So, we had a QA audit come up at work.
One thing that QA loves is the presence of version history inside of the controlled document. There’s good reason for this, but apart from it becoming tedious on regularly edited documents, it’s also quite unreliable as some people may just forgo updating it.
If you’re going to store your documents in a Sharepoint Document Library with version recording, why not just put that info inside your document? Well, there’s probably a few ways to do this, but I opted to use document properties to get the info into the documents.
http://www.codeplex.com/SPDocVersionExport
Edit: Well, I decided that using the document properties isn’t the best way of doing this, it’s much more trouble than it’s worth. I am in the process of building a Word add-in that will allow you to drop in a document’s version history and update it whenever the document is updated.
- NM
Just stumbled across an article by Sharepoint MVP Rehman Gul which gives a short guide on adding MSCRM functionality into your MOSS 2007 site.
http://rehmangul.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/ms-crm-and-sharepoint-2007-integration/
This guide is useful for giving you an idea on how the Business Data Catalog works.
On a side note, I don’t know how many of you used MSCRM before v3, but if you did you’d have one hell of a wicked bad taste in your mouth. You probably aren’t using it anymore, or won’t use it again. But, before you give up on it, give v3 a shot. It’s prettier, less painful to manage, and it doesn’t plant itself in your Active Directory anymore. And you get awesome cross-app functionality.
- NM
July 2nd, 2008
10:42 am
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Welcome!
I intend to use my Wordpress powered blog to document my exploits in a multitude of technologies, including but not limited to:
- WSSv3/MOSS Customization
- .NET Programming
- Reverse Engineering
- 16-bit Microcontrollers
- Anything I find myself attracted to!
Hopefully what I post here can be useful to you.
Stay tuned, for my first real post I’ll be showing you how to easily add custom event handlers to lists in WSSv3/MOSS!
- NM
