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CHAPTER 2 ■ SHAREPOINT OVERVIEW, PLANNING, AND INSTALLATION 25and security information. This means that SharePoint products and technologies require anassociated SQL Server 2005 installation. It also means that all documents in documentlibraries are saved in the Content Database as binary large objects (BLOB).Site Creation and BrandingIn previous versions of WSS, it was very difficult to create a new type of site that differed dramaticallyfrom the out-of-the-box templates. To accomplish this task, you had to create a newsite definition using an XML language known as the Collaborative Application Markup Language(CAML). Even after these site definitions were created, branding the site remainedchallenging and was often accomplished by extensively modifying individual pages in MicrosoftFrontPage.WSS also introduces a new concept for deploying site functionality called a Feature.A Feature with a capital F—is a modular approach to defining a site. Using this new capability,developers can create packages of web parts, workflows, or other customizations that may beturned on and off by site administrators. This approach allows Features to be reused acrosssites, which makes the WSS site infrastructure much more maintainable.For controlling site styling, WSS now takes advantage of ASP.NET master pages. Masterpages were introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and provide a way for developers and designers tospecify the basic look and feel of a site in just one place. The master page defines colors,styles, and visual elements—often called the chrome—that will appear on every page. It isnow possible to brand a significant portion of a site by changing a single file.In the past, many developers were reluctant to use Microsoft FrontPage for customizationsbecause it would cause a site to become “unghosted.” Unghosting refers to a situationin which an individual page is separated from its site definition. This separation could leadto strange behavior and performance issues in the previous versions of WSS. In the latestversion of WSS, unghosted pages are now called customized pages, and modifying an uncustomizedpage in the SharePoint Designer will still cause it to become separated from its sitedefinition. However, the performance issues have now been eliminated, and the SharePointDesigner will even allow you to revert a customized page back to its uncustomized state.While there are still good reasons to avoid customizing pages—such as when you are rollingout many sites with the same branding—the improvements in the SharePoint Designermake it a serious option for organizations that need a tool specifically for nonprogrammersand content creators.Microsoft Office 2007Microsoft Office 2007 is the most significant revision to the Office suite in ten years and is theresult of countless hours of user testing by Microsoft. The entire user interface has been completelyreworked around the central concept of a ribbon. The ribbon interface is designed togroup functions together by activity. This approach is intended to make it easier for users tofind commands that might have been buried deep in a menu tree in previous versions. Beginningand intermediate users of Office are likely to adopt the new interface quickly and becomemore productive as they discover new commands exposed on the ribbon. Advanced Officeusers, however, will probably react negatively to the new user interface because it is completelydifferent, and familiar patterns of clicking will no longer work. In fact, I see this as the
26CHAPTER 2 ■ SHAREPOINT OVERVIEW, PLANNING, AND INSTALLATIONgreatest obstacle to rolling out the new Office suite because advanced users with dozens oflinked spreadsheets, for example, will have to relearn the interface before they can be productiveagain. Figure 2-4 shows the new ribbon interface in Word 2007.Figure 2-4. The Office ribbonDocument PanelsJust like Office 2003, Office 2007 is tightly integrated with SharePoint. Along with the ribboninterface, Microsoft has also changed the interface Office users see when working with Share-Point. The Shared Workspace available in Office 2003 still exists, but it has been replaced as theprimary view into WSS team sites. Instead, users will now see two panels that appear beneaththe ribbon interface called the Document Information Panel (DIP) and the Document ActionPanel (DAP).The DIP is a view of the metadata associated with the current document. The purposeof the DIP is to make metadata visible throughout the document editing process so thatusers can update the information as they determine the right values. The goal is to get bettermetadata through a nonmodal interface as opposed to the old approach of demanding allthe metadata values when the document is saved to a library. Additionally, you can synchronizethe DIP with the document so that metadata is filled in automatically as the documentis created, or document text is automatically added when a user enters metadata. Figure 2-5shows the DIP.Figure 2-5. The Document Information PanelThe DAP is a view of tasks associated with the document that apply to the current user.These tasks become visible when the document is associated with a workflow in SharePoint.These tasks can involve review, approval, content creation, or any other activity dictated byan associated workflow.Working Offline, While Mobile, or With PeersWith this version of Office, Microsoft has made significant improvements in the offlinecapabilities of WSS. The primary tool for working with WSS data offline is Microsoft Outlook.
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