Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with sharepoint

SharePoint CQWP: How to use today's date to compare to another field

momzilla — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:38:31 -0800

SharePoint CQWP: How on earth can I use today's date to compare to another field in a calculated column or filter in SharePoint? (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007) We have two subsites that have announcements lists which we are using to display deadlines. We are using the Content Query Web Part on the parent site homepage to roll up the deadlines from both subsites. Project manager only wants deadlines that will be expiring within the next seven days to display in the CQWP. This seemed like an easy task to complete ... just use the filter in the CQWP. However, I cannot figure out how to get it to allow for [Expires]-7 or otherwise use Today, Date or Now functions in a calculation.

My first solution was to create a calculated column to determine the beginning date to display the deadline (using the formula of [Expires]-7). The column displays fine in the list, but I wasn't able to get this to work in the CQWP filter because it didn't see this calculated column as a date field, even though I selected "Date" data type when I created it.

My second attempt was to try to create a "countdown" of days until [Expires], wherein I ran into the Today function limitation in calculated fields.

Am I going about this the wrong way or overlooking the obvious? What is the easiest way to achieve this? I'm new to SharePoint, and any guidance is appreciated.

Making SharePoint more like WordPress for my home page

blahblahblah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:36:58 -0800

I have an academic homepage, and I want to have frequently updated content, but my university doesn't support anything but MS Office Sharepoint. How do I add WordPress, or WordPress-like elements, or some sort of easy CMS/theme solution to my site? So I have a nice new homepage at the university where I teach, but the university only supports Sharepoint and WebDAV and recommends Sharepoint Designer for faculty pages.

I really would like to use WordPress, or something like it, to drive my site, mostly because of the simple, elegant themes available and the easy light-weight CMS/authoring ability. Everything that comes out of Sharepoint Designer looks terrible, and rarely works across all browsers.

The problem is that I really want my site to continue to be www.university.edu/blahblahblah. Is there any way for a technically adept amateur to set up this page so that it looks or behaves like a WordPress site? Perhaps having the page pull things from an external site?

Or just some tips on making Sharepoint work better for someone like me?

Any help appreciated.

How to Delete Myself ...

keasby — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:59:19 -0800

How to transfer administrative control of a SharePoint subsite? I.e. I created the site, assigned new owners, but now need to remove my own access. This seems like it should be pretty straight forward. Unlike homemade chili, it is not.

We have a basic SharePoint team site. Admin asked me to create a private subsite where just the back office staff could store sensitive personnel files. Creating was no problem, and I assigned permission such that only those individuals can view. I even "removed" myself from all of the groups.

Or so I thought. I am not getting access denied when I log into the site.

Help! I don't want to coach a coworker, over the phone, how to do each of the trivial steps it took to make this subsite. Is this something my network admin should be able to do? It may help to know that we are a "virtual firm" so I don't have any tech folks on site to help me, nor can I just "hijack" one of the new owner's accounts.

Thank you!

Sharepoint weekly email

fozzie33 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:14:12 -0800

In Sharepoint, is there a way to send a weekly report(every monday) showing the status of a list? We are using MOSS 2007, I have sharepoint designer, and we have a particular list (plan of actions and milestones) that I want to send out every monday showing the status of any open POAMs.

Any suggestions, i am new to sharepoint, but i am a programmer, so if i can't find a solution here, i will figure something else out... i am thinking i can create a workflow or something... but not sure.
- Tim

Add views column in MOSS?

smelvis — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:53:52 -0800

microsoftfilter: Using MOSS, how can I add a column to a discussion board list to show the number of times an item has been viewed? Currently have #of replies, but also want to show # of views for each item. Seems like this should be easy, but I have dug around and don't see this option.

Thanks

Has anyone worked with K2?

geoff. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:56:29 -0800

Has anyone worked with K2 Blackpoint? It looks like it can do custom applications in Sharepoint quickly, and allows you tie into a lot of data sources. Anyone actually use it? I'm looking to do some custom workflows, like project started, Sharepoint site is then deployed based on a form approval, correct permissions are assigned and there's some talking back and forth between Sharepoint and the accounting database.

I found that I could do this by creating custom sites and putting in a C# SQL receiver and doing a couple of other things but found it onerous. This looks like I can do it out of the box, and cut my time having to slug through Visual Studio down to nothing.

