development”

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Composite Solutions / Composites When given multiple components that can be dynamically configured and combined, technical users (not just developers) can create powerful business solutions.  Web Parts  Lists / Libraries  Workflow  Forms  External Data

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Information Worker Solutions Dashboards / Views / KPIs – ohhhh, pretty Master / Detail views Custom forms and process automation Custom actions (workflows)

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com A brief and sad history Introduced in the good ‘ole days of SharePoint 2003 Arguably peaked with 2007 release – “Composite Applications” Attempts to improve with 2010 largely missed the mark Neglected in 2013

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Two flagship tools InfoPath SharePoint Designer WYSIWYG editor Declarative Workflows

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Skills by Version

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com IW in lots of different roles Business User Power User Site Owner Site Collection Owner Developer Administrator

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Skills – No/Low Code 2010 SPD InfoPath 2013 Access Services Apps Web Parts

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Skills – Code 2010 XML/XSLT CAML HTML 2013 HTML5 JavaScript REST / JSON Development

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Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Differences in 2013 by Features / Tools

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Dashboards / Composites Can still build custom pages Can still connect web parts* Content by Search (no more CBQ)

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com SharePoint Designer Design View is gone DVWPs are gone* New Data Views will be handled using JavaScript overrides called Client Side Rendering (CSR)

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com CSR Example (function () { var overrideCtx = {}; overrideCtx.Templates = {}; overrideCtx.Templates.Fields = { 'Actual_x0020_Completion_x0020__x': { 'View' : ColorfulPercent } }; function ColorfulPercent(ctx) { var ret = []; var percentVal = ctx.CurrentItem.Actual_x0020_Completion_x0020__x; var percentNum = Number(percentVal.split(' ')[0]); ret.push("<span style='font-weight:bold;color:"); if (percentNum 66) { ret.push("#0000FF"); } if (percentNum 33) { ret.push("#00FF00"); } if (percentNum <= 33) { ret.push("#FF0000"); } ret.push("'>" + percentVal + " "); return ret.join(''); } SPClientTemplates.TemplateManager.RegisterTemplateOverrides(overrideCtx); })();

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com SharePoint Designer - Workflows 2010 Workflows still supported… 2013 Workflows introduced  Support looping / stages  Web Service Calls*  Can call/initiate 2010 workflows

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com InfoPath No clear guidance has been provided No additional features for 2013 Think Silverlight, not dead but…

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Excel & Visio Services Not extensively used in most organizations Great for building interactive dashboards and data visualizations Requires Enterprise… Excel (with Office Professional Plus) contains Power View for data exploration and visualization

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Access Services Microsoft’s “shining example” of Composites “Access Apps” are published to SharePoint as Apps Uses SQL behind the scenes  Each App = a database Means other applications can connect (think reporting, integration, etc) Automation configured with macros (User Interface & Data) NOT workflows

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Apps Clearly a HUGE investment area for SharePoint Early stages of the Store WILL play a role in future IW story

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Questions / Discussion

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Resources Slide No-code solutions using SharePoint 2013 Composites  Watch for more CSR resources  nt nt+2013 Want to try SharePoint 2013? 

Meeting # 101http://sharepointmn.com Last But Not Least Please Fill Out Evaluations Drawings for Giveaways Today’s Presenters:  Raymond Mitchell

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