This presentation was given by Marianne van Wanrooij of Connected Solutions as part of the Sparked Toolkit Session: SharePoint Nightmares. It discusses her SharePoint Nightmare and her solution.

1. Marianne van Wanrooij
Connected Solutions
May 6th, 2009

2. Who’s she and
are that bags under her eyes?
 Marianne van Wanrooij
 Solution Architect at Connected Solutions
 Software Development Network
track owner Information Worker section.
 Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG)

3. The horror: business case
 SharePoint as a document repository
 Metadata Learning material (documents) based on
VDEX standards
 Search
 Online and offline

4. What they promise you?
 Document Management
 Document Library
 Office Integration
 Document Information Panel (InfoPath)
 Content Types
 Custom FieldTypes

5. Content Types
 The metadata, or properties, you want to assign to this type. These are
represented by columns added to the list or document library when you add
the content type.
 Custom New, Edit, and Display forms to use with this content type.
 Workflows available for items of this content type. These can be defined to
start automatically based on a selected event or condition, or through user
selection.
 For document content types, the document template on which to base
documents of this type.
 Any information necessary for custom solutions associated with this content
type. You can store this information in the content type as one or more XML
documents.

6. To make you crazy….
 Document Library
 Content Types
 Field types
 Custom Field Types
 Office Document
 Template
 Document Properties
 Custom Document Properties
 Content Controls

7. Where it failed…

8. A new morning
 Custom Field Types and
NO Document Information Panel
 Word CustomXML
 Visual Studio Tools for Office

9. How it works

10. Panel for meta data

11. Questions

12. Thank you for your attention!