Anyone work with this? Or seen it? Any thoughts?

IBM Websphere Portal vs Microsoft SharePoint?

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:31:36 -0800

IBM Websphere Portal vs Microsoft SharePoint: which is less loathsome? The organization for which I work (think: mid-size governmental agency, several thousand employees) got hoodwinked into buying IBM Websphere Portal, just before I started working for them. I say 'hoodwinked' because, whatever strengths or shortcomings Portal might have in general, it is a terrible fit for our needs. We use portal as our intranet platform, users log in and have personalized access on to a couple of applications, and maybe news or other stuff related to their department. I am one of three developer/producers for our intranet and internet sites. We paid consultants a zillion dollars to install Portal, and another zillion form time to time when it breaks.

Ok, fine, I'll admit it. I hate Websphere Portal. It can do powerful things but it is the most obfuscated, complicated, expensive, counter-intuitive, unpredictable, instable, inflexible, bloated, ugly, PIG of an application I have ever had the displeasure of crossing paths with. Its very existence offends me as an employee and as a taxpayer - it's that bad.

Anyway, now somebody somewhere well above me is in the process of being hoodwinked into buying SharePoint, a product I don't know much about. But, since I have a fair amount of experience coding VB, and administering IIS, and it seems like you can actually write asp/html type code and have it work without TOOOOOO much juryrigging, SharePoint sounds like a magical land of unicorns and rainbows compared to Websphere Portal.

Surprisingly, we have been asked whether we think SharePoint is a good idea.

So, at long last, the question: am I going to hate SharePoint as much as I hate WebSphere Portal? More? Should I take my retirement 20 years early and become a painter of houses?

How do I get my contact list into a Sharepoint form?

geoff. — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:56:32 -0800

I have an Infopath form in Sharepoint. In one of the fields I want the user to pick a person from a "contact list" stored in the site. I want it to behave like the contact selector control, but this apparently only queries AD and Sharepoint users, not a contact list. Any ideas on how to achieve this? I don't really need the functionality to create a contact on the fly (this could, theoretically, be a drop down list). But with 700 names it would be nicer if I could provide the contact selector like interface. This seems like it should be really simple to do, I shouldn't have to roll my own here.

Sharepoint Sign Up Page for Intranet

bleucube — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:11:20 -0800

Windows Sharepoint 3.0: HR would like to submit a job listing to the intranet that allows employees to sign up. What's the best method to do this? (Signing up would attach your name to the job posting). I know how to created a form with permission so HR can post a job, I don't know how to create the sign up part. Is there a better way to do this? The free Job Application Template is to complex.

Any help appreciated.

Recommend a client portal solution to add to our website?

reddot — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:25:54 -0800

I'd like to add a client portal to an existing website. Any ideas? My employer currently has a website. We'd like to add a customer portal, where the client can download documents pertaining to their project and view videos that we'd produce for them. There's no need for any kind of interaction component and we'd really like to add this feature to our website. Any ideas?

I saw this post from 2007, which basically ended up recommending Basecamp.

I'm going to evaluate Basecamp, but we'd really like something that could be added to our website. I think it might actually be overkill for what we need.

One option, which I am also investigating is that we have a Sharepoint which can be exposed to the internet. I don't have much Sharepoint experience (and that which I do have indicates that it's pretty clunky and tough to customize), but perhaps it could be used for this purpose?

Thanks.

Help me stun SharePoint

Ikazuchi — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:51:56 -0800

[MS SharePoint Filter] We have a SharePoint subsite that needs to be kinda disabled for a wee bit until our SP guy gets back from vacation and updates some workflows (yay management decision). Specifically, everyone with access needs to be set to Read Only and a message needs to be added to every page ("This site is unavailable because blah blah blah). The only way those of us still in the office know to deal with this is brute force; go in and edit each page and permission. This is a huge pain and I know there has to be a more elegant solution.

I looked into SharePoint Features but I couldn't find anything that nearly matched the functionality I was looking for and I feel I'm missing something simple.

Anyone here have an idea of how to do this (especially in an easily reversible way)?

