Hi All,
I’m a newbie to sharepoint development, though I’m very much eager to get going using this technology. I have been asked to develop a simple application using sharepoint, would appreciate if someone could shed some light on the best practices I should adhere to in accomplishing my mission.
Thanks in advance !
sharepointnewbie@gmail.com
Pls find below a short description of the requirements.
The company in question has a site hosted using a CMS known as ‘Umbraco’. This is basically a consulting company and they conduct various courses. I’m supposed to develop a small module for them to manage these courses. Ideally the frontend or rather the UI should be in Umbraco which is asp.net based and the backend in MOSS. Please also note that the Umbraco based site is in a separate server and the MOSS server will be in another network.
The core entities of the data model are: Course (generic information), Course Instance (particular instance), Instructor, Participant, Location
1. We need to do CRUD functions for all the above entities.(usual admin stuff)
2. Answer questions like the following:
a. Who was the instructor of a particular Course Instance?
b. Who were the Participants of a particular Course Instance?
c. Where was a Particular Course Instance held?
d. Which Course Instances/Courses has a given Instructor participated in?
e. Which Locations has a given Instructor participated in?
f. Which Course Instances/Courses has a particular Participant taken part in?
g. Which Instructor has taught a given Participant?
h. Which Location has a given Participant taken part in
3. Apart from the above, we need to manage various course materials related to a course
4. We need to be able to send emails to Instructors, participants and later SMS
5. Participants must be able to register on line through the web site
6. Future: a. Instructors and Participants must be able to login to a private area on the web site and get all relevant information. This is called a “Campus Site”.
Would appreciate if someone could advice me as to what needs to be followed to do this in the most efficient manner.
Some questions for which I would like answers are,
a. How should we implement the data model
i. Use MOSS exclusively
ii. Use our own datamodel and integrate with MOSS in someway
We need to maintain referential integrity and the like.
b. How could Umbraco (basically an asp.net web user control) communicate with a MOSS server which is hosted in a separate network? i.e. We need to be able perform all the aforementioned functionalities as well.
Any help with regard to this is greatly appreciated.
Thnks
Hi,
SharePointHosting.com have published a whole host of videos on their website to help us all with our SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 administration. The range of topics is broad, covering everything from the basics of storing documents, to creating forms libraries & more...Also you can find lot of webcat's on MS events site..
http://sharepointhosting.com/video_tutorials.html
ThanksShaminda