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Browser and wiki workflow independence with Liferay the open source “SharePoint”

Jul 4th, 2009
by david.
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July 4th, 2009; today is the US independence day. This has put me in a reflective mood. As I was thinking about the current projects that I’m working on, I thought about this…

SharePoint 2007 is a great improvement over its ancestors: SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2001. The capabilities in document management make the old shared file systems obsolete. This is especially true for Microsoft Office products that integrate with SharePoint. I’m waiting for SharePoint 2010 to hopefully resolve some of the issues that the blog and wiki tools have. In the meantime, we have wiki and blog requirements that need to be met. In our search for a top flight wiki that was easy to learn and use by users; we discovered Liferay. continue reading » »

What I hope gets “fixed” in SharePoint 2010

Jun 13th, 2009
by david.
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There are some limitations in WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 that are hurting the adoption of SharePoint 2007 at my company. I’m sure that this is pretty common. Many users are familiar with WordPress and Foswiki/TWiki. My users are looking for easy to use editors, plug-ins, and themes that they can use on their team sites and “my sites”. With the “Revolution” in Social media and Web 2.0 users are familiar with open source web tools that allow rich-text editing and replaceable editors. They complain bitterly about editing their content, blog or a wiki inside SharePoint. continue reading » »

Creating navigation links within a SharePoint 2007 or WSS 3.0 wiki page

Dec 23rd, 2008
by david.
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I’m always hearing complaints about how deficient the SharePoint 2007 Wiki editor is. Although SharePoint 2007 is the 3rd release of the SharePoint product, some components are in their 1st release. The Wiki editor is one of these 1st release components.

One of the things people want to do is easily create inter-page navigation links like, top, bottom, etc. Although not the most user friendly approach, you can do this manually by entering anchors from the source view of the Wiki Editor. Here’s how I do it.

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