Abilitics presentation from Microsoft Days 2009 (presented by Veselin Georgiev and Martin Karaivanov)

1. Разработчици
Разработчици
Кемпински Хотел Зографски София

2. Разработчици
Case Study: InfoPath, Excel
Services and Word Document
Generation
Веселин Георгиев,
SharePoint & .NET Developer
Мартин Караиванов,
SharePoint & .NET Developer
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3. Разработчици
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4. Разработчици
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5. What We Have Разработчици
• A client who wants a time tracking system :
– Employees enter information (input)
– Managers examine reports (output)
– Generating word documents (output)
• We know the client has a MOSS license
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6. Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Разработчици
• Create electronic forms for gathering information
efficiently and reliably
• Make complex form design easier
• Rich and user-friendly UI
• Develop advanced forms functionality without
coding
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7. InfoPath in Action - Demo Разработчици
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8. How Complex Things Can Be: Разработчици
• Forms with several hundreds fields
• Complex business logic
• Frequent change requests – nightmare for
every developer
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9. Is Something Missing? Разработчици
• How will we use InfoPath
forms in the Web world?
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10. InfoPath Forms Services Разработчици
• Bringing InfoPath forms to the web world
• AJAX-enabled ASP.NET web forms
• Develop once for web & smart client
• The process
– Develop with InfoPath
– Publish and Render with Forms Services
– Use from Web Browser
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11. Architecture – Input Разработчици
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12. InfoPath Forms Services - Demo Разработчици
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13. Microsoft Excel Разработчици
• Why Excel for reports
– Outsource report definition to business people
• How to do it in Excel:
– Excel imports data from SQL Server table
– Excel provides pivot tables & pivot chart
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14. But Something is Missing? Разработчици
• How to make Excel report
web-enabled?
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15. Excel Services in SharePoint Разработчици
• Interactive web-based Excel
– Integral part of Office Sharepoint Server
– Great BI & data presentation tools
– Dashboards and KPIs
• It’s not a data entry tool for the web
• Making developers’ life easier
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16. Architecture - Output Разработчици
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17. Excel Services - Demo Разработчици
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18. Word Document Generation Разработчици
• Component developed by
us to satisfy the need of
generating Word documents
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19. Timesheet Report Generation - Demo
Разработчици
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20. How Complex Documents Can Be? Разработчици
• 26 types of documents
• Template of 50 pages with more than 500
placeholders
• Generated documents of 20 pages
• Config files of 3000 lines per document
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21. Summary Разработчици
• Simple time tracking system
• Lots of technologies involved
• Big opportunities for developing complex and more
complex systems
• Quick and efficient development
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22. When You Do Not Fill Your Timesheet
Разработчици
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23. When You Do Fill Your Timesheet
Разработчици
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24. Разработчици
Q&A
veselin@abilitics.com
martin@abilitics.com
http://blogs.abilitics.com
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25. Разработчици
• Абилитикс предлага IT решения, консултантски услуги, обучения, outsourcing,
разработка, внедряване и поддръжка на приложения, както и на собствени
продукти базирани на Microsoft технологиите - SharePoint, ASP.NET, Project
Server, Dynamics CRM, Exchange, SQL Server & Business Intelligence.
Веселин Георгиев
SharePoint & .NET Engineer office@abilitics.com
MCPD: Windows Developer
veselin.georgiev@abilitics.com +359 2 488 19 27
www.abilitics.com
Мартин Караиванов
SharePoint & .NET Engineer
http://blogs.abilitics.com/
martin.karaivanov@abilitics.com
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