The point is to share, right?

emjay — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:20:24 -0800

How to use Sharepoint's calendar to remind staff of ongoing project dates for multiple projects. I'm using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and need to implement a variable date solution for the following and I'm not sure how best to go about it:

Essentially this is Project Management, but with email reminders fromt he calendar:

-Project tracking of about 30 different projects
-Each project will have it's own timeline of dates starting from the initial "StartDate"
-A series of dated items.

a) Set future dates such as April 1, 2010 that trigger reminder emails 120, 90, 60, 30 days prior to the event as well as other fixed dates.
b) Sliding dates such as "every 30 days" for events that occur monthly, annually, etc
c) Manual add-in days for emergency or non-compliance with project specs that can be initiated and send reminders until compliance is met or emergency is over (Could be 24 hours, 48 hours, 30 days, etc)

So essentially I need calendar reminder "countdowns" as well as calendar tracking of unplanned events, as well as regularly scheduled reminders to email out to a group and possibly have the workflow change the "status" of a project based on the current state of the calendar reminders.

Am I looking for something 3rd party here or can this be done in Sharepoint Designer 2007 with a little direction?

Should I hire a 3rd party directly or using oDesk or eLance?

Hosted sharepoint & exchange recommendations?

reddot — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:41:07 -0800

Hello. My company currently has MS exchange and sharepoint hosted with 1and1. However, their support sucks and not all features of the products are actually available. Does anyone have any recommendations that provide good support? Unfortunately, although I'd love to use different products, that's not going to happen. thanks.

What's you SharePoint job like for you?

I, Credulous — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:39:08 -0800

SharePoint Admins & Developers: what do you do? I've recently become unemployed.
At my last position, my title was "Systems Administrator." I was introduced to SharePoint about 2 years ago when the company installed it.
The true extent of my duties was in the line of:
-SharePoint Power User (setting up lists and sites for my colleagues to use SharePoint to capture and display information, track tasks, etc.),
-SharePoint evangelist (trying to get my colleagues to get "on board" with SharePoint and leave the messy, perilous network share behind them),
-InfoPath developer (just beginning to get into it, but I can see the power in there)
-managing permissions for a ~100 employee company
-setting and maintaining alerts for groups or the whole population (using two different third-party apps)
-front-line desktop support for WinXP, Office 2003, network share
-daily tape backups (but only as the tape-swap monkey - I didn't set up the jobs)

I see SharePoint as a big deal, growth product, and think that hitching my wagon to this pony could provide interesting work and a good paycheque for a good long while.
I'm enrolled at a local college for introductory VB.NET courses, and am considering a 5-course certification in SharePoint installation and administration.

But before I commit TOO heavily to this path I want to know what I can expect from the role in real-world situations.
-What is your day-to-day like?
-What are the headaches?
-What do you feel are the big rewards (I get satisfaction from "teaching a wo/man to fish" and sharing the knowledge, versus keeping it in the techno-priesthood)
-what's your pay range? (I'm in Toronto, ON. not looking to relocate)

any help, comments, suggestions, guidance is much appreciated.

Server 2003/2008 home/small business

bsexton — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:59:57 -0800

IT/Networking student here and I have access to the msdn-academic alliance program. I have an extra computer and would like to mess around with Server 2003 or 2008. Both are available. I have an extra box sitting around at work and this would be for a small business think 7 computers at the max. What are some of the things I can do with Server 2003 or 2008? I've already checked the specs and I should be able to install both.

I also have access to Exchange 2003/2008 and would like to get this working as well.

I can also get the Sharepoint server software.

I'm guessing I can get on the DreamSpark program as well

What are some of the things I can do or should do?

Sharepoint and not being able to find page views for my Intranet is making me cry?

acorn1515 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:43:02 -0800

Sharepoint filter: Is there any way to see the page views for a particular items/News article in Sharepoint? All I can find is stupid meaningless hit counts for my unit's part of the site. And Google and MS.com have both failed me. I'm launching an HTML newsletter that links back to articles I've uploaded onto my company's Sharepoint Intranet. I'm a total newbie to Sharepoint, but CAN NOT believe that there's really no way to track page views or visitors. Within the newsletter, each article links back to a specific URL for where I've put the article (All Site Content -> Lists -> News).

I've found the Site Usage Report under "Site Settings," but that just gives me my images and hit numbers, though I can see visit numbers if I choose "Browser" under "Select Report."

