1. NO CODING SOLUTIONS Tim Bridgham

2. OVERVIEW Why no code Benefits Drawbacks Decision Tree Examples New solutions in 2013 Lessons Learned over Time Questions

3. WHO AM I Began as a extra duty I have never been a coder, but I have done simple coding in designer Portals have ranged from small farms for 600 people to large farms with over 70,000 users. Introduced to Sharepoint in 2005 -- Microsoft SharePoint Team Services (2002) at USCENTCOM for the Joint Intelligence Command – Power User level – 25 users – No Code Stepped up to 2003 in 2007 for US Special Operations Command Intelligence Directorate, migrated 2003 to 2007 without Moss and then they gave us MOSS – Portal Manager for 2 Farms and Site Collection Admin on 2 other farm – Users range 20k-70K - 3% custom on 2 farms, 40% -70% custom on other 2 farms Moved to 2010 in 2011 While at Booz Allen Hamilton and become the Portal Manager for a small Health Services Company in 2013 through 2015 – Site Collection admin then Portal Manager -- User base 300 – 600, 10% Custom on 1 Farm, 0% code on other farm Now on 2013 for Holland and Knight – large Farm, approximately 2000 users, highly customized, team of 6 developers, 1 farm admin, 1 SCA, 70% custom The No Code solutions are not always the answer, but if you don’t know the foundations of what sharepoint provides out of the box, then how do you know if you are wasting your time.

4. WHY NO CODE Small Environments One person portal team Business is still learning SharePoint as a solution No real need Cost restraints

5. BENEFITS Simple to migrate Easier to maintain Faster load times if used strictly out of the box Cheaper Easy to train users This image provided courtesy of Sharepoint expert, Haniel Croitoru

6. DRAWBACKS Limited solutions to solve problems Difficult to justify adding in later Sharepoint Out- of-the-box, will never map requirement to requirement with any company Out-Of-The-Box really means that the client requirements map directly onto features provided from a default provision of SharePoint. Out-Of-The-Box means governance defines the relevancy of features SharePoint has supporting the vision they have for their departmental productivity. That’s no fancy bells, no wonderful gizmos, no ‘wow look at the fancy bits’. Raw SharePoint meeting Raw user requirements. Geoff Evelyn – FIAP, FICT, MBCS, MIET

7. WEB PART DECISION TREE What is the User trying to Show or Do Involves a Date Display Data Convey a message Calendar Web Part One directional Bi directional Informational and Bi directional Announcement Web part Discussion Board Web part Blog Wiki Page Static Feq Updates Collaboration Store Data Document Library List Team Site

8. EXAMPLE – BEFORE -- USING 90 % CONTENT EDITOR WEB PARTS

9. EXAMPLE – AFTER -- 95% OUT OF THE BOX WITH 5% STYLING

10. 100% out of the box

11. NEW SOLUTIONS IN 2013 Summary Links - Allows you to enter in a list of links and group them by one grouping level. For each link, you can also point to an image that is already in a library on your SharePoint site. Term Property - Shows information about a term in the managed metadata term store. You can select if you’d like it to show the Name, Description, Path, ID, or any other custom property. In this example, I selected the “Overtime” term, and selected to show the path. Although it looks like a navigation breadcrumb trail, these are not clickable links. Announcement Tiles –This looks like a Promoted Links list, but has a couple of slight differences. It has a begin and end date field, and each announcement will drop off once the end date has passed. It lets you fill in descriptions for each announcement, but doesn’t force you to put a link URL in it like a promoted links list does. It only shows one announcement at a time, and there are no web part settings to configure. Timeline This one is similar to the Project Summary web part, except it’s more simplified. Notice that there’s no “add task” or “edit list” button, and there is no pretty little pane on the left letting you know about overdue, soon due tasks and such. The web part settings allow you to pick a web, list and view name. The thing that’s BETTER than the project summary one, is that this one lets you pick a different site, and the other doesn’t.

12. LESSONS LEARNED OVER TIME Do not use folders in Document library – use columns with choices – reduces URL length Change is constant – if your portal stops changing, you are not doing your job right 10% of the people will never be happy, or even understand what SharePoint is – Take everything they say with a grain of salt Even though anything is possible in SharePoint does not mean it’s a good idea or that we should even consider it – Control your environment - Chaos will reign if you don’t. User are not as bright as they think they are in most cases. Removing Delete from Contributors can reduce wasted time by 10-15%.

13. QUESTIONS