The problem

As you probably know, there is an item-level permissions feature that can be a solution to this problem BUT it’s only available for lists, not Document Libraries. Please remember this before you make a promise you cannot deliver.

Figure 1. - Item level permissions on custom list

The solution

The proper way to solve this problem is to set permissions on the item level. Since you cannot use the feature I mentioned above, the only way to do it is to create server side code which configures it. In this case I am going to use a custom workflow solution (an event handler might also do). The wrong approach for solving this problem might be using JQuery or something similar, because malicious user can easily trick the system and still see and edit the document he is not allowed to.

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James Milne wrote a nice web part (Content Type Toolbar) to overcome one of these problems. It extracts all the content types of a document library and shows them with big icons above document library. It is easy to deploy and your Information workers will just love it.

Few weeks ago the second site called serverfault.com launched. It is a community site for IT professionals.

Toni, how is this site related with SharePoint?

Believe it or not there is a lot of SharePoint releated questions on both sites and our small SharePoint community is groving every day. So if you have a programming or it pro (admin) question about SharePoint visit one of the links below.

- SharePoint tagged questions at StackOverflow (programming)

- SharePoint tagged questions at ServerFault (it pro)

Toni, how would you improve these sites for SharePoint community?

Well Jeff believes that programming, it pro and end user questions should be strictly separted (this is why they have different sites for each group). However SharePoint is am unique platform where programming, administration and end user questions are overlapping all the time. It would be cool if we could use a single site for all the SharePoint questions.

Reputation

Each user earns reputation from asking/answering questions here is mine for both sites :)))

• Competitor Win Loss
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• Campaign Comparison
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• Lead Source Effectiveness
  Compare your lead sources.
• Activities
  Display a list of activities.
• Neglected Accounts
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  View anticipated potential sales.
• Products By Contact
  View products that are used by a contact.
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  View products that are used by an account.
• Case Summary Table
  View the patterns in cases.
• Service Activity Volume
  View the patterns in service activity volume.

Here’s a question that came in from jlschu1:
I am trying to create a web part on a SP blog site that will display the top bloggers for that site. There is a large group of people writing posts on one blog site, in one list of posts. I want to show the top bloggers based on their number of posts.

Laura solved the problem with SPD workflow which sounds interesting. Laura, I can’t wait to see it.

I took a different path and created a “non-code“ required web part to solve this. This web part is similar to my Blog Posts Archive web part. Check these out.

I know a great deal about Data View Web Part and there are numerous solutions I posted here which were created with it (Blog archive | SharePoint Lists and Libraries, Outlook Style | KPIs), however Laura taught me something new:

• Yes, you can use Data View Web Part to pull data from subsites
• Yes, you can use Data View Web Part to aggregate data from more than one list

For more details check her post, or attend one of the online workshops about DVWP at End User SharePoint.

The benefit: This is very important for Windows SharePoint Services users since you do not have Content Query Web Part in WSS. By using DVWP you might be able to aggregate and present information in very interesting ways.

The problem: Although DVWP can aggregate data from subsites you would have to pre-configure all the sources. In case you add a new site you will need to ad it to your data sources.  (I presume it might not perform very well when multiple sources are used).

Conclusion: No matter how hard you learn, when it comes to SharePoint, there is always something new to learn. Keep your eyes open!

I did “some work” in New York; I had lunch with Mark Miller of End User SharePoint. Mark brought his digital camera and caught me by surprise. :))). Videos are posted on End User SharePoint.

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Your presentation WinDays 2009 - SharePoint For End Users - Shortcuts To Success is currently being showcased on the ‘Technology’ page by our editorial team.

It’s likely to remain there for the next 16-20 hours…

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Nice! Thanks SlideShare!

As I promised here are the slide decks.