How do I, uh, use Sharepoint?

geoff. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:15:50 -0800

How do I make Sharepoint usable? Less ugly? Am I missing something or is this really unintuitive? What is everyone else using? I really like the idea of Sharepoint, but I'm having a hell of a time trying to implement it. To put it simply: it is just ugly. The interface is confusing, cluttered and the text is small. I really like Basecamp, or at least how it looks from screenshots, but I'm afraid I need something I can run on my own servers.

My biggest points of concern: (1) needs to interface within Active Directory so I can use existing credentials, (2) easy to setup, get going, too much customization and I'm afraid it'll be an albatross on my back and more of a hobby and less of a productivity tool.

Is there something I'm missing? I've read a lot of books about how to install and setup Sharepoint, but I'm not finding books on how to effectively implement it. The interface seems designed so that customization is difficult, which is no surprise. The problem is that I find the default interface confusing, doubly so for those friends of mine who are not technically sophisticated.

Is Sharepoint a not-quite-primetime product where it makes sense to hire a developer to finish up the installation? My needs are fairly basic, just document sharing, maybe even calenders and tasks -- each on a project basis.

I looked at Drupal, as it looked easier to work with, but it seems to lack document sharing and more focused on maintaining extensive web sites.

Another thought: It always seems that Sharepoint comes just, oh so close to doing something cool, but always just fails short. Is it teasing me? I feel as if I'm missing a key piece of the puzzle.

How can I share a mounted NTFS volume over AFP?

DLWM — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:01:14 -0800

Networkfilter: I have a NTFS volume mounted on my OS X Server box. I'd like to access it over the net using AFP. It's not showing up as an available AFP share. What gives? The NTFS volume mounts fine on the server:



admin@os-x-server$ sudo mount_smbfs //user@windows-fileserver/SHARE ~/ntfsdir

Password: os-x-server-password

Password: windows-password

admin@os-x-server$ ls -l ~ | grep ntfsdir

drwxr-xr-x    1 admin  staff  16384 Dec 31  1969 ntfsdir

admin@os-x-server$ ls -l ~/ntfsdir

drwxr-xr-x   1 admin  staff    16384 Feb 23 05:27 dir1

drwxr-xr-x   1 admin  staff    16384 Jun  3 09:42 dir2

drwxr-xr-x   1 admin  staff    16384 Apr 15 16:24 dir3

.

.

.

So it's mounting fine and the permissions look okay. In the Workgroup Manager for the OS X Server, ~/ntfsdir is set as a share point, owner is given read and write access, and AFP is enabled for that share. But when I try to mount the AFP share on my local machine, I get the following error:



user@os-x-client$ sudo mount_afp afp://admin:password@os-x-server/ntfsdir ~/afpdir

Password: os-x-client-password

mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020

mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -5019, errno is 2

user@os-x-client$

Google says that error -5019 means bad share name. And indeed, when I use Connect to Server... from the the Finder on the client machine, the share ntfsdir doesn't show up, even though it's enabled in the Workgroup Manager, AFP access is on, and owner has full read/write permissions to the share (both in AFP share config and in the server's filesystem itself).

Even weirder, the I can't even mount the share over AFP from within the server itself! I get the following error:



admin@os-x-server$ sudo mount_afp afp://admin:password@localhost/ntfsdir ~/testdir

Password: os-x-server-password

mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020

mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -5019, errno is 32

admin@os-x-server$

So for some reason this share is not being advertised properly. I've tried making other test AFP shares, and they work fine... it must have something to do that I'm trying to share a directory that is itself a mount point for a mounted NTFS share.

I don't see why the AFP service even knows that ~admin/ntfsdir (on the server) is an NTFS mounted share... seems like it should just be another directory in the filesystem, from its perspective. Unless it's a permissions thing that I'm missing, although, like I said, the permissions for ~admin/ntfsdir look good; I can browse the mounted NTFS volume on the server through the command line, etc.

Any clever suggestions for me?

Non-Sharepoint Version Control for Word?

Alterscape — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:21:53 -0800

Alternatives to SharePoint for multi-user collaboration and version control on Word documents (Word 2004 Mac, 2008 Mac)? I'm a grad student. The last paper I worked on had three actively contributing authors, and in the last day before the deadline, I spent almost all day integrating changes submitted via email from the other two authors into a single up-to-date version (we were all working in one office, on separate machines). I know about "track changes" in Word, but that only works effectively when a single document is edited by many people in a serial manner, which isn't terribly efficient.

