Thanks again. That's enough information to present options to the client. Sounds like you've done some pretty impressive stuff there. As for blogging I was recently recommended wordpress.org for the blogging software and you can get a free blog at wordpress.com. Good luck finding a username that's not taken. :)
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kleyn, Justin Sent: Friday, 4 April 2008 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Custom Edit Details (User Profile Properties) page on MySites David, always happy to help fellow MOSSers.. Unfortunately I do not have a blog, although it's perhaps time to start! So if you have any suggestions for a good blog space let me know. In the mean time I'm happy to provide any assistance via email. The screen shot I sent you, was just one of two custom web parts I developed to provide the functionality for a user to edit his/her profile. 1) User Directory Web Part This web part displays all users from the SharePoint user profile store in a hierarchical tree view based on the organisations social hierarchy (who a person reports too) and incorporates the "presence" icon as seen in MOSS. It has two views: Social Hierarchy View which displays users from the top manager down in the organisation, and Alphabetical View, displays users grouped into folders by first alphabet character of their name. This web part allows a user to find people in the organisation and to select a user to edit. 2) User Directory Editor Web Part This web part was designed to be used with the first web part in a connected way, when a user is selected in the User Directory Web Part the account name is sent to this web part to display the users details. A user is always displayed in View mode first, and only those profile properties for which the current user has permission to view will be displayed. If the user has rights to edit any properties of the selected users profile, the Edit button will be enabled and they will be able to edit fields for which they have permission. This web part also allows customisation of permissions by a site administrator, that is it allows an administrator to define a list of profile properties that a Manager is allowed to edit for other users. It also allows you to select a SharePoint Group and give it permission to edit other users profiles for selected properties. This can be useful in an organisation where a specific business unit has responsibility for maintaining specific user information for the department as users start/exit and move around a department. I almost forgot to mention but this web part also has the ability to sync changes back to Active Directory, in fact it should work with any LDAP directory as it uses the same Primary DataSource Connection configured for the SSP in Central Admin. It does not support updates of properties mapped to a secondary datasource such as the BDC. The first web part took me about 4-5 weeks development effort. The second web part was not a trivial task and has taken me about 3 months effort as well as another developer I am training in MOSS development about 3 weeks. Hope that helps for now, and I will provide some insights into some of the more interesting development issues I encountered while developing this web part some time soon. I'll be in Sydney next week on a training course so might try to blog about my encounters during this time. Regards, Justin Kleyn Solution Architect | MOSS Speacialist | Senior Consultant - Software Development KAZ ACT | KAZ Group Pty Ltd 19-25 Moore Street | Turner ACT 2612 (02) 6219 0910 | 0439 472 998 | Fax: (02) 6249 1620 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | www.kaz-group.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- This communication may contain confidential information and/or copyright material of KAZ Group Pty Ltd ABN 25 002 124 405 and its related bodies corporate. It may also be the subject of legal professional privilege. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not keep, forward, copy, use, save or rely on this communication and any such action is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to this e-mail to notify the sender of its incorrect delivery, and then delete both it and your reply. This is an email from Fujitsu Australia Limited, ABN 19 001 011 427. It is confidential to the ordinary user of the email address to which it was addressed and may contain copyright and/or legally privileged information. No one else may read, print, store, copy or forward all or any of it or its attachments. If you receive this email in error, please return to sender. Thank you. If you do not wish to receive commercial email messages from Fujitsu Australia Limited, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
