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Cherry Bekaert LLP

@KevinGuyer

Overview

Cherry Bekaert – 900/1000 employees

2 SharePoint developers/administrators Scott Jones and Kevin.

Implementation help from TCSC

2010 implementation, fleshing out a 2013 farm now

Implementation details: Limited MySite usage

Use managed metadata and central template hub extensively

Vigilant about not installing 3rd party web parts and plugins to the servers

Content is user managed, structure is typically managed by the 2 of us with Marketing’s guidance.

All sites are ‘publishing sites’

Case 1: Audiencing News

Goal: Provide targeted news and content for our users. Our org follows a hierarchy and the content and delivery options should reflect that.

Solution: A combination of managed metadata structuring, content types, CQWPs, modified XSL stylesheets and audiencing.

Offices have a page with news, that rolls up to their ‘market’

Mapping Term Sets to Site Columns

Default a list’s mapping so user does not have to fool with it

Filter CQWPs based on metadata, audience those parts

Case 2: Safely Enhance UI, Load Pages Faster

Rotator – Marketing news banners

Foobar – Firm notifications Publishing Site News Rotator –

Dynamic from Pages Calendar Viewer – One click add

to Outlook

Firm News Rotator

The custom list lets the user provide show/hide dates, applicable areas for filtering and flag as ‘published’

Firm-wide ‘Foobar’ Alerts

Controlled via a custom list, accessed via a small client-side piece of JavaScriptWith jQuery. Alerts can be made active/inactive and edited at any time.

Publishing Site News Rotators

Standard implementation, ready for non-developers to use

They onlyedit here

Calendar Event Viewer

Change a few settings in the text file, embed in page, done.

Code:http://kevinguyer.squarespace.com

or just Google:‘cheapskate's guide to SharePoint 2010’

@kevinguyer

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