I don't feel like this is good use of anyone's time. We use subversion and git to version-control software source code, and subethaedit or Google Docs/wikis from time to time to pair-program or work on writing text collaboratively. Subethaedit has no formatting capabilities, as it's meant as a programmer's editor, and neither Google Docs' nor wikis' formatting capabilities are up to par with the complex formatting requirements of some of the venues we publish in. In theory, we could compose the text in google docs/wikis/a version-controlled plaintext document and format it for Word as a last step, but my coauthors often want to see/manipulate the document in Word early on in the drafting process to check length and layout figures/etc.

Since the new xml-based Word documents are in theory plaintext files, I suppose Git could handle them if I handled conflict resolution in a text editor, but many of my collaborators still use older versions of Word that can't export the xml-based files.

I know I could write the text with LaTeX markup, version control that with our plaintext version control system, and render the output the final PDF through LaTeX, but I don't think I could convince the rest of my collaborators to learn TeX syntax, and some of the venues I publish in only provide Word templates.

I personally use NeoOffice and OpenOffice when possible, but I own Word 2008 in order to more easily collaborate with Word users, and I don't think I could convince the people I work with to switch to OpenOffice, so any version tracking system I used would need to accomodate .doc/.docx files anyway.

Sharepoint seems to be the Microsoft-blessed solution, but we're a Mac shop (nowhere to run the server) and I don't think I could convince anyone to spend the money to license SharePoint when there are RAs available to do the grunt work for the cost of their time.

All the same, I'd like to get some kind of collaborative, version-tracking workflow in place for our Word documents. Am I missing any options here? I'm primarily interested in low-cost solutions (no FileNet or Documentum here, sorry) but I'm willing to do some setup grunt work if necessary.

What is the most streamlined and effective way to use Sharepoint to track and manage events?

thewrongparty — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:59 -0800

Hello, cat-herding, project management expert mefites! Please help me figure out the most streamlined and effective way to use Sharepoint to track and manage events. I work at a non-profit currently going through some growing pains. We added more people to our education department and are taking on much more work than in the past. We are updating our systems to manage that work. The chosen system, by managerial fiat, is Sharepoint. The additional work that I am responsible for is the management of our outside speaking engagements.

Here is what the tracking of a typical speaking engagement entails:

*We are hired to speak at someone else’s event, so I need to gather all the details of their conference (due dates, location, agenda)

*Set up all of the travel arrangements & accommodations for the speakers (our staff)

*Set and meet lots of deadlines, different for each event (Oh, I wish this was automated somehow. Since I manually add these to people’s calendars, it’s like I need reminders to add reminders)

*Make sure everyone on both ends understands what is going on, has all of their materials, the final versions of presentations, etc.

*Be able to quickly and easily report on the status of each several events that are all at different stages – what’s due when, what is missing, what the different players need to do, what’s been completed, what’s been discussed between various players.

I don’t really come from a meeting planner/events management background and struggle a bit (okay, a lot) with time management. I feel like there must be a simple strategy to get a handle on this stuff beyond the one used by the staff member who used to do this. She just kept everything neatly filed and scheduled in her brain. My brain lacks that feature; I need something external.

I have been told that I make things way too complicated and I agree. I have been using this ugly access database as glorified checklist, loose pieces of paper with scribbled notes, and flagged outlook emails. This non-system system is a big FAIL in many ways too boring to go into detail. Also, the outside speaking engagements are only one of many projects I am keeping track of in my department and it really gets in the way of completing other things, so that’s another issue.

So, I am writing this because I thought some input from experts might help me figure out if some of the ideas I’ve come up with to transition all of this from my current method of operation to Sharepoint were off track and the beginning of another ineffective mess.

Also, yes, I realize that the ineffective mess in this scenario may primarily be me and a new system won't really make a difference. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit how much I’ve been befuddled by all of this, so yay for the anonymity of the tubes.

I don’t want to make this question even more long and boring, so I’ll pop in and answer your questions if this is all too vague…

Document management with SharePoint

I_Love_Bananas — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:20:48 -0800

SharePoint filter: Examples of how to use SharePoint's Records Center site type for corporate document management? I'm trying to wrap my brain around the ins and outs of configuring a SharePoint Records Center for our smallish (250+) employee insurance company.

