Slide deck from SharePoint Saturday UK, Novermber 2011

1. Cutting Costs Using
SharePoint 2010
Alan Richards
#SPSUK35

2. About Me
 Information Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School
 Worked in education for over 17 years
 Led teams in the early adoption of Microsoft systems
 Regular presenter at events
 SharePoint MVP – July 2011

3. Topics
 Background
 Demo of the end result
possible
 InfoPath 2010
 SharePoint Designer 2010

4. Background
 High levels of investment in ICT needs a ROI
 Paper – 1.5 million sheets of paper a year
 Printing
 Copying
 Letters
 Academic Review Day
 £8000 for 2 days

7. InfoPath 2010
 Simple to use
 Easy to connect to SharePoint
 Browser based forms

8. InfoPath 2010
 Create the list from InfoPath
 Set server / site location
 Create new list
 Creates Basic Fields
 Design Your Page
 Layouts
 Page Design
 Tables
 Add fields
 Text boxes
 Date / Time
 Person Picker

9. InfoPath 2010
 Current User
 Add text box
 Control Properties
 Select function

12. SharePoint Designer 2010
 Open a SharePoint site
 View current workflows
 Create new list workflow

13. SharePoint Designer 2010
 Creating a workflow
 Add conditions
 Resultant actions
 Send Email
 User from AD / list
 Use a function to create the subject
 Use lookups in the body to pull data out of the list

14. SharePoint Designer 2010
 Simple or Complex

16. Live Meetings
 Series of 3
 Part 1 – 1st December
 Lesson based
 End Product
https://www311.livemeeting.com/lrs/0000000379_116/Regi
stration.aspx?pageName=2ds76p494tj8c4bt

17. arichards@edutechnow.com
www.edutechnow.com
twitter.com/arichards_Saruk