Update 5/6/13: Internet sales tax bill passes Senate You are expected to know the law and collect the appropriate sales tax on internet sales. Sales tax on internet sales are bound by ever changing local, state and federal law. Calculating the proper internet sales tax to charge customers is based on many factors including the billing address (for non shippable products) and the shipping address for shippable products. These...
3-D Mashup of SharePoint AMS Data with Bing Maps
Remember us saying that once you get your data into this new AMS there’s some pretty powerful and cool opportunities? Check it out – here’s a 3-D mashup that combines SharePoint AMS data with Bing maps to allow you to plot geographic and temporal data visually. Basically, we created a private view on the company list, and wanted to use that data for the mashup to visually represent the density of hospital types on a map. Also threw...
Taxonomy and Folksonomy
SharePoint Taxonomy and Folksonomy Taxonomy and Folksonomy are types of metadata fundamental to solid information architecture. Taxonomy Taxonomy is a formal classification using a tiered term structure. Domain – Kingdom – Phylum – Class – Order – Family – Genus – Species You knew it at one time. You also learned another one: the Dewey Decimal Classification System. These are some of the most well-known classification...
SharePoint Security
SharePoint Security Perhaps not the sexiest topic, security is certainly among the most important. The SharePoint security model allows your org to lock down some of your content to only members while keeping some of your content open to the public. That’s an example of a public-facing website with login access to the protected content. The SharePoint security model allows your org to re-use your existing roles already populated in...
SharePoint 101 – Sites
SharePoint “Sites” One of the fundamental concepts in SharePoint is the Site. A Site is just a collection of “stuff.” A Site is a collection of information. A Site can contain Documents, Pages, Lists, Libraries, Calendars, images, media, videos, CAD files – pretty much any kind of content that you can imagine. A Site has unique security properties. A Site can be locked down to a specific team of people, or opened to...
Multilingual SharePoint Sites
Before we dive into multilingual features, let’s be very clear about something. SharePoint does not automatically translate your content into a different language. This is asked so frequently and misunderstood by so many people that it is worth repeating. SharePoint does not translate your English text into Spanish or any other language. SharePoint can manage the process by which you translate the content (either manually or automatically),...