We don't have anyone in IT dedicated to site design for SharePoint so I'm sort of on my own and trying to read as much as I can.

Our records retention policy is almost finished, and we are working on specifying how long to keep the various types of company records to comply with regulations etc. I really think SharePoint could give us the records management structure we need and I want to do it right.

I have found a lot of process documentation and "how to follow steps in the system" type of articles, but what I really need are examples to help me understand the difference between, say, record types vs. content types, lists vs. libraries; and especially how to set things up right on the front end so that I can create subsites that carry over the all the features I want into the various subsites.

I think I get it, but to really click for me I need to see examples.

Sharepoint Help: Web Applications not appearing in Shared Services Provider setup

mikepop — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:30:41 -0800

I am trying to configure a Sharepoint server's Shared Services Provider, but the Web Applications list is not being populated. Otherwise, Sharepoint is functional - sites are created, users are logging and uploading content, etc. However when I go to configure Shared Services Provider (so I can get search up and running), I can't select any Web applications because no show up in the list.

Here is a screenshot.

I have created several Web applications, and even created some more by following the link from that screen, but they never show up. I've also tried restarting the server after creating them.

Is there some obvious step/configuration setting I am missing, or is this one of those "dig deep into the bowels of the server" problems?

It's me against the alpha males!

I_Love_Bananas — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:17:18 -0800

Project ManagementFilter: It's me against the alpha males! Help me bring them into the 21st century. My position at work will be changing next year to include more project management, wherein I will be responsible for ensuring follow-up on tasks by a group of individuals whose work styles are very different. My challenge will be to create and “enforce” (enable?) adherence to some sort of structure, format, whatever, of posting tasks and reporting on % complete, progress to date etc. to a location where anyone interested could log in or request a report at any time and it “should” be current as of that date.

My preference would be to use SharePoint, but many of those involved will not be overly receptive to its techie nature. These are guys who are used to little or no oversight, running into each others’ offices, impromptu hallway chats, manic email flurries, etc. and will resent/refuse/otherwise balk at efforts to corral them into a more regulated means of tracking their work, even if the request to do so does come from on high.

I am in charge of making sure others stay on track and communicate to the group about their work. Where I stand to fail is not if their work isn’t done, but if the group/upper management does not stay timely informed as to the progress of tasks and if required follow-up does not occur when it’s supposed to. However, my skills are in systems (I have created a kickass SharePoint site, but it’s useless if no one uses it) and in prioritizing/handling my own work. I am not a manger of people -never have been; yet I recognize this type of work is a form of management. I don’t adore lots of phone time, running people down to get their input, etc. I am an email gal and expect others to thrill to the wonders of interactive applications like SharePoint the same way I do.

I envision a future of endless nagging and ongoing struggles to enforce conformity to technology on people who naturally resist it (read: non-techie alpha males in their 50’s).

Help me create something that works for both sides. What can I do to make it easy/more appealing/not a chore for them (and more importantly, for ME)?

Looking for an open source alternative to SharePoint for my own home/non-enterprise use.

DerekTheGeek — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:09:25 -0800

Looking for an open source alternative to SharePoint for my own home/non-enterprise use. I am looking to do the following things:

1. Archive scanned receipts, bills. etc ..
2. Keep track of ideas, shopping lists and the like
3. Repository for URLs, Links, Documents
4. Photo/Video storage

I like SharePoint's interface and it's ability to create lists, libraries, tables, and similar structures. I also like the web-part functionality that SharePoint has. What I don't need is the Enterprise level tie-ins that SharePoint has. I would like to be able to administer and add content to my portal all through a web browser. No need for Microsoft Office or other client support. Everything through the browser.

I have looked at Joomla! and though I find it impressive, it seems more targeted to creation of articles rather than the lists and databases I am looking for. I have also looked at Alfresco but it seems to be targeted at the Enterprise.

I should also mention that this is something I want to host on my own rather than use Google and or Yahoo.

So, basically I am looking for something similar to SharePoint in functionality though slimmed down and runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) platform. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Sharepoint Auto-increment

rlef98 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:37:42 -0800

Sharepoint Filter: Does anyone know how to create fields/columns in MS Sharepoint lists where a field number will auto-increment based upon the field number in the previous record? It may be possible to use a calculated field but we've been running into some walls on that one.