I will say that SP is pretty cool for quick dirty intranets and posting documents. It really benefits those that are not to be bothered with using FrontPage or Contribute.
It does have a cool survey system built-in. It's not perfect, but it keeps us from having to write custom surveys in CF. However, I do not believe SP to be the portal for our university as it was told to be. (The previous IT leader was a huge MS fan and SP was the bee's knees.) I would prefer to build a custom portal in CF, but if there are parts that I don't want to build, such as the surveys, I will leave them for SP. We are running it on a separate server, so I can't really say if it commandeers a server from other applications. I do know that FrontPage server extensions appear to be based off of SP. (You can see this in the IIS manager for a server that has FP extensions installed.) M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Sharepoint I meant to do all that I had very roughly outlined in my question. I was led to believe that by another CFM developer who just so happens to have experience with Sharepoint as well. I can not seem to find many people who even know what Sharepoint is let alone who have used it which also makes me relunctant to use it. It certainly seems to be a very powerful tool with a lot of capabilities and is free if you have Windows 2003 but if it is all that then I keep asking myself why can't I seem to find much more than a small handful of people who know what it is let alone use it. This is what I had sent to him and his response was that he knows it does all of it with the exception of the notifier but bet it could be done just that he had never had to do it so did not know. - Repository for scanned and typed documents as well as a reference to where the master printed document is stored. - Security levels set to what group or individual documents can be seen by what people - Possibly the searching of document content - Revision tracking, maybe via different documents but maybe a change log where people key in the comments in a textarea - Tracking of who has looked at the documents online as well as who has pulled up the master location since this implies they pulled the master. - Email notifiers which could be when a document is about to expire or could be something else - All sorts of Forms for things to be key'd in and stored such as when a product is recieved what type of product it is and how many line items it has so a form with text inputs and a grid input to allow multiple line items and being able to relate key'd in information to a document - Eventually maybe tie into some sort of bar coding system, but I would imagine this system would be a seperate program with its own tables and need to be linked in somehow for reporting or searching needs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:227022 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
