No-code SharePoint 2013 Solutions for power users Asif Rehmani Mark Gillis
Dec 04, 2014
No-code SharePoint 2013 Solutions for
power usersAsif Rehmani
Mark Gillis
VisualSPTM
in-context and on-demand Help for SharePoint users
Context sensitive Help items:• Videos • Images/Screenshots
• Documents • Links
Your presentersAsif Rehmani • Long-time SharePoint MVP• Founder of SharePoint-Videos.com• Instructor for 4 day "SharePoint 2013 No-Code Solutions“ training course
Mark Gillis • 20 year veteran of Microsoft, 33 years in the computer industry• Author of No-code Solutions handbook• Curator of No-Code Solutions website
We are passionate about Power Users!
Who is a power user?Has technical expertise
Understands business needs
Does not code for a living
AKA Citizen developer, BUIT
“Let’s not write code until we have to write code.”
Demo: Geolocation
What is a no-code solution?
Quick, useful, inexpensive
Solves a common business need
AKA SharePoint Composite, Mashup
Typical no-code solutions
Tracking goods, services, orders, and customers
Human Resource portals
Self-service reporting, financial dashboards
Expense reporting
Typical no-code solutions
Review and approve document workflows
New-hire orientation sites
Ideation, feedback, & “suggestion boxes”
Structured documents: contracts, RFPs, & invoices
Demo: Search Web Part
“Citizen Developers 25% of New Business Applications by 2014”Gartner, July 14, 2011
CustomizeSharePoint
Out-of-the-Box(sites, docs, lists, social)
SharePointComposites
(Access App, BI,Workflow, BCS)
DeclarativeCapabilities
(Doc Sets, Records, Search)
Managed Code(Apps, CSOM,
Reusable components)
The customization continuum
Your New Favorite Website
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dn594430
Your New Favorite Handbook
Handbook
Demo: 2013 Workflows
Demo: Access Web App
Call to Action• Watch videos at: SharePoint-Videos.com
• Check out: No-code solutions using SharePoint 2013 Composites
• Read the Gartner article: Gartner Says Citizen Developers 25 % of New Business Applications by 2014