SUBJECT
"Case Studies in SharePoint Dashboards"

SPEAKER
Mark Miller, CEO
EndUserSharePoint.com

Mark will show how to create dashboards within the limitations of the WSS web parts. With a basic WSS implementation, you don't have access to Excel Services, KPI web parts or any of the other cool features available to SharePoint Enterprise users. This presentation will concentrate on what is available in WSS and how those features can be used for creating useful, easy to read dashboards from your existing SharePoint libraries and lists.

NYC SPUG ANNOUNCEMENTS

SharePoint Saturday Coming Up
On February 21st, 2009 there will be a FREE one day SharePoint conference at the Microsoft office in NYC. Here is the official website for the event: 
SharePoint Saturday NY

One of the great enhancements of SharePoint 2007 is the upgrade of Front Page to SharePoint Designer 2007. Especially impressive is the included workflow wizard. Sure, it has some serious limitations, like it's inability to loop through the items of a list, but for complex approval workflows, it's just the ticket. However, if you've spent any time with the wizard, you've probably been frustrated by the lack of information about this great no-code tool.

The best and most detailed information that I've ever come across about how to use the workflow wizard is in a SharePoint Help and How-to article on Office Online:
Design a document review workflow solution

In a series of 14 videos, Stephen Howard shows you how to design a complex document review workflow plus how to create a workflow dashboard. It took me a day to watch all of these videos and some of them I had to watch two or three times to get all the details down but it was well worth the effort. The explanation of how to kick off secondary workflows related to the primary workflow is especially useful.

The videos also cover the concept of workflow lookups extensively (which are more complex that you would think), providing diagrams to explain the logic behing the lookups. My one gripe about this excellent tutorial is that the Visio Flow Chart used in the videos is not provided as a download. Having this Flow Chart in a printed form would make the complex videos MUCH easier to follow!

February Sponsors

Networking/Food:
Opportunity Solutions A/S
A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with focus on email management and collaboration. Their core product is Email-Manager™

Door Prizes:
CorasWorks

After Meeting Social:
CorasWorks

January Meeting

Nilesh Mehta, president of NGenious Solutions, pinch-hit for Donald Miller of Interse, who was unable to make his scheduled appearance. In his presentation, "MOSS 2007: Data & Database Management", Nilesh discussed how to organize and manage web applications and content databases, techniques for managing/moving site collections and SharePoint back-up and recovery options Thanks for stepping in, Nilesh!

January Sponsors

Networking/Food:
Quest Software 

Door Prizes:
NGenious Solutions
Rohati Systems
IMPACT Management

After Meeting Social:
Gig-Werks

Links

Security Reminder

If you have registered online at least 2 days before the meeting, your name will be on the guard's list in the lobby and they will be able to immediately print out a building pass for you. If not, you will have to give your name to the NY SPUG representative at the desk and creating a building pass for you will take MUCH MORE TIME.