This slidedeck was used during my session at the SharePoint Connections 2012 conference at 20 November in Amsterdam. The presentation is about how to build great applications using the new technologies introduced in SharePoint 2013.

1. How to create SharePoint 2013
Apps that everybody loves
Maarten Visser

2. whoami
ondertitel
Internet websites since 1994
Intranet portals since 1998
SharePoint since 2000 @mvisser
mvisser@meetroo.com
Consultant / Architect
Cloud / Collaboration

4. Who are you?
END USER POWER USER CASUAL HARDCORE
DEVELOPER DEVELOPER
P1 P2 P3 P4

5. What tools to use?
END USER POWER USER CASUAL HARDCORE
DEVELOPER DEVELOPER
Web UI / Designer / Access P2
P1 Services P3 Visual Studio P4
NAPA

6. Agenda

7. Agenda
• What are great SharePoint Apps?
• What are killer apps?
• Apps vs Content
• How to build Apps in SharePoint 2013
– SharePoint 2013 Apps
– Access Services
– Search driven Apps
• Q&A

8. What are SharePoint Killer Apps?
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• Create Traffic to your intranet or extranet (portal)
• Makes your organization more successful
• Make people more productive
• Filll organisational needs…

9. What are Killer Apps?
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SharePoint solutions which gets users
Enthusiastic!
And which are adopted quickly

10. ondertitel
Apps vs Content

11. ondertitel
Content

14. ondertitel
Apps

15. A good Apps is…
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• Easy to use
• Easy to navigate
• Easy to integrate
• Easy to grow in to [basic to advanced features]
• ….

16. So what is a killer app?
• A great app without great content is worthless
• A bad app with great content is valuable!
• A great app with great content is a killer app!

17. Who should like it?
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• Secretaries
• Collaboration Junkies
• (Project) Managers
• Project sponsor

18. What do secretaries like?
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• Secretaries
• Social Stuff
• Time savers!
• Easy Sharing

19. Examples
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• Company Phonebook / Facebook
• Video‟s of events
• Note boards

20. Community Portal

22. Expertise search also
returns relevant authored
documents

24. What do Collab Junkies like?
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• Collaboration Junkies
• Reduce E-mail
• Data aggregation
• Destroy the fileserver!

25. Examples
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• Document Center & Knowledge bases
• Project (Collaboration) sites
• Offline Collaboration [SkyDrive Pro!]

26. Document Center
4-12-2012

27. Create
knowledge
management
portals with
auto-
generated
content
Taxonomic
navigation bound
to term set in
metadata term
store

29. Click ‘SYNC’ to
synchronize
document libraries for
offline access
Specify where
synchronized
documents will go
locally

30. Always stay in sync with
SkyDrive Pro

31. What do managers like?
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• Organize Stuff
• Dashboards
• Control

32. Timeline view of
tasks

33. Examples
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• Expense / Purchase Requets Workflow
• Business Intelligence Sites
Rollup of
tasks, including
workflow tasks

35. How to build Apps in
SharePoint 2013?

36. How to build Killer Apps
in SharePoint 2013?
– SharePoint Apps
– Access Services Apps
– Search driven Apps

38. Apps for Office and SharePoint

39. SP2013 Common App Architecture
APP
Web Server Host
Browser Host
3rd Party Services
Other Devices
& Clients
Server APIs
Client APIs
Office SharePoint
& Exchange
Client Server

40. Apps for SharePoint
• Use the full power of SharePoint
– Lists, Doc Libs, Workflow, Event Receivers, BCS, etc.
• App Shapes
Immersive App Part Custom Action

41. SharePoint App
• PROS
– The sky cloud is the limit
– Relatively easy to integrate with external systems
– Easy to deploy
• CONS
– Upfront Design required
– Developer skills required
– Might become a complex solution to support

43. Access
“Loved by End Users and Power Users”
“Hated by IT Pro‟s and Developers”
.mdb

44. Access mission

45. Where is the data stored?
SharePoint Online
SharePoint On Prem Windows Azure
SQL Server On Prem

46. Quickly create business value with browser-based apps.
Quickly create Your Access app Control your apps
custom apps for the automatically looks front-end in
web that help run gorgeous and easy to SharePoint with
your business or navigate thanks to Office 365 and back-
department. No app the new "App end data stored in
development Experience". SQL.
knowledge is
needed!
• App Templates & Table Templates • “App Experience” without coding • SharePoint permissions with
it Office 365 or on-premise server
• Maintain existing desktop
databases & import data • Related Items & Autocomplete • Windows Azure SQL Database or
controls make data entry easy SQL Server back-end
• Apps for SharePoint in a browser
• Drill-thru to details

47. User Interface Model
2. Choose view
5. Add and save items
1. Choose table
3. Search and filter
4. Edit items

48. User Interface Model - Customizations
Add Views
Add Buttons
Add Tables
& Change Icons
Change Fields
Edit Layout

49. UI Macros

50. Data Macros

51. Linking to SharePoint Lists

52. Backup, Packaging, and Publishing

55. Access Services Apps
• PROS
– Quickly build [structured] data driven apps
– By far the best way ever to manage Access Solutions!
– Easy to deploy
• CONS
– Transferring an existing app to a developer might be challenging
– Has to overcome a bad reputation by IT Pro‟s and Devs

57. Major investments in SP Search!

58. Developer‟s view of search
HTTP
Query
File Pipeline
Shares
SharePoint
Profiles
Content
Pipeline
Exchange
Lotus
Notes
Documentum
Custom

59. Building Blocks
Analogous to federated locations or scopes [also filter on file or content type!]
Alters query under given conditions [Best Bets!]
Determines how results are displayed [Display templates!]

60. [No code] Development Options

64. SharePoint Search Apps

65. Windows 8 Apps

66. Search Driven Apps
• PROS
– Perfect solution for Content aggregation!
– No more „Site [Collection] scope‟ limitations
– Easy to setup using the Query builder
• CONS
– There might be a small delay in seeing the
latest results
• Use CQWP in the case where this is needed

67. Final Tips
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• Pick your tools wisely.
• Think about the content that employees love!
• Create apps that stimulate Input
• Build sexy and simple Interfaces
• All SharePoint Intranets need al least 3 Killer
Apps
(for the 3 most important organizational
personas)

68. Q&A

69. Next Sessions?
Room B
Room C [this room]