This document discusses no-code development options in SharePoint 2013. It describes tools like SharePoint Designer, Access web apps, and search web parts that allow creating solutions without coding. Various examples of typical no-code solutions are provided, such as expense reporting and document approval workflows. The presentation encourages power users to first explore no-code customization options before pursuing code-based solutions.

1. The no-code development story for
Power Users in SharePoint 2013
Asif Rehmani
SharePoint MVP and MCT
SharePoint-Videos.com

2. CEO and Founder
VisualSP / SharePoint-Videos.com
Chicago
USA
Contact
@asifrehmani
asif@sharepointElearning.com
www.sharepoint-videos.com
Author
SharePoint MVP, Trainer and Consultant
MCT
Conference
Speaker

3. VisualSP Help System
www.VisualSP.com
in-context and on-demand Help for
SharePoint users –
SharePoint 2010, 2013, Online
Context sensitive Help items:
• Videos • Images/Screenshots
• Documents • Links

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5. Giveaways for today’s session
1 Year access to

6. Target audience for this session:
Intranet/Web Content Manager
Portal Solutions Manager
SharePoint Guy/Gal
Session level:
200 - Intermediate

7. Session focus
Creating powerful no-code solutions

8. What can SharePoint do?
Collaboration
Document management
Internal Social Network
Forms
Process Automation
(Workflows)
Business Intelligence
Reporting
Search
Metadata Management
…
Super secret
The next version will even make
coffee!

9. Creating Solutions
Recommended sequence when creating your solutions:
1. Browser based only
2. Use no-code tools
3. Use code tools
OR
3rd party products

10. Power User’s motto:
“Let’s not write code until
we have to write code.”

11. How we define ‘no-code’
Yes
Browser
Office application
Desktop application built for SharePoint and related technologies
Scripting technologies
No
Visual Studio
Managed code

12. Why go ‘no-code’?
Possibilities of what you can do are Enormous!
Quick learning curve
Easier ongoing management of solution
Delegate responsibility easily

13. Location Mapping

14. Demo: Geolocation

15. Use Geolocation column for live mapping
Show maps directly within lists and libraries

16. Implement Quick Wins
Identify pain points and focus in on them

17. Customize
SharePoint
Out-of-the-Box
(sites, docs, lists, social)
SharePoint
Composites
(Access App, BI,
Workflow, BCS)
Declarative
Capabilities
(Doc Sets,
Records, Search)
Managed Code
(Apps, CSOM,
Reusable components)
The customization continuum

18. Typical no-code solutions
Human
Resource
portals
Self-service
reporting,
financial
dashboards
Expense
reporting

19. Typical no-code solutions
Review and
approve
document
workflows
New-hire
orientation
sites
Ideation,
feedback, &
“suggestion
boxes”
Structured
documents:
contracts,
RFPs, &
invoices

20. Search based solutions

21. Demo: Search Web Parts

22. Show pre-configured data on pages using
Search web parts
Live pre-defined
search results on
web pages
Ability for users to
refine the results
as needed

23. “Citizen Developers will create
25% of New Business
Applications by 2014”
Gartner, July 14, 2011

24. Access Web Apps

25. Using Access 2013 to simplify web
development
Access 2013 –
Used to create the interface of the app
SharePoint 2013 –
Used to host the front end of the app
SQL Server 2012 –
Used as the backend data storage technology for the app

26. Demo: Access Web App

27. Create web applications using Access
Build Access web apps and launch to SharePoint Online

28. Ability to disable Access apps at the tenant
level
SharePoint admin center  Settings

29. No-code Workflows

30. Workflow tools
30
Browser
SharePoint Designer 2013
Visio 2013
Visual Studio 2012/2013

31. Workflow Manager 1.0
SharePoint 2013 workflow processing moved to Workflow Manager
(WM)
Workflow no longer runs in the SharePoint content farm / servers
SharePoint farm & Workflow Manager farm can be on same /
different servers
31

32. 2010 and 2013 style workflows
SharePoint Designer
32
2010
2013
Are there any
differences..?

33. New Workflow Activities & Actions
New Actions & Activities
Microsoft Project Specific
Actions
Assign a Task Get Property from
[Dictionary/DynamicValue]
Create a Project from Current Item
Start a Task Process Count Items in
[Dictionary/DynamicValue]
Set the current project stage status to
this value
Go to This Stage Trim String Set the status field in the idea list item
to this value
Call HTTP Web Service Find Substring in String Wait for Project Event
Start a List Workflow Replace Substring in String Set this field in the project to this
value
Start a Site Workflow Translate Document
Build [Dictionary/DynamicValue] Set Workflow Status

34. The ‘New Stuff’
Stages
• New base level concept of
stages
Visual Designer
• Direct Visio incorporation
• Stage-Level Diagrams
New Task Actions
• Quick and easy to create
tasks and approval
processes
Web Services
• Able to call into Rest/HTTP
web services
Loops!
• Able now to loop indirectly
with stages or directly with
the new Loop actions
Copy/Cut and Paste
• Core copy/cut and paste
abilities now introduced

35. Demo:
SharePoint Designer 2013
Workflows

36. And now.. The story of InfoPath

37. InfoPath 2010 & 2013
Library form Custom SharePoint list form

38. Forms update (from Microsoft)

39. FoSL – Forms on SharePoint Lists

40. SharePoint Composites Showcase
created by Mark Gillis from Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dn594430

41. How do I practice my ideas and
concepts?

42. Watch videos for examples
http://sharepoint-videos.com/video-categories/all-free-videos/
And
Plenty available on YouTube
42

43. Get a sandbox environment for practicing
Build your own dev VM
or
Try the templates available at CloudShare –
http://www.cloudshare.com
or
Get a free 30 days trial of Office 365

44. Expert Tutorials

45. Call to Action
Thank You!
Watch videos at: SharePoint-Videos.com
Check out: No-code solutions using SharePoint 2013 Composites
@asifrehmani
asif@sharepointElearning.com
www.sharepoint-videos.com