Re: [OzMOSS] MOSS OUT-OF-THE-BOX

[pculmsee]

As you are finding out, OOTB SharePoint for document oriented collaboration has some things that really annoy. Issue 1 is a major annoyance. While it is a list you are working with, there are a few ways to handle it, the best IMO being the work Clayton's colleague did.

http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/11/06/finally-clever-filtered-lookups/

But you are talking about document oriented collaboration and unfortunately when using any of those methods on a document library, the document info panel will not reflect this functionality, being infopath and all.

I'm sure I saw a commercial product by a Danish company that alleviated this also, but in checking my browsing history I can;t find it now. I came across it on MSDN newsgroups if thats any help... Maybe someone else knows the company I'm talking about

With option 2, what about using the list item attachment functionality? Getting data in to the list in a nice, bulk manner will not be OOTB however.

Paul

On Sun Nov 25 5:39 , 'Warwick Moyse' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Firstly a bit of context ... I'm not a developer so I'm tyring to use OOTB features of MOSS 2007 to build a company intranet for knowledge sharing and collaboration. This is the first time I've used MOSS ... the good bit is that I don't need to un-learn previous versions.

 

I'm running into all sorts of issues, so let me pose just the couple of things I'm trying to crack at the moment -

 

1 - I want to generate 'context driven' metadata lists when uploading a document - eg if choice 'A' is chosen in the first metadata field, the user only gets choices A-1 to A-n in the next field ... if A-4 is chosen in the second field, then only choices A-4-1 to A-4-n are presented in the third field. I'm able to create Lists with these relationships represented - eg a Level 1 list + a Level 2 list with a column containg related Level 1 values for each item + a Level 3 list with a column of related Level 2 values for each item. How can I get this to drive metadata selection in the 'Edit Item' page that gets displayed when and item is uploaded to a document library.

 

2 - I want a document library that is purely for reference items - ie Upload without any Owner or document control + Open Read-only (or better still just Copy To) so that an item can be saved to an external location. I've tried giving Read Only permission to all users / groups for the Library and in fact documents are flagged as read-only when opened in Word, but changes still get saved back to MOSS.

 

And one other little frustration ... the new 'Upload Multiple Documents' feature doesn't allow metadata to be selected and applied to every document uploaded.  Does anyone have a solution for that?

 

Thanks in anticipation,

Warwick Moyse

Intec Group

Adelaide

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